RossQoL

Quality-of-life tweaks for Valheim. Every tweak has its own switch, and every category has a master switch, so you keep only what you want.

All config lives in BepInEx/config/com.rossdwest.rossqol.cfg. Each setting's description says whether it is a personal setting or server-controlled when connected.

Edits to the file apply while the game is running; there is no need to restart. Turning a feature off takes effect straight away. Turning on a feature that was off when the game launched takes effect after a restart. Server-controlled settings changed on a server are pushed to every connected player; while connected, your own edits to them are ignored.

Every player on a server needs RossQoL, at the same minor version.

General

Combat

Server-controlled when connected.

Other mods that drop a corpse's loot early do not cause any loot to drop twice alongside this.

Crafting

Besides names, you can search by type: helmet, chest, legs, cape, armor, shield, utility, tool, torch, ammo, food, material, trinket and weapon, plus a weapon's skill in your game's language (axes, bows, knives and so on). Type words are matched like names, so bow also finds crossbows.

While the search box has the cursor, game keys are ignored: E and Tab type letters instead of closing the panel. Press Enter or click elsewhere to leave the box, or close the panel with Esc.

Fires

Server-controlled when connected.

How far fires reach for fuel, how often they try, and how much wood they leave behind are the Production settings FeedRadius, FeedInterval, MinimumLeftBehind and MinimumPerItem, shared with the workshop so a reserve of wood is set in one place.

A fire below maximum burns as it always did, so one that is never filled still goes out. Fires that are eternal in vanilla are left exactly as they are.

Items

Server-controlled when connected.

Stack sizes are written into saved items, so everyone in a world needs to agree on them: this is a server setting, and a player without the mod would see stacks their game does not expect. Unstack your mead bases before turning it off, or a stack larger than vanilla allows is left in your chest.

Interface

Production countdowns are in real minutes and seconds, and read the same for everyone, not just the player the producer belongs to. They follow each producer's own rate, so a mod or server that changes how fast things produce is reflected.

Portals

Ridden creatures (a saddled lox, for example) are not brought along.

With InstantPortals, a portal to somewhere already loaded, such as the other end of a portal hub, is instant. A far portal still shows the loading screen while the destination actually loads.

Production

Server-controlled when connected.

Output goes first into containers that already hold that item, then into the nearest container with room. Containers from storage mods count too: ItemDrawers drawers take only the item they hold, up to their capacity. Output that fits nowhere stays in the producer; a fermenter's batch goes into one container whole and is never split. A windmill's milled flour moves the same way, so it no longer has to be emptied by hand, and stays in the windmill when nothing nearby has room. Kilns, smelters, blast furnaces and spinning wheels are left alone and keep dropping their output on the ground.

Harvesting is done by the game of the player the producer belongs to at the moment, usually whoever is nearest, so a base empties only while someone is near it. Beehives and sap collectors fill up as normal while nobody is. A producer is harvested only while that player has ward access where it stands, the same as it would take to use it by hand.

A container is used only if you could open it yourself: not private to someone else, not behind a ward you have no access to, and not open. A container another player's game is looking after is skipped until they leave the area.

Progression

Server-controlled when connected.

Each biome answers for itself: the Elder frees copper, tin and bronze; Bonemass frees iron; Moder frees silver; Yagluth frees black metal. Those four are the whole list, because those are the four biomes whose materials vanilla refuses to carry. Killing a later boss says nothing about an earlier biome, so a fresh character on an old world still has to beat the Elder before carrying copper home.

Anything else vanilla refuses to teleport, it still refuses, and nothing is written into your saved items: turn this off and the ore is simply refused again.

Startup

About Continue:

• Local worlds resume private. To host for friends, use Start game as usual.
• Server passwords are never stored; the normal password prompt appears.
• Crossplay servers are rejoined by join code when one is known, falling back to the server's id. Codes change when a host restarts.
• The button is hidden when the recorded character or world is gone, or when the game was launched with +connect, -joincode or -joinserverwithcharacter.

Tames

Server-controlled when connected.

A creature told to follow keeps following after you log out and back in, as a wolf does, even if FollowCommand is turned off in between; tell it to stay first. With Portals/TamesFollow, following tames come through portals with you.

A hungry tame looks for food on the ground first, as usual, and only then in the nearest container holding something it eats. It eats one item each time it would look for food, so it stays fed as it would from food on the ground. Containers follow the same rules as AutoHarvest: only ones you could open yourself, not open, and not being looked after by another player's game. Drawers count too. In multiplayer a tame is fed by the game of whoever is nearest to it, so it eats from containers near that player; a container someone else is standing by waits until they move away.

Terrain

Server-controlled when connected.

Edits past 8 metres are saved in the world. With UnlimitedHeight off, or RossQoL removed, that ground is drawn at 8 metres, and reappears when it is turned back on, as long as nobody edits it in the meantime. Raising, digging or levelling ground while the feature is off, or after lowering MaxRaise or MaxDig, permanently cuts the edited area down to the lower limit. Lower the limits only on ground you do not mind losing.

World

Server-controlled when connected.

Items get vanilla's own floating behaviour, so they bob, splash and ride waves like wood, and float in tar too. Live fish are left alone, so fishing works as normal; a fish you drop from your inventory floats like any other item. Items already lying on a seabed stay there until someone picks them up and drops them again.

A hammer repair costs one swing of stamina and durability however many pieces it fixes. Pieces behind a ward you have no access to are skipped, and so are undamaged ones. A message says how many extra pieces were repaired.

Sleeping keeps every vanilla rule: everyone must be in a bed, the same night passes, and you wake rested. Only the waiting is shorter, about 3 seconds end to end instead of 18. The night is skipped by the server, so SleepSkipSeconds comes from the server you are on.

Dependencies

• BepInEx 5.4.2350
• Jotunn 2.30.0