Location Finder

Press ' to open the panel. Check the locations you want, hit Apply — every matching location in the world gets pinned on your map instantly, world-wide, no zone loading required.

Updated for Valheim 1.0 and the Deep North biome.

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How It Works

Location Finder reads from ZoneSystem — the world's pre-generated location registry. All locations in this registry are placed at world creation time and stored in the save file, so they can be found instantly without visiting any area first.

Pins are session-only and not saved to your manual pin list. They are cleared on world unload.

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World-Unique Locations

Haldor, Hildir, Bog Witch, and the Forge of Potential each have up to 10 candidate sites reserved in the world at creation time, but only one ever actually spawns — the first one a player gets close enough to. Location Finder pins all the candidates up front, then automatically removes the unused ones the moment the game resolves which site is real. No action needed — it just narrows down on its own as you explore.

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Servers & Multiplayer

World type	Behaviour
Private / single-player	Finds every location in the world, instantly, from anywhere
Player-hosted (the host)	Same — world-wide
Dedicated / joined server	Finds locations near you, within ServerSearchRadius meters (default 400), as you move

Valheim never sends clients the world's location list — it only exists where the world was generated — so on a server the mod works differently. Every location that has loaded near you carries an identity tag the mod can read; as you travel, locations within your search radius are named and pinned using your normal category checkboxes. Log: Live mode on: locations within 400m of you are pinned as they load. then Live: N new location(s) near you (...).

• A location that's loaded but outside the radius is not marked as seen, so it's picked up once you get within range.
• Pins stay once placed. ServerSearchRadius = 0 removes the limit (everything the game has loaded around you).
• You can't search the whole map from a distance on a server — you find things by exploring toward them.
• Beehives, Leviathans, and the world-unique locations (Haldor, Hildir, Bog Witch, Forge of Potential) pin as you explore on any server.

Advanced: whole map on a server (off by default)

Set ServerFullMap = true to make a server behave like a private world, if you can provide the data one of two ways:

Saved world export (no server access, just a copy of the server's world file): set ExportWorldLocations = true, load a copy of the server's world file (.fwl + .db) as a local world once (a copy keeps its unique ID), and the list is saved to BepInEx/config/YouDied.LocationFinder.world-<ID>.txt. Joining the real server then loads it.

• Exact, since it comes from the real save data. It is not regenerated from the seed — worlds upgraded across game versions get locations placed after the fact, so a regeneration would give confident but wrong pins.
• Game updates can add locations (e.g. a new biome); re-copy and reload the world to refresh.

Server component (if you can install plugins on the server):

Where	What to install
Everyone's game	LocationFinder.dll (the normal mod)
Dedicated server	LocationFinderServer.dll in the server's BepInEx/plugins folder
Player-hosted (listen) server	Nothing extra — the host's normal LocationFinder.dll answers requests

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Categories

Category	Notes
Haldor	Trader — auto-prunes to the real site (see above)
Hildir	Trader — auto-prunes to the real site
Bog Witch	Trader — auto-prunes to the real site
Eikthyr Altar
Elder Altar
Bonemass Altar
Moder Altar
Yagluth Altar
Queen Altar	Mistlands boss
Fader Altar	Ashlands boss
Forge of Potential	Mountains — hidden upgrade station, auto-prunes to the real site
Hildir Quest	Smouldering Tombs, Howling Caverns, Sealed Tower
Dyrnwyn Piece	Ashlands sword fragment locations
Burial Chamber	Black Forest dungeons
Sunken Crypt	Swamp iron dungeons
Troll Cave
Frost Cave	Mountain caves
Infested Mine	Mistlands dungeons (also Dvergr entrances)
Morgen Cave	Ashlands
Charred Fortress	Ashlands
Fuling Village	Plains
Draugr Village	Meadows village infested by Draugr
Dvergr Guard Tower	Mistlands staffed towers, including ruined variants
Dvergr Excavation	Mistlands excavation sites
Dvergr Harbour	Mistlands
Abandoned Cabin	Mountain cabins near Stone Golems
Abandoned Outpost	Ashlands Dvergr outpost taken over by insects
Wood House	All 13 variants — pins labeled by number
Dragon Egg Nest	Mountain drake nests
Giant Remain	Mistlands giant skulls
Giant Scrap	Mistlands sword/armor fragments
Lava Leviathan	Ashlands lava creatures
Sulfur Arch	Ashlands sulfur source
Fire Hole	Swamp surtling geysers
Tar Pit	Plains
Volture Nest	Ashlands
Greydwarf Nest	Black Forest spawner camps
Bear Cave	Mountains
Mountain Grave	Mountains
Mountain Well	Mountains
Goblin Hut	Plains
Lumber Camp
Infested Tree	Mistlands
Charred Stone Spawner	Ashlands
Waymarker	Mountain waymarkers
Stone Henge	Plains stone circles with Fuling Berserkers
Stone Circle	Meadows
Fuling Tower	Plains stone towers
Stone Tower Ruin	Black Forest and Mountain ruins, including sunken variants
Ruin	Black Forest and Plains ruins
Combat Ruin
Swamp Ruin
Swamp Hut
Swamp Well
Stone House
Wood Farm
Ship Setting
Grave
The Hole
Dolmen	Meadows skeleton spawners
Shipwreck
Ashlands Ruin	Various Ashlands ruins
Mistlands Structure	Viaducts, statues, road posts, lighthouse
Runestone	All biome runestones and lorestone, including Deep North
Big Rock Clearing	Black Forest
Start Temple	World spawn point

Deep North (Valheim 1.0)

Category	Notes
Kall Fimbulbringer Lair	The final boss's lair
Gammeltroll Lair
Deep North Village
Deep North Hut
Deep North Memorial
Frozen Shipwreck	Includes both Deep North shipwreck variants
Ice Pond

Unconfirmed

Category	Notes
Unknown (MorkBorg)	Prefab name doesn't match any known Valheim naming convention — verify in-game before relying on this pin

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Known Limitations

On servers, only locations near you are found (within ServerSearchRadius) — see Servers & Multiplayer above.

Ocean Leviathan and Beehives are not pre-placed world locations — they are generated as you explore. Location Finder pins them automatically as your zones load. They will not appear on the map until you have been close enough for the zone to generate.

For full world-wide coverage of Leviathans and Beehives, use valheim-map.world with your world seed.

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Custom Search

The Custom Search tab lets you search any location prefab name. Partial matches work — searching Crypt finds every crypt type in the world. The search log in BepInEx will show the exact prefab names found, which is useful for adding new custom categories.

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Custom Categories

Add your own categories to: BepInEx/config/YouDied.LocationFinder.custom.txt

# Comment lines start with #
# Format: CategoryName=PrefabName1,PrefabName2
My Spots=SomeLocation1,SomeLocation2

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Config

BepInEx/config/YouDied.LocationFinder.cfg

Key	Default	Description
PanelKey	' (Quote)	Open/close the panel
ServerSearchRadius	400	On a server, pin locations within this many meters of you (0 = no limit). Private/hosted worlds ignore this
ServerFullMap	false	Advanced: on a server, try to load the whole map from a saved export or server component
ExportWorldLocations	false	Advanced: save each locally-loaded world's location list (used with ServerFullMap)

Checkbox state saves to YouDied.LocationFinder.checklist.txt and restores on next session.

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Diagnostics

Every session, the log reports any location prefab present in the world that isn't covered by any category — useful for catching new content after a game update:

[LocationFinder] N uncategorized location prefab(s) in this world (add these to LocationConfig.cs if you want them pinnable): ...

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Changelog

v1.0.36

• Fixed: the panel stuck on "Loading world data..." / "Still loading world data..." on a server. A game-API call used by the world-export feature doesn't exist in the current game build and threw during startup, so the mod never finished initializing on clients. Those calls now go through reflection, and every startup step is isolated so one failure can't block the rest.
• Changed: on a server the panel header now reads "Server — searching within Nm of you".

v1.0.35

• Changed: servers are now near-player only by default. Private and player-hosted worlds are unchanged (world-wide). On a joined server, locations are named and pinned as they load around you, limited to ServerSearchRadius meters (default 400; 0 = no limit). Each loaded location has a LocationProxy object whose data stores a hash of the location's prefab name; the mod reads it and resolves it through the game's own location table, then pins through the same path as Apply (same categories, labels, icons). A location that's loaded but out of range isn't marked seen, so it's found once you approach.
• Changed: whole-map-on-a-server (saved export / server component from v1.0.34) is now opt-in via ServerFullMap; ExportWorldLocations now defaults off.
• Refactor: Apply's pin creation and wanted-set logic are now shared helpers (PinLocation, BuildWantedSet) so live and bulk pinning can't drift apart.

v1.0.34

• Added: server support (whole-map options; opt-in as of v1.0.35). Valheim clients never receive the world's location registry, so locations couldn't be found at all on a server (private worlds were unaffected). Two ways around it, since not everyone can install plugins on a server:
  • Saved world exports: whenever a world is loaded locally (private world, or a copy of a server's world file), its location list is saved to a small text file keyed by world UID; joining that same world on a server loads it. Exact, since it's taken from the real save. Toggle with ExportWorldLocations (default on).
  • Server component: new LocationFinderServer.dll for dedicated servers that answers a client request over a routed RPC (also works automatically from a player-hosted server's host).
• Added: Core/LocationSync.cs — shared by both plugins: registry reader, version-tagged compressed wire format, and the export file format.
• Changed: multiplayer clients no longer wait 10 seconds for a registry they can never receive; server requests are capped at 2 per join so a server without the component isn't spammed with warnings.

v1.0.15 – v1.0.32 (undocumented interim builds)

Several builds in this range predate this changelog catching up — made during Valheim's Mistlands→Ashlands transition and general engine updates (Unity 6 migration). No per-version notes survive, but confirmed functionally present in v1.0.32 before this update: the BeginInit/WaitForReady async-ready architecture, reflection-based ZoneSystem location lookup with a public/private-agnostic fallback, and the periodic post-spawn scan for Beehives. If you need specifics from this range, the Mistlands-era prefab corrections (Mistlands_DvergrTownEntrance1/2, Mistlands_Excavation1/2/3, etc.) were already in place by v1.0.5 and carried forward unchanged.

v1.0.14

• Added: Leviathan (ocean) auto-pins as you sail near them
• Added: Beehive auto-pins as you explore near them
• Both pin automatically as you explore — no searching needed

v1.0.13

• Added: comma-separated multi-term search (e.g. AxeHead1, AxeHead2) — all terms searched and tracked simultaneously

v1.0.12

• Fixed: map mouse movement bleeding through panel — IMGUI now eats all mouse/scroll events that land inside the panel rect before any other system sees them; events outside the panel pass through normally

v1.0.11

• Fixed: chest search pins no longer wiped when switching tabs or clicking Apply — checklist pins use loc_ prefix, search pins use chest_/search_ prefix and are independent
• Added: last search term tracked — as you explore, any new chest containing a searched item is automatically pinned
• Added: search tab shows currently tracked term
• Fixed: Enter key opening chat while panel is open — Chat.HasFocus patch added
• Fixed: character moving while panel is open — removed ZInput patches that weren't matching correct overloads in this Valheim version, restored Player/Camera patch approach

v1.0.10

• Fixed: map input bleeding through panel — Minimap scroll, left/right/middle/double-click events now blocked while panel is open

v1.0.9

• Fixed: ZDO byte array key resolution — improved compatibility with Unity 6 ZDO storage format
• Fixed: map mouse movement and scroll affecting minimap while panel is open

v1.0.8

• Fixed: Draugr Village prefab corrected to WoodVillage1
• Fixed: Wood House pins now labeled by number (e.g. "Wood House 2") so variants are distinguishable on the map
• Added: WoodHouse 1 through 13 under single "Wood House" category

v1.0.7

• Performance: location data now cached as a flat list at startup — Apply no longer iterates raw IDictionary via reflection on every call, fixing teleport stutter
• Removed: Early Axes category
• Removed: Morgen Forts category
• Added: WoodHouse 1-13 (later corrected in v1.0.8)
• Changed: all category names now singular and use common in-game names (Elder, Fader, Queen, Fire Hole, etc.)

v1.0.6

• Fixed: game hang on close — WaitForReady coroutine now exits immediately on shutdown via _shutdown flag
• Added: Application.quitting hook fires shutdown before Unity tears down MonoBehaviours
• Fixed: Shutdown no longer calls Minimap.RemovePin when Minimap may already be destroyed

v1.0.5

• Fixed: all category prefab names corrected using ValheimLocationCata spreadsheet and Jotunn location list
• Fixed: Fuling Village → GoblinCamp2 (GoblinCamp does not exist as a location)
• Fixed: Draugr Village → MeadowsVillage (later corrected to WoodVillage1 in v1.0.8)
• Fixed: Giant Remains → Mistlands_Giant1/2
• Fixed: Dvergr Settlements → Mistlands_Excavation1/2/3
• Fixed: Infested Mines → Mistlands_DvergrTownEntrance1/2
• Fixed: Fader Altar → FaderLocation
• Fixed: Moder Altar → Dragonqueen
• Fixed: Queen Altar → Mistlands_DvergrBossEntrance1
• Added: Morgen Cave, Morgen Fort, Dvergr Harbour, Abandoned Outpost, Giant Scrap, Lava Leviathan, Sulfur Arch, Volture Nest, Ashlands Ruin, Mistlands Structure, Runestone categories
• Removed: Ocean Leviathan and Beehive (not in ZoneSystem — Vegetation spawns only)
• Added: Select All / Deselect All buttons
• Added: Clear Last Pin button

v1.0.4

• Added: diagnostic logging to identify correct prefab names
• Fixed: match logging removed (was causing hang by flooding log with 770k+ lines when all categories checked)

v1.0.3

• Added: Lava Leviathan (LeviathanLava), Fire Hole, custom search exact-name logging
• Fixed: Fader attempts (still incorrect at this version)

v1.0.2

• Fixed: Queen Altar confirmed as Mistlands_DvergrBossEntrance1 from search results
• Fixed: Dvergr Towers prefixes corrected to Mistlands_ prefix
• Fixed: Moder Altar prefab corrected to Dragon (later corrected again in v1.0.5)

v1.0.1

• Fixed: Hildir prefab confirmed as Hildir_camp
• Fixed: Bog Witch prefab confirmed as BogWitch_Camp
• Fixed: boss altar prefab names — initial guesses corrected

v1.0.0

• Initial release
• Checklist UI with location categories
• World-wide pinning via ZoneSystem location instances
• Checkbox state persists between sessions
• Custom category support via config file
• Custom search tab