UsefulTankards

Turn tankards into practical adventuring gear: store meads inside them, drink from storage, move while drinking, tune animation speed, cooldown reduction, buff duration, durability, recipes, and ServerSync-backed settings. ValheimCuisine's Goblet of Kings is supported too.

Drink from a tankard without standing still. Movement and drinking speed are configurable.

Better tankards can extend buff duration and shorten potion cooldowns.

Tankards are not repairable by default, making Dvergr tankards especially valuable. Repairability can be enabled per tankard if your setup provides a valid repair path.

Tankards carry their own mead storage, and their tooltip shows both tankard bonuses and stored meads.

Modded meads can be stored too. ValheimCuisine's Goblet of Kings is detected and configured automatically.

When stored meads are currently usable, a tankard can drink them directly from its storage. Use DataForge if you want to align custom mead effect durations: https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/sighsorry/DataForge/

What It Adds

• Tankards can store meads in their own small inventory.
• Stored meads count toward item weight and are shown in the tankard tooltip.
• Using a tankard drinks usable stored meads without needing them loose in your inventory.
• Tankard drinking can allow partial movement instead of fully locking the player in place.
• Tankard drinking animation speed can be tuned.
• Health, stamina, and eitr-over-time potions can get shorter cooldowns.
• Long-duration buffs can get longer durations.
• Tankards gain configurable durability so they can act like limited-use drinking tools.
• Tankard and Anniversary Tankard recipes can be configured.
• ServerSync keeps gameplay-affecting settings aligned on dedicated servers.

Tankard Progression

Each supported tankard has its own settings for durability, repairability, potion cooldown reduction, buff duration bonus, and storage slots.

• Tankard: small storage and a modest bonus.
• TankardAnniversary: stronger than the basic tankard.
• Tankard_dvergr: the strongest vanilla tankard profile.
• VC_GoK: supported when ValheimCuisine is installed, using the Dvergr profile defaults.

Storage

Press the interact key while hovering a tankard in your inventory to open its internal storage. Only drinkable consumables with a consume status effect can be placed inside. Stored meads are saved on change, so tooltip contents, dropped tankards, and item weight stay in sync.

When a tankard is used, UsefulTankards checks the stored meads and drinks any that can currently be consumed. Food rules, potion categories, and active status effect categories are respected.

Potion And Buff Bonuses

UsefulTankards treats instant/over-time recovery effects differently from long-duration utility effects.

• Effects with health, stamina, or eitr over time are treated as potion-style effects and can receive cooldown reduction.
• Other timed effects are treated as buffs and can receive duration bonuses.

This makes tankards useful without turning every drink into the same kind of bonus.

Configuration

Configuration is server-synced by default.

General options include:

• Movement While Drinking: 0 keeps the vanilla movement lock, 1 allows normal movement, and values in between allow partial movement.
• Tankard Animation Speed: 1 keeps vanilla speed, 2 is twice as fast, and 3 is three times as fast.

Per-tankard options include:

• durability
• repairability
• potion cooldown reduction
• buff duration bonus
• storage slots

Recipe options are available for:

• Tankard
• TankardAnniversary

Compatibility

UsefulTankards is designed to stay lightweight and config-driven. ValheimCuisine's VC_GoK is detected automatically when ValheimCuisine is installed.

Localization

UsefulTankards includes built-in localized tooltip text for the tankard storage prompt and tankard bonus lines.