Tootsalot's Valhalla Overhaul -- LITE
A 48-mod lightweight Valheim enhancement pack focused purely on quality of life, bug fixes, skill depth, and system improvements. No new weapons, creatures, biomes, or items. Just a better vanilla experience with hand-tuned balanced configs. All gameplay configs are server-synced.
Based on Tootsalot's Valhalla Overhaul with all content mods stripped out.
What This Pack Does
Expanded Skill System -- 16 new skills via the Smoothbrain suite that add depth to every activity: Vitality, Tenacity, Evasion, PackHorse, Cooking, Farming, Foraging, Ranching, Mining, Lumberjacking, Building, Blacksmithing, Exploration, Sailing, Backpacks, and Endurance. SmartSkills adds catch-up mechanics and death recovery so switching playstyles doesn't punish you.
Portal Overhaul -- TargetPortal lets you teleport to any portal by name from a map interface instead of needing matched tags.
Combat Fixes -- ReliableBlock fixes vanilla's broken parry/block detection so blocks always register when you have stamina. SaveCrossbowState remembers your crossbow's loaded state when swapping weapons.
Swimming & Diving -- VikingsDoSwim adds underwater diving, swim speed scaling by skill level, and stamina mechanics. WieldEquipmentWhileSwimming lets you keep gear out in the water.
Lighting -- GammaOfNightLights makes nights meaningfully darker. CircletExtended turns the circlet into an upgradeable helmet with configurable light, demister, and enemy stun at higher tiers.
Inventory & Containers -- Extended inventory with equipment slots and quick slots. Quick Stack for sorting, CraftyBoxes for crafting from nearby containers, MultiUserChest for multiplayer access, SmarterContainers for organization, and Recycle_N_Reclaim for scrapping items.
Automation -- LazyVikings auto-fuels smelters, kilns, cooking stations, and more from nearby containers. PetPantry auto-feeds tamed animals.
Building -- Basements adds underground rooms. MyPitsDontLeak fixes rain leaking into pits. PlantEverything expands what you can plant.
Map & UI -- MyLittleUI improves hover text and UI elements. Pinnacle enhances map pins with quick-pin keyboard shortcuts, icon customization, coloring, and resizing. SpeedyPaths gives speed bonuses on built paths.
Backpacks -- Smoothbrain Backpacks adds a craftable backpack with a dedicated equipment slot, auto-fill, and tiered upgrades.
Visual -- Foglands tweaks the Foglands biome visuals. Loading screen art via Intermission.
Performance -- StartupAccelerator speeds up game boot by deferring Harmony patches. ValhallaPerformance is a custom all-in-one optimization plugin that replaces ValheimPerformanceOverhaul, Smoke_Collision, and VBNetTweaks. It covers smoke physics with simple collision, light culling and flicker freeze, AI throttling, creature sleep distance, WearNTear support caching, dirty-region piece updates, network sync prioritization and adaptive throttling, memory management and object pooling, VFX budgeting, terrain/zone prefetching, tar pit leak fixes, log deduplication, minimap throttling, and adaptive frame scaling. Five built-in performance profiles (Potato, Low, Medium, High, Max) let you tune everything from a single config entry.
What This Pack Does NOT Include
This is what separates Lite from the full Valhalla Overhaul:
- No Therzie weapon/armor/magic suite (Warfare, Armory, Wizardry, Fire&Ice)
- No new creatures or mounts (Monstrum, MonstrumDeepNorth, MajesticChickens, OdinHorse, SeaAnimals)
- No custom raids (Custom_Raids, Monstrum_Raids, Wizardry_Raids)
- No biome generation overhaul (RtDBiomes)
- No new ships or vehicles (OdinShip, Wagon)
- No new food system (CookingAdditions)
- No new building pieces (OdinArchitect, OdinBanners, MissingPieces, FineWoodPieces, GlassPieces)
- No archery overhaul (BowsBeforeHoes)
- No passive boss powers (PassivePowers)
- No server characters or server-side map (ServerCharacters, ServerSideMap, SmoothSave)
- No new craftable items (ReturnScroll)
If you want the full experience, install Tootsalot's Valhalla Overhaul instead.
Balanced Config Changes
All Smoothbrain skills are nerfed harder than the full pack because vanilla has no content mods to scale against. Without Therzie weapons, Monstrum enemies, and CookingAdditions food, the default skill multipliers make the game too easy.
Standardized Death Penalties
All skills lose 2-3% on death. Gathering skills lose 2%, combat and utility skills lose 3%. Swimming is exempt.
Toned-Down Scaling (nerfed harder than full pack for vanilla balance)
- Resource yields (mining, farming, lumberjacking, foraging): 2x -> 1.5x
- Mining/lumberjacking damage: 3x -> 2x
- Cooking food bonuses (health, stamina): 1.3x -> 1.1x | Eitr: 1.3x -> 1.05x
- Vitality base HP: 2x -> 1.25x | Endurance stamina: 75 -> 40, regen: 10 -> 5
- Exploration speed: 15% -> 7% | Sailing radius: 5x -> 2x, ship HP: 2x -> 1.25x
Progression Gates
- Blacksmithing extra upgrade: skill 80 -> 90 | Building free materials: skill 50 -> 80
- Farming ignore biome: skill 50 -> 75 | Exploration cartography read: skill 40 -> 25
- Exploration treasure: skill 50 -> 60 | Cooking interval: 5 -> 10
SmartSkills
- Recovery: 100% -> 50% | Catch-up: 50% -> 20% | Sneak bonus: 50% -> 35%
Backpacks
- Rows: 3,3,4,4,4 -> 3,3,3,4,4 | Columns: 5,6,5,6,7 -> 4,4,5,5,5 | Weight: 100% -> 75%
Portal (TargetPortal)
- Name length: 10 -> 25 | Default mode: Private -> Public
QoL
- CraftyBoxes range: 20m -> 15m | Recycle rate: 100% -> 50%
- LazyVikings radius: 5m -> 8m | Kiln threshold: 0 -> 100
- Mining explosion: 1% -> 2% | Cooking bonus craft: 0% -> 10%
- Farming rotation: Off -> On | PetPantry cooldown: 10s -> 30s | Basement nesting: 5 -> 3
Biome Identity (SpeedyPaths)
- Stone/marble/iron paths: 1.4x -> 1.3x
- Swamp: 0.9x speed, 1.15x stamina | Mistlands: 0.95x speed, 1.1x stamina
Installation
- Install r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager
- Create a new Valheim profile
- Import the modpack or install mods in the order listed in
manifest.json
- Install ValhallaPerformance manually: download the latest release and import the zip through your mod manager's "Import local mod" option
- Extract the
config/ folder from the modpack zip into your profile's BepInEx/ folder, overwriting existing configs
- Launch the game through the mod manager
- For servers: Install the same mods and extract the configs on the server. ServerSync pushes configs to clients automatically.
Known Conflicts & Notes
SmarterContainers vs AzuCraftyBoxes vs Quick_Stack -- If you get double-deposits, disable SmarterContainers first.
Farming (Smoothbrain) vs PlantEverything -- They coexist. Check PlantEverything's grid settings if spacing looks off.
CircletExtended + GammaOfNightLights -- Companion mods. Load CircletExtended first.
PackHorse + Backpacks -- Both increase carry capacity. Backpack weight is 75% specifically to account for PackHorse stacking.
Upgrading to Full Pack -- You can switch to the full Valhalla Overhaul at any time. Make sure to use the full pack's configs when upgrading -- Lite configs are nerfed harder and won't be balanced for the extra content.
ValhallaPerformance -- This is a local import, not a Thunderstore dependency. If you update the modpack through your mod manager, make sure ValhallaPerformance is still installed in your profile. ValhallaPerformance does not support crossplay.
Usage & Sharing
This modpack and all its configs are public. Feel free to use, modify, or build on anything here. All I ask is that you credit Tootsalot as the original source if you redistribute or reference the configs in your own pack.
Credits
Built with mods by Azumatt, Smoothbrain, blacks7ar, Advize, shudnal, MSchmoecker, Goldenrevolver, Roses, Nextek, OdinPlus, ComfyMods, baxhax, do_the_dew, Korppis, and the Valheim modding community. ValhallaPerformance by Tootsalot.
