Coal Control

Make Deforestation a Thing of the Past!

This is a simple mod that will allow you to change how much coal is given out by any smelter returning coal as an output (non-vanilla ones will work too!)

Why use this mod?

Well, if...

You're not a fan of deforesting an entire area to smelt your ores
You wish different types of wood gave different amounts of coal
You want to streamline the smelting process a bit, without changing other drop rates ... then this mod might just be for you!

What can be changed?

Any smelter or kiln type workstation that gives coal as an output can now be changed to give more than one. You can specify different types of wood to give different amounts of coal all in an easy configuration file.

Configuration

By default:

Wood gives 2 coal per piece
Fine wood gives 1 coal per piece
Core wood gives 3 coal per piece

To change the values, locate your config file maxfoxgaming.coalcontrol.cfg in your Bepinex config folder, and you will see an option that looks like this:

Wood:2,Finewood:1,RoundLog:3

Each entry in the config has the format {Type of Wood}:{Amount of Coal Returned} separated by commas for each. The wood type must match the prefab name, NOT the localized name. To find prefab names, you can look in the Valheim Wiki.

Can I add other wood types to the smelter with this mod?

You cannot tell the smelter which types of wood can be accepted. However, if you are using a mod like WackysDatabase and have added more wood types to the kiln, you can add them to this config file.

Example: Let's assume we added Ancient Bark to the possible list of smelter inputs using WackysDatabase. We can do add ElderBark:2 to the end of the config file to have Wood:2,Finewood:1,RoundLog:3,ElderBark:2. This will now allow Ancient Bark to return 2 coal when used in a kiln.

Contact Me (Bug Reports & Suggestions)

If you have any suggestions, or experience bugs / problems using this mod please get in touch with me on my Discord.

Installation (Manual Download)

Move the 'plugins' folder from the archive to your BepInEx folder.

Configuration

By default:

Wood gives 2 coal per piece

Fine wood gives 1 coal per piece

Core wood gives 3 coal per piece

To change the values, locate your config file maxfoxgaming.coalcontrol.cfg in your Bepinex config folder, and you will see an option that looks like this:

Wood:2,Finewood:1,RoundLog:3

Can I add other wood types to the smelter with this mod?

You cannot tell the smelter which types of wood can be accepted. However, if you are using a mod like WackysDatabase and have added more wood types to the kiln, you can add them to this config file.

Example: Let's assume we added Ancient Bark to the possible list of smelter inputs using WackysDatabase. We can do add ElderBark:2 to the end of the config file to have Wood:2,Finewood:1,RoundLog:3,ElderBark:2. This will now allow Ancient Bark to return 2 coal when used in a kiln.