Auto Feed

Auto Feed is a Valheim mod that automatically feeds tameable creatures from nearby chests. No more dropping food on the ground — animals feed themselves as long as a chest with the right food is in range.

Features

• Automatic Feeding: Tameable creatures within range of a chest containing their food will be fed automatically.
• Configurable Range: Set the radius creatures will search for containers.
• Chest Filtering: Optionally restrict feeding to specific chest types by name prefix.
• Server-side: Install on the server only — clients do not need the mod.

Installation

1. Install BepInEx on your dedicated server.
2. Place Narolith.AutoFeed.dll in BepInEx/plugins/ on the server.
3. Clients do not need to install anything.

Configuration

Configuration is generated at BepInEx/config/Narolith.AutoFeed.cfg on first run.

Support

If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, open an issue on the GitHub repository.

1.0.2

• Documentation: Incorrect tags on the mod in Thunderstore showing server-side when this is a client and server required mod as of 1.0.0

1.0.1

• Performance: container scan results are now cached per animal (configurable TTL, default 5s), eliminating the full Piece.s_allPieces scan on every AI tick
• Performance: distance calculations in container sorting now use sqrMagnitude instead of Vector3.Distance, removing redundant square root operations
• Performance: consumable lookup structure is now built once per feed attempt instead of once per container scanned, reducing GC pressure
• Fixed: MissingReferenceException when a cached container is destroyed during its TTL window
• Added Container Cache TTL config option (default 5)

1.0.0

• Mod is now client and server side — all connected clients must have the mod installed
• Fixed feeding not working on dedicated servers: creature AI now runs on the ZDO owner (client or server) rather than assuming server-only execution
• Container discovery now uses Valheim's piece registry instead of physics queries, fixing containers not being found on clients
• Fixed performance issue: container queries now run at most once every 5 seconds per animal instead of every AI tick

0.3.2

• Fixed animals not feeding from chests — AutoFeed.Core.dll was missing from the Thunderstore package; FeedingLogic is now compiled directly into the main DLL so only one file needs to be shipped

0.3.1

• Updated README with server-side installation instructions and configuration table

0.3.0

• Mod is now server-side only — install on the server, clients no longer need it
• Feeding logic now only executes on the server, preventing double-feeding in multiplayer

0.2.5

• Fixed plugin build glob excluding sibling projects (AutoFeed.Core, AutoFeed.Tests)
• Removed plugin build step from release workflow (requires Valheim game DLLs unavailable in CI)
• Added Scripts/package.sh to build and zip the Thunderstore package locally
• Bumped GitHub Actions to Node.js 24

0.2.4

• Replaced prebuild PowerShell manifest sync script with a release workflow
• Added automated CI tests via GitHub Actions
• Added branch protection requiring tests to pass before merging to main

0.2.3

• Added missing Thunderstore dependency to Jotunn
• Added manifest version script to avoid mismatch versions

0.2.2

• Fixed project version mismatch

0.2.1

• Removed unnecessary async delay in FeedAnimal
• Codebase improvements

0.2.0

• Changed targeted framework
• Added Jotunn dependency
• Added requirement Client/Server to have latest Minor version installed

0.1.0

• Added Jotunn for reference and assembly handling
• Code readability updates
• Added more details to README
• Increased default range from 5 to 10
• Rewrote global feeding delay logic
• Removed ownership check

0.0.2

• Updated GitHub link