Controls & Settings

Default keys

Other controls

• Moving while flying: horizontal flight uses W, A, S and D (or a controller's left stick), relative to where the camera faces, even if you have rebound Valheim's movement keys.
• While flying, Space and Left Ctrl only climb and descend. They don't also jump or toggle sneak.
• Appearance customizer: hold the Left/Right arrow keys to turn the camera around your character, and Up/Down arrow keys to zoom.
• Spell HUD: the list of known spells in the lower left always shows the label "O: cycle, P: cast", even if you rebind those keys. Spells you have switched off don't appear in it.

Controller and Steam Deck (experimental, since 1.0.6)

The mod reads controllers directly, so you don't need Steam Input to map buttons to keyboard keys. If you set that up before, turn it off for Valheim.

Vanilla Valheim already uses every button on a controller, so most mod actions are LB + button combos (vanilla uses LB as its own modifier too). While you hold a combo, the vanilla action on its second button is blocked for attack, secondary attack, jump, dodge and crouch. That doesn't work for X, Y or the D-pad, so combos on those can still trigger their vanilla action.

Spellbook on a controller: holding Next spell opens it as a spell wheel (since 1.0.7) and it stays open. Point the right stick at a spell to highlight it (Next/Previous also move the highlight), Cast casts and closes it, B closes it.

Button hints (since 1.0.7): while you use a controller and no menu is open, a strip at the bottom of the screen lists the mod's button combos. Turn it off with ShowButtonHints.

This hasn't been tested on a real controller yet. Please report anything that feels wrong on the Discord with /bug.

Rebinding keys in game

1. Open Settings > Keyboard & Mouse.
2. Scroll below the vanilla key list to the Fifth Edition Fantasy section.
3. Click the key next to an action. It changes to press a key.
4. Press the new key. Keyboard keys and extra mouse buttons (middle, side buttons) work. Left and right click can't be used.

While a key is waiting for input:

• Esc cancels and keeps the old key.
• Backspace or Delete unbinds the action. It then shows as - and does nothing.

Changes take effect immediately and are saved to the config file right away.

Controller buttons are in the Controller column next to the keyboard keys. Select a row (click it, or press A on it), then press a button. For a combo, hold the first button and press the second. Start clears the binding, Esc cancels. Controller combos that clash also turn red.

Clashes: if two of the mod's actions share a key, both rows turn red and get a ! mark. This only checks the mod's own keys against each other. It doesn't warn you about clashes with vanilla keys or other mods. Fly up and Fly down share Space and Left Ctrl with vanilla Jump and Crouch on purpose.

Resetting: the vanilla Reset button in the settings menu doesn't touch this mod's keys. To restore a default, rebind it by hand using the table above, or reset the config file (see below).

Config file

All settings live in:

BepInEx/config/jdvanaus.fifthedition.cfg

With a mod manager this is inside your profile folder. r2modman and the Thunderstore Mod Manager also have a built-in Config editor. The file is created the first time you start the game with the mod. Edit it while the game is closed.

To reset everything to defaults, close the game and delete the file. It is recreated with default values the next time you start the game.

Flight settings [Flight]

Flight rules that aren't configurable:

• You climb and descend at a fixed speed.
• If you run out of stamina, you hover in place and can't move until stamina is back to 30%. Let go of the movement keys to recover faster.
• You can't fly, and you land automatically, while dead, swimming, sitting or at a ship's helm, inside a dungeon or other interior, encumbered, or wearing heavy armor. Heavy armor means any helmet, chest or leg piece weighing 12 or more.
• Fairies never take fall damage. Other races take normal fall damage if they stop flying in mid-air.

HUD [FairyHud]

Race and spell keys [FairyMagic]

Character sheet [FairyCharacterSheet]

Combat [FairyCombat] (server-synced)

Bag of Holding [BagOfHolding]

Feats [FairyFeats]

Classes [FairyClasses]

Controller [FairyController]

Each entry is None, one button, or a combo written Modifier+Button. Button names: A B X Y LB RB LT RT L3 R3 DPadUp DPadDown DPadLeft DPadRight Select. Start can't be bound.

Races [Races] (per player)

Skills [Skills] (server-synced, except CreatureLore)

Monsters [Bestiary] (server-synced)

Items [Items] (server-synced)

The 1.2.0 rules settings in [FifthEdition] (saving throws, damage types, exhaustion, legendary bosses, monster attack rolls, alignment drift, Wild Shape limits) are listed on the Fifth Edition Rules page.

Other sections

The file also contains a few other sections that aren't used during normal play. Leave them at their defaults.

Notes

• Use single keys. The in-game menu always saves a single key, and key combinations typed into the config file aren't reliably supported.
• These settings are per player. The server doesn't sync them. Each player's own flight settings apply to their own character.