Arcade Helper

Arcade Helper is an essential Quality of Life (QoL) and base security mod for Valheim. Protect your settlement and tamed animals with configurable Ward Immunity, navigate anywhere on the map with 3D Beacons and Waypoints, read floating 3D portal destinations at a glance, and enjoy a clutter-free map.

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✦ Key Features

1. 🛡️ Advanced Ward Protection & Control

Take total control over your base security with active Guardian Stones (Wards):

• 🐾 Immortal Tamed Animals:
  • Tamed creatures (wolves, boars, lox, asksvin, etc.) inside an active Ward never drop below 1 HP or die.
  • Fire & Poison Immunity: Prevents tamed animals from burning in campfires, hearths, or taking damage from poison and environmental hazards inside your base.
  • Friendly Fire Protection: Accidental or player weapon swings do zero damage to tamed animals (only the Butcher Knife can harvest them).
  • Monster Immunity: 100% damage deflection against all enemy raids, trolls, and bosses.
• 🏠 Structure & Chest Immunity:
  • All building pieces, walls, crafting stations, and chests inside the Ward take 0 damage from monsters and trolls.
• ⚔️ Player Protection:
  • Optional monster damage immunity for players standing inside the protective shield.
• 🚫 Monster Spawn Blocker:
  • Blocks enemies and hostile creatures from spawning directly inside your active Ward perimeter.
• 📐 Configurable Ward Radius:
  • Scale your Ward protection range from the standard 32m up to 3x (96m) to cover large castles or villages.

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2. 🌀 Floating 3D Portal Names

• Clean, glowing 3D floating portal destination tags hover in the center of portals.
• Fully readable from a distance without needing to walk right up to the gate.
• Customizable view distance (5m–100m), font size, and glowing colors.

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3. 🧭 Waypoint Beacon & 3D Navigation HUD

• Double-Click Navigation: Double-click any point or pin on the world map to start live navigation.
• Sky-High Light Beacon: Projects a vertical pillar of light at your destination visible across the entire world.
• Screen Directional HUD: Displays real-time direction arrows (In Front, Left, Right, Behind) and exact remaining distance in meters.
• Easy Stop: Press [F3], click the on-screen map button, or simply arrive at your target (auto-cancels within arrival distance).

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4. 🧹 Map Pin Auto-Cleaner

• Death Pin Recovery: Automatically removes your skull death marker from the map as soon as you loot your grave tombstone.
• Berry Pin Cleanup: Automatically purges spammy berry bushes markers created by auto-pinning mods.
• Trader Pins Cleanup: Cleans outdated or duplicate trader markers on the map.

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5. 🎒 Quality of Life & Steam Achievements

• Extra Carry Weight: Adds configurable bonus carrying capacity (+200 kg by default) to minimize tedious inventory management.
• Achievements Restoration: Seamlessly re-enables Steam achievements even for characters or worlds that previously used console commands or cheats.
• Welcome Notification: Customizable greeting banner when connecting to the world.

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✦ Configuration (In-Game F1)

All settings can be customized in real-time using BepInEx Configuration Manager (F1) or via BepInEx/config/com.arcaderoom.arcadehelper.cfg:

Category	Option	Default	Description
Portals	ShowPortalNames	true	Display 3D portal tags
	PortalNameDistance	25m	Maximum view distance for portal names
	PortalFontSize	18	Text size of portal tags
Navigation	EnableLightBeacon	true	Sky-high beacon pillar at waypoint
	EnableHUDNavigation	true	Directional arrows & distance on HUD
	StopNavigationKey	F3	Hotkey to cancel navigation
	ArrivalDistance	12m	Distance threshold for target arrival
Ward Protection	EnableWardProtection	true	Master toggle for enhanced Ward features
	TamedImmortalInWard	true	Tamed animals cannot die in active Ward
	ProtectTamedFromFire	true	Prevent tamed pets burning on campfires
	ProtectTamedFromPlayers	true	Block player weapon damage to pets
	ProtectStructures	true	100% monster immunity for buildings
	ProtectPlayers	true	100% monster immunity for players
	PreventMonsterSpawnInWard	true	Stop monster spawns inside Ward
	WardRadiusMultiplier	1.0	Ward radius scale (1.0x to 3.0x)
Player & World	ExtraCarryWeight	200	Additional carrying capacity (kg)
	AutoCleanDeathPin	true	Auto-remove grave marker when looted
	ReEnableAchievements	true	Unlocks Steam achievements

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✦ Installation

Using Mod Manager (Recommended)

1. Install r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager, or Gale.
2. Search for ArcadeHelper and click Download.

Manual Installation

1. Ensure BepInEx for Valheim is installed.
2. Extract the contents of ArcadeHelper.zip into your Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ directory.
3. Launch the game!

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✦ Community, Support & Feedback

Need help, found a bug, or have an awesome idea/suggestion for new features? We are always here to assist you!

• 🐛 Bug Reports & Complaints: Encountered an issue, glitch, or unexpected behavior? Join and open a ticket or post in our support channel.
• 💡 Feature Suggestions: Have ideas for new ward settings, QoL features, or tweaks? Share them directly with our team!
• 💬 Live Help & Discussion: Get fast assistance with setup, configuration, or mod compatibility.

👉 Join the Official Arcade Room Discord

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✦ Changelog

v2.6.4

• Overhauled Death Pin Auto-Cleanup:
  • Automatically clears previous skull pins on death (Player.OnDeath), keeping only the newest marker for your body.
  • Automatically cleans death pins when recovering your tombstone (Take All, manual looting, or container despawn).
  • Proximity-based background cleaner removes stale death pins if nearby grave is already gone.
  • Increased search radius to 60m with horizontal cylinder distance (DistanceXZ) for steep mountain cliffs.

v2.6.3

• Community & Support Integration: Official ArcadeRoom Discord support links and ticketing channels added.
• Hardened Ward Boundaries: Enhanced boundary validation against asynchronous world-save ticks.
• Performance & Cleanup: Streamlined multiplayer base handling with zero-allocation caching.

v2.6.2

• Complete Structural Immunity: Buildings, walls, chests, and crafting benches inside active Ward radii are now 100% immune to player weapons, accidental swings, and troll impacts.
• Enhanced Spatial Math: Ward boundary calculation switched to high-precision horizontal cylinder checking (DistanceXZ), guaranteeing full vertical protection for high towers and roofs.
• Framerate Optimization: Throttled world portal scanning with persistent style caching, eliminating OnGUI garbage collection spikes.

v2.6.1

• Spawn System Hook: Corrected patch signature for SpawnSystem::Spawn, resolving Harmony injection warnings on server world initialization.

v2.6.0

• Granular Ward Base Protection:
  • Added absolute immortality for tamed pets inside active Wards.
  • Added fire, poison, and friendly-fire protection for tamed animals.
  • Added monster spawn prevention inside active Wards.
  • Added configurable Ward radius multiplier.
• Cleanup & Performance:
  • Removed old chest auto-feeder module (now fully replaced by the autonomous ArcadeDrawers mod).
  • Removed automatic server password login.
• Visuals:
  • Brand new professional gold & obsidian runic icon.