TNS Music Overhaul

Have you ever gotten tired of hearing the same few songs on repeat, hundreds of hours into a Valheim playthrough? This mod is for you.

TNS Music Overhaul replaces Valheim's music with a brand-new soundtrack of 112 original songs, over 5 hours of music, that follows the world around you. A clear morning in the Meadows sounds different from a stormy night in the Black Forest. Sailing through rain sounds different from sailing under the stars. Resting by your fire sounds different when thunder rolls outside.

💬 Questions, bug reports or song ideas? Join our Discord.

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What you're getting

The soundtrack

Area	Songs	Runtime
Meadows	14	44 min
Black Forest	17	48 min
Swamp	12	36 min
Mountain	14	49 min
Plains	16	52 min
Ocean and sailing	17	45 min
Resting at your base	15	45 min
Sunrise and sunset	7	5 min
Total	112	over 5 hours

• Most songs run 2 to 3½ minutes.
• Sunrise and sunset pieces are short, about 45 seconds, and play once as the day turns.
• The download is about 400 MB, almost all of it music.

How a song is chosen

Every biome has its own music for day and night, in three kinds of weather:

Weather	Day	Night
Clear	✔	✔
Rain (snow in the Mountains)	✔	✔
Thunderstorm (blizzard in the Mountains)	✔	✔

When the game is about to play music, the mod looks at where you are, whether it's day or night, and the weather, then picks a song from that set. Each set is played in a shuffled order, so you hear every song in it before any repeats, and never the same song twice in a row. The places you'll spend the most time, clear days in each biome and at your base, have the most songs. If the weather changes while a song plays, it fades out, and the next song matches the new weather.

The same applies to resting at your base and to sailing, which use their own sets for each weather and time of day. At sunrise and sunset, one of the short transition pieces plays instead of Valheim's.

What stays the same

Valheim still decides when music starts, so the game keeps its familiar pacing, with one exception: vanilla can leave you in silence for a long while, for example after you step out of your base. The mod caps that wait at 60 seconds by default (MaxSilenceSeconds). These keep their original music:

• Mistlands and Ashlands. Their original soundtracks are excellent, so they were left alone.
• Deep North
• Combat, boss fights, raids, dungeons and traders

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Installation

With a mod manager (recommended)

Install Music Overhaul by TrueNativeStudio with r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager. That's it. BepInEx is installed for you.

By hand

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Copy the contents of the download's plugins folder (TNSMusicOverhaul.dll and the whole Music folder) into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/TNS-Music-Overhaul/. Keep the folders inside Music as they are, since they decide when each song plays.

Client-side only

This mod only changes the music you hear. Everything happens on your own computer:

• Servers don't need it. It works on any server, vanilla or modded, dedicated or hosted.
• Friends don't need it. Everyone else in your game keeps their own music, whether or not they have the mod.
• It's safe to add or remove at any time. It doesn't touch your world or character saves.

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Recommended: turn on Continuous Music

Unless Continuous music is on, Valheim goes quiet after each song and waits a while before starting the next, so you can play for long stretches in silence. To hear the soundtrack properly, turn on Continuous music in Valheim's audio settings.

The mod works either way. This setting only decides how much music you hear.

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Customizing

Swapping in your own music

Every song is a plain .ogg file in the mod's Music folder, sorted by where and when it plays:

Music/
  Meadows/  BlackForest/  Swamp/  Plains/  Ocean/  HomeRest/  Mistlands/  AshLands/
    ClearDay/  ClearNight/
    RainyDay/  RainyNight/
    ThunderstormDay/  ThunderstormNight/
  Mountain/  DeepNorth/
    ClearDay/  ClearNight/
    SnowDay/  SnowNight/
    BlizzardDay/  BlizzardNight/
  Transition/
    Morning/  Evening/
  Raids/
    Tier1/  Tier2/  Tier3/  Tier4/

Add, remove or replace any .ogg or .wav file and restart the game. File names don't matter; the folder decides when a song plays. An empty folder falls back to that time of day's clear-weather songs, or to Valheim's own music if there are none.

Empty folders, ready for your own songs: Deep North, Mistlands, Ashlands and the raid tiers ship empty, each with a PUT_MUSIC_HERE.txt note. Mistlands and Ashlands are also switched off in the settings so their original soundtracks play. To use your own songs there, remove them from DisabledBiomes (see Settings).

Raid music: the Raids folders start empty, so raids keep their original music. Songs you add there loop for as long as a raid lasts. Raids are grouped by progression: Tier 1 for Eikthyr's and The Elder's armies, forest trolls and skeletons; Tier 2 for blobs, Bonemass's army and surtlings; Tier 3 for wolves, Moder's army and bats; Tier 4 for the Fuling army.

Settings

Settings are in BepInEx/config/TNS-Music-Overhaul.cfg, which is created the first time you start the game with the mod. Mod managers can edit it in their config editor.

Setting	Default	What it does
Music → Volume	1	Volume of the new songs (0–1), on top of the in-game music slider
Music → FadeInTime	3	Seconds each song takes to fade in
Music → MaxSilenceSeconds	60	Longest wait before the next song starts. 0 keeps Valheim's own waits
Music → FallbackToClear	true	Empty rain/storm folders use the clear-weather songs
Music → DisabledBiomes	AshLands, Mistlands	Biomes that keep their original music
Sailing → UseOceanMusic	true	Play the Ocean songs while sailing
Transitions → SkipVanillaWhenEmpty	true	Skip the original sunrise/sunset piece if those folders are empty
Raids → Enabled	true	Use the Raids folders for raid music
Raids → Tiers		Which raids belong to which tier
Weather → RainKeywords, ThunderstormKeywords		Which in-game weather counts as rain or storm
Debug → LogChanges	true	Write each music change to BepInEx/LogOutput.log

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Troubleshooting

• Long silences: Valheim pauses between songs. The mod keeps each pause to at most MaxSilenceSeconds (60 by default). Lower it for more music, and turn on Continuous music.
• Still hearing the original music: make sure you have version 1.0.1 or newer. 1.0.0 didn't install its songs correctly through mod managers. Then check BepInEx/LogOutput.log for a line like Loaded 122 track(s). If it says 0, the Music folder isn't next to TNSMusicOverhaul.dll. Also remember that combat, bosses, raids, dungeons, Mistlands, Ashlands and Deep North keep their original music on purpose.
• Other music mods: mods that also replace Valheim's music may conflict with this one. Use one music mod at a time.
• Wrong song for the weather: the log records the weather for every music change. Please include those lines when reporting it.

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Support and community

Found a bug, have a question, or want to suggest songs? Join our Discord.

• Bug reports: post in the bug-reports forum and follow the pinned guidelines. Please include your mod version, your mod list, and your BepInEx/LogOutput.log file. The log records every music change, so it usually shows exactly what went wrong.
• Suggestions: song requests, biome ideas and feature wishes are welcome in the suggestions channel.
• Updates: new versions and changelogs are posted in the announcements channel.

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Future plans

• Home music for every biome. Resting at a base will get its own music depending on where you built it, so a mountain cabin sounds different from a hut on the Plains. It will still follow the weather and time of day.