World Edit

A visual world editor for Valheim. Press F6 and build whole maps from above: sculpt mountains, paint biomes, draw roads and rivers, place houses and look inside them floor by floor. Free, instant, and Ctrl+Z undoes everything.

Your world stays normal Valheim. World Edit only changes what you change with it.

Edit together, live

Most world editors are made for one person. World Edit works in multiplayer: you and your friends edit the same world at the same time. You see each other's cursor and brush, name and tool, what they selected and what they just did, and every change shows up for everyone right away. Click a name at the top to fly to them.

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Want a city builder on top? Valheim City Builder runs on World Edit: settlers, production chains, armies and boss camps. Install it and World Edit comes along automatically.

Features

• Terrain: raise, lower, smooth, flatten, roughen, terraces and peaks with a round or square brush, or over a whole area at once. Way past Valheim's 8 m limit.
• Landforms that stay editable: drag out mountains, hills, plateaus and craters as circles or rectangles, draw ridges and trenches along lines, plateaus and basins in any shape (draw around them like with a lasso). Click one later to move it, drag its points, change its height (PgUp/PgDn) or size (Ctrl+wheel), turn it (R) or remove it.
• Biome brush: drag out an area and it becomes another biome. Meadows, Black Forest, Swamp, Mountain, Plains, Mistlands, Ashlands or Deep North. Ground, weather, light, music and creatures change, the height of the ground stays. Trees and rocks can be swapped for the ones of the new biome.
• Paint ground: grass, dirt, paving or farm soil.
• Rivers and lakes with real flowing water, also high up in the hills. Steep parts become waterfalls. PgUp/PgDn on a lake moves its water up and down.
• Take the sea away: paint where the sea water should be gone, then dig below sea level and it stays dry: sunken squares, docks, canals. Or lower the ground with "Dig and keep it dry". Ctrl paints the sea back, and lakes put water back at any height, also below sea level.
• Paths that adapt: click as many points as you like. A path climbs a hill as far as it's walkable, goes through a real tunnel where it gets too steep and gets a bridge over ravines and water. Dirt, paved, stone, plank and grausten paths.
• Fences, walls, hedges, torches and tree avenues along any line. Click a line later to drag its points or change its type.
• Trees, plants and rocks: forests of one kind or mixes, meadows, groves and flowers. Make and save your own presets.
• Houses and blueprints: every blueprint with a preview picture. A gallery downloads blueprint packs from Thunderstore in game and shows the downloadable builds of valheimians.com with pictures. PlanBuild .blueprint and BuildShare .vbuild files work.
• Build pieces: every piece from the hammer, free and instant, snapping like in Valheim.
• Select: click a house or anything else, Shift+click or drag a box for more. Drag it, move it (M), turn it (R), copy it (Ctrl+D) or delete it (Del).
• Group or merge: group things (Ctrl+G) so one click selects all of them, or merge them into one thing that moves and copies like a house. Split up takes a house apart.
• Layers: hide houses, pieces, paths, trees, rocks, plants or water to see what's below, or lock them so you can't click them by accident and the Clear brush leaves them alone. Only for you.
• Floors like in The Sims: select a house and look through its floors with the arrow keys. Everything above is hidden, only for you.
• Pipette: click anything to build more of exactly that.
• Copy & paste whole areas with ground, plants, rocks and buildings.
• Building sounds while you edit, Valheim's own hoe, pickaxe, hammer and cultivator (on/off in the settings).
• Undo, redo and history for every step. Far view distance for big maps. Test here drops your Viking into what you built.
• Edit together in multiplayer: you see the others while they edit: their cursor and brush, their name, which tool they use, what they selected and what they just did. Everything they change shows up for you right away. Click a name at the top to fly there. Admins can lock the editor to admins only.

Controls

One set of keys for every tool:

Key	Action
F6	World Edit on/off
WASD / mouse wheel	Move and zoom the camera
Q / E	Rotate the camera
Left click	Use the tool / select
Right click / Esc	One step back (cancel)
Ctrl + brush	The other way round: raise ↔ lower, plant → remove, biome → back to the original, build piece → remove
Shift + terrain brush	Smooth
Ctrl / Shift + mouse wheel	Brush size / strength
R	Turn (tap: 15°, hold: keeps turning, Shift+R: back)
B	Round / square brush
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y	Undo / redo
Hold and drag a selected thing	Move it
M	Move the selection
Alt + click	Pick what lies behind (a tree in front of a house)
Ctrl+D	Copy the selection
Ctrl+G / Ctrl+Shift+G	Group / ungroup (double click picks one of a group)
Del	Delete the selection
PgUp / PgDn	Up and down: selection, houses, pieces, landforms, lake water (Shift: fine)
Alt + click (Flatten)	Take the height under the mouse
Arrow up / down	Floors of the selected house
H	Hide the panels

The bar at the bottom always shows the keys of the tool you're using.

Notes

• Back up your worlds before building on an existing save.
• World Edit is not related to the "World Edit Commands" mod or to WorldEdit for Minecraft. It's its own visual editor.
• Settings are in BepInEx/config/rusty.worldedit.cfg, your blueprints go into BepInEx/config/WorldEdit/blueprints (with Valheim City Builder: BepInEx/config/ValheimCityBuilder/blueprints).

Credits

• The blueprint gallery downloads the BiomeBlueprints pack by OverDrive and shows builds from valheimians.com by their creators. Thank you!
• 1Day2Die from the Discord for a lot of help, testing and fixes.

Support

The mod is free and stays free. If you enjoy it and want to support the work, you can do that on Ko-fi. Thank you!