Encounter QoL

Encounter QoL is an integrated collection of quality-of-life improvements for Valheim. It expands inventory management, crafting, building, farming, combat, travel, tames, production, HUD information, and general gameplay while keeping everything together in one mod.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jotunn

Encounter QoL is configured as an everyone-must-have multiplayer mod. Install it on the server and on clients joining that server.

Features

Inventory & Storage

• Extra inventory slots with F8-adjustable additional rows, Quick, Food, Ammo, and Misc slot counts; equipment and utility slots retained
• Quick Stack with hotbar item protection
• Improved quick-slot stacking and automatic hotbar placement
• Auto Sort
• Favorite Items
• Recycle
• Trash
• Alt + Left Click full-stack transfer between the player and open storage
• Increased stack sizes
• Nearby Containers
• Shared Chests
• Inventory HUD
• Hotbar ammo information
• Chest Recipe Discovery from opened chest contents
• Blacksmith's Chest automation, including automatic nearby kiln Coal storage (up to 20m)
• Gravestones protected for three in-game days, then first come, first served, with automatic recovery and ground overflow

Crafting & Building

• Crafting UI improvements
• Recipe searching and category filtering
• Multi-crafting support
• Extended crafting-station build range
• Auto Repair
• Area Repair and vehicle maintenance
• Better Ladders
• Build Camera
• Improved building weather protection
• Expanded terrain-tool radius
• Hammer Quick Pull for building materials

Farming & World

• Additional farming plantables
• Any-Biome Crops
• Stump Regrowth
• Floating dropped items
• Natural gatherable respawn timers
• Mass Gather
• Active server time
• Plant Easily with rectangular and circular planting grids, snapping, and Auto Replant
• Improved mixed-vegetation snapping and safe planting spacing
• Year-Round Seasonal Items
• Reduced Fog and Stronger Wisplight

Combat & Equipment

• Dual Wield support
• Item Linking for compatible weapons and shields
• Hauling skill and progression
• Improved Skills screen
• Spear recovery with a five-second timer from throw release and reserved inventory slot and carry-weight allowance
• Smart Auto-Pickup with configurable 2–20m pickup range and improved item attraction stability
• Instant monster loot drops
• Instant armor equipping and unequipping
• Weapons and tools usable while swimming
• Optional client-side enemy hitbox highlighting (F8 toggle, default off)
• Item Comparison Tooltips for inventory and crafting
• Half Fall Damage
• Perfect Parry Stamina
• Preserve active food through death
• Multiplayer player revival with a one-second Use hold and optional normal respawn

Travel & Vehicles

• Better Portals with scrollable destinations and restored vanilla same-name and unnamed portal linking
• Optional per-player cartography-table map synchronization (Shift + Use toggle), now with fresh-map requests and applied-snapshot acknowledgment diagnostics
• Ship Camera
• Cart Auto Attach

Tames & Production

• Unlimited tame followers and 20m Follow All / Stay All group commands
• Improved tame breeding inheritance
• Faster fermentation
• Beehive improvements, with fewer crop pollination bee particles and unchanged pollination benefits
• Sap collector improvements
• Processor quick fill
• Fuel-free lighting options

Interface & General QoL

• Built-in Encounter QoL configuration manager
• Improved configuration editing and F8 shortcut recording, including standalone left/right Ctrl, Alt, and Shift keys and modifier combinations
• Expanded object hover information
• HUD information improvements
• Compact status HUD
• Character selection statistics
• Expanded character eye colors
• Sitting health regeneration
• Better Sleep multiplayer voting and cinematic fallback
• Personal Death Counter
• Skip Intro
• Achievement Freedom

Configuration

Encounter QoL includes its own in-game configuration manager. Features with meaningful settings expose those settings there; features intended to behave consistently are enabled directly without unnecessary configuration toggles.

Selected Controls (0.0.11)

• Cultivator (plant selected): Right Ctrl + C switches between rectangular and circular planting grids. In circle mode, Up / Right increases a layer and Down / Left decreases a layer (1–6 layers). Existing Right Ctrl + Arrow controls adjust the rectangular grid.
• Tamed creatures: Left Ctrl + Left Shift + Use (normally E) issues Follow All within 20m; Left Ctrl + Left Alt + Use issues Stay All. Left Ctrl + Use still commands one tame.
• Cartography Table: Shift + Use toggles automatic map synchronization per player. Both players must opt in to exchange map data.
• F8 keybinds: Press and release a modifier to bind it alone, or hold it while pressing another key for a combination. Esc cancels; F7 reflects changes live.
• Portal: Shift + Use opens the Better Portals destination list; regular Use retains portal naming.
• F8: Configure additional inventory rows, Quick/Food/Ammo/Misc slot counts, and the optional enemy hitbox outline. Reduced slot counts relocate affected items when safe, or refuse the change if inventory space is insufficient.

Installation

Thunderstore Mod Manager / r2modman

Install Encounter QoL from Thunderstore and its required dependencies will be installed automatically.

Manual

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Install Jotunn.
3. Place EncounterQoL.dll inside your BepInEx/plugins folder.
4. Launch Valheim.

Multiplayer

Encounter QoL changes gameplay systems and inventory behavior and is configured as an everyone-must-have mod. For multiplayer, the server and all connecting players should have Encounter QoL installed.

Cartography Table Auto Map Sync is opt-in per character. Version 0.0.11 improves map delivery requests and diagnostics; results across multiplayer clients are still being verified.

Reviving Fallen Players

When at least one other player is connected, a player who dies can remain at their death location while waiting for help. The world remains visible, and the fallen player can click Respawn Now at any time to choose normal respawning.

A living teammate can approach the fallen player and hold Use (normally E) continuously for one second to request a revival. Releasing the key early cancels the attempt.

A successful revival returns the fallen player at the death location with 10 HP. Encounter QoL then attempts to recover their inventory from the original gravestone created by that death, using Valheim's normal inventory transfer process.

Inventory recovery is not guaranteed in every circumstance. If belongings are missing, check the original gravestone and nearby ground before assuming they were lost.

When playing alone, vanilla death and respawning remain unchanged. All multiplayer participants should use the same current Encounter QoL version.

Feedback & Feature Requests

Have an idea for Encounter QoL or a feature you would like to see?

Reach out on Discord: Encounter9201

Source and Redistribution

Encounter QoL is not currently open source.

The compiled public release may be downloaded and used with Valheim. Permission is not granted to redistribute Encounter QoL, publish modified builds, or reuse its original source/assets in another project without permission, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

Third-party components remain under their respective licenses. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt.

Support / Development Status

Encounter QoL is actively being expanded. More quality-of-life features and refinements are planned.