Custom Main Menu

A branded Valheim menu and loading screen overhaul for public servers, private servers, and modpack authors. Swap the logo, music, loading art, custom tips, Discord invite, and changelog text & title. Rebuilt for Latest Valheim version.

Main Menu Screenshot (Customizable)

Features

• Your logo on the start screen
• Your menu music
• Random loading-screen art when a world loads (Customizable)
• Optional custom loading-screen tips (customtips.txt, up to 20)
• Optional loading-screen tweaks: hide the top black bar and Valheim logo, hide the bar behind tips, or use your menu logo on the load screen
• Move the start-menu and loading-screen logos up or down in CFG
• Discord panel with your invite link
• Custom changelog text and title
• Optional skip of the first-run intro cinematic (on by default). Iron Gate splash still plays unless you turn skip on in CFG
• Optional mute of start-menu ambient (wind / ocean / looping biome beds). Button clicks still follow Effects

Missing files are skipped. The rest of the menu still works.

Files

This mod does not ship branding inside BepInEx/config/anymore. Demo logo, music, changelog, and loading art live next to the DLL in plugins/defaults/ (for example BepInEx/plugins/RDMods-CustomMainMenu/defaults).

On first launch the plugin creates BepInEx/config/rdmods.custommainmenu.cfg and an empty BepInEx/config/CustomMainMenu/ folder, and copies README-HOW-TO-CUSTOMIZE.txt into that folder. Read that file first — it lists the exact filenames and the LoadingArt layout.

Put your own files in BepInEx/config/CustomMainMenu/. Those files win over defaults/, and mod updates will not overwrite them. Pack authors should ship branding in their pack’s config/CustomMainMenu/ folder, not inside this mod’s zip.

If a single file (logo, Discord image, music, changelog, custom tips) is missing from config, the matching file in defaults/ is used. Only LoadingArt folder is a folder-level check so if some art file is missing, it still uses your given art for loading screen.

Config

BepInEx/config/rdmods.custommainmenu.cfg is created on first launch. Your existing values are kept when the mod updates; only new keys are added.

The Discord panel title and button label are fixed in the plugin. The invite URL is not.

Credits

Thanks to Soloredis for helping fix the Main Menu music slider not working.

Support

Questions, feedback, and bug reports: discord.gg/yX9tv3FXY6

Changelog

Please read README-HOW-TO-CUSTOMIZE.txt that is automatically created and posted to BepInEx/config/CustomMainMenu/ folder to understand how mod works.

1.4.3

• Custom Loading Tips: You can now write your own loading screen messages! Just enable the feature in CFG and type your tips into a customtips.txt file (one tip per line, max 20).
• Custom Loading Screen Logo: You can now display your custom main menu logo on the loading screen as well.
• Adjustable Logo Positioning: Easily move your logos up or down on both the Main Menu and the Loading Screen to get the perfect alignment.
• Cleaner Loading Screens: Added new customization options to hide the top black bar, remove the default fiery Valheim logo, and make the background behind the loading tips transparent for a sleeker look. Off by default.
• Memory Optimization: The start-menu logo and Discord panel image are now properly cleaned up when navigating menus, preventing leftover copies from piling up and draining performance.

1.3.1

• Valheim Update Compatibility: Updated to fully support Valheim versions 1.0.14 and 1.0.15. This also cleans up some harmless console errors that started appearing after IronGate added its own built-in feature to skip intro cinematics.

1.3.0

• Mod was taken down on the request of Azumatt due to original mod referencing code from his ChangeOfScenery mod. This reupload removes any and all reference to his code. This also removes the custom boat scene the mod used and now by default references the vanilla night scene I have instead. I would like to apologize to Azumatt for using his code in my mod without permission or credits. The boat scene will return if I get his explicit permission in a future update with proper credits. All the other functionality still remains the same, just menu scenery has reverted to vanilla with night time ambiance instead.
• This change also removes some of the elements in the CFG, it is advisable to delete old CFG and let new one generate but old CFGs should still cause no conflict.

1.2.7

• Volume Control Fix: Custom menu music now properly respects the in-game Music and Master volume sliders. Thanks Soloredis for his help fixing this!
• New MuteAmbient Setting: Added a MuteAmbient option under [Menu Scenery] (defaults to true) to silence background wind and ocean noise for a cleaner music experience. Set to false if you want vanilla ambient sounds in Main Menu enabled.
• Asset Protection: Default assets are now stored safely in plugins/defaults/. Mod updates will no longer overwrite custom branding placed in config/CustomMainMenu/. Please read the newly created README-HOW-TO-CUSTOMIZE.txt in config/CustomMainMenu/ for more info. Thanks Soloredis for reporting this!

1.2.4

• Added SkipIronGateSplash and SkipIntroCinematic CFG options to optionally bypass the startup splash screen and opening cinematic.

1.2.2

• Valheim 1.0.12 Compatibility: Refactored the code to ensure full compatibility with the latest game update.
• Reduced Image File Sizes: The Loading Screen folder now supports JPG/JPEG images in addition to PNGs, allowing you to compress your loading screen art.
• Customizable Changelogs: Server and modpack authors can now edit the changelog. A new CFG entry allows you to change both the changelog body text and the title of the viewer.
• Automatic Intro Skip: The game now automatically skips the introductory cutscene, taking you directly to the main menu.

1.0.0

• Initial release. Please report bugs at https://discord.gg/yX9tv3FXY6