BetterFoodMechanics

Take control of how food works in Valheim. Make food last longer, decide whether its buffs decay, and let your food timer freeze while you're sheltered. Can be used on dedicated servers with every setting server-synced.

• Longer food - Multiply how long all food lasts, from 1x to 5x.
• Food buff degradation - Toggle the health, stamina and eitr bonuses at full strength for the entire duration or keep it the vanilla way.
• Customizable configs - Set the minimum comfort level to trigger the effect. There's also a dynamic option if you prefer.
• Honest HUD timer - While your food is slowed, the timer on the HUD is adjusted to match, so it counts down at a natural pace instead of looking stuck.

This mod only affects food. Meads and potions are not touched, and the health regeneration you get from food works exactly like vanilla.

Installation

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim and Jotunn.
2. Install BetterFoodMechanics with your mod manager, or drop BetterFoodMechanics.dll into BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Launch the game once to generate the config file in BepInEx/config/.

Multiplayer / dedicated servers

Install the mod on both the server and every client. Jotunn must be installed on both sides too. The server's config values are sent to players when they join, so players can't override them locally.

Config

The config file is biznessman.betterfoodmechanics.cfg. All settings are synced from the server.

1 - General

Setting	Default	Options	Description
Enabled	On	On / Off	Turns the mod on or off.

2 - Cozyness

Setting	Default	Range	Description
DegradationMode	0	0 - 2	How food behaves while you're comfortable (see below).
MinimumComfort	10	5 - 25	Comfort level needed for modes 0 and 1 to apply. Not used in mode 2.

Degradation modes

Mode	Name	What happens
0	Frozen	Food timer and buffs stop completely.
1	Slow	Food ticks at half speed, so it lasts twice as long.
2	Scaled	The more comfort you have, the slower your food decays. Ignores MinimumComfort.

Mode 2 speeds

Comfort level	Food decay speed
Below 10	Normal
10 - 14	1/2 speed
15 - 19	1/3 speed
20 or more	1/4 speed (maximum)

When your comfort drops below what's needed, food goes back to decaying at the normal rate.

3 - Food

Setting	Default	Range	Description
FoodDurationMultiplier	1	1 - 5	How much longer food lasts. 2 means a 30 minute food lasts 60.
FoodBuffDegrades	On	On / Off	On: food buffs (health, stamina, eitr) fade gradually over the full duration. Off: buffs stay at full strength until the food runs out.

With a multiplier above 1, the buff fade is spread across the full, longer duration, and you can eat the same food again once less than half of its duration is left, just like vanilla.

Credits

This mod is inspired by blacks7ar's FoodDurationMultiplier with additional tweaks. Also from another game that I played :)