PotatoFarmer

Farming and animal pieces for Valheim, each with its own model, textured to sit right next to the game's own pieces. Six so far: a feeding trough, a nesting box, a mead cask, a salt lick, a hitching post and a jerky drying rack, with fourteen new jerkies to dry on it. The server can switch any of them off, and more will join over time.

Gullinbursti's Trough is a feeding trough your animals eat from, named for the god Freyr's golden-bristled boar. Dark oak, hammered bronze bands and a carved boar head on each end. Fill it with food and walk away: hungry boars, wolves, lox and any other tameable animal within 25 m come over and eat from it, one bite at a time. The game treats every bite as a normal meal, so taming, breeding and keeping tamed animals fed all count, and mods that change those keep working.

• Build it with the hammer under Furniture: 10 Wood and 2 Bronze, at a forge.
• Fill it from your hotbar: look at it and press the food's hotbar key (1-8) to add that stack. It holds 100 pieces of food, and what's inside shows in the bowl.
• Shift + E takes the food back. Whatever doesn't fit in your inventory lands at your feet, and if the trough is broken its food spills out.

Which food counts is the game's own list for each animal, so modded animals and their foods work too. It isn't a chest, so crafting-from-containers and quick-stack mods leave its food alone, and auto-pickup won't grab a bite waiting in the bowl. With LetMeTameYou, animals that can't be tamed yet don't eat from it, the same as with food on the ground.

Gullinkambi's Roost gathers your hens' eggs, named for the golden-combed rooster that wakes the warriors of Valhalla. Fine wood, black metal and a carved rooster head on each end. Hens stop laying once there are 10 hens and eggs within 10 m, so eggs left lying around shut a coop down; the roost gathers the eggs laid within 10 m so your hens keep laying, and a star hen's eggs stay star eggs.

• Build it with the hammer under Furniture: 10 Fine Wood and 2 Black Metal, at a forge.
• With a fire near the roost, its lid counts as the roof. It warms its eggs and hatches the first chick after 30 minutes, then one every 5 minutes, until there are 6 hens and chicks within its reach. Kill a few hens for meat and the flock refills itself.
• E switches gathering off when you want eggs to lie, and Shift + E takes the eggs. Its eggs show in its three cubbies.

Eggs already warming by a fire on the ground are left alone. It gathers any egg that hatches, so eggs from other animals (for example with LetMeTameYou) work too.

Heiðrún's Cask is a great mead cask, blessed by Heiðrún, the goat whose udder runs with mead in Valhalla. A great barrel of fine wood with black metal bands, a goat carved into each end and a cork to tap it from, on a carved stand. It brews several mead bases at once, 4 by default, each exactly like a fermenter of its own.

• Build it with the hammer under Crafting: 30 Fine Wood, 6 Black Metal, 4 Tar and 20 Iron Nails, at a forge.
• Add mead bases with E, one at a time, or with a mead base's hotbar key (1-8) to pour in as many as there's room for. It needs a roof, like the fermenter.
• When batches are ready, E taps them all, and the mead pours out in front of the cork.

Brewing takes as long as the game's fermenter and gives the same amount. With PotatoTweaks, the cask follows its fermenter speed and output settings too. One cask brews one kind of mead base at a time until it's emptied, unless the server turns on Mix mead bases.

Auðhumla's Lick is a salt lick for your tamed animals, named for the first cow, who licked the first god out of the salt ice. A block of salt on carved stone. Tamed animals within 10 m of it stay fed twice as long between meals, so a trough's food goes further and they stay ready to breed.

• Build it with the hammer under Furniture: 10 Stone, 4 Flint and 2 Tin, at a forge.
• Look at a tamed animal near a lick to see how long it stays fed.

Nothing is stored in the lick. It stretches the game's own hunger timer while an animal is near it, so mods that change how long animals stay fed (LetMeTameYou, for example) still count, and the lick doubles whatever they set.

Sleipnir's Post is a hitching post, carved for Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse. Bring a tamed animal that's following you, use the post, and it's tied: it stays within a rope's length of the post instead of wandering off, with a rope from the post's iron ring to a loop around its neck. The loop is fitted to each animal's own neck, modded animals included.

• Build it with the hammer under Furniture: 4 Core Wood and 1 Bronze, at a forge.
• One post holds 4 animals, each on a 4 m rope. The rope holds in a fight too: a tied animal takes on whatever comes within reach and walks straight back afterwards, instead of chasing off.
• Shift + E unties everything on the post and they follow you. Telling a tied animal to follow you unties just that one, and if the post is destroyed, its animals stay where they are.

Ties are saved with the animal, so they last through restarts and every player sees the same ropes.

Læraðr's Rack is a drying rack of Yggdrasil wood, named for Læraðr, the tree on Valhalla's roof that the goat Heiðrún and the stag Eikþyrnir graze on. Hang raw meat with honey on its nine hooks, and each hook dries into two jerky. It's the game's own recipe, one meat and one honey for two jerky, with no cauldron to tend and nothing to burn.

• Build it with the hammer under Crafting: 10 Yggdrasil Wood, 4 Copper and 2 Iron, at a forge.
• E hangs the first raw meat in your inventory that dries here, with a honey. A meat's hotbar key (1-8) hangs as many of it as there are free hooks and honey.
• All nine hooks dry at once, 20 minutes each. Look at the rack to see what's drying and how long is left, and press E to take the jerky that's ready.

The meat and honey hang on the hooks while they dry, then turn into the jerky, the way the game's cooking spits swap raw meat for cooked. The rack is big enough to hang a serpent steak or a moose leg at full size. Jerky that doesn't fit in your inventory lands at your feet, and if the rack is broken, its jerky drops and the meat still drying comes back with its honey.

Boar and wolf meat dry into the game's own Boar and Wolf Jerky, and with Monstrum, Bjorn's bear meat and Monstrum's fox meat dry into its Bear and Fox Jerky. Every other raw meat gets a jerky of its own, which can also be made at the cauldron (from the level shown), like the game's. Each lasts 30 minutes, and jerky from the biggest animals is bigger to match.

	Jerky	Health	Stamina	Healing	Cauldron
	Neck tail jerky	19	19	2	1
	Deer jerky	26	26	2	1
	Horse jerky (with OdinHorse)	26	26	2	1
	Grizzly jerky (with Monstrum)	29	29	3	1
	Bloodgill jerky (with Monstrum)	30	55	3	5
	Lox jerky	38	38	4	4
	Chicken jerky	45	45	5	5
	Hare jerky	45	45	5	5
	Seeker jerky	45	45	5	5
	Serpent jerky	53	53	3	2
	Asksvin jerky	53	53	6	5
	Volture jerky	53	53	6	6
	Moose jerky	60	60	7	7
	Bone Maw jerky	68	68	6	6

Everyone needs the mod, the server included, because the pieces are part of your world. Dedicated servers load it too. It's part of the PotatoServer pack for the Potato Server.

Settings

In BepInEx/config/potato.farmer.cfg, or in game with Configuration Manager, all in one section ("1 - Pieces"), each setting starting with its piece. Everything marked "server" is set by the server and synced to players.

Setting	Default	What it does
Trough	On	Show the trough on the hammer. Troughs already built stay and keep working. Server.
Trough capacity	100	How much food one trough holds. Server.
Trough reach	25 m	How far away hungry animals notice the trough and walk over (5-60 m). Server.
Trough food in the bowl	On	Show the trough's contents as food in the bowl, only on your screen.
Roost	On	Show the roost on the hammer. Roosts already built stay and keep working. Server.
Roost capacity	60	How many eggs one roost holds. Server.
Roost reach	10 m	How far away the roost gathers eggs (2-30 m). Server.
Roost flock size	6	With a fire nearby, the roost hatches eggs while there are fewer hens and chicks than this within its reach. 0 never hatches. Server.
Cask	On	Show the cask on the hammer. Casks already built stay and keep working. Server.
Cask batches	4	How many mead bases one cask brews at once (1-20). Server.
Cask mixes mead bases	Off	Let one cask brew different mead bases at once. Server.
Lick	On	Show the salt lick on the hammer. Licks already built stay and keep working. Server.
Lick fed time	2	Tamed animals near a lick stay fed this many times as long between meals (1-5). 1 = no change. Server.
Lick reach	10 m	How far away the lick works (2-30 m). Server.
Post	On	Show the hitching post on the hammer. Posts already built stay and keep working. Server.
Post animals	4	How many tamed animals one post holds (1-10). Server.
Post rope length	4 m	How far a tied animal can wander from beside the post (2-10 m). Server.
Rack	On	Show the drying rack on the hammer. Racks already built stay and keep working. Server.
Rack drying time	20 min	How long one hook takes to dry its meat and honey into two jerky (1-120 min). All nine hooks dry at the same time. Server.

Bug reports go to GitHub Issues, where the source lives too. Questions are welcome on Discord: relanebeis.

Needs BepInExPack Valheim and Jötunn.

The code is under the MIT License. The models, textures, icon and screenshots are © TheRealRel under CC BY-NC 4.0: free to share and adapt with credit, but not for commercial use. See LICENSE for the details.