AnimalFeedGuard
Keep animal feed on the ground: prevent automatic pickup near tamed animals that can eat it. Configurable radius, manual pickup preserved, and compatible with AutoPicker's normal pickup path.Animal Feed Guard
2.0.0 targets Valheim 1.0, built and checked against 1.0.16. Use the 1.x releases for Ashlands.
Animal Feed Guard keeps dropped food on the ground when a living, tamed animal that can eat it is nearby. Manual pickup remains available.
Features
- Configurable protection radius: 0–50 metres; default 5 metres.
- Uses each animal's actual food list, including seeds, barley, and modded feed.
- Protects food even when the animal is already fed.
- Applies only to automatic pickup; manual pickup is unchanged.
- Client-side settings; install it on every player's client who wants protection.
- Compatible with AutoPicker's normal pickup path.
Configuration
The config file is BepInEx/config/com.ziluck.valheim.animalfeedguard.cfg.
Enabled controls the feature. Protection Radius controls the distance from the dropped item to an eligible tamed animal. A radius of 0 disables protection.
Recommended optional mods
- ConfigurationManager — edit the settings in game instead of opening the config file. It is optional.
- AutoPicker — optional compatibility; Animal Feed Guard does not require it.
Links
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Requires BepInExPack Valheim. Ranching and AutoPicker are optional.