RcinelLevel

Level ground for building the way you plan it: probe an area, see what it takes, and level it with straight walls, a stroke at a time, without the hoe doing the pickaxe's work for free.

The tools

Ground probe (off hand) · Workbench · Wood 2, Flint 2, Resin 1

A long rod you push into the ground. Hold it in your off hand and it frames an area in front of you: a circle, a square or a rectangle, from a few metres up to 129 m across. The probe finds the height where levelling the frame digs away exactly as much as it fills, and shows

• the frame on the ground, drawn like a workbench's range,
• the target height as a blue line,
• in red, every spot the game's terrain limit (±8 m from the generated ground) keeps from reaching it,
• how much there is to dig and to fill.

Level hoe (main hand, together with the probe) · Workbench · Hoe, Flint 4, Leather scraps 2

A square-mouth shovel made from your old hoe. Each stroke raises the ground under a 5 × 5 m brush, as far as the frame reaches, up to the target height. The frame's edge becomes a wall as steep as Valheim's terrain allows, and the levelled ground is cleared like the hoe's Level ground. It only fills: digging is the pickaxe's job. Raising ground costs stone, a quarter of what Raise ground costs for the same amount, and the first 0.25 m on every spot is free, so evening out almost flat ground costs nothing. Upgradeable three times for more durability.

Pickaxe depth lock

Lock the pinned frame and dig with any pickaxe: inside the frame it stops at the target height, and it never digs past the frame's edge, so the edge stays a straight wall.

Moat

Give the frame a moat for a base that's only reached over a drawbridge: 4 m wide for the Rustic Drawbridge or 8 m for the Drawbridge, and 3 m below the target, so enemies can't walk out of it. The locked pickaxe digs it.

Controls

The controls show in the key hint bar at the bottom while you hold the tools.

Key	With	Does
Mouse-1	level hoe	Fill under the brush
Y	probe	Next shape: circle, square, rectangle
B	probe	Pin the frame where you aim, or let it follow your aim
L	probe	Lock or unlock the pickaxe to the frame
K	probe	Moat: none, Rustic Drawbridge, Drawbridge
Left Alt + wheel	probe or hoe	Resize the frame; a rectangle grows on the side you face
H + wheel	probe or hoe	Raise or lower the target height
J	probe or hoe	Take the height of the ground or building you aim at
U	probe or hoe	Back to the probe's height

Letters follow your keyboard layout. Every key can be changed in BepInEx/config/io.github.codeisnotevil.rcinellevel.cfg. The frame is kept with your character for each world.

Multiplayer

Install it on the server and on every client. In Valheim, terrain is changed by whoever owns that part of the world, and without the mod they can't apply the tools' edits. The mod checks that everyone has the same version.

Anyone who can craft the tools may use them. The server's settings for the largest frame, the stone price, the free height and the moat's depth are synced to every player.

Good to know

• Valheim's terrain has a point every metre, so walls are as steep as one metre allows, not vertical, and straight edges run north–south or east–west.
• Like every gameplay mod, RcinelLevel marks the game as modded, which turns off Steam achievements. The game's own dev command yesiuseddevcommandsbutiwantmyachievementsanyway 1 (after devcommands) allows them again for that character.
• Dev commands (after devcommands, only for the current session): rcinellevel_nostone lets the hoe fill without stone, rcinellevel_dig lets it dig too.

Requirements

BepInExPack Valheim and Jötunn.

Source, issues and changes: github.com/CodeIsNotEvil/RcinelLevel. MIT license.