Why Sleep Alone?

Share a bed. Share a home. Wake up Satisfied.

Why Sleep Alone? expands Valheim's double-bed experience for two players.

Share the vanilla Dragon Bed, use it as a shared respawn point, sleep together, wake with the configurable Satisfied buff, enjoy atmospheric shared dreams, and even enable compatible double beds from other mods.

Created by TheLionCid

Version: 1.0.0
Valheim: 1.0.17
Framework: BepInEx 5.4.2351

Discord / Support: https://discord.gg/kN3cqHqWYA

At a Glance

• Two players, one shared bed
• Shared respawn point
• Satisfied buff after a valid shared night
• 80 shared dreams + 20 wake-up lines
• Neutral, Romantic, Bawdy, Mixed and Custom text modes
• Write your own dreams and wake-up messages
• Add compatible double beds from other mods
• Adjustable sleep and respawn positions
• Vanilla boss/progression dreams and cinematics stay protected
• Built for multiplayer

Quick Start

1. Install the mod

Install Why Sleep Alone? on the host and participating players.

2. Build a Dragon Bed

The vanilla Dragon Bed is supported automatically:

piece_bed02

3. Link the second player

Bed owner: Shift + Use to open the shared-bed invitation.
Second player: use/interact with the bed to join.

Once linked, both players can use the bed normally for sleeping and respawn.

4. Sleep together

Complete a valid shared night and both players can receive Satisfied.

That's it. The advanced options below are optional.

Shared Bed Features

A supported shared bed can be linked to two players:

• Player A — the vanilla bed owner
• Player B — the linked partner

Both players can:

• sleep in the same bed;
• use the same bed as their respawn point;
• use separate configurable sleeping positions;
• use separate configurable respawn positions;
• receive Satisfied after a successful shared night.

The persistent bed link and the temporary "currently sleeping" state are handled separately, so leaving the bed, disconnecting or waking up does not permanently occupy a slot.

If a linked bed disappears, the mod uses safe cleanup/fallback behavior instead of trapping the player in a respawn loop.

Satisfied

Sleeping successfully with your linked partner can grant:

Satisfied

Default duration: 60 minutes

Default bonuses:

• +10% Health regeneration
• +10% Stamina regeneration
• +10% Eitr regeneration

Each value can be configured individually.

Satisfied works alongside Valheim's normal Rested effect.

The visual profile also follows the selected tone:

	Neutral Uses Valheim's Dragon Bed icon.
	Romantic / Bawdy Uses Valheim's Love Potion icon (potion_pheromones).
♥	Wake-up hearts Romantic and Bawdy modes can trigger a short burst of Valheim's vanilla pet-heart effect when both players wake.

The heart burst is only a brief visual effect; it does not run for the full Satisfied duration.

Dreams & Mood

Why Sleep Alone? includes 80 shared-sleep dreams and 20 wake-up lines in English and Spanish.

The writing is designed to feel more at home in Valheim: longhouses, voyages, snow, ravens, old battles, runestones, mead, shared fires and the occasional questionable night under the furs.

Neutral

Quiet, mysterious and companion-focused.

Expect dreams about:

• distant homes;
• winter roads;
• Yggdrasil;
• ravens;
• old halls;
• returning from long journeys.

Romantic

Affectionate, but written with a Viking/Norse tone rather than modern romance.

Expect:

• returning from raids;
• waiting by the fire;
• voyages together;
• runestones and remembrance;
• growing old beside someone;
• finding "home" in another person.

Bawdy

Adult Viking tavern humor and suggestive shared-night stories.

Two intensities are available:

• Mild — cheeky, suggestive and playful
• Spicy — more openly adult, while still keeping the tone humorous rather than graphic

Mixed

A varied blend of all built-in styles:

• 45% Neutral
• 30% Romantic
• 20% Bawdy Mild
• 5% Bawdy Spicy

Custom

Use your own dreams and wake-up messages.

More on that below.

Less Repetition

The mod keeps a small local history so the same lines do not constantly repeat.

• up to the last 10 dreams are avoided while alternatives exist;
• recent wake-up lines are also avoided;
• small text pools relax safely instead of blocking sleep.

This history is local and lightweight.

Vanilla Dreams Always Come First

Why Sleep Alone? uses Valheim's own dream presentation.

It does not replace the sleep screen with a custom cinematic system.

Most importantly:

Boss, progression, special and cinematic dreams always have priority over Why Sleep Alone?

The mod only replaces vanilla dream results that it can safely identify as ordinary generic dreams.

If Valheim has something important to show you, Valheim wins.

Because of this, a Why Sleep Alone? dream is not guaranteed to appear every shared night.

Double Beds from Other Mods

Version 1.0.0 allows compatible modded beds to use the same shared-bed system.

The Dragon Bed is always supported automatically.

To add another bed, open:

BepInEx/config/TheLionCid.WhySleepAlone.cfg

Find:

[Compatibility]
AdditionalDoubleBeds =

Add the exact prefab names, separated by commas:

AdditionalDoubleBeds = FancyDoubleBed, OakMarriageBed, MyModdedBed

Use the prefab name

Use the exact prefab name, not the translated or visible item name.

The host validates the real registered prefab before allowing it to work as a shared bed.

Why Sleep Alone? does not automatically enable every object with "bed" in its name.

Positioning custom beds

Custom beds use the same existing position controls as the Dragon Bed:

• Sleep A
• Sleep B
• Spawn A
• Spawn B

If players are floating, clipping or positioned incorrectly, adjust those sliders in the config.

Community-Tested Bed Compatibility

The custom-bed feature was originally added after a community request.

Since release, we have received the first real third-party compatibility confirmation:

Core Wood Extras

Community tested: ✅ Working

A player confirmed that both double-sized beds from Core Wood Extras worked correctly after adding their prefab names to AdditionalDoubleBeds.

This confirms that the custom-bed system can work successfully with third-party beds in real multiplayer use.

Other bed mods

Other bed mods may also work, but compatibility depends on how their prefabs are built.

If you successfully use Why Sleep Alone? with another bed mod, please let us know so it can be added to the confirmed compatibility list.

When reporting compatibility, please include:

• mod name;
• mod version;
• exact bed prefab name;
• whether it worked correctly;
• any positioning adjustments you needed.

Custom Dreams & Wake-Up Messages

Want private jokes, personal memories or your own romantic/bawdy lines?

Why Sleep Alone? can load them from:

BepInEx/config/WhySleepAlone_CustomText.txt

If the file does not exist, the mod creates an example automatically.

It will never overwrite an existing custom text file.

Example

# Lines beginning with # are comments.
# One complete message per line.

[Dreams]
You dream of the first house you built together...
Someone stole all the furs again. Suspicious.
You remember your first voyage together.

[Wake]
You wake beside the reason you keep coming home.
The bed survived another night.

The file uses UTF-8, so accented characters and other Unicode text are supported.

Use only your custom text

[Text]
SharedSleepTone = Custom

Mix your text with the built-in dreams

IncludeCustomInMixed = true

When enabled, valid custom entries receive a small share of the Mixed selection pool.

Important

Custom text is local.

It is not synchronized between players.

That means each player can intentionally have a different custom text file.

After editing the file, restart the game or reload the BepInEx config through a tool that performs ConfigFile.Reload.

If the file is missing, empty or malformed, the mod falls back safely instead of breaking sleep.

Multiplayer

Why Sleep Alone? is designed around multiplayer.

For the best experience:

• install the same Why Sleep Alone? version on host and participating clients;
• do not keep old copies of WhySleepAlone.dll;
• everyone must also have any third-party mod that provides a custom bed.

For additional beds:

• the host controls the allowed bed list;
• that list is distributed to clients through the mod's existing gameplay synchronization;
• clients cannot locally add a bed that the host has not allowed.

Custom dream text remains local and is not synchronized.

Configuration

Main config:

BepInEx/config/TheLionCid.WhySleepAlone.cfg

Useful options include:

• enable / disable Why Sleep Alone?;
• Satisfied duration;
• Health regeneration bonus;
• Stamina regeneration bonus;
• Eitr regeneration bonus;
• Neutral / Romantic / Bawdy / Mixed / Custom text mode;
• Mild / Spicy Bawdy intensity;
• include custom text in Mixed;
• additional double-bed prefab list;
• heart effects;
• Sleep A / Sleep B positions;
• Spawn A / Spawn B positions;
• anti-repeat behavior;
• debug logging.

For most users, the defaults are enough.

Installation

Thunderstore / r2modman

Install Why Sleep Alone? normally through your preferred Thunderstore-compatible mod manager.

Required dependency:

• BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351

Manual

1. Install BepInExPack for Valheim.
2. Copy the WhySleepAlone folder into:

BepInEx/plugins/

1. You should end up with:

BepInEx/plugins/WhySleepAlone/WhySleepAlone.dll

1. Start Valheim.

Multiplayer

Install the same version on the host and participating players.

Do not keep multiple copies of WhySleepAlone.dll in different plugin folders.

Troubleshooting

My partner cannot join the bed

Check that:

• both players have the same version of Why Sleep Alone?;
• the owner opened the bed for sharing;
• the correct bed is being used;
• old DLL copies have been removed.

A custom bed does not work

Check that:

• the prefab name is exact;
• it is listed in AdditionalDoubleBeds;
• the host has the bed enabled;
• everyone has the mod that adds the bed.

Players are positioned badly on a custom bed

Adjust:

• Sleep A
• Sleep B
• Spawn A
• Spawn B

My custom dream text does not appear

Check:

• WhySleepAlone_CustomText.txt exists;
• the text is under [Dreams];
• SharedSleepTone = Custom, or IncludeCustomInMixed = true;
• you restarted/reloaded the configuration after editing.

Remember: vanilla special dreams can take priority.

Community & Support

Bug reports, compatibility confirmations, suggestions and feedback are welcome.

Discord:
https://discord.gg/kN3cqHqWYA

When reporting a problem, please include:

• Why Sleep Alone? version;
• Valheim version;
• active mod list;
• host / client / single-player / dedicated server;
• reproduction steps;
• relevant BepInEx logs.

For custom beds, also include:

• bed mod name and version;
• exact prefab name.

Development

Why Sleep Alone? has been developed with assistance from AI tools for areas such as code generation, debugging, visual planning and documentation.

Final design decisions, testing and release management are handled by TheLionCid.

Credits

• TheLionCid — creator and author
• Community members — testing, bug reports and feature suggestions
• Core Wood Extras user/tester — first confirmed third-party double-bed compatibility report
• BepInEx / Valheim modding community — framework and ecosystem
• Valheim — native runtime assets reused where appropriate

Español

Comparte cama. Comparte hogar. Despierta Satisfecho.

Why Sleep Alone? amplía la experiencia de dormir en pareja en Valheim.

Discord / Soporte: https://discord.gg/kN3cqHqWYA

Puedes compartir la Cama de dragón, usarla como punto de aparición para dos jugadores, dormir juntos, conseguir el efecto Satisfecho, disfrutar de sueños compartidos y habilitar camas dobles compatibles de otros mods.

En pocas palabras

• Dos jugadores en una cama
• Punto de aparición compartido
• Efecto Satisfecho
• 80 sueños + 20 frases de despertar
• Neutral, Romántico, Picante, Mixto y Personalizado
• Tus propios sueños y mensajes
• Camas dobles de otros mods
• Posiciones ajustables
• Los sueños importantes de Valheim siempre tienen prioridad
• Diseñado para multijugador

Cómo empezar

1. Instala el mod en host y jugadores.
2. Construye una Cama de dragón.

1. El propietario usa Mayús + Usar para abrir la cama.
2. El segundo jugador interactúa con ella para unirse.
3. Dormid juntos.

Una noche compartida válida puede conceder Satisfecho a ambos.

Satisfecho

Duración predeterminada: 60 minutos

Bonificaciones predeterminadas:

• +10% regeneración de Vida
• +10% regeneración de Aguante
• +10% regeneración de Eitr

Funciona junto a Descansado y todos los valores son configurables.

El perfil visual depende del tono:

	Neutral Utiliza el icono vanilla de la Cama de dragón.
	Romántico / Picante Utiliza el icono vanilla de Love Potion (potion_pheromones).
♥	Corazones al despertar Los modos Romántico y Picante pueden mostrar una breve ráfaga del efecto vanilla de corazones al despertar juntos.

Camas de otros mods

Añade los nombres exactos de los prefabs en:

BepInEx/config/TheLionCid.WhySleepAlone.cfg

Ejemplo:

[Compatibility]
AdditionalDoubleBeds = FancyDoubleBed, OakMarriageBed

Usa el nombre exacto del prefab, no el nombre visible o traducido.

Las camas adicionales utilizan los mismos controles:

• Sleep A
• Sleep B
• Spawn A
• Spawn B

Así puedes adaptar manualmente la posición de los dos jugadores.

Compatibilidad confirmada por la comunidad

Core Wood Extras — ✅ Compatible

Un jugador ha confirmado que las dos camas dobles de Core Wood Extras funcionan correctamente añadiendo sus nombres de prefab a AdditionalDoubleBeds.

Esta es actualmente la primera compatibilidad con camas externas confirmada en una partida real.

Si utilizas otro mod de camas y funciona correctamente, cuéntanoslo para añadirlo a la lista.

Textos personalizados

Archivo:

BepInEx/config/WhySleepAlone_CustomText.txt

Ejemplo:

[Dreams]
Sueñas con la primera casa que construisteis juntos...
Alguien ha vuelto a robar todas las pieles.

[Wake]
Despiertas junto a la razón por la que siempre vuelves a casa.
La cama ha sobrevivido otra noche.

Para usar solo tus textos:

[Text]
SharedSleepTone = Custom

Para mezclarlos con los textos del mod:

IncludeCustomInMixed = true

Los textos son locales: cada jugador puede tener los suyos.

Tonos de sueño

Neutral

Misterioso, tranquilo y melancólico.

Romántico

Hogar, viajes, juramentos, regreso de incursiones y compañía.

Picante

Humor adulto de taberna vikinga.

• Mild — insinuante
• Spicy — más adulto y atrevido

Mixto

Combina todos los tonos.

Personalizado

Utiliza tus propios textos.

Sueños de Valheim

Why Sleep Alone? solo sustituye sueños genéricos que puede identificar de forma segura.

Los sueños de jefes, progreso, eventos especiales y cinemáticas vanilla siempre tienen prioridad.

Por eso no tiene por qué aparecer un sueño de Why Sleep Alone? todas las noches.

Multijugador

Usa la misma versión del mod en host y jugadores.

Para camas de otros mods:

• todos deben tener instalado el mod que añade la cama;
• el host controla qué prefabs están permitidos;
• la lista se sincroniza con los clientes.

Los textos personalizados no se sincronizan.

Instalación

Thunderstore / r2modman

Instálalo normalmente desde tu gestor de mods.

Dependencia:

• BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351

Manual

Coloca:

WhySleepAlone.dll

en:

BepInEx/plugins/WhySleepAlone/

Soporte y comunidad

Discord:

https://discord.gg/kN3cqHqWYA

Para reportar un problema incluye, si es posible:

• versión de Why Sleep Alone?;
• versión de Valheim;
• lista de mods;
• si eres host o cliente;
• pasos para reproducirlo;
• logs de BepInEx.

Para camas externas añade también:

• nombre del mod;
• versión;
• prefab exacto de la cama.

Créditos

TheLionCid — creador y autor de Why Sleep Alone?

Gracias a la comunidad por los reportes, las pruebas y las sugerencias que han hecho crecer el mod.

Why Sleep Alone? es un mod independiente de Valheim y no está afiliado ni respaldado por Iron Gate.

_{Visual references shown in this README use vanilla Valheim assets documented by the Jötunn project. The Rested status icon reference is shown from a Valheim 1.0.17 data mirror. These images are documentation only and are not bundled as gameplay assets by Why Sleep Alone?.}

Changelog

1.0.2

Documentation corrections

• Revised outdated compatibility information.
• Corrected README asset links for Thunderstore rendering.
• Clarified persistent shared-bed and respawn behavior.

1.0.1 - Shared Bed Persistence Fix

Fixed

• Fixed shared-bed state being partially lost after leaving and re-entering a world.
• Open shared-bed invitations now persist until the owner closes them or a second player successfully links.
• Linked partners now remain associated with the same shared bed across normal reconnects and world restarts.
• Fixed cases where the second player could lose access to the shared respawn point after reconnecting.
• A linked partner no longer needs the owner to reopen the bed invitation after returning to the world.
• Shared respawn restoration is performed safely without creating respawn loops.
• Intentionally unlinking the partner now returns the bed to the normal closed state.
• Persistence behavior also applies to supported beds added through AdditionalDoubleBeds.

Improved

• Linked beds now show both player names in the bed presentation.
• Example:
  • English: Lion & Yume's Bed
  • Spanish: Cama de Lion y Yume
• The vanilla bed owner remains the real internal owner; the linked partner is stored separately.
• Shared-bed state is now clearer between:
  • owner,
  • open invitation,
  • linked partner,
  • temporary sleep occupancy.

Compatibility

• Existing 1.0.0 shared-bed data remains supported.
• Vanilla Dragon Bed support remains unchanged.
• Additional modded beds continue to use the same shared-bed system.
• Core Wood Extras has now been community-tested successfully: both of its double-sized beds were reported working after adding their prefab names to AdditionalDoubleBeds.

1.0.0 - Dreams, Custom Text & Modded Bed Support

Added

• Added 80 shared-sleep dreams and 20 wake lines in English and Spanish.
• Added longer, more atmospheric Viking/Norse writing across Neutral, Romantic and Bawdy profiles.
• Added Custom text mode using BepInEx/config/WhySleepAlone_CustomText.txt.
• Added [Dreams] and [Wake] custom text sections with safe parsing/fallback behavior.
• Added IncludeCustomInMixed for optional custom-text participation in Mixed mode.
• Added configurable support for additional double beds through Compatibility / AdditionalDoubleBeds.
• Added host-authoritative synchronization of the allowed additional-bed list through the existing gameplay snapshot.
• Added validation of configured third-party beds against the actual registered prefab and expected Valheim bed/network/spawn components.

Changed

• Mixed built-in weighting is now 45% Neutral, 30% Romantic, 20% Bawdy Mild and 5% Bawdy Spicy.
• Bawdy Spicy mode keeps a blend of Mild and Spicy lines for better variety.
• Expanded anti-repeat behavior to avoid the last 10 different dreams and recent wake lines while alternatives remain.
• Wake flavor text uses the existing fresh Satisfied reward event and does not replay when restoring the buff after reconnecting.
• Custom text is loaded/cached at startup or config reload instead of being read from disk during sleep.
• Additional-bed prefab names are parsed/cached only when configuration or scene state requires it.

Vanilla dream safety

• Why Sleep Alone only replaces verified generic vanilla dream entries.
• Boss, progression, special and cinematic dreams always retain priority.
• Unknown and null dream results are preserved.
• Vanilla DreamText objects, cinematic state and progression flags are not modified by the replacement system.
• Because the mod does not reroll vanilla results, a Why Sleep Alone dream is not guaranteed every shared night.

Additional modded beds — compatibility notice

Support for compatible beds from other mods was added by community request.

At the time 1.0.0 was released, I had not been able to live-test the feature with third-party bed mods because we do not use custom bed mods in our own world.

Since then, a community member has confirmed successful real-world compatibility with Core Wood Extras: both of its double-sized beds worked after adding their prefab names to AdditionalDoubleBeds.

Compatibility can still vary between third-party bed mods depending on prefab structure, geometry and animation setup. Please report the mod name/version, exact prefab name and relevant host/client logs if you test another bed mod.

Compatibility / installation

• Prepared for Valheim 1.0.17.
• Requires BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351.
• Install the same Why Sleep Alone version on host/server and participating clients.
• All participants also need any mod that provides a configured additional bed.
• Why Sleep Alone does not depend on a specific third-party double-bed mod.

0.1.5 - Multiplayer Linking Hotfix

Fixed

• Fixed the multiplayer join/link flow for the second player using a shared Dragon Bed.
• Remote player identity is resolved from the synchronized character ZDO and validated against the owning peer.
• Join requests no longer depend on Peer.PlayerID being available.
• The validated remote-character identity path is also used for occupancy, shared-sleep rewards and disconnect cleanup.
• Improved diagnostics for failed remote-character resolution.

Apology

The initial public release shipped with a multiplayer issue that prevented the core shared-bed link from working correctly in real multiplayer. Thank you to the players who reported it and helped identify the problem.

0.1.1 - Initial Public Release

• Shared sleeping for two players in the vanilla Dragon Bed (piece_bed02).
• Persistent two-player shared-bed link.
• Shared respawn support.
• Configurable sleep/respawn positions.
• Satisfied / Satisfecho status effect.
• Neutral, Romantic, Bawdy and Mixed presentation modes.