All-in-One CustomMainMenu: Customize everything about Main Menu & Loading Screen experience. Discord panel on Main Menu with your Discord Invite Link embedded. Made for Modpack Authors & Server Owners.
Massive Performance Boost: Completely overhauled the mod's core code. Removed heavy per-frame checks and reduced game hooks from 49 down to 13 for a noticeably smoother experience.
Memory Optimization: Custom menu music is now loaded in a compressed format, dropping its RAM usage from ~46.5MB down to just ~3.4MB. The audio track is also completely cleared from memory the moment you load into a world.
Steam Join Fix: Using Steam "Join Game" links launch commands while the game is completely closed will no longer be accidentally cancelled by the intro skip feature.
Audio Bug Fixes: Fixed multiple bugs that caused the game's audio to permanently mute. This includes fixes for failed server joins, hitting "Back" in the Cinematics menu, and dismissing the vanilla "low disk space" warning.
Enhanced Compatibility: The mod now plays much nicer with custom audio mods (like Expand World Music and ZoneAudio). It also safely interacts with other mods that alter the main menu UI without hiding their custom buttons.
Dedicated Server Smart-Disable: The mod now detects if it is running on a headless Dedicated Server and completely disables itself, saving server boot time and preventing console errors.
Reliable Loading Music: The music fade-out transition on loading screens is now 100% reliable, even if you have all other custom loading screen options turned off.
UI & File Stability: The Discord panel has been rebuilt to be break-resistant. Additionally, live-editing your changelog.txt while on the character or settings screen will no longer forcibly snap you back to the main menu.
Safer Configs & Console: The config file is now only rewritten when a setting actually changes, preventing file corruption. Also, if a broken main menu music file is used, it will only report the error once instead of spamming your console on every screen transition.
1.4.4
BepInExPack Update: Updated mods dependancy string for latest BepInExPack.
Icon: Icon reverted to previous version
Fully Functional: Mod is still fully compatiable with latest Valheim (1.0.16) and BepInExPack (5.4.2351) versions.
1.4.3
Custom Loading Tips: You can now write your own loading screen messages! Just enable the feature in CFG and type your tips into a customtips.txt file (one tip per line, max 20).
Custom Loading Screen Logo: You can now display your custom main menu logo on the loading screen as well.
Adjustable Logo Positioning: Easily move your logos up or down on both the Main Menu and the Loading Screen to get the perfect alignment.
Cleaner Loading Screens: Added new customization options to hide the top black bar, remove the default fiery Valheim logo, and make the background behind the loading tips transparent for a sleeker look. Off by default.
Memory Optimization: The start-menu logo and Discord panel image are now properly cleaned up when navigating menus, preventing leftover copies from piling up and draining performance.
1.3.1
Valheim Update Compatibility: Updated to fully support Valheim versions 1.0.14 and 1.0.15. This also cleans up some harmless console errors that started appearing after IronGate added its own built-in feature to skip intro cinematics.
1.3.0
Mod was taken down on the request of Azumatt due to original mod referencing code from his ChangeOfScenery mod. This reupload removes any and all reference to his code. This also removes the custom boat scene the mod used and now by default references the vanilla night scene I have instead. I would like to apologize to Azumatt for using his code in my mod without permission or credits. The boat scene will return if I get his explicit permission in a future update with proper credits. All the other functionality still remains the same, just menu scenery has reverted to vanilla with night time ambiance instead.
This change also removes some of the elements in the CFG, it is advisable to delete old CFG and let new one generate but old CFGs should still cause no conflict.
1.2.7
Volume Control Fix: Custom menu music now properly respects the in-game Music and Master volume sliders. Thanks Soloredis for his help fixing this!
New MuteAmbient Setting: Added a MuteAmbient option under [Menu Scenery] (defaults to true) to silence background wind and ocean noise for a cleaner music experience. Set to false if you want vanilla ambient sounds in Main Menu enabled.
Asset Protection: Default assets are now stored safely in plugins/defaults/. Mod updates will no longer overwrite custom branding placed in config/CustomMainMenu/. Please read the newly created README-HOW-TO-CUSTOMIZE.txt in config/CustomMainMenu/ for more info. Thanks Soloredis for reporting this!
1.2.4
Added SkipIronGateSplash and SkipIntroCinematic CFG options to optionally bypass the startup splash screen and opening cinematic.
1.2.2
Valheim 1.0.12 Compatibility: Refactored the code to ensure full compatibility with the latest game update.
Reduced Image File Sizes: The Loading Screen folder now supports JPG/JPEG images in addition to PNGs, allowing you to compress your loading screen art.
Customizable Changelogs: Server and modpack authors can now edit the changelog. A new CFG entry allows you to change both the changelog body text and the title of the viewer.
Automatic Intro Skip: The game now automatically skips the introductory cutscene, taking you directly to the main menu.
