Portal Limit and Discovery

Portal Limit and Discovery is for Valheim servers that want portals to stay useful without letting fast travel take over the whole world.

It gives server owners two big tools: a fair portal limit for players, and discovery portals that let admins create shortcuts players have to earn by finding the other side first.

Why Use It?

• Keep public servers from filling up with unlimited personal portal networks.
• Give players a simple way to check how many portals they have.
• Turn shortcuts into exploration rewards.
• Create locked travel routes for bosses, biomes, dungeons, quests, towns, or events.
• Let admins manage special portals in-game without editing config files.
• Keep normal tagged Valheim portals feeling like normal Valheim portals.

Discovery Portals

Discovery portals are the fun part.

Admins can make a portal at spawn, a town, or a hub that stays locked until each player finds and enters the matching portal somewhere else in the world.

Example ideas:

• A portal to the Bog Witch that only unlocks after players find her swamp-side entrance.
• A mountain shortcut that opens after players climb to the outpost once.
• A boss arena return portal that unlocks after the group reaches the arena.
• A town network where each destination has to be discovered before it becomes convenient.
• Event routes that reward exploration without permanently disabling portals.

Each player unlocks discovery routes individually, so one player finding the far side does not automatically unlock it for everyone.

Portal Limits

Set how many portals each non-admin player can own. The default is 10.

When players place a portal, they get a simple live count like:

Portals placed: 4 / 10

Players can also type this into regular in-game chat:

/portals

That shows their current portal count and the server limit.

Admin Tools

Admins get an in-game Portal Limit UI for:

• changing the player portal limit
• making a portal normal, locked, or unlocked
• choosing discovery marker text and colors
• customizing player-facing hover text
• checking who built a portal
• seeing when a portal was built or last used
• reviewing who unlocked a discovery route
• checking total world portal counts

Normal players cannot open the admin editor.

Normal Portal Behavior

Normal tagged portals still behave like regular Valheim portals.

Portal Limit only changes a portal when an admin marks it as a discovery portal, or when a player reaches the server's portal limit.

Blank-tag portals are prevented from linking together so new portals do not fake a connection before players set a tag.

Good To Know

• Existing portals are not automatically deleted when the mod is installed.
• Players who are already over the limit will need to remove portals before placing more.
• Commands like /portals and /portallimit go in regular chat, not the F5/dev command panel.
• The package includes both the client and server DLLs.
• A fuller FULL_README.md is included in the download for server owners who want config details.

Contact

Join the Discord for questions, bug reports, balance feedback, or suggestions:

https://discord.gg/3Ewv8v2D