fwiends modpack

Purpose

To provide a Vanilla+ experience with a plethora of qualities of life for a close-knit multiplayer server.

Features

Quality of life

• Auto repairs when interacting with benches
• Area-wide repairs
• Targeted teleport interface
• Quick stack to nearby chests
• Auto storage of dropped items to nearby chests
• Eternal torches and related firey fuel sources (excluding things like smelters, of course)
• Recycle and reclain excess equipment with a 50% return on materials
• Show live EXP updates from your skills!

Additions

• Mining, Cooking, and Sailing skills
• Odin Architect for more buildables
• Epic Loot for enchantments and equipment affixes
• Therzie's Armory, Monstrum, and Warfare for more equipment throughout the game's progression, which is supplemented by new monsters

Cheat-y

• Plant Everything allows you to, you know.
• Teleport Everything allows transporting goods, animals, and carts.
• Extended Player Inventory for equipment-specific slots to free up your inventory

Important Keybinds

Troubleshooting

NullReference error with localization?

Change your language to something else, then back to your original language and relaunch Valheim (with BepInEx).

2.4.0 -- 2026-01-19

• Added FiresGhettoNetworking (which does a 'hacky' job of incorporating all the network optimizations that we want)
• Removed Network
• Removed LeanNet
• Changed QuickStackToNearbyRange and RestockFromNearbyRange from 10 -> 15

2.3.0 -- 2026-01-19

• Added Network, which inreases the send/receive limit for network traffic
• Added LeanNet, which lowers bandwidth use on the client and frees up more headroom in the server's queue

2.2.1 -- 2026-01-17

• This modpack has been branched into a separate one: fwiends_modpack_serverowner
  • The serverowner modpack will include admin-related mods, as well as things for server maintenance and resets like CronJob
• Removed Server devcommands, as this is only necessary for the fwiends_modpack_serverowner modpack
• Removed Cron Job, as this is only necessary for the fwiends_modpack_serverowner modpack
• Removed Upgrade World, as this is only necessary for the fwiends_modpack_serverowner modpack
• Removed Expand World Data, as this is only necessary for the fwiends_modpack_serverowner modpack
• Updated AzuExtendedPlayerInventory from 2.2.1 -> 2.2.2
• Added a custom recipe that patches Epic Loot to make Chain at the forge for 5 iron bars
• Updated AzuAutoStore fallback range (and setting for most chests) from 10 -> 20
  • This allows a wider radius for chests to automatically pick up items, which in turn allows more freedom for base builds. i.e. putting a smelting area a respectable distance from the central storage

2.1.1 -- 2026.01.12

• Added Expand World Data
  • Added the server-side yamls for this mod in the BepInEx/config folder
  • Modified the expand_dungeons.yaml to force randomSeed: true for all dungeons. This means when regenerating dungeons with Upgrade World the dungeon interiors will be completely random.
• Patched Epic Loot identification mechanic so it no longer requires biome-specific materials. i.e. You don't need Silver to identify Mountain epic items, just the gold
• Simplified Cron Job's cron.yaml so it resets dungeons and camps a little more aggressively by narrowing the safeZones to 1 and forcing it server-wide instead of on zone load. This still won't reset dungeons if a tombstone is in there or someone builds on/in it.
• Changed PlantEverything's variable EnforceBiomesVanilla from true -> false
  • This allows you to plant any biomes' seed in any other biome because we are lazy.

2.1.0 -- 2026.01.11

• Added MonstrumDeepNorth
• Added WarfareFireAndIce
• Updated EpicLoot from 0.12.6 -> 0.12.9
  • Set Always Refresh Core Configs to true since we're not making any changes, and this will help with updates
  • Deleted the ..config/EpicLoot folder since this wasn't copying anything anyway
• Updated AzuExtendedPlayerInventory from 2.1.0 -> 2.2.1
• Tweaked cron.yaml so it also resets Mistland camps and Fossilized Skeletons (Mistlands_Giant1,Mistlands_Giant2). Otherwise finding these things to get enough tissue to gear 4+ players is just a chore
• Added F6 as a bind for the DPS Experience meter. You can just press F6 to toggle it on or off.
• Sorted manifest mods alphabetically so it's easier to read
• IMPORTANT NOTE: If you upgraded from anything prior to version 2.0.0 you need to make sure Creature Level and Loot Control is uninstalled. There are some weird desync issues otherwise. If a player on a server has that still enabled and wanders around the world first (therefore becoming the local host) it seems to generate higher starred monsters that show deceptively as "normal" monsters for everyone else.

2.0.3 -- 2026.01.04

• Fixed CHANGELOG dates (whoops, it's 2026 now)
• Updated README
• Updated EpicLoot from 0.12.5 -> EpicLoot-0.12.6
• Disabled recycling from inventory from Recycle N Reclain
• Updated Cron Job's cron.yaml to perform the following:
  • Reset DUNGEONS every EVEN hour with a server-wide broadcast
  • Reset CAMPS every ODD hour with a server-wide broadcast

2.0.2 -- 2026.01.01

• Changed AzuAutoStore border colors to be transparent, removed their tooltips, and removed their store shortcut. This should basically "hide" the AzuAutoStore favoriting system in favor of (heh) the Quick Craft favoriting system

2.0.1 -- 2026.01.01

• Updated AzuExtendedPlayerInventory from 2.0.3 -> 2.1.0
• Cleaned up CHANGELOG because of weird bullet spacing

2.0.0 -- 2026.01.01

New year, new version :)

• Added Upgrade World
  • Allows resetting certain aspects of the world with high levels of control, like only resetting certain dungeons, biomes, or a location around coordinates
• Added Cron Job
  • Allows scheduling commands for the server, like with the above Upgrade World
• Removed Creature Level and Loot Control
  • The main reason we used this was for resetting dungeon spawns every in-game day, but now we can soft reset everything on a schedule with the above mods
• Added Cron Job schedule to soft reset dungeons every 2 hours; this will ignore resetting any dungeon if a player's tombstone or buildables are around the coordinate.
• Changed Plant Everything growth timers from 120 minutes -> 60 minutes because when you're playing with a lot of fwiends, food becomes the bootleneck
• Changed Azu Crafty Boxes Leave One Item setting back from On -> Off
  • This is great in theory, but when you have rare/valuable items (where you only have 1) this is annoying
• Changed Azu Crafty Boxes Container Range from 30 -> 60
• Changed Azu Auto Store BorderColorFavoritedItem from FFD800FF -> FFD80000
  • This sets the outline to transparent, because we're using the Favorite system from the Quick Stack mod

1.0.5 -- 2025.12.31

• Updated EpicLoot from 0.12.4 -> 0.12.5
  • Also regenerated the baseconfig/ files since those were affected in the update
• Updated AzuExtendedPlayerInventory from 2.0.2 -> 2.0.3
• Updated Jotunn from 2.27.0 -> 2.27.1
• Disabled the Experience Meter from DPS by default, since it's a little annoying

1.0.4 -- 2025.12.27

• Added CreatureLevelAndLootControl
  • Allows for things like dungeon/camp resets, customizable elite aspects, and "world levels" which increase over time and as you venture from the center of the map.
• Added Cooking skills mod
  • Enhances the Cooking skill to reward better cooks with better buffs
• Added Mining skills mod
  • Adds a Mining skill, which offers slightly more ore with an "explosion" skill at level 50
• Added DPS mod
  • We only use the Experience meter for this, which tracks experience gain for skills

1.0.3 -- 2025.12.27

• Added AzuAreaRepair for QoL
  • When repairing, you will automatically repair things in an area around you
• Added TorchesEternal for QoL
  • Torches and other fire sources burn infinitely so we don't have to refuel
• Added Recycle N Reclaim
  • Allows you to recycle items back into resources use to make them
• Added Groups
  • Adds group features to the game
  • Changed Maximum size for groups from 5 -> 10
• Added AzuAutoStore
  • Grabs nearby items on the ground and puts them in chests
  • Disabled FavoritingModifierKeybind1 and FavoritingModifierKeybind2 since this is built into another mod
• Added NoRainDamage
  • Stops wood from decaying from weather/exterior conditions
• Updated AzuExtendedPlayerInventory from 2.0.1 -> 2.0.2
• Updated Server decommands from 1.101.0 -> 1.102.0

1.0.2 -- 2025.12.26

• Added this changelog!
• Tweaked PlantEverything timers to all be 2 hours instead of variable 3-5 hours.
• Tweaked AzuCraftyBoxes to increase Container Range from 20 -> 30
• Tweaked AzuCraftyBoxes to enable "Leave One Item"

1.0.1 -- 2025.12.26

• Added UseEquipmentInWater. Configured to only allow building tools and knives in water so it isn't overpowered. :)
• Added AutoRepair for QoL