EquivalentExchange

EquivalentExchange is a total gameplay overhaul for Valheim inspired by Minecraft's Equivalent Exchange. Every item has an EMC value, and EMC becomes the universal currency: you craft, build, repair and travel by paying EMC instead of gathering and spending resources.

Compatibility warning

This is not a small add-on. The mod rewrites the core economy — crafting costs, building costs, repairs, food upkeep, loot and portal travel. It is likely incompatible with other global overhaul mods that also change crafting, loot tables or progression, and combining them can cause broken prices, duplicated rewards or blocked recipes. Test on a backup world and use a clean mod profile, ideally with only cosmetic, UI or small quality-of-life mods.

What changes

Universal currency — item values are calculated from vanilla recipes and trade values; coins and valuables convert at their in-game price.
Crafting with EMC — the craft button is split in two: the vanilla one spends resources, the second one ("x1 (N EMC)") spends EMC and keeps the materials. Ingredients are still required — EMC pays for the craft, it does not replace materials.
Building with EMC — construction pieces are paid for with EMC instead of resources.
Repair with EMC — +1 durability for 1 EMC, applied automatically once per minute to the repair block and equipped gear.
Transmutation cell — click the EMC balance in your inventory to open a 6×2 container with Feeding, Repair and EMC Extraction blocks.
Food upkeep — the Feeding block consumes one food item per minute for 1 EMC, keeping vanilla food buffs running.
Portal travel — cost scales with distance and carried weight.
Mob loot — biome- and star-based chances for gear drops with partial durability.
Character-bound balance — EMC is stored on your character and shown in the inventory, HUD and console.
Localization — all player-facing texts follow the game language (English and Russian are bundled); switching the game language updates them on the fly.

Installation

Install BepInExPack Valheim via your mod manager (Thunderstore/Hexium).
Install EquivalentExchange with the same manager, or unpack the ZIP into BepInEx/plugins/EquivalentExchange/.
For multiplayer, the mod is required on both client and server.

No additional libraries required.

Commands (F5)

Command	Action
`ee_balance`	Current EMC balance
`ee_value <item>`	EMC value of an item
`ee_value`	Full price registry
`ee_inv`	EMC potential in your inventory
`ee_sell <item>`	Convert inventory items into EMC
`ee_buy <item> <N>`	Buy items with EMC (disabled by default)
`ee_add <N>`	Add EMC (requires cheats)

Configuration

BepInEx/config/equivalentexchange.cfg — coin exchange rate, portal prices, drop chances, repair price and custom EMC values for individual items.

Details