Everlit

Fires and torches your players build never run out of fuel.

Torches, campfires, hearths, braziers and candles in Valheim burn fuel, and sooner or later somebody has to walk around the base with a stack of resin. Install Everlit on your dedicated server and every fire a player builds stays lit for good. The fire pits that come with the world, at abandoned camps and villages, stay as they are.

Your players don't install anything. It runs only on the server.

What you get

Install

You need a Valheim dedicated server with BepInEx on it (BepInExPack for Valheim). Most server hosts have a one-click option for BepInEx.

1. Download Everlit-<version>.zip from Releases.

2. Unzip it. Inside is a plugins/Everlit folder.

3. Copy the Everlit folder into your server's BepInEx/plugins folder, so you end up with:

   <server>/BepInEx/plugins/Everlit/Everlit.dll
   

4. Start the server. In the server log you should see:

   Everlit 1.0.0 loaded
   

   and, a minute after the world loads:

   Everlit: 86 fires kept lit (11 campfire, 1 bonfire, 8 hearth, 62 torch, 4 brazier); 86 newly lit, ...
   

Removing it

The switch Everlit turns on is saved with each fire, so it stays even without the mod. To go back to normal fires, set Enabled = false, wait for the log line saying the fires were put back (a few seconds), and only then remove the mod.

Settings

Settings live in BepInEx/config/com.cocopuff2u.everlit.cfg. The file appears after the first start. Edit it any time: Everlit picks up the change a second after you save, and says Settings reloaded in the log.

A blank means the game has nothing like it.

Good to know

• A fire someone is standing next to switches over the next time it loads for them, after they walk away and come back or log in again. Until then Everlit gives it a full load of fuel, so it can't go out in the meantime. The log counts these as "still used fuel in a player's game" until they've switched.
• Fires still go out the way the game puts them out: under water, or choked by their own smoke under a roof with nowhere for it to go. Those don't use fuel.
• Adding fuel. A lit fire won't take wood or resin any more, the same as the traders' fire pits.
• Smelters, kilns, furnaces and hot tubs aren't fires to the game and aren't touched.

Troubleshooting

Still stuck? Open an issue and attach BepInEx/LogOutput.log.

More

• CHANGELOG.md: what changed in each version.
• Building from source: ./build.sh --managed <server>/valheim_server_Data/Managed (needs the .NET SDK 8+). The zip lands in dist/.
• Self-test: build with dotnet build src/Everlit.csproj -c Release -p:SelfTest=true, put that DLL on a test server, create an empty file BepInEx/config/everlit.selftest and start the server. It builds fires out at sea and near the middle of the world, has the server's own game load them to watch them burn (or not) over three days of world time, tries every setting, logs Everlit TEST PASS or FAIL for each, then removes what it made. The normal build has none of this in it.

Credits

Everlit is made by Cody Keats, who also makes Munin Map, Regrove and Unmarked.

Licence

MIT. See LICENSE.

Changelog

1.1.1

• README and setting descriptions corrected: hover text on switched hot tubs and stations, what NoSmokeChoke and PlayersCanTurnOff do (rain or strong wind turns such a fire off; there's no on-screen prompt), and how much the frost kiln makes. No change in what the mod does.

1.1.0

• Hot tubs stay hot without wood (HotTubs, on). Asked for in #1.
• Stone ovens never run out of wood (Ovens, on).
• The eitr refinery refines without sap (EitrRefinery, on).
• FrostKiln and FrostFoundry (both off): the frost kiln runs without ice (so it makes frozen fuel out of nothing) and the frost foundry never runs out of frozen fuel.
• Off by default: WardedOnly (only inside players' wards that are switched on), ShieldGenerators (a hit uses up no fuel, so the shield never breaks), NoSmokeChoke (lit fires don't go out when smoke can't get away) and PlayersCanTurnOff (players can turn lit fires off and on).
• Settings changed while a round is running now get a round of their own afterwards.
• None of them is handed fuel a player could get back: what's in one stays, and tearing it down gives back only that. (FrostKiln, when on, makes frozen fuel out of nothing.)

1.0.0

First release.

• Fires players build never run out of fuel: campfires, bonfires, hearths, torches, braziers and candles.
• Uses the game's own infinite-fuel switch, set per fire, which every player's game applies by itself.
• The world's own fire pits are left alone (PlayerBuiltOnly).
• Furnaces (off by default): smelters and blast furnaces smelt without coal.
• Switches per fire type, and ExcludeFires for single types.
• New fires are switched as they're built; one walk of the world after it loads, no sweeping after that.
• Enabled = false puts every fire back to normal.
• Settings take effect when the file is saved, no restart.
• Server only: players need nothing.