{"id":136379,"date":"2025-09-17T20:50:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2139021"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:50:48","slug":"valheim-already-has-dozens-of-nifty-quality-of-life-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/valheim-already-has-dozens-of-nifty-quality-of-life-mods\/","title":{"rendered":"Valheim already has dozens of nifty quality-of-life mods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/valheim-already-has-dozens-of-nifty-quality-of-life-mods.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-02-24-valheim-sells-4m-copies-in-three-weeks\">4m other people<\/a>, you&#8217;re really enjoying Valheim at the moment &#8211; but perhaps there are a few quality of life improvements you&#8217;d like to see, or maybe you just want to turn the game into a building sandbox. Despite the lack of official support, the modding community has been hard at work on Valheim, and has already produced a number of mods to serve almost every community request. Here&#8217;s a round-up of some of the most useful mods so far &#8211; along with a quick explainer on how to get started. <\/p>\n<p>Before you get stuck into Valheim modding, you&#8217;ll need to download a couple of prerequisite mods that make the rest of Valheim modding possible. One of these is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/valheim\/mods\/15?tab=description\">Valheim Unstripped DLLs<\/a>, which Vortex (Nexus Mods&#8217; mod manager) will recommend installing. Another mod called BepInExPack for Valheim carries out a similar function, providing a general purpose framework for Unity modding, which basically gives mod creators the tools they need to alter Valheim ( and you&#8217;ll need to download it for these mods to work). You can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/valheim.thunderstore.io\/package\/denikson\/BepInExPack_Valheim\/\">over on Thunderstore<\/a>. Oh, and remember to back up your save files before diving in &#8211; you can find them through Steam by opening the properties menu for Valheim, then &#8216;local files&#8217; and &#8216;browse&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an all-in-one quality of life mod, the obvious choice is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/valheim\/mods\/4?tab=description\">Valheim Plus<\/a> &#8211; a gameplay mod that allows players to tweak most of Valheim&#8217;s core systems. You can alter anything from stamina usage and health regeneration to certain items&#8217; rate of production, such as how fast a furnace can pump out iron. You can also sort out niggles like being unable to take metal through portals, and speed up that annoying thing at the end of each day called &#8220;night-time&#8221;. Who needs game balance, anyway? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-03-01-valheim-already-has-dozens-of-useful-and-silly-mods\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-03-01-valheim-already-has-dozens-of-useful-and-silly-mods\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So along with 4m other people, you&#8217;re really enjoying Valheim at the moment &#8211; but perhaps there are a few quality of life improvements you&#8217;d like to see, or maybe you just want to turn the game into a building sandbox. Despite the lack of official support, the modding community has been hard at work on Valheim, and has already produced a number of mods to serve almost every community request. Here&#8217;s a round-up of some of the most useful mods so far &#8211; along with a quick explainer on how to get started. Before you get stuck into Valheim modding, you&#8217;ll need to download a couple of prerequisite mods that make the rest of Valheim modding possible. 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