FrostVale ServerPack 3

FrostVale ServerPack 3 is a dedicated-server modpack for hosts who want a quality-of-life heavy, conversion-lite Valheim experience. It should still feel like Valheim: gather, sail, build, explore, die in avoidable ways, and come back with a better plan. The difference is that the world has more systems, more reasons to prepare, and more tools to make a long-running server pleasant to manage.

This pack is built around Balrond. Balrond owns the main progression flavor: new nature content, building pieces, ships, monsters, gear, food, crafting, and world identity. FrostVale adds a narrow hint of RtD through RtDOcean to make the oceans feel more alive without turning the pack into a second full conversion.

Azumatt, MSchmoecker, Smoothbrain, SearsCatalog, BetterUI, and other support mods round out the experience with better crafting flow, storage, skills, UI, building ergonomics, and server-friendly tuning. Experimental pieces like ValheimRAFT and newer networking/performance helpers are included because the goal is a living hosted world, not just a dependency pile.

Who This Is For

• Hosts who want a modded Valheim server that keeps Valheim's core feel.
• Groups that like new mechanics and larger systems without a total overhaul.
• Players who want more ocean relevance, better bases, stronger progression pressure, and less inventory/crafting friction.
• Server owners who want Discord integration and admin visibility, and are willing to do a little setup after installation.

Pack Identity

FrostVale is Balrond-first hard survival with supporting systems around it.

• Balrond is the backbone for progression, nature, building, ships, monsters, gear, food, and crafting flavor.
• RtDOcean is the ocean-life accent. It is here to make sailing and shorelines more interesting, not to replace Balrond as the pack identity.
• Azumatt and MSchmoecker mods carry much of the quality-of-life layer: craft-from-container, auto-store, workbench tuning, extra inventory space, item movement, repairs, and build camera support.
• Smoothbrain mods add skill and progression texture, including sailing, farming, foraging, building, ranching, backpacks, jewelcrafting, and a capped CreatureLevelAndLootControl hard-mode layer.
• ValheimRAFT is included as an experimental hosted-world feature. Treat it as something to test carefully with your group.
• FiresDiscordIntegration, FiresGhettoNetworking, FiresSteamworksPatcher, BreakoutNet, and VOIP support server operations, networking, visibility, and communication.

Server And Client Split

Use this package on the dedicated server or host profile.

Players should install FrostVale_ClientPack_3 instead. The client pack omits server-only operations pieces such as Discord integration while keeping the gameplay, UI, VOIP, and networking helpers needed to join and play.

Discord Integration

This server pack includes FiresDiscordIntegration, but Discord is not plug and play. Hosts must provide their own Discord bot token, webhook URLs, channel IDs, and permissions after installation.

See docs/DISCORD_SETUP.md in this package for the setup checklist.

Do not publish or share bot tokens, webhook URLs, server passwords, or generated live configs.

FrostVale Tweaks

This package bundles plugins/FrostValeCompat/FrostValeCompat.dll, a local compatibility plugin used to clean up specific world/content behavior as the pack evolves.

Current tweak:

• RtDOcean rice placement is constrained near shoreline water level so rice fits the intended wetland/ocean-adjacent world-gen loop.

As FrostVale is played through, more focused tweaks may be added to smooth out world generation, biome placement, and content interactions created by the larger mod stack.

Host Notes

• This is a server dependency package, not a full Docker/server deployment.
• The pack does not include secrets, live generated configs, world saves, or Discord credentials.
• Back up your world before updating mods.
• Test major changes on a separate world before promoting them to a long-lived server.
• Expect balancing passes over time. The pack is meant to be tuned while people actually play through it.

Version 1.0.0

• Created the dedicated server package separate from the player/client package.
• Preserves the Balrond-first FrostVale identity.
• Preserves Balrond-balrond_amazing_nature-1.2.4.
• Preserves Soloredis-RtDOcean-2.2.21.
• Includes Discord/server operations dependencies.
• Includes networking/performance helpers and VOIP.
• Bundles plugins/FrostValeCompat/FrostValeCompat.dll.