Choose Your Bed

Pick which bed you respawn at when you die, instead of always the last one you claimed.

Client-side only. Install it on each player's game; the server does not need it. Players without it just get vanilla behaviour.

How it works

• Every bed you claim (interact with it so it says "Spawn point set") is added to your saved list for that character + world.
• Beds you claimed before installing the mod are picked up automatically: your current spawn bed straight away, and any other bed you own as soon as you are near it.
• The selection screen only appears when you have two or more saved beds (see ShowMenuWithOneBed).
• When you die, a map of what you have explored opens with a numbered marker on every saved bed, plus where you died and the start stones. Click a marker to respawn there. Scroll to zoom, drag to move the map.
• The same beds are listed down the side with biome and distance from where you died. Click a row, or press 1-9. Press 0 for the start stones.
• "List view" on that screen switches to the plain list, where you can also rename or forget beds.
• If only one bed is saved, it respawns there without asking (change ShowMenuWithOneBed in the config to always ask).
• While alive, every saved bed shows as a named bed pin on the normal map (M).
• Press F7 while alive to open the manager: rename beds, forget ones you don't want listed, or set one as your current spawn.
• Hovering a saved bed shows its name. Destroyed beds are dropped from the list automatically.

Config

BepInEx/config/com.burks.chooseyourbed.cfg

• DeathMenuStyle - Map or List
• ShowBedPinsOnMap - named pins on the normal map
• ManagerKey, MaxBeds, MenuScale, ShowMenuWithOneBed

Saved beds live in BepInEx/config/ChooseYourBed/<world>_<characterid>.txt.

Notes

• The death-screen map is drawn by the mod from the game's map data (the game's own map cannot open while you are dead), so it looks plainer than the normal map.
• The game still only respawns you at a bed that physically exists; if the one you pick has been destroyed you're asked to pick again.
• Built for Valheim 1.0 / BepInEx 5.4.

Changes

• 1.1.1 - Picks up beds you already own (current spawn bed at once, others when you are near them); more reliable saving on servers; forgotten beds stay forgotten; log lines saying what the mod decided on each death.
• 1.1.0 - Map on the death screen with clickable beds; bed pins on the normal map; fixed the mouse being locked on the death screen.
• 1.0.0 - First version.

1.2.0 - beds on boats

A saved bed is now followed by its identity, not its position, so a bed on a ValheimRAFT boat keeps one entry as the boat moves. Put ChooseYourBed.dll on the dedicated server as well if boats get moved while you are away: the server then tells your game where the bed is now.