HighSeatPlus
The players' half of HighSeat for big servers: smaller world updates, and big bases and crowds cheaper to draw on each player's PC. Optional.HighSeatPlus
The players' half of HighSeat, for big servers. HighSeat makes the server hold a big group; HighSeatPlus makes big bases and crowds cheaper to draw and run on each player's PC. It changes only how your own PC does the work: what you and everyone else see, and every building's support, stay exactly the game's.
Features
- Smaller world updates: on a server running HighSeat, only the changed parts of each object are sent to you, about a fifth of the data in a crowd. Your game rebuilds the rest exactly as a full update would.
- Building support on change: pieces standing on the ground or leaning on rock and trees search for their support again only when something near them changes (a piece placed, removed or damaged, the ground dug), not every second.
- Combined building meshes: a settled building is drawn as a few combined meshes instead of one per piece, split back out the moment a piece in it changes.
- Simpler far players: players beyond the nearest ten and out of fighting range are drawn with their capes still and fewer animation updates. Nobody is ever hidden, so PvP stays fair, and party members (with the Party mod) are always drawn in full.
Install
Optional, on players' PCs. Made for servers running HighSeat (the smaller updates need HighSeat 0.4.0 or later there),
and works on any server; a player without it plays as today. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put
HighSeatPlus.dll in BepInEx/plugins.
Configuration
BepInEx/config/com.HighSeatPlus.cfg: Combine building meshes and Simpler far players, each your own choice and
described in the file. Support on change has no setting: it gives the game's own results.
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.