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FiresGhettoNetworking
Comprehensive networking + server-authority mod with ZDO delta compression, WearNTear server/client CPU skips for invulnerable pieces, AoI-filtered RPC broadcasts, and a built-in per-client config auto-tuner.
CHANGELOG
- v1.3.7 disconnect + fall-through + steamworks-limit fixes
- Clients no longer choke on default Steam bandwidth limits during big transfers.
- The bandwidth lift now applies through other mods' socket wrappers instead of getting lost.
- Fixed a compression bug that caused "Disconnected" drops on busy servers.
- Items and graves stay put until the floor under them finishes loading instead of falling through.
- Fall-through diagnostic logging is now off by default behind a toggle.
- v1.3.6 tombstone/tames fix
- graves and tames should stop dropping through structures on zone reload
- v1.3.5 auto-tune adjustment
- a strong PC on a high-ping connection no longer gets dropped to low settings. your hardware sets the ceiling, a bad connection only nudges it down a step
- player smoothing/prediction are left to the clients preferences again, auto-tune doesn't force them on
- v1.3.4 stability pass for big/busy servers
- smoother on rented/shared hosts, now TRYING to read the actual server box specs not the hosts specs
- "Update Rate" renamed to "ZDO Send Rate"
- better disconnect logging to track down any hiccups
- v1.3.3 multi-player area fixes + permission-mod compat
- players flying / hits from across the map fixed. BulkTransferGuard was the cause, replaced with BulkTransferGate (raises ServerSync send queue gate at the source instead of suppressing ZDOMan.SendZDOs)
- delta compression self-heals now — full vanilla keyframe every 5s per peer/zdo so a dropped packet doesn't desync fields forever
- RPC router stopped wasting cycles forwarding server-targeted RPCs to itself
- IsActiveAreaLoaded gate uses vanilla active-area only, megabases stop choking on it
- ported SSS defensive trio (humanoid null guard, WNT collider re-init, ship request-handoff)
- CreateDestroyObjects NRE prune. fires when permission mods like TargetPortalProtection block portal destroy on the dedi and leave m_instances out of sync
- broad server ownership auto-skips portals when TargetPortalProtection is installed
- misc log + diagnostic tidy
- v1.3.2 realized the error of my ways
- compat with serversync send limits
- added experimental server ownership toggles... basically ports the rest of server simulations. off by default
- v1.3.1 fixes for compression conflicts with SC
- v1.3.0 server + bandwidth performance pass:
- ZDO delta compression — server only re-sends ZDO fields that changed (wire-compatible with vanilla)
- Server-side WearNTear skip — UpdateWear short-circuits for stable / invulnerable pieces
- Client-side support skip — invulnerable pieces stop running UpdateSupport, max-support pinned at Awake
- Shared invulnerability classifier — Immune + Ignore both treated as zero-damage
- AoI-filtered SpawnedZone rebroadcast — server-side rebroadcast bound by AoI radius instead of all-peers
- Public-test build gating — ready for live valheim updates
- Internal reorg —
- v1.2.1 per-client Auto-Tune system added:
- Network/hardware probe runs on first login (latency, jitter, frame time, bandwidth, hardware fingerprint), picks a LOW/MED/HIGH tier, applies tier-appropriate settings automatically
- Two-axis tier scoring (machine vs link) — strong client on a clean-latency link no longer dragged down by server-bottlenecked bandwidth measurements
- Rolling monitor re-probes every 5 minutes after initial probe; tier auto-corrects if conditions change mid-session or initial probe was contaminated by startup traffic
- Server self-tune scores host CPU/RAM and applies tier presets to ZDO throttle / AI LOD / RPC AoI / queue size / extended zone radius / Steam buffers (default ON)
- Per-server cache (7-day TTL, hardware-fingerprint-aware) so reconnecting picks up the established tier
- Steam SendBufferSize wired up (per-connection outbound buffer, up to 2MB) — addresses k_EResultLimitExceeded errors during initial-sync floods
- Asymmetric send-rate pattern (Min stays at safe baseline, Max scales with tier) — no risk of pushing a slow client harder than they can handle
- ZoneLoadBatchSize (formerly stubbed) now wired into ZNetScene's per-frame creation cap via runtime helper; HIGH-tier clients consume zone backlog 4x faster
- ZPackage Receive Buffer config bound and applied (no-op on Valheim's bundled Steamworks build but ready when SDK updates)
- Default
Enable Server Auto-Tuneflipped ON (was OFF in 1.2.0) - Default
Enable Client-Side Interpolationflipped OFF (was ON before — the rest of the networking improvements deliver smooth positions on their own; turn back ON if you still see snap/teleport) - README rewritten with proper documentation of features, auto-tune, server-authority patches, and the four client-side knobs that are the only settings users should ever touch
- v1.2.0 removed log snapshots beta, will have to become its own mod someday soon
- v1.1.9 adjustments to player positioning patches as well as default config settings, added a new beta feature for login snapshots as well
- v1.1.8 better client position handling for players with higher ping differences (only works when installed on server and client)
- v1.1.7 various tweaks and a bug fix for accidentally hiding the player-player poistion sync in configs
- v1.1.6 better server checking for renamed assemblys
- v1.1.5 fixes to server authority ai patches. improved performance, stopped causing issues with interactions and monsters...
- v1.1.1 fixed single player running logic as dedicated server and spamming errors finally
- v1.1.0 compatibility updates
- v1.0.2 update for not playing well with wackies db
