🍺 Quad's Skal Tavern

Ale and mead that get you drunk (tipsy, stumbling, a hangover), and a Skål! toast with your friends for a buff.

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✨ Features

What is in it

• Four drinks from the cauldron: Tankard of Ale (barley and honey), Honey Mead (honey and raspberries), Blueberry Wine (blueberries and honey) and Skaldic Mead (honey and cloudberries). They are the real tankard in your hand and on the ground, each with its own colour.
• Each drink makes you drunker, and it wears off with time. As you get drunk the picture darkens at the edges, blurs and doubles, colours drift and the view sways; your body leans and weaves, stars circle your head, you hiccup, sounds go muffled, you slide when you walk and your aim floats, and your chat slurs. Too much too fast and you throw up (the game's own effect), which sobers you a little. A little warms you and gives some stamina. More and the view sways and your feet wander, but the cold no longer bites; very drunk and you stagger now and then; too much and you fall down. A big night ends in a hangover.
• A mug holds four swigs: use it from the bag or the hotbar, as any drink, and you take one swig (a quarter of the drink). Every swig is a toast, with no key to press. Everyone near you who has the mod and drinks within a few seconds, and your AICompanion companions standing by, drink together and get a Skal! buff: faster stamina and health for five minutes, more with more to drink with.

Every number is in the settings: how long to sober up, how strong the sway and wander are, whether you stumble, fall or get a hangover (on a server, the server's settings decide those). Only the player who drinks needs the mod for the drinks; a toast needs it on both sides.

📸 Screenshots

Drunk: the world blurs, glows and sways

A Tankard of Ale

🎮 How to use

No keys to remember. Drink as you would any drink: use it from the bag or the hotbar. Each use is one swig of the mug's four, and each swig is a toast: drink beside friends or your companions and you all get a Skål! buff.

🧩 Other mods

Known clashes: none known.

Works with our mods

• Quad's Companion: companions within 12 m count as drinking partners for a Skål!

Found a clash with another mod? Tell us which one and what happened.

👥 Multiplayer

Who needs it: Everyone, and the host above all: a game without the mod deletes the pieces when their area loads. Restart after installing or updating them.

A toast is shared: friends with the mod who raise a cup together all get the buff.

The host decides: how long drinks last, their strength and their effects (reversed controls, puking, drifting, stumbling, passing out, hangovers) and the toast window. While you play on their world their values replace yours (your file isn't changed); a host without the mod leaves everyone their own.

🌍 Languages

English, Русский (Russian), Deutsch (German), 简体中文 (Chinese), Português do Brasil (Portuguese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Polski (Polish), Türkçe (Turkish). It follows the game's own language setting.

The translations were made with AI, so a few words may be off. To correct one, or to add your language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.skaltavern/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json, Italian.json, Japanese.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from English.json (it wins over the built-in one). Or tell us the better words and we'll put them in for everyone.

⚙️ Settings

In BepInEx/config/com.quad.skaltavern.cfg, made the first time the game runs with the mod. r2modman and Thunderstore Mod Manager edit it under Config editor.

Drinking

Setting	Default	What it does
MinutesToSober	8	How many minutes it takes to sober up from very drunk (100). Longer and you stay tipsy for longer. In multiplayer the server's value applies.
EffectStrength	100	How strong everything about being drunk is (percent): the picture, the sway, your steering, the sound. 0 for none, 200 for a night you will not remember. In multiplayer the server's value applies.
ScreenSway	100	How much the view sways when you are drunk (percent). 0 for none.
FeetDrift	100	How much your walking wanders when you are drunk (percent). 0 for none. In multiplayer the server's value applies.
Stumble	true	Very drunk, you stagger now and then. In multiplayer the server's value applies.
PassOut	true	Too much drink knocks you down (and sobers you a little). In multiplayer the server's value applies.
Hangover	true	After a big night you wake with a hangover: slower stamina and health for a few minutes. In multiplayer the server's value applies.

Effects

Setting	Default	What it does
Picture	true	The picture changes as you get drunk: dark edges, colour fringing, blur, double vision, colours that drift.
Sound	true	Sounds go muffled and wobbly as you get drunk.
Stars	true	Stars circle your head when you are drunk.
Weave	true	Your body leans and weaves when you are drunk.
Hiccups	true	Hiccups now and then, and a drunken cheer when you stand still.
SlurredChat	true	What you say in chat comes out slurred when you are drunk.
ReversedControls	true	Sloshed, your controls reverse for a moment now and then. In multiplayer the server's value applies.
Puke	true	Too much drink and you throw up. In multiplayer the server's value applies.

Toast

Setting	Default	What it does
Window	6	How many seconds apart two toasts can be and still count as together. In multiplayer the server's value applies.

🤖 Made with AI

Made with the help of Claude (Anthropic), with Claude Code: designed, written and checked together, and tried in the game.

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🧪 About Quads Lab

Quads Lab is where Quad H (HardHeadHackerHead) builds software with AI, of every kind: these Valheim mods are one of its projects. Each mod is designed by a player, written with Claude Code and tested in our own world, with bobisme as our tester.

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• 🧰 All Quads Lab mods on Thunderstore
• 💻 Source code on GitHub
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• 🐞 Found a bug? Open an issue on GitHub

📜 Recent changes

• 0.5.0 No more toast key: B is used by other mods, and it was one more key to remember. Now a mug holds four swigs. Use it from the bag or the hotbar as before and you take one swig, with the game's drinking animation and a quarter of the drink (a whole mug is as strong as before); the mug is gone only after its last swig, and its tooltip shows the swigs left. Every swig is a toast: friends near you who drink within a few seconds, and your companions, get the Skal! buff as before (the others are told at most every 6 seconds). Drinking alone no longer tells you a toast is better with company. The drinks already in your bag and your chests are full mugs. The old Toast: Key line in your settings file does nothing now.
• 0.4.0 Now in your language: English, Russian, German, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, French, Polish and Turkish, following the game's own Language setting. The game's own names are used for its things (items, creatures, lands, stations). The translations were made with AI: to correct a line, or add a language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.skaltavern/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from translations/English.json on GitHub.
• 0.3.3 A clearer page: what it does, who needs it in multiplayer, how it gets on with other mods, and where to report a bug. The game itself is unchanged.

Every change is on the Changelog tab.