Utgarde Client Pack

Client mods for the Utgarde Valheim server, pinned to the exact versions the server runs.

Install this pack in Gale or r2modman and launch the game through the manager. When the server's mods change, a new version of this pack is published and your manager offers the update.

What is in it

Mod	Version	Why
denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim	5.4.2351	The BepInEx loader itself. Everything below is inert without it.
Grantapher-ValheimPlus_Grantapher_Temporary	10.3.0	Craft-from-chest, map sharing, smelter tuning, build and taming settings. The server sets enforceMod = true, so a client on any other version is kicked at connect.
ValheimModding-Jotunn	2.30.2	Mod library. Server-side it backs ServersideQoL; client-side it is required by Animal Feeding Trough and, since pack 1.10.0, by Muted_Mist.
Advize-PlantEverything	1.21.3	Berry bushes, thistle, dandelions, mushrooms and several trees on the cultivator. Degrades rather than blocking: a client without it still sees what others plant.
Advize-PlantEasily	2.3.0	Added 2026-10-15 for mass planting: the cultivator plants any number of rows and columns at once with correct spacing and grid snapping (Right Ctrl plus arrow keys), and can replant on harvest. Same author as PlantEverything.
ValheimModding-YamlDotNet	16.3.1	ServersideQoL dependency server-side; AdventureBackpacks declares it client-side too, so every player now carries it.
Azumatt-Unshamed	1.0.5	Valheim 1.0 blocks Steam achievements for anyone running mods, so this pack is what disables them. Unshamed restores them and returns the ones already earned, granting no free unlocks. It is here because the pack causes the problem it fixes. Client-only: achievements are a Steam client concern and the server has no use for it.
MagiCorp-RememberServerPassword	1.2.4	Saves the server password and adds a quick-connect button for the last server, so nobody retypes it every session. Chosen over Dedryx-QuickServerConnect because it covers both jobs in one mod: two mods hooking the same join dialog and both storing passwords is a conflict waiting to happen. Client-only and purely convenience, so dropping it breaks nothing. Published 2026-09-12 and therefore unproven here; remove it if it misbehaves.
Vapok-AdventureBackpacks	2.4.5	Craftable, wearable backpacks with tiers. Replaces ArgusMagnus-ServersideQoL_Backpack, which was server-only and therefore cheaper to deploy, but was an invisible container opened by an emote rather than an item in the world. Since the pack reaches every player anyway, the deployment saving bought nothing. Jotunn-based, so a client without it is kicked at connect exactly like ValheimPlus.
valheimsquad-UtgardeBackpacks	1.2.0	Adds an Ashlands and a Deep North backpack to AdventureBackpacks, whose author has not shipped tiers past the Mistlands. Operator spec, 2026-10-11: each tier bigger than the last (Ashlands 24 to 40 slots and +40 carry per level, Deep North 28 to 48 slots and +50 per level), and feather fall from quality 1 on both, because once the Mistlands pack gives it, it must never go away. Our own package: source in the local repo ~/Developer/UtgardeBackpacks, published under the estate's Thunderstore team.
Vapok-AdventureBackpacks_HD	1.0.0	Added 2026-10-18 at the operator's request: 2K textures and normal maps for every AdventureBackpacks model, Modern and Classic. Visual only, client-side. Each backpack's Texture Pack setting picks Native or Native HD and defaults to Native HD once this is installed. The author notes the textures are AI-upscaled. It does not change the UtgardeBackpacks packs, which load their models from AdventureBackpacks' embedded classic bundles.
Alpus-HeadLamp	1.4.0	Replaces FlashLight on 2026-10-15: the group member who made FlashLight is no longer maintaining it and pointed the operator at this one. A light on the player's head toggled by a hotkey, with no item to craft or carry. 12K downloads; 1.4.0 was published 2026-09-10, after Valheim 1.0.
RandyKnapp-EquipmentAndQuickSlots	3.1.3	Dedicated slots for worn gear (head, chest, legs, shoulder, utility, trinket) plus up to six hotkeyable quick slots. Picked by the operator 2026-09-29 over shudnal-ExtraSlots, which adds food, ammo and misc slots with progression gating and an AdventureBackpacks integration; the simpler mod won. Declares BepInExPack 5.4.2201 and Jotunn 2.29.2, both under the versions already here.
Landoria-GentleDeath	1.0.14	Keeps equipables (weapons, armor, tools, shields, ammo, utility, trinkets) on death and sends everything else to the tombstone, classifying via Valheim's own ItemData.IsEquipable(). Replaces beefbaccio-DeathTweaks, which shipped in pack 1.3.0 and coincided with every player stuck at 1 health; that attribution was never proven, but DeathTweaks predated Valheim 1.0 and this one declares 1.0.x compatibility. Verified working on jetragon 2026-09-15.
blacks7ar-VikingsDoSwim	1.4.2	Scales swim speed, stamina regen and stamina drain to the Swim skill, and adds diving. Vanilla swimming was the complaint. Verified on jetragon 2026-09-15.
OdinPlus-OdinHorse	1.9.1	Ground transport: a tameable, rideable, breedable horse with armour and an attachable cart. Added 2026-09-18 because overland travel to the traders and back is the group's standing complaint, and vanilla offers nothing below the Plains lox saddle. Chosen on maintenance rather than features: it is the only mod in this category still shipping, updated 2026-09-15, against a field where the nearest alternatives (BeastsOfBurden 2021, CraftyCartsRemake and ValheimRAFT early 2026) are stale. Declares no dependencies and bundles its assets in a 10.5 MB DLL, so it needs nothing else on the box. Config syncs from the server like ValheimPlus.
Skarif-BuildOnShip	4.0.6	Build on the vanilla Karve and Longship: walls, crafting stations, chests, beds that set a respawn point, and portals that travel with the ship. Picked on 2026-09-23 over zolantris-ValheimRAFT 5.0.4 because the operator wanted to use the existing ships rather than build custom ones from pieces. Known conflict: ValheimPlus says its free placement rotation (LeftAlt, C and V while placing a piece) will not work with this mod installed, because both mods rewrite the same placement code. It is in the pack on trial anyway. If losing free rotation costs you more than building on ships gives you, tell the operator and it can come out.
Tunnelheim-Tunnelheim	1.0.0	Added 2026-10-15 at the operator's request, knowing it is new (published 2026-10-09) and AI generated: the vanilla pickaxe digs real tunnels in any direction, the hoe shapes rock, and it adds ladders, fuel-free crystal and glow-moss lights, and mushroom farming under a roof. Built against BepInExPack 5.4.2351 and Jotunn 2.30.2, both already pinned here.
Ostrix-AdvancedTerrainModifiersCompatible	1.4.8	Added 2026-10-15 for the operator's island rework: the hoe and cultivator brush resizes with a held key plus the scroll wheel (server cap Max Radius), sharpness flattens the brush, and it adds square grid-aligned hoe and cultivator tools, a shovel that lowers ground and a terrain reset tool.
RustyMods-Seasonality	3.8.4	Seasonal textures and colours, plus weather. Chosen over shudnal-Seasons because that one carries gameplay effects on crops and water, and we had just finished tuning crop growth. Modifiers Enabled ships Off and every per-season stat multiplier is 1, so out of the box it is purely visual, which is what was asked for. Depends on YamlDotNet, already carried for AdventureBackpacks.
Pumpkin-ValheimVisualEnhanced	0.5.18	The visual upgrade the group asked for. Explicitly NOT a ReShade-style screen filter: its effects hook Valheim's own lighting, water, weather, biome and time-of-day systems, so they respond to the world rather than tinting the frame. Ships wind-driven cloud shadows, underwater caustics and Meadows fireflies on by default. Chosen over the texture-replacement mods because those are limited to vegetation and their own author recommends this one instead.
Wire-WiresGrassTweaks	0.2.301	Grass density and draw distance, so clutter stops popping in a few metres ahead of the player. Chosen on currency rather than popularity: ShadowField-GrassTweaks has ten times the downloads and is recommended by other mods' readmes, but was last updated 2025-07-26, before Valheim 1.0. This one was updated 2026-09-14 and declares no dependencies at all. Its own readme nonetheless says 'Built for Valheim 1.0.12', three patches behind this estate's 1.0.15, which is a real qualification on the currency argument above: recent upload date and declared target build are different things, and none of the three drift checks compares the latter against game_version.
MagiCorp-Render_Limits_Fix	1.16.0	Draw distance: controls how far zones are rendered, loaded and generated. Its readme says to install it on the server and optionally on clients, so the server copy is what the client's own limits are raised against; whether extended limits are strictly impossible without it is untested here. This is a maintained fork of JereKuusela's Render Limits, rebuilt and smoke-tested against Valheim 1.0.14 at network version 40. The network version matches this estate; the game version does not, since this estate runs 1.0.15. and it preserves the original render_limits plugin GUID and config keys.
VentureValheim-Muted_Mist	1.0.1	Thins the Mistlands mist instead of deleting it. One setting, TransparencyIntensity, where 0 hides the mist entirely and 1 is vanilla. The estate ran 0.7, a gentle trim, through the Mistlands, and was set to 0 when the group beat the Queen (operator, 2026-10-04): the mist was the price of the biome, and it was paid. That 0 did not clear the mist in game; see server_value_does_not_redraw. Chosen over Vapok-NoFogBruh, which removes fog outright and was rejected as effectively cheating in the Mistlands, and over ComfyMods-Dramamist, which does the same job but predates Valheim 1.0.
DeathMonger-ForsakenShrines	0.8.5	Buildable shrines, one per defeated Forsaken, that channel that boss's guardian power once its trophy is mounted, so swapping a power costs a build instead of a run to the world-centre stones. Picked by the operator 2026-09-19 over turbero-ForsakenPowersPlusRemastered 2.0.4, which does the same job with an F8 hotkey. THE DECIDING AXIS WAS DESIGN, NOT PACKAGE HEALTH: a hotkey deletes the trip, while a shrine keeps the mechanic and puts a price on it, one build plus consumed trophies per boss. That is the same rule that put ServersideQoL_PortalProgression here instead of free portals, Muted_Mist instead of NoFogBruh, and GentleDeath instead of DeathTweaks: gate the mechanic, do not remove it. Depends on Jotunn 2.30.0, under the 2.30.1 already here, and on BepInExPack 5.4.2350, which matches exactly.
valheimsquad-RunicStorageNetworkFork	1.0.0	Craft and build from chests beyond ValheimPlus CraftFromChest's 50 m, which is clamped in code (Helper.Clamp(range, 1, 50) in its Player.cs). Requested by the operator 2026-10-04. Players build a Network Core near their chests and extend it with Runic Relays (iron and a surtling core each), so the reach is something you build rather than a radius you are handed: the same gate-the-mechanic rule as PortalProgression and ForsakenShrines. Chosen over Chazman's Runic Crafting 2.3.0, whose RangeCapMeters is ALSO clamped to 50 (AuthorityMaterialSettings.cs) and which ships as an unreleased 'test candidate', and over PONEIS-CraftFromChestsPlus 1.1.6, a single 200 m totem labelled beta. PLAYERS: set [Experimental] ExperimentalUnloadedNetworks = false in your own BepInEx/config/local.runicstoragenetwork.cfg and fully restart Valheim, or every portal stays dark.
ValheimModding-JsonDotNET	13.0.4	Newtonsoft.Json, packaged for Valheim by the ValheimModding team. Carried only because OdinOnDemand declares it. Nothing else on the estate asks for it.
ValMedia-OOD_LIB	1.2.0	OdinOnDemand's support libraries, declared as a hard dependency. Seven managed DLLs that resolve media URLs: YoutubeExplode, YoutubeDLSharp, SoundCloudExplode and four System/Bcl shims. No native code, so it is platform-neutral and safe on the Linux box.
ValMedia-OdinOnDemand	1.3.0	Cinema screens, televisions and music players built in world, playing YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitch, Kick and direct HTTP(S) streams for everyone in earshot. Asked for by the operator 2026-09-22. 1.2 rebuilt it on LibVLC and restored its own build-menu category on Valheim 1.0's new system.
valheimsquad-CultivatedGroundFix	1.1.0	Added 2026-10-16 after cultivated ground stopped counting as cultivated near Tunnelheim tunnels: ground that looked cultivated still refused crops with 'requires cultivated soil', in a spotty pattern, and recultivating did not help. Our own package: source in the local directory ~/Developer/.orchestration/cultivated-ground-fix, published under the estate's Thunderstore team.
VladasZ-Railroads	0.2.2	Trains: stone track laid with the hammer, named stations, a coal locomotive, storage, restaurant, portal and flatbed wagons. Added 2026-10-19 at the operator's request. It answers the same overland-travel complaint as OdinHorse, at a larger scale, for routes the group builds once and rides repeatedly.
Yggdrah-ValheimGlider	1.0.6	Gliders: jump from height and press Jump again to glide, with tiers crafted at the workbench (Pelt, then Troll, then Crystal and Wolf Pelt), a slow high-endurance Gjall balloon at the black forge, and a rare (5 percent) Moder drop. Added 2026-10-21 at the operator's request, as another answer to the overland-travel complaint OdinHorse and Railroads address.
KallTrophy-KallTrophy	1.19.0	Adds a trophy for Kall Fimbulbringer (FrozenKing), the one boss without one: a guaranteed drop from the final phase (FrozenKing_p3) that mounts on an item stand like any other boss trophy. Added 2026-10-22 at the operator's request.

ValheimPlus_Grantapher_Temporary is version-enforced. The server rejects any client running a different build, so do not update it on its own. Update this pack and everything moves together.

AdventureBackpacks is version-enforced. The server rejects any client running a different build, so do not update it on its own. Update this pack and everything moves together.

UtgardeBackpacks is version-enforced. The server rejects any client running a different build, so do not update it on its own. Update this pack and everything moves together.

OdinHorse is version-enforced. The server rejects any client running a different build, so do not update it on its own. Update this pack and everything moves together.

Tunnelheim is version-enforced. The server rejects any client running a different build, so do not update it on its own. Update this pack and everything moves together.

RunicStorageNetworkFork is version-enforced. The server rejects any client running a different build, so do not update it on its own. Update this pack and everything moves together.

OdinOnDemand is version-enforced. The server rejects any client running a different build, so do not update it on its own. Update this pack and everything moves together.

ValheimGlider is version-enforced. The server rejects any client running a different build, so do not update it on its own. Update this pack and everything moves together.

You must install these yourself

The server requires this mod and will refuse your connection without it, but it is not on Thunderstore, so this pack cannot carry it.

• Animal Feeding Trough 1.0.3 (https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/3593). Drop the DLL into this profile's BepInEx/plugins folder.

Optional extras you install yourself

None of this is required to connect or play. These are free programs that a mod will use if it detects them, and a Thunderstore pack can only carry mods, so installing them is on you.

OdinOnDemand

Screens, televisions and radios play direct audio and video links, internet radio and SoundCloud with nothing extra installed: the mod bundles its own VLC. Two sources need a free program on your own machine.

• YouTube at its best quality. A JavaScript runtime on your PATH. Deno 2.3 or newer is the one the mod's authors name, and it also accepts Node, Bun or QuickJS if you already have one. If you play through Proton or on a Steam Deck, use the Windows x64 deno.exe instead of the native Linux build. Get it from https://docs.deno.com/runtime/getting_started/installation/. The cog menu on any media player has an External JS line naming the runtime it found. Skip it: YouTube still plays. The mod's authors warn that quality or audio availability may be limited, so this is the one worth doing.
• Twitch and Kick livestreams. Streamlink, on your PATH, in the Valheim folder, or beside OdinOnDemand.dll. Under Proton use either the Windows build in one of those places, or the Linux build in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin, outside the Steam runtime container. Get it from https://streamlink.github.io/install.html. The same cog menu shows whether Streamlink was detected; reopen it to re-probe after installing. Skip it: Twitch and Kick links do not play. Nothing else changes, and most people will never want this one.

What is not in it

The server also runs ServersideQoL, ServersideQoL_AutoStore, ValheimWebMap, Server_devcommands. Those are server-side, so you get their behaviour by connecting and have nothing to install. Console players are covered the same way.

There is deliberately no ValheimPlus config file in this pack. The server has serverSyncsConfig = true and pushes its settings to you on connect, so a bundled config would only give you a stale copy to fight with.

If you get kicked at connect

Almost always a ValheimPlus version mismatch. Check that your manager has this pack up to date, and that you have not bumped ValheimPlus by itself.

Game version 1.0.17, network version 40.