Highseat

An admin console for Valheim dedicated servers. Press F5 to open a browsable panel instead of memorising command names and argument order.

Named for the ondvegi, the chieftain's high seat in a longhouse, which is where authority was exercised from.

Why This Exists

Valheim refuses devcommands on a dedicated server, and it does so silently. There are three separate gates, and every one of them fails without an error message:

1. Terminal.IsCheatsEnabled() returns m_cheat && ZNet.instance.IsServer(). A client is never the server, so cheats are off no matter what adminlist.txt says.
2. ConsoleCommand's constructor does OnlyServer = onlyServer | onlyAdmin, and IsValid then returns ZNet.instance.IsServer() for those. Every admin-only command, including spawn, is unreachable from a client.
3. Since 1.0, ConsoleCommand.RunAction refuses all cheat commands until the character is confirmed with confirmcheats.

Highseat opens the first two for genuine admins, surfaces the third as an explicit choice, and mirrors the game's console output so a refused command is never invisible again.

Install

Install on the admin client, not the server. The gates are client side, so a server-side install does nothing.

Requires BepInExPack Valheim.

Admin Setup

Add your platform user ID to adminlist.txt on the server, then restart it.

It must include the platform prefix:

Steam_76561190000000000

A bare SteamID64 will not work. Valheim compares against PlatformUserID.ToString(), which is "<Platform>_<id>". Pasting just the number is the single most common reason admin silently fails, and most server guides still tell you to do it. If you get it wrong, Highseat detects it and logs the exact line you should have used.

Using It

F5 opens the panel. Non-admins cannot open it at all.

Tab	What It Does
Spawn	Searchable grid of every spawnable prefab, with real in-game icons, filtered by items, beasts, build pieces or everything
Player	God, ghost, fly, debug and no-cost toggles, heal, skills, teleport
World	Time of day, time skip, weather
Server	Cheat confirmation, achievement restore, force save, player list with kick and ban
Log	Everything the game prints back, so nothing fails silently

Before anything will spawn you must press Confirm Cheats once on the Server tab. This is Valheim's own requirement, not Highseat's, and it permanently marks the character as cheated.

Achievements

Confirming cheats blocks achievements for that character. Iron Gate ship an official way to turn them back on, and Highseat exposes it as Restore Achievements on the Server tab. The panel reads the resulting state back from your character so you can see whether it actually applied.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/gbv.valheim.highseat.cfg

Setting	Default	Purpose
Enabled	true	Unlock devcommands for admins
PanelHotkey	F5	Key that opens the panel
AutoEnableDevCommands	true	Turn devcommands on when the panel opens
VanillaConsoleOnHotkey	false	Also open Valheim's text console

Window position and size are saved automatically.

Credits

Reference behaviour was verified against the game's own assemblies. JereKuusela's Server devcommands (Unlicense) confirmed the same patch surfaces independently.