DogHausTweaks

The DogHaus Valheim server's own plugin. One DLL, several small parts, each patching only its own code. It is made for the DogHaus Valheim modpack and is meant to be installed through it, on the server and every player.

Every gameplay number lives in BepInEx/config/DogHausTweaks.balance.txt. The server's copy is sent to every player when they join, so the server owner tunes the game by editing that file and restarting the server - no pack update.

What it does

Winter and warmth (needs Seasons)

• Deep winter can freeze you: long stretches of Cold, being wet, and the middle of the night turn into Freezing. Frost gear or a frost-resist mead, a fire under a roof, or a lit placed torch keep you safe. When wet, frost gear does not help - a frost-resist mead, a fire under a roof or a placed torch still do.
• In winter you only get Rested with a roof and a fire.
• Lit torches give a small warm zone, never Rested. A torch in your hand on a summer day makes you overheat.
• Modded always-lit lights get a real fuel system; fireplaces smoke; ship lamps are capped and warm-only on small ships.
• Snow on buildings follows the winter: it builds up through early winter, peaks late in winter, then thaws a step each day so spring arrives on bare roofs (needs Seasons; days set in the balance file's [snow] section).
• Sweep a roof: the hammer's repair swing on a snowy piece knocks its snow off (costs a swing of stamina). Pieces built in winter start clean.

Building

• Costs, health, support and comfort of Balrond and Odin building pieces brought in line with vanilla.
• Hammer out: look at a piece to see its health bar and support.
• The build menu shows each piece's health, structure, weaknesses and comfort; crops show their growth speed.
• Hoe: Restore ground (4x4) puts the ground back to how the world made it. Armor-stand swaps (Runic Display Stands) take the normal equip time.
• Crafting stations reach 25% farther, and their upgrades may stand 25% farther away ([stations] in the balance file).
• Press J for a world grid; pieces snap to it.

Terrain

• Ground has health: a pickaxe digs less in hard ground; bedrock 12 m down is marked with a deep thud and icy ground.
• Big creatures leave craters when their attacks hit the ground (wards respected).
• Two hoe tools: Smooth (round) and Smooth (square, 1 m grid) soften bumps without flattening slopes. Size and strength use AdvancedTerrainModifiers' scroll keys.

Quality of life

• Inventory: optional Minecraft-style stack splitting (Ctrl + right-click takes half, right-click while holding puts one down; controller RT + X). Off in the DogHaus pack - the server's [qol] right_click_split switches it.
• Faster taming, higher breeding limit, crafting stations repair your gear, named chests, loading-screen tips.
• One capped sleep per night; mining can drop flint. (Also a dual-wield timing fix that only acts if Balrond DualMastery is installed.)
• Large Custom Raids files load in seconds instead of minutes (faster world start).

Server-owned settings for other mods The balance file's [mod_settings] section sets settings of a fixed list of mods that do not sync themselves (MassFarming, BetterArchery, PersistentRaids, Odin's Kingdom, Odin's Food Barrels, Balrond Shipyard, ExtraSlots): <plugin GUID> | <section> | <key> = <value>. The values are saved into each player's own config files for those mods. Settings a mod only reads at game start take effect from the player's next launch (on a dedicated server, after the restart that follows the one that wrote them).

Server commands

Typed by an admin in the in-game console (F5) - the game sends them to the server - or, on a dedicated server, typed straight into the server's own console window (for example a hosting panel's console):

• announce <text> - a message in the middle of everyone's screen
• give <player> <item> [amount] - items at a player's feet (prefab names: Wood, SwordIron...)
• summon <player> <creature> [amount] [level] - creatures next to a player (level 2 = one star, 3 = two)
• skipseason [count] - jump to day 1 of the next season. Only the Seasons calendar moves: everything seasonal (crops, freezing, night length, snow) follows the new season at once, but the world clock does not, so fires, smelters and growth timers are not fast-forwarded
• seasonoffset [days] - show how far the calendar has been moved, or set it (0 = back to the real calendar)

Any other console command the server knows (vanilla, Server Devcommands) also works from the server console; for cheat commands type devcommands there first.

Version check

The server refuses players whose DogHausTweaks version differs from its own (Valheim's "Incompatible version" screen).

Troubleshooting

To switch parts off, create BepInEx/config/DogHausTweaks.disable.txt and list the parts' IDs, one per line (for example doghaus.winterfreeze or doghaus.qualityoflife; each part logs its ID when it loads). Delete the file to switch them back on.