Innangard Server Lag Fix

Multiplayer, AI, pathfinding, storage, and quality-of-life fixes for Innangard.

Installation

• Install on both the dedicated server and all clients.
• Requires Innangard.
• Better Organisation is optional.
• BetrValheim / ItemDrawers support is optional through my separate drawer bridge.
• If optional integrations are missing, the remaining fixes continue to work normally.

Features

Networking / Ownership

• Prevents station reservations from unnecessarily stealing ZDO ownership.
• Deduplicates repeated StationClaim.Take calls.
• Reduces unnecessary station lease renewal writes.
• Coalesces immediate release/re-take cycles on the same station.
• Preserves ownership acquisition for real inventory/world mutations.
• Protects player-owned objects from unnecessary dedicated-server JIT ownership takeover.
• Reduces redundant settler transform, velocity, and animation ZDO writes.
• Keeps normal Valheim/Innangard settler ownership and simulation selection.
• Includes client death/respawn safety for ownership and sync patches.

Movement / Pathfinding

• Tighter intermediate path corners to reduce wall/corner cutting.
• Body-aware path clearance so planner width better matches the settler's real collider.
• Live-configurable settler collider and planner radius multipliers.
• Improved recovery routing around walls, furniture, and narrow areas.
• Storage interactions prefer reachable positions on the settler's current floor.
• Tests all available storage interaction positions before accepting an unreachable fallback.
• Chests and drawers use improved standing-position routing.
• Smelters, kilns, fires, and other machines prefer a reachable interaction side.

Chairs / Meals

• Improved chair approach routing around tables and furniture.
• Settlers approach from a reachable point beside/behind the reserved chair before sitting.
• Works for both meal seating and normal idle/social sitting.
• Fixes distant workers using up the meal timer while travelling to collect food.
• After collecting food and reserving a chair, settlers receive a fresh 30-second seating window.
• Keeps Innangard's normal standing-meal fallback if a chair genuinely cannot be reached.

Combat / AI State

• Clears stale hostile targets that can leave residents permanently stuck with a red !.
• Prevents stale combat state from blocking meals, sitting, resting, and normal work.
• Nearby or genuinely threatening enemies are still retained normally.
• Guards, hunters, and followers keep their existing specialized combat behavior.

Storage / Caretakers

• Multiple settlers can use the same chest/drawer without global StationClaim locking.
• Existing item/capacity protections remain active.
• Drawer reach follows Innangard's normal horizontal and vertical storage reach settings.
• Caretakers prefer compatible drawers where appropriate.
• Caretakers deliver carried cargo before making optional CollectMore trips.
• Fixes CollectMore getting stuck when already within valid interaction range.
• Fixes deposit jobs stalling on the final blocked/stuck approach.
• Open but already-emptied source chests no longer stall sorting jobs.
• Prevents already-collected cargo from being unnecessarily returned or abandoned.

Loose Ground Items

• Local in-memory reservations stop multiple caretakers chasing the same dropped stack.
• Nearby loose items are grouped into piles.
• The nearest caretaker wins the pile claim.
• Claims can switch if another caretaker becomes meaningfully closer.
• Loose-item claims add no extra ZDO fields, ownership changes, RPCs, or persistent data.

Lumberjacks

• Improves tree/log target selection.
• A much closer standing tree can beat a distant felled log.
• Existing Innangard work-area restrictions remain in place.

Better Organisation Integration

Optional — all other features work without Better Organisation installed.

• Innangard understands Better Organisation category rules.
• Supports BO per-item include/exclude rules.
• BO rules are read locally without duplicating them into chest ZDO data.
• Compatible drawers remain preferred where appropriate.
• BO-managed chests integrate with Innangard's chest-rules UI.
• Adds a shortcut from Innangard's chest UI to Better Organisation storage rules.
• Configurable chest-rules modifier key.

BetrValheim / ItemDrawers Integration

With the separate Innangard BetrValheim Drawer Bridge installed:

• Innangard can discover and use BetrValheim drawers.
• Caretakers can deposit ordinary cargo directly into compatible drawers.
• Drawer transfers use the actual drawer API and capacity checks.
• Drawer support works independently of Better Organisation.

Important Config Options

[Movement]

SettlerColliderRadiusMultiplier = 0.92
PlannerRadiusMultiplier = 0.96
MealSeatSearchSeconds = 30

[Combat]

ClearStaleResidentTargets = true
StaleResidentTargetCloseRetainDistance = 4

[UI]

ChestRulesModifierKey = LeftShift