Better Man

Wood Armor Stand

Real armour stands, for real people. - 15 different positions using the button at the base of the stand

Valheim's armour stand puts your gear on a rough wooden dummy. But the game actually ships two finished anatomical stands — one built on the male player model, one on the female — and nothing in the build menu ever references them. They have been sitting unused in the game files.

Better Man puts both of them in the Hammer. -- In 5 languages

Wood Armor Stands	Regular Skin Armor Stand

What you get

Four new pieces in the Furniture tab of the Hammer, in two matching sets:
- Armour Stand (Male) and Armour Stand (Female) — ordinary skin, like a person
- Wooden Armour Stand (Male) and Wooden Armour Stand (Female) — the same models carved in wood, for a traditional mannequin look
Each set is independent, so you can turn either one off in the config
They are the game's own assets, so they match Valheim's art exactly and need no extra files
Fully functional: the same slots, poses and armour attachment as the vanilla stand
Costs the same as the wooden one — 8 Fine Wood, 4 Iron Nails, 2 Leather Scraps, at a workbench

Why this needed doing

The prefabs are complete and already set up as buildable pieces, but they were never finished off for players:

The male stand's name is the localisation key $piece_armorstand_male, which has no entry in the game's text table, so it would display literally as $piece_armorstand_male
The female stand was left pointing at the vanilla $piece_armorstand name, so both stands would have appeared in the menu under the same name
Both shipped with the developer placeholder description "Horizontal"

This mod supplies the missing names and descriptions and adds the pieces to the Hammer. Nothing in the game files is modified — the pieces are registered at runtime.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/TastyChickenLegs.BetterMan.cfg

Lock Configuration - server admins only may change settings
Male Stand - on by default. The skin-look male stand
Female Stand - on by default. The skin-look female stand
Wooden Male Stand - on by default. The wooden-look male stand
Wooden Female Stand - on by default. The wooden-look female stand

Languages

Ships with English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese and Hindi. Whichever language you play Valheim in is the one you get — no setting to change.

Where the game already has a word for something, the mod uses it. The French name is Support d'armure, German Rüstungsständer, Spanish Soporte de armadura, Chinese 装备架 — all matching vanilla, so the stand reads correctly next to the base game's own pieces.

Adding or fixing a translation needs no rebuild from me. Drop a file named

BetterMan.<Language>.yml

anywhere under your BepInEx/ folder, using the same language names Valheim uses (English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Hindi, and there are more). Start from translations/English.yml in the mod, and translate only the text on the right — the keys must stay exactly as they are, they are what links the code to the file.

One honest caveat: Valheim's own Hindi support is very thin — roughly 2% of the base game's text is translated — so a Hindi player still sees English for most of the game itself. Everything this mod adds is in Hindi regardless.

Installation

Requires BepInExPack for Valheim and Jotunn. Drop BetterMan.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ or install with your mod manager.

Credits

Built with Jotunn and ServerSync by blaxxun.

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