UnlimitedBreeding

Removes only Valheim's "too many animals nearby" restriction. In vanilla, breeding and egg laying stop once a pen holds a few animals (or eggs) within about 10 m - this mod lets tamed animals keep breeding and hens keep laying eggs past that limit.

Everything else stays exactly as in vanilla: taming, feeding/hunger, pregnancy time, breeding chance, growth, egg hatching and normal spawning are untouched. It works for every animal that uses Valheim's shared breeding system (boars, wolves, lox, hens, ...).

What it changes

Vanilla checks, before a tamed animal may start breeding or laying an egg, how many adults of its kind plus how many offspring/eggs are within its check radius, and refuses once that reaches the animal's limit. This mod only replaces that single comparison. All other conditions (tamed, not hungry, not alarmed, partner nearby, love points, ...) are still checked by the game as usual.

Configuration

Settings live in BepInEx/config/com.cube.unlimitedbreeding.cfg, generated on first run:

Setting	Default	Description
BypassNearbyBreedingLimit	true	Ignore the nearby limit for animal breeding.
BypassNearbyEggLimit	true	Ignore the nearby limit for egg laying (hens). Set breeding to false and eggs to true for "eggs only".
MaxNearbyCreatures	0	0 = no limit at all. A number above 0 = your own cap instead (breeding / egg laying stops once that many animals + eggs are nearby).
NearbyRadius	0	Radius in meters used to count animals and eggs for your own cap. 0 = the animal's vanilla radius. Only used while MaxNearbyCreatures is above 0.
DebugLogging	false	Logs (at most once a minute per animal) when the vanilla limit would have blocked something.

Eggs

With unlimited egg laying a pen can fill up with hundreds of egg objects (which costs FPS), so there is an optional pickup:

Setting	Default	Description
PickupKey	Shift+E	Press to collect all eggs within PickupRadius into your inventory. Set to None to turn the key off.
AutoPickup	false	Collect eggs in the radius automatically (about every 2 seconds, while your inventory has room).
PickupRadius	10	Radius in meters for the key and the automatic pickup.
SkipHatchingEggs	true	Leave eggs that are currently warm/hatching alone.

Multiplayer (experimental)

Setting	Default	Description
ClaimOwnershipOfBreeders	false	Take over ownership of the tamed breeding animals around you, so the mod also works for them when other players near the farm don't have it installed.
ClaimOwnershipRadius	30	Radius in meters in which animals are claimed.

Multiplayer

Breeding is decided by whichever player's game currently "owns" the animal - normally someone standing near the farm. By default everyone who plays near your animals should have the mod installed; otherwise the vanilla limit applies while a player without it owns them. The dedicated server itself does not need it. With ClaimOwnershipOfBreeders on, a player who has the mod takes over the animals around them (other players don't need to do anything and see no difference), so one player with the mod is enough while they are near the farm.

Credits

Created by Zenox.