ArcaneDecor WaterGardens
Create round, oval, kidney-shaped and wild pools with lilies, fountains, garden plants, lighting, ambience and illustrated hammer icons.ArcaneDecor: WaterGardens 1.2.1
Create ponds, flowering lilies, fountains and atmospheric garden corners.
Choose Round, Oval, Kidney Shape or Wild pools in the hammer's Water Garden category. Each has its own illustrated icon. Add plants, rocks, lanterns, statues and decorative trees to finish the setting.
Installation
Install with BepInExPack Valheim and Jotunn on the server and participating clients. Keep the Translations folder beside ArcaneDecorWaterGardens.dll for manual installations.
Your first pond
- Equip the hammer and open Water Garden.
- Place a pond on suitable ground. Its configuration rock settles onto the terrain.
- Look at the rock and press E when you see [E] Configure garden.
- Adjust the pond and its atmosphere, then select Save garden. Cancel or Escape discards menu edits.
- Add lilies to the water and plants around the edges.
Overlap another pond to connect it. A suitable height difference creates a flowing transition and automatically adds waterfall sound. Use Waterfall volume to adjust it; set it to 0 to mute it.
The pond's rock remains its control point. Remove that rock with the hammer to remove the pond. Normal hammer removal returns the piece's materials.
Shape the atmosphere
Ponds and the Night Garden Stone provide seven recordings named night_ambience_001 through night_ambience_007, plus an Off selection. Adjust loudness, playback speed, and audible distance. Changing playback speed also changes pitch.
Night only limits night ambience and fireflies to nighttime. Turn it off and save to use them during the day. Set Fireflies to 0 to turn them off.
Fountains have individual controls and their own positional running-water audio. Their sound fades with distance and is independent of the selected night recording. The dragon statue has an adjustable glowing orb, without fountain water or audio.
Connected pond controls
Some settings apply to the entire connected group of overlapping ponds:
- Flower and bud size, from 15% to 150%.
- Separate floating controls for lanterns, fountains, and statues.
Pond width, depth, waterfall volume and distance, night ambience, and fireflies remain individual pond settings. The upper pond controls each waterfall flowing out of it. Set Waterfall distance from 5 to 100 metres; the 100% volume setting provides a stronger sound with softened peaks. Rocks sit halfway into the water. Fixtures with floating disabled settle onto the terrain or pond bed.
Each Yggdrasil tree has its own menu with a 25% to 200% size slider. Its roots stay in place as it scales. These are decorative trees, with solid trunks and no harvesting drops. You can build right beside the trunk, including under the canopy, at every supported size.
Controls at a glance
Open a pond rock with [E] Configure garden, then choose Save garden after changing its settings. Cancel or Escape leaves saved settings unchanged.
| Control | Range or behavior | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Width | 4-24 m | This pond |
| Depth | 0.4-3 m | This pond |
| Flowers and buds | 15-150%; default 50% | Connected pond group |
| Floating lanterns, fountains, statues | Separate on/off controls | Connected pond group |
| Waterfall volume | 0-100%; default 35%; 0 mutes | Waterfalls flowing out of this pond |
| Waterfall distance | 5-100 m; default 16 m | Waterfalls flowing out of this pond |
| Night recording | night_ambience_001 through 007, or Off | This pond |
| Loudness | 0-100% | This pond's night ambience |
| Playback speed | 0.5-1.5x; changes pitch too | This pond's night ambience |
| Audible distance | 5-40 m | This pond's night ambience |
| Fireflies | 0-100; 0 turns them off | This pond |
| Night only | Restrict night ambience and fireflies to nighttime | This pond |
For waterfall sound, edit the upper pond's rock. Fountain sound is configured on each fountain and plays independently of waterfall and night ambience. Set its volume to 0 to mute it; disabling its visual water flow does not mute the recording.
Each lantern, fountain, and dragon statue has its own lighting/glow menu. Each Yggdrasil tree has its own 25-200% size slider. The Night Garden Stone supplies ambience and fireflies without a pond, with 4-24 m coverage.
Languages
The mod follows Valheim's selected language, with English fallback. Keep the included Translations folder beside the mod DLL when installing manually.