Choose Your Bed

Pick which bed you respawn at when you die, instead of always the last one you claimed.

Client-side only. Install it on each player's game; the server does not need it. Players without it just get vanilla behaviour.

How it works

• Every bed you claim (interact with it so it says "Spawn point set") is added to your saved list for that character + world.
• Beds you claimed before installing the mod are picked up automatically: your current spawn bed straight away, and any other bed you own as soon as you are near it.
• The selection screen only appears when you have two or more saved beds (see ShowMenuWithOneBed).
• When you die, a map of what you have explored opens with a numbered marker on every saved bed, plus where you died and the start stones. Click a marker to respawn there. Scroll to zoom, drag to move the map.
• The same beds are listed down the side with biome and distance from where you died. Click a row, or press 1-9. Press 0 for the start stones.
• "List view" on that screen switches to the plain list, where you can also rename or forget beds.
• If only one bed is saved, it respawns there without asking (change ShowMenuWithOneBed in the config to always ask).
• While alive, every saved bed shows as a named bed pin on the normal map (M).
• Press F7 while alive to open the manager: rename beds, forget ones you don't want listed, or set one as your current spawn.
• Hovering a saved bed shows its name. Destroyed beds are dropped from the list automatically.

Config

BepInEx/config/com.burks.chooseyourbed.cfg

• DeathMenuStyle - Map or List
• ShowBedPinsOnMap - named pins on the normal map
• ManagerKey, MaxBeds, MenuScale, ShowMenuWithOneBed

Saved beds live in BepInEx/config/ChooseYourBed/<world>_<characterid>.txt.

Notes

• The death-screen map is drawn by the mod from the game's map data (the game's own map cannot open while you are dead), so it looks plainer than the normal map.
• The game still only respawns you at a bed that physically exists; if the one you pick has been destroyed you're asked to pick again.
• Built for Valheim 1.0 / BepInEx 5.4.

Changes

• 1.3.0 - Fixed respawning at the wrong bed with ValheimRAFT. ValheimRAFT's dynamic spawn moved you to the last bed you clicked a few seconds after you respawned, overriding the bed you picked; it now follows your pick. Bed ids no longer go stale after a server restart. Number keys are ignored for 1.5 s after the respawn screen opens, so hotbar keys pressed while dying don't pick a bed. Clicking overlapping bed markers picks the highlighted one.
• 1.1.1 - Picks up beds you already own (current spawn bed at once, others when you are near them); more reliable saving on servers; forgotten beds stay forgotten; log lines saying what the mod decided on each death.
• 1.1.0 - Map on the death screen with clickable beds; bed pins on the normal map; fixed the mouse being locked on the death screen.
• 1.0.0 - First version.

Beds on boats (ValheimRAFT)

• A saved bed is remembered by ValheimRAFT's own bed id as well as its position, so a bed on a boat keeps one entry as the boat moves.
• If the bed you pick has sailed away since you last saw it, you respawn at the start stones and ValheimRAFT then takes you to the bed wherever the boat is now.
• Picking any other bed stops ValheimRAFT from moving you to the last bed you clicked.
• Optional: ChooseYourBed.dll on the dedicated server lets your game ask where a moved bed is while you are online.