Immersive First Person

A body-aware first-person camera for Valheim.

Step into your character's boots and keep Valheim feeling like Valheim. Immersive First Person tracks your animated head, keeps your local body visible, and handles the awkward moments where the game normally pulls the camera back out.

Immersive First Person SS

Highlights

Toggle first person with F6.
Keep your body, hands, and held items visible.
Stay first person while crafting, sailing, sitting, holding fast, or opening inventory.
Smooth out intense head movement with the head bob slider.
Hide head and helmet-slot gear when camera clipping gets in the way.
Keep HideHead local-only for multiplayer.
Tune shadows, occlusion culling, camera effects, and visibility refresh cost.

Quick Start

Install the mod, launch Valheim once, then press F6.

If your head or helmet gets in the camera, enable:

[Visibility]
HideHead = true

Recommended settings

For the intended first-person feel, start here:

[Camera Overrides]
OverrideForcedThirdPerson = true
LockCameraWhileAttached = true
AttachedCameraExtraVerticalOffset = 0
AttachedCameraExtraForwardOffset = 0.08
AttachedCameraMaxYaw = 80
AttachedCameraMaxPitch = 55

[Camera Motion]
HeadBobAmount = 0.5

[Graphics]
FirstPersonShadowDistance = 30
FirstPersonShadowCascades = 0
UseOcclusionCulling = true
DisableCameraEffects = false

[Visibility]
HideHead = false
ForceBodyVisible = true
VisibilityRefreshInterval = 1

Performance

Version 1.3.0 keeps view distance and LOD unchanged for immersion. The optimization settings focus on shadows, occlusion culling, optional camera effects, and head-hiding scan cost.

To keep the game's current shadow settings:

[Graphics]
FirstPersonShadowDistance = -1
FirstPersonShadowCascades = -1
DisableCameraEffects = false

Notable config options

Section	Option	Default	What it does
`Camera Overrides`	`OverrideForcedThirdPerson`	`true`	Keeps first person active during gameplay interactions.
`Camera Overrides`	`LockCameraWhileAttached`	`true`	Locks the camera to a stable body offset while seated, sailing, or attached.
`Camera Overrides`	`AttachedCameraExtraVerticalOffset`	`0`	Adds height to the attached camera position.
`Camera Overrides`	`AttachedCameraExtraForwardOffset`	`0.08`	Moves the attached camera forward slightly.
`Camera Overrides`	`AttachedCameraMaxYaw`	`80`	Limits left and right looking while attached.
`Camera Overrides`	`AttachedCameraMaxPitch`	`55`	Limits up and down looking while attached.
`Graphics`	`FirstPersonShadowDistance`	`30`	Caps first-person shadow distance. Use `-1` to keep the current value.
`Graphics`	`FirstPersonShadowCascades`	`0`	Caps first-person shadow cascades. Use `-1` to keep the current value.
`Graphics`	`UseOcclusionCulling`	`true`	Enables camera occlusion culling in first person.
`Graphics`	`DisableCameraEffects`	`false`	Temporarily disables known camera post-processing components.
`Camera Motion`	`HeadBobAmount`	`0.5`	Controls how much animated head movement affects the camera.
`Visibility`	`HideHead`	`false`	Hides the local head and matched head-slot gear from the camera.
`Visibility`	`VisibilityRefreshInterval`	`1`	Controls how often head-slot renderers and head bones are refreshed.

Installation

Use your preferred Valheim mod manager, or place ImmersiveFirstPerson.dll here:

Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ImmersiveFirstPerson/

Launch the game once to generate the config file.

Updating

If the mod acts oddly after an update, back up and delete the old config file, then launch the game once to regenerate it.

Compatibility

This mod touches the camera, local player visibility, the character skeleton, and attached camera states. Mods that heavily change those systems may overlap.

HideHead only mutates the local player's renderers and bones. Remote player characters are ignored for multiplayer compatibility.

Credits

Inspired by Azumatt's First Person Mode.

Support

If you enjoy the mod and want to support future updates, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi.