HighSeat

In Valheim the nearest player's game runs every creature, and everyone else sees it through that player's connection. One player far away, on a slow line or on a cloud PC, and creatures freeze or move "like they have ping" for the whole group. HighSeat makes the server run them instead, the way most survival games do.

Features

• Server-run creatures: the server loads every player's area and runs every creature in it, monsters, animals, tamed creatures and bosses alike.
• Server-run spawners: wild spawns, the game's raids, nests, spawn points and boss altars spawn on the server, so a creature starts there and never changes hands. Only a console spawn begins on a player's game, handed over within two seconds.
• Frame budget: a server that falls behind leaves new creatures to players, as the game does, until it recovers.
• Send rate: raised to 500 KB/s per player from the game's 150, never lowered below what another mod set.

Install

Needed on the server only: a dedicated server, or the player who hosts. Players need nothing. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put HighSeat.dll in BepInEx/plugins. A network mod that sets a higher send rate (such as Better Networking) can stay: HighSeat keeps the higher one.

The server does more work: give it a good CPU, especially when players spread out across the map.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.HighSeat.cfg: Server runs creatures, Server frame budget ms. Both are described in the file and apply without a restart.

Links

Discord: https://discord.gg/Q2sMPGQ4T3

Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/issues (name the mod and version). Licence: GPL-3.0.

Shout outs

• The BepInEx and Harmony teams, for the tools every Valheim mod stands on.
• Iron Gate Studio, for Valheim.
• Thunderstore, for hosting this page.
• The Valheim modding community, for the hard work and dedication that keeps enhancing an already great game.
• Every modder who keeps their mods open source so others can collaborate, learn and build on them.