FeedLikeGrandma

Feed your creatures to tame, grow, heal, and level them up. Carry tames in reusable Taming Orbs, supply food with Feed Barrels, and see what each creature needs at a glance.

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See it in action

Feed and grow

Tame a creature	Raise its offspring

Use suitable food to advance taming or growth while restoring health and adding fed time.

Level up a tame	Check food and progress

Adults can gain levels through feeding. Set level limits, food values, and special foods for selected levels.

Feed Barrels

Automatic feeding	Build a Feed Barrel

Fill a nearby barrel with suitable food. Hungry, calm creatures collect and eat it using their normal movement and eating behavior.

Taming Orbs

Capture and release	Find the right creature

Store one tamed creature in each reusable orb. Filled orbs show the creature on their icon.

Riding

Dragon flight restrictions	Monstrum mount jumps

Tune saddle stamina and encumbrance behavior, with additional options for supported riding mods.

What you get

Feature	What it does
Feeding progression	Food advances taming, growth, or adult levels, and restores health and fed time.
Food display	Shows accepted foods, quality requirements, and current progress.
Feed Barrels	Supply nearby hungry creatures with food they can walk to and eat.
Taming Orbs	Carry a tame with its name, level, health, inventory, saddle, and supported mod data.
Custom rules	Set food values, special level-up foods, growth times, and breeding limits.
Riding and taming boosts	Adjust saddle stamina, riding-skill bonuses, and TamingBoost effects.

Start here

To…	Do this
See accepted foods	Crouch and look at a creature. Food icons require crouching by default.
Feed a creature	Put suitable food on your hotbar, look at the creature, and use it.
Automate feeding	Build a Feed Barrel from the Hammer's Misc category and fill it with suitable food.
Capture a tame	Use an empty Taming Orb on a living, tamed creature within 5 metres.
Release a tame	Use a filled orb from the hotbar while aiming at a nearby surface.
Customize a creature	Copy its block from feed.reference.yml into feed.yml and keep only the fields you want to change.

A feed action can use up to 10 food items by default. Change Max Items Per Feed to suit your needs.

Keep the orb in your inventory during the 4.5-second effect. For Feed Barrels, leave a clear walking route and keep the barrel and creature near the same floor height.

Installation

Install with a Valheim mod manager, or place FeedLikeGrandma.dll in BepInEx/plugins/FeedLikeGrandma/. Requires BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351.

In multiplayer, install the same FeedLikeGrandma version on the server and every client. Start the game and enter a world once to generate the configuration files.

Configuration

Paths are relative to BepInEx/config/:

File	Use it for
sighsorry.FeedLikeGrandma.cfg	Recipes, progression, riding, display settings, and optional integrations.
FeedLikeGrandma/feed.yml	Your food values and creature overrides.
FeedLikeGrandma/feed.reference.yml	Generated reference for loaded vanilla and modded creatures.

Edit feed.yml, not the generated reference. Both the config and YAML reload automatically; server-synced settings and YAML follow the server in multiplayer.

Many creatures work with their usual foods without a custom block. Foods use a value of 1 unless overridden. See the configuration guide for examples.

Integrations and support

• BetterRiding, DragonRiders, and Monstrum: additional handling for supported mount actions and flight rules.
• Creature Level and Loot Control / OdinHorse: supported modifier and armor data preserved in Taming Orbs.
• ValheimCuisine: Lox milking cooldown handling and Orb state preservation.
• STUWard: Taming Orbs follow configured ward item restrictions. Update both mods on the server and clients.
• Expand World Data: custom biome names in flight restrictions.

These mods are optional. See the integration guide for requirements and limits.

If an orb has an unfinished action, use it again to check its saved result. Keep FeedLikeGrandma/orb-transactions/ with world backups; do not delete these files to reset an orb. Orb recovery details.

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