PotatoTweaks
Farther camera zoom, 3-hour dropped items, Ctrl+remove ships and carts, tombstone retrieval, and per-skill death loss and XP. Server and all clients.Potato Tweaks
Quality-of-life features for Valheim servers. Each one can be switched off on its own.
| Feature | What it does | Who sets it |
|---|---|---|
| Farther camera zoom | Zoom out to 12 m on land (game: 8 m) and 24 m on a ship. | Each player |
| Dropped items last 3 hours | Dropped items last 3 hours of world time instead of 1, so loot dropped before a night's sleep survives it. Items in a base, near a player, in tar or part of a build still never disappear. | Server |
| Take apart ships and carts | Hold Ctrl and use the hammer's remove button (middle mouse) on a raft, karve, longship, drakkar or cart. Every material is refunded and cargo drops in crates. Normal rules still apply: workbench in range, no ward or no-build zone, nobody aboard a raft. Battering rams and catapults stay protected. | Server |
| Tombstone retrieval | Type retrievetomb (or gettomb) in the F5 console, or /retrievetomb in chat, to bring your own tombstones to where you stand. They stay put after the move. |
Server |
| Skill loss and XP per skill | Choose, skill by skill, how much is lost on death (0 = nothing, 1 = normal) and an XP multiplier (1 = normal, up to 10). Everything starts at the game's normal values. | Server |
Requirements
- BepInExPack Valheim
- Jotunn
Install on the server and every player's game. Players without the mod can't join a server that has it.
Not compatible with EpicLoot Progression Fix, which already contains the first three features. Potato Tweaks will not load next to it.
Can replace the Tomb Retriever and SkillLoss mods. Neither is needed. If either is installed, Potato Tweaks leaves that feature to it and writes a warning in the log; remove it to use Potato Tweaks' version.
Installation
r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager / Gale
- Install Potato Tweaks from the mod list. Jotunn and BepInEx are installed with it.
Manual
- Install BepInExPack Valheim and Jotunn.
- Copy
plugins/PotatoTweaks.dllfrom the download intoBepInEx/plugins/PotatoTweaks/.
Dedicated server
- Copy
PotatoTweaks.dllinto the server'sBepInEx/plugins/PotatoTweaks/and restart the server.
Configuration
BepInEx/config/potato.tweaks.cfg, created on first launch. Also editable in game with a configuration manager (F1).
- 1 - Camera: Enabled, Land zoom multiplier (1.5), Ship zoom distance (24 m). Personal.
- 2 - Dropped items: Enabled, Lifetime hours (3). Synced from the server.
- 3 - Ship and cart removal: Enabled. Synced from the server.
- 4 - Tombstone retrieval: Enabled, Cooldown seconds (10). Synced from the server.
- 5 - Skill loss on death: Enabled, one value per skill, plus Other skills for skills added by other mods. Synced from the server.
- 6 - Skill XP: Enabled, one multiplier per skill, plus Other skills. Synced from the server.
The skill settings start at the game's normal values: normal death loss and 1× XP for every skill. Change them on the server; players always use the server's values.
Only if you are switching from the SkillLoss mod: on first launch, Potato Tweaks copies your old values from Mirfin.SkillLoss.cfg when that file is in the config folder. Without that file nothing is copied and the normal values are used.
If a Valheim update changes the game code a feature relies on, that feature switches itself off and writes the reason to the BepInEx log. The other features keep working.
Credits
Camera zoom, dropped-item lifetime and ship/cart removal come from EpicLoot Progression Fix by the EpicLoot Progression Fix contributors, used under the MIT License. Tombstone retrieval and the skill settings were written for Potato Tweaks. See LICENSE.