🛏️ RuneboundRest

RuneboundRest reworks Valheim's Rested/Comfort system end to end: how fast comfort builds up, what conditions let you rest at all, how long the Rested buff lasts, and how much it's worth. On top of that it adds a brand-new Well Rested buff for actually sleeping through the night in your own claimed bed.

Every gameplay setting is server-synced and admin-lockable — the server's config file is the one that matters on a multiplayer world.

⚔️ Features

🌙 Reworked Rested Buff

Base duration, duration-per-comfort-level, and the skill XP multiplier while Rested are all config-driven. Defaults roughly double vanilla's generosity (960s base duration vs. vanilla's 480s, 120s per comfort level vs. 60s), and the XP bonus while Rested defaults to 3x (vanilla is 1.5x).

An AlwaysRested toggle exists for servers that want the buff permanently active.

🔥 Configurable Resting Conditions

Vanilla hardcodes what lets you start Resting (fire, shelter, dryness, not being sensed by enemies). RuneboundRest replaces that logic with individually toggleable rules: require fire or not, require shelter or not, allow resting while wet, allow resting near enemies, and how many seconds of sitting/resting it takes to acquire the buff (default 4s vs. vanilla's 10s).

🧭 Comfort Area

The radius the game scans for comfort-providing furniture and how often it rescans are both configurable (default 30m radius / 6s interval vs. vanilla's 10m / 2s).

🪑 Sitting & Lying

Extra comfort points and a faster rested-buildup-speed multiplier apply while actively sitting or lying in a bed, both independently configurable for sitting vs. sleeping.

🌟 Well Rested — sleep a full night, in your own bed

A brand-new buff, separate from the comfort-driven Rested buff above. It's granted the moment you wake from a server-confirmed full night's sleep in your own claimed bed — the same "everyone in the group is asleep" moment that skips the night to morning in vanilla. Grants bonus health regen, stamina regen, and a stacking skill XP bonus for its duration. Can be disabled entirely if you only want the comfort-based Rested system.

⚙️ Configuration

(Run the game once to generate the config file in BepInEx/config. All settings below are server-synced and admin-lockable via 0. Server Sync > LockConfiguration — on a locked server, the host's values win.)

1. Core Rested Buff

2. Resting Conditions

3. Comfort Area

4. Sitting & Lying

5. Utility

6. Well-Rested Buff

📥 Installation

Mod Manager (Recommended)

1. Install Gale.
2. Make sure BepInEx is installed.
3. Search for RuneboundRest → Install → launch through the manager.

Manual

1. Install BepInEx.
2. Extract the release into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/.
   • e.g. steamapps\common\Valheim\BepInEx\plugins\RuneboundRest.dll
3. Launch the game.

⚠️ Multiplayer: every player on the server must have the mod installed. 📦 One file. No external dependencies to install alongside it — RuneboundRest bundles its own config-sync library.

Dedicated Server

1. Install BepInEx on the server, exactly as on a client.
2. Drop RuneboundRest.dll into the server's BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Start the server once, then stop it — that writes BepInEx/config/wubarrk.runeboundrest.cfg.
4. Edit the server's config. Every gameplay setting is server-synced: on connect the server pushes its values over each client's, so the server's file is the one that decides everything above except EnableDebugLogging.
5. Restart.

🏰 Come Play It With Us

RuneboundRest is one piece of a bigger table. Wubarrk builds several mods for Valheim, meant to be run together on Wubarrk's modded server. Details on joining live on the Discord.

Forged by Wubarrk. Rest well. 🔥

Changelog

[1.1.0]

• New: Well Rested — a separate buff from the comfort-driven Rested, granted for sleeping through a server-confirmed full night in your own claimed bed (health regen, stamina regen and a stacking skill XP bonus, all configurable, toggleable via EnableWellRested).
• Fixed: the skill XP multiplier while Rested was miscalculated as roughly 201x instead of the intended 3x. The underlying field is additive to a 1.0 baseline multiplier, not a percentage scaled by 100 - a leftover from an earlier, incorrect assumption about the value's units. Every world running the default SkillXPMultiplier was getting a game-breaking XP bonus while Rested; it now applies correctly.
• Fixed: Player.IsSafeInHome() could disagree with whether you actually had the Resting buff. The mod overrides vanilla's resting conditions, but the flag other systems read to ask "is this player safe at home" was still being computed from vanilla's original, un-overridden logic - so a server running AllowRestingNearEnemies could grant Resting while the game still considered the player not safe at home. It's now derived from the same config-driven decision the Resting buff itself uses.
• Fixed: ServerSync.dll was not actually being bundled into the shipped plugin DLL. The merge step existed but pointed at a library search path that didn't exist, so it silently failed - meaning the mod as previously built would refuse to load on any machine that didn't happen to already have ServerSync.dll sitting in BepInEx/plugins from another mod. This is the library the server-authoritative config locking depends on, so it's now verified to be correctly merged and internalized into the single shipped DLL.
• Hardened the comfort-scan-interval patch to match the same safety net the comfort-radius patch already had (stops after the first match, logs an error if the expected value ever isn't found), so a future Valheim update can't cause it to silently corrupt an unrelated value.
• Chore: reference assemblies now come from the shared libs-Tools folder instead of a per-project copy, removed an unused Jotunn dependency and a leftover scratch file.

[1.0.0]

• Initial build: config-driven Rested duration/XP, resting conditions, comfort radius/update interval, and sitting/lying bonuses, all server-synced and admin-lockable.