QoL Adventure

A quality-of-life modpack for Valheim, built on Jotunn.

What's included

Framework

• BepInExPack Valheim — the BepInEx modding framework, preconfigured for Valheim. Required by everything else.
• Jotunn — "the Valheim Library"; a modding API several mods below are built on.

Skills

• Farming (Smoothbrain) — makes crops grow faster and increases harvest yield; reduces planting stamina cost. At level 20 you can plant/harvest in bulk, at level 50 biome restrictions on planting are removed.
• Foraging (Smoothbrain) — increases item yield while foraging and makes berries and mushrooms respawn faster. Each level slightly increases pickup radius; at level 30 you can see respawn timers.
• Mining (Smoothbrain) — increases damage dealt while mining and item yield from ore deposits. Above the configured level there's a chance for deposits to explode (raised to level 80 in this pack; toggle with Ctrl+T).
• Lumberjacking (Smoothbrain) — replaces the vanilla Wood Cutting skill. Increases damage to trees and wood yield, reduces damage taken from falling trees, and increases movement speed in forests.
• Sailing (Smoothbrain) — increases the health of ships you build, the sailing speed of ships you command, and your exploration radius while on a ship. Includes a ship-nudge hotkey (Left Shift near the ladder).
• Blacksmithing (Smoothbrain) — increases the durability of crafted armor and weapons. At higher levels it also acts as crafting-station upgrades, enables repairing from your inventory (level 70+), and unlocks an extra upgrade tier (level 80+).
• Ranching (Smoothbrain) — increases item yield from slaughtering tamed creatures. Taming animals lose their fear of you at level 20 (faster taming); hunger and pregnancy info unlock at levels 10 and 40.
• Vitality (Smoothbrain) — adds a skill that increases your base health (default Base Health Multiplier 2 = +25 base HP at level 100). Bonus HP regen at level 30, extra HP from food at level 50.
• PackHorse (Smoothbrain) — adds a skill that increases maximum carry weight (+100 at level 100). It levels up while you move around with a full inventory.
• DualWield (Smoothbrain) — lets you dual wield axes, clubs, knives and swords (both hands must be the same weapon type). Each weapon type has its own dual-wield skill, and axes get a unique special attack. Not spears.
• FortifySkillsRedux (Searica) — replaces flat skill loss on death with a "fortified level" floor your active skill can't drop below.

Gameplay & QoL

• FarmGrid (Galateam) — plants placed with the cultivator auto-snap into a spaced grid so they always have room to grow.
• CraftFromContainers (Grizzzly) — use materials from nearby containers when crafting, building, fuelling smelters/kilns, cooking, refuelling fires, etc.
• Backpacks (Smoothbrain) — adds an equippable backpack in its own slot, so you don't have to choose between it and your cape/utility item. Upgradeable capacity, optional auto-fill, and custom backpacks definable via YAML.
• TargetPortal (Smoothbrain) — lets you target any portal directly instead of pairing portals by tag. Entering a portal opens a map of every portal; click one to travel there. Tags still work as labels.
• GracefulTeleportation (Smoothbrain) — makes creatures ignore you for a short time (or until you act) after you teleport, so you don't arrive into an ambush.
• VikingsDoSwim (blacks7ar) — scales swim speed, stamina regen and stamina drain to your Swim skill, with a configurable max swim speed, plus an underwater diving mechanic.
• SpearFix (coemt) — small tweak to vanilla spears: adds a bit of attack range, lowers the attack height slightly, and lengthens the spear model. Attack speed is configurable.
• GapFiller (Smoothbrain) — fills gaps in the vanilla weapon progression (e.g. a two-handed sword available from flint tier).
• DetailedLevels (turbero) — pin a skill to watch its progress live as an on-screen buff with fractional levels, configurable decimals, and adjustable skill-up messages; adds player stats to the skills panel.
• AzuClock (Azumatt) — adds a configurable on-screen clock.

Installation

Via a mod manager (recommended): search for "QoL Adventure" and install like any other modpack. Mod managers install all dependencies automatically.

Manual install: install BepInExPack Valheim first, then install each mod listed above into your BepInEx/plugins folder.

Config

This pack ships with the config values used on the original server. Edit files under BepInEx/config after installing to adjust settings.

Notable tuning in this pack:

• VikingsDoSwim — Max Swim Speed 5 (~2.5x vanilla at skill 100), swim stamina drain 4 → 1.5 (min/max skill), Exp Gain Factor 2.5.
• Mining — explosive-mining unlock raised to skill level 80 (default 50).
• AzuClock — repositioned to the top-right (91%,-1.5%), 24-hour HH:mm format.

Thanks

Huge thanks to every mod author whose work makes this pack:

• denikson — BepInExPack Valheim
• ValheimModding / Jötunn team — Jotunn
• Smoothbrain — Farming, Foraging, Mining, Lumberjacking, Sailing, Blacksmithing, Ranching, Vitality, PackHorse, DualWield, Backpacks, TargetPortal, GracefulTeleportation, GapFiller
• Searica — FortifySkillsRedux
• Galateam — FarmGrid
• Grizzzly — CraftFromContainers
• coemt — SpearFix
• blacks7ar — VikingsDoSwim
• turbero — DetailedLevels
• Azumatt — AzuClock

This modpack only bundles their mods and config; all credit for the mods themselves goes to their respective authors.