Helmgard — Season 1

An open, 50-player PvE RPG server for Valheim 1.0. No application, no interview: install the pack, join, and play.

Helmgard takes vanilla Valheim and pushes it toward an RPG: loot with affixes and legendaries, character levels, gods to serve, a much bigger arsenal, and a world with far more to find.

Discord: discord.gg/97eGJsaGDK (install help, find a group, announcements)

What's in it

Loot	Epic Loot: magic, rare, epic and legendary gear with enchanting
Progression	Epic MMO System levels and attributes, plus Norse Demigods (serve a god, earn its powers)
Arsenal	Therzie's Warfare, Armory and Wizardry: new weapons, armour sets and staffs for every biome
World	More World Locations: 190+ new dungeons, ruins, ports, traders and trainers
Threat	Star Level System: creatures above two stars, stronger bosses, per-player raids
Settlements	Innangard: recruit villagers, found settlements, run work parties
Travel	Portal Rules: portals have access modes (personal, clan, invite, public) so yours stays yours
Life	Seasons, Traders Extended (sell your trophies for coin), Extra Slots, My Little UI
Safety	Protective Wards (your base is yours) and Valheim Enforcer (fair play, see below)

PvE only; PvP is off. Up to 50 players at once.

PC only. Helmgard runs a mod loader, and that rules out console crossplay — Xbox, PlayStation and the Game Pass version can't join. Steam PC (and Steam Deck) only.

Built into the server

These run on the server, so they work for everyone with nothing extra to install:

• Chests put things away. Drop an item near your chests and it goes into a chest that already holds that item. Chests keep themselves sorted.
• Smelters and kilns feed themselves from chests within 4 m. Both the fuel and the ore have to be in range, and feeding pauses while someone stands right at the station.
• Chest signs. Every chest gets a sign listing what's inside. Edit the sign to tune that one chest: add ↔️20 to feed stations up to 20 m away, or 🧲0 to stop it pulling in dropped items (handy next to animal pens). Paste the symbols exactly; typed look-alikes don't work.
• Building and farming cost no stamina.
• Tames take commands like wolves, and followers keep up with you, even into dungeons.
• The Wishbone also finds dungeons and vegvisirs.
• Map tables collect the portals, ships, ore and dungeons that players discover nearby.
• Things lost in water float in a crate instead of sinking. Grab it before the next server restart.
• Doors close behind you, and ships stay smooth for whoever is steering.

How to join

1. Install r2modman, Gale, or the Thunderstore Mod Manager, then pick Valheim. (Vortex can't import a Valheim profile — use one of the three above.)
2. Install this modpack (Helmgard), which brings every mod at the exact version the server runs.
3. Press Start modded.
4. Join Helmgard from the server browser, or Join IP 148.116.93.49:2460. Password: ravens (it's public; it's only there because Valheim requires one to list a server).

If the server says your mods don't match, update the modpack in your mod manager. The server tells you exactly what to fix.

Stuck? Ask in #help on the Helmgard Discord.

Allowed extras (optional)

The server rejects mods it doesn't know about. These client-side extras are allowed, at any version:

• Chest Items Hover Display (CDEVx): see what's in a chest by hovering over it; respects wards
• Quick Stack, Store, Sort, Trash, Restock (Goldenrevolver): inventory sorting and quick-stacking
• Graphics Config Plus (cjayride): extra graphics settings
• Valheim Visual Enhanced (Pumpkin): lighting and visuals

Want another client-side mod allowed? Ask in Discord.

Fresh characters

Your Helmgard character is kept on the server. The first time you join, gear the server has never seen (items brought from another world) is held for you rather than deleted. Skills levelled elsewhere are brought down to what you earned here. Start fresh, or talk to an admin.

Rules

1. PvE, co-op. Don't grief, steal, or build to block other players.
2. No cheats, trainers, or extra gameplay mods. Known cheat tools are detected automatically and result in a kick or ban.
3. Be decent. No harassment, hate, or spam in chat.
4. Claim with a ward. A ward is what makes a base yours — without one, anyone can open your chests and take your build apart, and unwarded builds far from anyone's base may be cleaned up.
5. Admins make the final call.

Things worth knowing

• The world has seasons. Winter is real: crops left outside die after three days unless there's a fire nearby, swimming in cold water freezes you, and the Mountains get meaner. You won't die of cold outside the Mountains and the Deep North — but check the season before a long trip.
• Voice chat is proximity-based and per-player, in Settings → Misc. You'll hear people near you, not the whole server.
• The server restarts itself when Valheim updates. Steam force-updates your client, and a server behind its clients refuses everyone — so Helmgard follows the game. It waits for an empty server for up to four hours, then goes anyway. You may get dropped mid-session; rejoin in a minute or two.
• Short blips every couple of weeks. The public front door runs on a free cloud instance that the provider occasionally cycles. If you can't connect, wait a few minutes and try again.

Seasons of Helmgard

This is Season 1. Each season is a new world that launches as an event. We'll announce the next one well ahead of time; there's no fixed date.

Fair play and your data

To keep the loot meaningful, the server keeps your Helmgard character (items, skills), keeps a short 7-day log of item movements to sort out grief and cheat reports, and checks for known cheat tools when you join. Only a match is reported; your list of programs never leaves your PC. Nothing is sold or shared. Ask an admin in Discord if you want your character deleted.