BetterConsumables

Enhanced food and potion mechanics for Valheim with configurable effects, duration multipliers, and quality-of-life improvements. Features ServerSync for multiplayer compatibility.

Features

🍖 Food Enhancements

• Remove Food Decay: Eliminates food decay, providing consistent full health, stamina, and eitr values until expiration
• Configurable Effect Multipliers: Adjust health, stamina, and eitr bonuses (1x-5x, default 1x)
• Extended Duration: Increase food duration for longer-lasting buffs (1x-5x, default 1x)

🧪 Potion Improvements

• Remove Cooldown Restrictions: Eliminates forced waiting periods between potion uses
• Extended Potion Duration: Increase potion effect duration (1x-5x, default 1x)
• Smart Category Detection: Automatically detects health, stamina, and eitr potions

Affected Potions:

• Healing Meads: Minor, Medium, Major, and Lingering healing mead
• Stamina Meads: Minor, Medium, and Lingering stamina mead
• Eitr Meads: Minor and Lingering eitr mead

Installation

Install with your mod manager, or drop BetterConsumables.dll into BepInEx/plugins.

Configuration

ServerSync Settings

• Lock Configuration: When enabled, only server admins can change settings

Food Settings

• Remove Food Decay: Eliminate food decay for consistent buff values
• Food Health Multiplier: Increase health bonuses (1x-5x, 1x = vanilla)
• Food Stamina Multiplier: Increase stamina bonuses (1x-5x, 1x = vanilla)
• Food Eitr Multiplier: Increase eitr bonuses (1x-5x, 1x = vanilla)
• Food Duration Multiplier: Extend food buff duration (1x-5x, 1x = vanilla)

Potion Settings

• Remove Potions Cooldown: Eliminate forced cooldown between potion uses
• Potion Duration Multiplier: Extend potion effect duration (1x-5x, 1x = vanilla)

Compatibility

• Built against Valheim 1.0 (build 25185596).
• Requires BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350 or newer.
• Install on both the client and the server. Settings are synchronized with ServerSync, and the server's values take precedence while Lock Configuration is enabled.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for version history.

Credits

• ServerSync - server-authoritative configuration syncing, merged into the plugin DLL.

License

This mod is provided as-is for the Valheim community.

Changelog

[1.1.0] - 2026-09-09

Changed

• Updated for Valheim 1.0 (requires BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350 or newer)
• Bundled ServerSync updated to v1.20, recompiled for Valheim 1.0.
• Potion duration now extends the effect itself. Health, stamina and eitr meads keep their regeneration rate and sustain it for the full multiplied duration. Previously the multiplier only held the icon on screen after the regeneration had already finished, and the idle tail blocked drinking the same potion again. Flat buffs such as resist meads are unaffected.

Fixed

• Froze the character on Valheim 1.0. Reading a private game field threw a FieldAccessException every physics tick, which aborted Player.FixedUpdate before movement was processed.
• Changing any setting in-game logged an error and stopped the change syncing to other players.
• Food duration multiplier compounded on every meal. The multiplier was applied repeatedly to shared item data, so a 2x setting became 4x, 8x and so on as you kept eating, and the inflated value persisted for the rest of the session. It is now applied once from the food's base duration.

Fixed

• Food duration multiplier compounded on every meal. The multiplier was applied repeatedly to shared item data, so a 2x setting became 4x, 8x and so on as you kept eating, and the inflated value persisted for the rest of the session. It is now applied once from the food's base duration.

[1.0.0] - 2025-01-31

Added

• Food Enhancements

  • Food decay removal system
  • Configurable health multiplier (1x-5x)
  • Configurable stamina multiplier (1x-5x)
  • Configurable eitr multiplier (1x-5x)
  • Food duration extension (1x-5x)

• Potion Improvements

  • Potion cooldown removal
  • Potion duration multiplier (1x-5x)
  • Support for healing, stamina, and eitr meads
  • Lingering potion compatibility

• ServerSync Integration

  • Server admin control with lock functionality
  • Automatic config syncing between server and clients

• Configuration Options

  • Independent toggles for all features
  • Real-time application of configuration changes
  • BepInEx Configuration Manager integration