BetterTweaks

A collection of tweaks and quality-of-life improvements I consider essential to the Valheim experience. Built around a vanilla-plus approach, refining existing mechanics without straying too far from the original game.

Almost everything is configurable, so you can pick and choose the changes you want.

Installation

Install using a Valheim mod manager, or manually:

1. Install BepInEx.
2. Place BetterTweaks.dll in BepInEx/plugins/BetterTweaks/.
3. Launch the game.

For multiplayer, install BetterTweaks on both the server and all connected clients.

Configuration

Settings are generated on the first launch in:

BepInEx/config/torubaki.bettertweaks.cfg

All major features can be enabled, disabled, or adjusted individually. Some inventory and equipment changes require a game restart.

Features

Inventory

• Expanded Inventory: Add up to five extra inventory rows.
• Carry Weight: Adjust carrying capacity and automatic item pickup range.
• Encumbrance: Optionally remove movement penalties and allow automatic pickup while overburdened.
• Auto Stack: Use Stack All to automatically transfer matching items into nearby containers. Configure the range and exclude equipment, ammunition, food, or mead.

Equipment

• Equipment Slots: Dedicated slots for armor, utilities, ammunition, and up to six additional quick slots.
• Cosmetic Slots: Equip armor for appearance without affecting your actual equipment or stats.
• Multiple Utilities: Equip up to three utility items simultaneously.
• Equipment Handling: Change equipment while moving, queue weapon switches, and automatically equip or unequip shields.
• Auto Repair: Automatically repair equipment when accessing a suitable crafting station.
• Swimming: Keep equipment equipped while swimming or automatically re-equip it afterward.
• Crossbows: Keep crossbows and the grappling hook loaded when unequipped, and reload while moving.
• Utility Improvements: Adjust Megingjord's carry bonus, equip the Dvergr lantern as a utility, and customize its brightness and size.
• Equipment Visibility: Hide equipped utility items without removing their effects.
• Death & Recovery: Choose which equipment stays with you on death and automatically re-equip recovered items. Includes equipment slot backups.

Building

• Workbench Improvements: Adjust building range, extension distance, shelter requirements, station spacing, and spawn protection.
• Build Camera: Press B while holding a building tool to enter a free-moving camera for easier construction. Camera movement, speed, reach, and distance are configurable.
• Free Placement: Toggle building snap restrictions with Left Alt instead of holding a key.
• Crop Spacing: See whether crops have enough room to grow before placing them.
• Terrain Editing: Adjust the size of hoe and cultivator tools using the mouse wheel, increase terrain height limits, and use the new Lower Ground tool.
• Tool Improvements: Independently disable stamina costs, durability loss, and workstation requirements for the hammer, hoe, and cultivator.
• Weather Protection: Prevent building pieces from deteriorating in rain or snow.
• Infinite Fuel: Optionally stop torches and fireplaces from consuming fuel.
• Ward Radius: Adjust the protection radius of wards.
• Visual Effects: Remove dust particles from building and terrain editing.
• Unlock Build Recipes: Use unlockallbuilds in the F5 console to unlock all available building pieces for your character.

Crafting

• Craft from Chests: Use materials from nearby containers when crafting or building, including carts and ships. Configure the range and whether containers are searched around you or the workstation.
• Cooking from Storage: Automatically use nearby ingredients at cooking stations.
• Workstation Speed: Adjust processing speeds for smelters, kilns, furnaces, spinning wheels, windmills, and similar stations.
• Cooking Speed: Separately adjust the speed of cooking stations and ovens.
• Fermentation Speed: Adjust how quickly fermenters produce mead.
• Craftable Chains: Craft chains at the forge using iron.
• Lantern Crafting: Craft Dvergr lanterns at the regular forge.
• Unlock Crafting Recipes: Use unlockallrecipes in the F5 console to unlock all available crafting and cooking recipes for your character.

Recycling

• Item Recycling: Dispose of unwanted items using an inventory trash button or the Delete key while dragging an item.
• Resource Refunds: Recover crafting materials from recycled items, with a configurable refund percentage. Items without a refundable recipe are simply discarded.

Food, Mead & Buffs

• Food Duration: Adjust how long food effects last.
• Food Degradation: Prevent food bonuses from gradually decreasing over time.
• Mead Cooldowns: Remove cooldown restrictions on mead consumption. Repeated effects replace one another rather than stacking.
• Rested Effect: Remove the normal resting delay and adjust how much Rested time each comfort level provides.
• Forsaken Powers: Customize the duration and cooldown of Forsaken powers.

Archery

• Arrow Velocity: Increase or decrease projectile speed.
• Improved Accuracy: Reduce arrow spread when firing without a full draw.
• Faster Drawing: Reduce bow draw times, particularly at lower skill levels.
• Projectile Alignment: Improve arrow trajectory alignment with the crosshair.
• Dynamic Bow Aiming: Improved drawing animations, vertical aiming poses, bowstring movement, and accompanying sounds.
• Friendly Turrets: Prevent automated turrets from targeting players.
• Visual Effects: Hide unnecessary bow and crossbow attack dust.

Melee

• Vertical Melee Aiming: Aim melee attacks up or down, with adjusted hit detection and upper-body animations.
• Improved Hit Detection: Make close-range attacks connect more reliably.
• Attack Movement: Allow controlled movement during attacks, with different movement speeds for each weapon type.
• Directional Control: Improve turning during attack windups and recovery while keeping committed swings more restricted.
• Smoother Combos: Improve combo timing and transitions between attacks.
• Input Buffering: Queue attacks and dodges shortly before the current action finishes.
• Attack Recovery: Adjust how quickly blocking becomes available after an attack and reduce stamina regeneration delays.
• Parry Rebalancing: Adjust parry windows and stamina costs. Parries contribute to enemy stagger buildup rather than guaranteeing an immediate stagger.
• Stagger Rebalancing: Adjust bonus damage against staggered enemies and give enemies temporary stagger resistance after recovering.
• Knockback: Customize melee knockback strength.
• Improved Spears: Faster, more natural thrust animations with corrected grip and adjustable attack reach.
• Damage Distribution: Prevent non-combat objects from affecting how melee damage is distributed between targets.
• Visual Effects: Hide unnecessary melee attack dust.

Magic

• Wisplight Improvements: Grant additional maximum Eitr and adjust Eitr regeneration while Wisplight is equipped.
• Staff of Frost: Adjust projectile spread for more accurate frost attacks.
• Dead Raiser Improvements:
  • Summon skeleton archers alongside melee skeletons.
  • Improve summoned skeleton movement speed and damage.
  • Give skeletons progressively better weapons and armor as the staff is upgraded.
  • Customize equipment loadouts for each staff level.
  • Use the secondary attack to dismiss summons and recover a portion of the health spent summoning them.

Enemies

• Instant Loot Drops: Make enemies drop their loot immediately upon death instead of waiting for their ragdolls to disappear.
• Visual Effects: Remove unnecessary dust particles from creature attacks, movement, and deaths.

Movement & Exploration

• Free Sprint: Sprint without consuming stamina while outside combat.
• Slope Movement: Adjust the maximum incline players can stand on before slipping.
• Map Exploration: Increase the map reveal radius, with a separate multiplier for sailing.
• Shared Exploration: Automatically share explored map areas between players.
• Shared Positions: Keep player map positions visible to one another.
• Shared Pins: Automatically share map pins and their changes between players.
• Vehicle Markers: Display the positions of known carts and boats on the map.

World

• Clear Mistlands: Permanently remove the Mistlands mist after defeating the Queen in that world.
• Clearer Weather: Increase the frequency of clear weather while reducing fog and storms.

Interface & Controls

• Equipment Interface: Dedicated equipment, quick slot, and ammunition panels.
• Customizable Layout: Reposition interface elements and optionally drag inventory panels.
• Equipment Visibility: Toggle helmet and cape visibility without unequipping them.
• Ammo Counter: Add a customizable ammunition counter to the HUD.
• Sailing Camera: Raise the camera while steering boats for improved visibility.
• Quick Slot Controls: Customize keyboard and controller bindings for additional quick slots.
• Control Overrides: Optionally clear conflicting vanilla keybinds.

Multiplayer

BetterTweaks supports multiplayer with synchronized gameplay settings.

• Server Configuration: The server can enforce shared gameplay settings for all connected players.
• Admin Controls: Restrict changes to synchronized settings to server administrators.
• Client Preferences: Interface positions and personal keybinds remain configurable for each player.
• Shared Maps: Exploration and map pin sharing work between players running BetterTweaks in the same world.

Notes

• Most features can be adjusted independently, including their ranges, multipliers, and behavior.
• Inventory layout changes and certain equipment settings require restarting the game.
• Back up your worlds before using expanded terrain editing limits. Terrain beyond vanilla height limits may be permanently altered if the mod is removed or the limits are reduced.
• Multiplayer players should use matching versions of BetterTweaks to avoid synchronization issues.