Asylum

A curated selection of mods to create a balanced yet challenging Valheim adventure while removing some of the pain points of vanilla Valheim. This should provide an enhanced experience for your journey through the world of Asylum.

Jewelcrafting

• This also includes the world boss and celestial trader.
• Craft yourself a Gem Bag at the workbench, you will need it.
• Harvest gems in the wild or from mob drops
• Build a Gem table to refine them.
• Refined gems can be socketed and unsocketed at will, but you need to be at a table.
• Rings, and necklaces
• World boss.
• This gets pretty wild...

Adventure Backpacks

• Many different types, craft them at the workshop and forge
• They reduce the weight of whats in them and they offer extra slots. Upgrade them for even more bonus.
• They have their own perks
• They can also be socketed - just about everything can.

New Skills

• Farming
• Foraging
• Building
• Evasion
• Sailing
• Ranching
• Mining
• Lumberjacking
• Groups: type /invite playername to create a group

Combat Improvements

• No unarmed combat. It's just in the way.
• Duel Wield 1h weapons, swords, axes, knives, clubs, not spears.
• Combat improvements to calculations for all weapons, bows are no longer the only great weapon.
• Bow zoom and improved accuracy
• Parry is shorter, but there are gems to increase the window for it.
• Shields are much better.
• Stamina is more forgiving, you can pull off moves at the last second with almost no stamina now.

Swimming

• You can dive underwater and tread water
• You automatically re-equip your gear when you leave the water.

Death Changes:

• No level loss on death - you will only lose all progress towards your next level.
• You will wake up naked after you die, but keep your food in your belly.

Building

• Craft from containers

• Drawbridges

• New gates

• New edge case pieces for the little missing parts not in the base game.

• A piece of chain for making cool hanging stuff.

• Global grid alignment to help connecting constructions that are far away from each other. Toggle global grid on and off with CapsLock.

• Undo accidental middle click destruction of a thing: Ctrl+Z

• Gizmo: rotate pieces on any axis and have finer grain of precision (you can make slopes and curves)

  • Axis 1: Mouse wheel
  • Axis 2: Ctrl + Mouse wheel
  • Axis 3: Shift + Mouse wheel
  • Press Z to revert all rotations back to zero. (reset)
  • Press C when pointing at another object to match the rotation of the target object.
  • Press V to reset just the axis you are holding the button down for back to 0.

• Pressure Plates automate doors and bridges.

• Item Hopper feed items into machines from chests and collect the outputs into chests.

QoL:

Quick Stack

• Easily unload your inventory when you return home after a long journey by pressing the Q button in your inventory.

First person view

• Mouse wheel scroll to first person.

Pull items to inventory

• This will pull the inventory materials to you when you go to build something instead of needing to build and then destroy it. Need 2 of a thing? click twice. Hold ctrl when you left mouse click to build and it will put the mats in your inventory instead.

Recipe Index

• View every item you have ever discovered, plus a handy index of the materials needed to make it. Look up any item in the index by just pressing R while pointing at the item in your inventory.

Chest contents tooltips

• See a summary of objects in a chest on mouse over.

Fences snap

• Weird that they didn't snap together in vanilla. This fixes that.

Trash UI.

• Pickup an item in your inventory and a the tab on the right of your inventory changes to a Trash icon. Careful, no undo.

Improved chat UI

• Chat no longer is ALL CAPS. Also, you no longer need to type /s to shout. Global shout is now the default.

Fast Link

• On title screen top right corner, Fast Link to connect to the server. You can edit a file to save the password so that you do not have to enter the password each time. Contact me for instructions on how to do it.

Torches

• They stay lit except wooden torches go off in the daytime and restart at night. Probably a few others, I didn't configure them all.

Map

• Improved map pins that have their icons edited or renamed now.
• View a list of map pins when pressing tab while map screen is open.

Many under the hood performance improvements.

... and more to come!

Thanks!

A huge thanks to everyone in the modding scene for making all of this possible. Especially to the OdinPlus discord and everyone else who patiently answered my questions along the way!

• Azumatt
• blaxxun
• Vapok
• Golden
• GraveBear
• blacks7ar
• Pungus
• NintendoFingers
• Therzie

...and so many more!