Runegate

Choose where your portals lead through a searchable Valheim-style menu. Keep personal routes, save favourites, or share a portal destination so friends can follow you through.

Requirements and installation

Requires BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350 or later.

Use the same latest Runegate version for everyone.

• Solo: install on your PC.
• Player-hosted multiplayer (Start Server): install on the host's PC and each joining player's PC. No separate server installation is needed.
• Dedicated server: install on the server and each player's PC.

Use Thunderstore Mod Manager, or copy the included plugins/Runegate folder into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/. Close the game or stop the server before replacing files. Replace your existing Runegate DLL; do not install duplicate copies.

Using portals

Interact with a portal to open Runegate.

• Save name: rename the current portal, up to 20 characters.
• Destination: open the list and search by name. Entries show distance from the current portal.
• Select destination: set the route, then walk through the portal.
• Ping on map: share the selected location with other players. Requires maps to be enabled.
• Use vanilla pairing: clear your personal route and return to normal tag pairing. Turn off sharing first if the portal has a shared route.

The destination list refreshes automatically. Normal teleport restrictions still apply.

Favourites

Click + beside a destination to favourite it. It changes to * and moves into the favourites section at the top of the list. Favourites are sorted alphabetically, followed by the remaining portals.

Click * to remove a favourite. Search still filters the list normally.

Favourites are personal, saved separately for each character and world, and remain after reconnecting or restarting. They are saved even when destination memory is set to session-only. Favouriting a portal does not select it or change its shared route.

Share a destination with friends

Choose a destination, then tick Share destination with friends. Wait for Shared destination saved to confirm the host accepted and saved the change.

• Everyone using that portal with Runegate uses its shared destination.
• While sharing is active, Select destination changes the shared route for everyone.
• Untick the checkbox to return to each player's personal routing. Existing personal selections are retained.
• Shared routes survive server restarts and are separate for each world.
• Changes require you to be near the portal and pass the server's ward-permission checks.

The hover text adds (Shared) only when sharing is active:

Sfantul → destination name (Shared)

Controls

• Up/Down arrows: move focus between controls when not typing.
• Controller D-pad: move focus between inputs, destinations, favourites and actions.
• Enter or controller A: activate the focused control.
• Esc or controller B: close the portal menu.

Focused list entries scroll into view. Activating a name or search input with the controller opens the game's text-entry dialog. In Runegate settings, D-pad Left/Right adjusts the focused size slider in 5% steps.

Controller navigation is newly expanded and needs wider in-game testing, particularly text entry and device-specific mappings. Opening Runegate settings from the pause menu may still require a mouse.

Long button labels shrink slightly and shorten if necessary. Hover or controller focus shows the full shortened label in a tooltip.

Settings

Press Esc, then select Runegate settings.

• UI size: choose 70–150%. Release the slider to apply and save. The menu is capped to fit your screen.
• Reset size: restore the default size.
• Portal memory: choose This session only or After restarts for your personal destination choices.

Session mode ignores previously saved personal routes and does not save new choices. Switching to After restarts saves your current choices. This setting does not disable persistent favourites or server-managed shared routes.

Saved data and backups

Client settings are in BepInEx/config/sfantul.portals.cfg. Personal routes and favourites are in BepInEx/config/Runegate/, separated by character and world.

Shared routes are stored on the server in BepInEx/config/Runegate/World-<world ID>.shared. For solo and player-hosted worlds, this file is on the host PC inside the active mod profile. Include that directory in backups; shared routes are not stored inside the vanilla world save or automatically copied with it.

Created by Sfantul.

Changelog

0.4.7

• Reissued the latest update under a new package version. No gameplay changes from the prepared 0.4.6 build.

0.4.6

• Fixed shared edits being silently discarded immediately after a metadata refresh.
• Host shared destinations become ready immediately after loading; player-hosted restart persistence confirmed in user testing.
• Added shared destination save/load logging and clearer save confirmation.
• Refresh the displayed shared destination when host data arrives.
• Improved long-label fitting with full-label tooltips.
• Expanded controller focus navigation, automatic list scrolling and native text-entry access. Controller changes still need wider gameplay testing.
• Clarified solo, player-hosted and dedicated-server installation and backups.

0.4.4

• Personal favourites, pinned above other destinations and saved per character/world.
• Optional shared portal destinations, with server validation and per-world persistence.
• Shared hover indicator; turning sharing off restores personal routing.
• Adjusted Direct3D 11 artwork colour handling while preserving the Vulkan conversion path.
• Lighter input fields and checkbox, more readable helper text and improved spacing.
• Destination list viewport sized for six rows.

0.3.8

• Isolated GUI colour/state and removed temporary rendering diagnostics.