Modded Valheim worth a play?

[wabonator73]

I recently found out about mods for Valheim. Is it worth it? I was perusing the mods on nexus and I saw a few that caught my eye. Does anyone play modded and is Valheim+ a good mod?
Thanks

[Kestral]

Originally posted by Qbertos:

Yes! I almost have 1500 hours in game now, if not for mods it would be less (but still a lot haha).

Valheim is a fantastic game, and in early access. The platform we have to work from is superb.

I have played thru fully 8 times now.
2 Vanilla runs

2 runs with just Valheim+and a few minor Qol mods like Equipwhee mod since I'm a lefty/not easy to rebmind 1 - 8

2 runs with many mods like Epic Loot/Terraheim/Legends/Creature Level & Loot Control/DoDMonsters/Better Archery/BetterUI/Backpacks. Goal was to expand the content and add variation, no cheats.

2 runs with many mods like above but I went in and edited the configs/ymls/loot tables/etc so all the mod mobs and addins are integrated and also drop stuff from Epic Loot...all while making the game very hard via CLLC but super fun/still maintaining the Vanilla feel of what's over that next hill or can I kill this fuling with my butter knife? Haha.

Current run - fine tuning above, changing spawn rates, spawn conditions, drops, difficulty tuning, etc. Come visit my Ashlands sometime, its a fun place. Skal!

I've played only vanilla before, and would like to try an overhaul or enhanced-vanilla type of mod set, but I absolutely don't want to tweak every little thing myself. (When I looked at the description of Valheim+ it sounded less like "here's a curated vanilla+ experience I can try" and more like "here's 20+ switches and dials I can fiddle with until I probably ruin the game for myself cause I don't know what I want or what I'm doing".)

I guess I'm looking for something for Valheim that's kinda like what "War of the Walkers" is to "7 Days to Die". It kinda sounds like you've put together something like that yourself from a bunch of other mods and your own tweaks and cross-mod integrations. Is there a way to share that with a single link or list?

[Qbertos]

Originally posted by Kestral:

Originally posted by Qbertos:

Yes! I almost have 1500 hours in game now, if not for mods it would be less (but still a lot haha).

Valheim is a fantastic game, and in early access. The platform we have to work from is superb.

I have played thru fully 8 times now.
2 Vanilla runs

2 runs with just Valheim+and a few minor Qol mods like Equipwhee mod since I'm a lefty/not easy to rebmind 1 - 8

2 runs with many mods like Epic Loot/Terraheim/Legends/Creature Level & Loot Control/DoDMonsters/Better Archery/BetterUI/Backpacks. Goal was to expand the content and add variation, no cheats.

2 runs with many mods like above but I went in and edited the configs/ymls/loot tables/etc so all the mod mobs and addins are integrated and also drop stuff from Epic Loot...all while making the game very hard via CLLC but super fun/still maintaining the Vanilla feel of what's over that next hill or can I kill this fuling with my butter knife? Haha.

Current run - fine tuning above, changing spawn rates, spawn conditions, drops, difficulty tuning, etc. Come visit my Ashlands sometime, its a fun place. Skal!

I've played only vanilla before, and would like to try an overhaul or enhanced-vanilla type of mod set, but I absolutely don't want to tweak every little thing myself. (When I looked at the description of Valheim+ it sounded less like "here's a curated vanilla+ experience I can try" and more like "here's 20+ switches and dials I can fiddle with until I probably ruin the game for myself cause I don't know what I want or what I'm doing".)

I guess I'm looking for something for Valheim that's kinda like what "War of the Walkers" is to "7 Days to Die". It kinda sounds like you've put together something like that yourself from a bunch of other mods and your own tweaks and cross-mod integrations. Is there a way to share that with a single link or list?

Yes, for sure. I'll send u a friend Request so as to not bother everyone here. You can use my Valheim+ config from earlier playthrus and/or the mod pack which is pretty much plug and play. I initially made a backup of my Valheim folder and play modded there so I can easily go back to Vanilla install as needed. Just mentioning this as it's a good practice before you mod any game. :)

For an idea of what you are getting into, check out my screenshots. It's hard but doable/rewarding, just gotta know the game. Harrrrr!

[Right Clicker]

Originally posted by electricdawn:

they make the game stupidly easy and most people, including myself, simply don't build them for this reason.

I guess I am among the "few" that actually use portals... Wow... always thought people would rather go the easy route. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everybody likes to make it as hard upon them as possible and all those posts that claim the game is too hard are just a figment of my imagination...

Would explain how this world ticks... ;)

Some people like it super realistic. Not me. Real life is busy enough without having to spend hours moving metals from one end of the world to another just to build a nice home.

But to each his/her own.

[Trakehner]

Originally posted by Right Clicker:

Originally posted by electricdawn:

I guess I am among the "few" that actually use portals... Wow... always thought people would rather go the easy route. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everybody likes to make it as hard upon them as possible and all those posts that claim the game is too hard are just a figment of my imagination...

Would explain how this world ticks... ;)

Some people like it super realistic. Not me. Real life is busy enough without having to spend hours moving metals from one end of the world to another just to build a nice home.

But to each his/her own.

You don't have to take forever to get resources, or get them from one end of the world to another if you have a proper plan and logistics setup.

[mahashma]

Used poorly, they'll break the game into a silly mess.
Used wisely, you can add a lot of QoL while still maintaining the feel of the original game, or add a WHOLE bunch of challenge. Personally I use Valheim+ that's been carefully massaged to make life a bit easier for my partner's building (carry weight, stack size, stamina use) without making it ridiculously easy.

[SaberToothDeathMouse]

Originally posted by wabonator73:

I recently found out about mods for Valheim. Is it worth it? I was perusing the mods on nexus and I saw a few that caught my eye. Does anyone play modded and is Valheim+ a good mod?
Thanks

We play with a few mods on our server. We really enjoy them. But at the moment a couple are "broken" because Valheim did an update and the mods didn't (yet). So some of the content we had is now gone. That's just the risk you ACCEPT if you are going to play with mods. If you're not willing to risk losing stuff, don't use mods.

[electricdawn]

This SOOOO much ^

People just read about mods and think, let's try them out, having absolutely no clue what they do, how they work and what happens when the game updates. When the game breaks, they come here to the forum telling the developers to fix the game, when it really is the mod that is breaking the game.

I'm not even blaming them. They just don't know, because nobody warns them enough of the risks they run with mods.

[Plague]

dont use anything that gives extra slots or when the game updates all that loot is trashed

[Horemvore]

Originally posted by SaberToothDeathMouse:

Originally posted by wabonator73:

I recently found out about mods for Valheim. Is it worth it? I was perusing the mods on nexus and I saw a few that caught my eye. Does anyone play modded and is Valheim+ a good mod?
Thanks

We play with a few mods on our server. We really enjoy them. But at the moment a couple are "broken" because Valheim did an update and the mods didn't (yet). So some of the content we had is now gone. That's just the risk you ACCEPT if you are going to play with mods. If you're not willing to risk losing stuff, don't use mods.

Or you could simply wait for mods to update before, updating, and keep all your stuff :)

[Maviba]

I'd stick with vanilla till the game's development is finished.
otherwise you might experience crashes after each update because of outdated mods, and you'd have to wait till they got updated as well.

[treborx555]

Originally posted by Gladi8er65:

I got the game during March of last year (right after it came out) and played for a bit to learn the ropes, then started using mods. After about 2 days I completely deleted all the mods, uninstalled Valheim, and re-installed Valheim completely fresh and mod-free, and won't ever go back to using mods again.

Just the few mods I was running completely changed the game (Valheim plus was one of them) and made the game much easier (which i didn't want) so I removed them all and went back to the vanilla game and will never go back... Some people can't play without the mods, but I for one, can't play Valheim WITH the mods.... To each their own, I guess.

Shouldn't the mod descriptions show what drastic changes they do to the game? Either way there are mods that make the game more difficult, but I agree these kind of mods are very rare in games. There's only a few masochists like us who want to make our own playthroughs harder and longer xD

[Mengalor]

If you don't want to wait 5more years for the game to be done ; YES go mods !

[mahashma]

Doesn't Valheim plus have options to make the game harder and you can disable the features that make the game easier?[/quote]

Yes, Valheim+ is incredibly granular in what it can modify. If you want chests with only 4 slots, or smelters that take an hour per ore, or bees that give 1 honey every 6 weeks... you can do it. Want to earn 1/2 as much xp? Done. Want weapons to use even more stamina? Easy. Want to reduce item drop rates by 90%?... you get the idea.

[Renlish]

Mods definitely add to the playing experience, depending on WHAT you want to experience. Lots of mods play well with each other, some don't. Depends on what you want to experience, really.

[Polonius Ulf]

On the bottom left corner of Valheim's startup screen is a deceptively labeled button (that only looks like a button in hindsight), that promises to "Show player log." That's not exactly what it does.

It doesn't display the player log, it opens the local* folder that contains the log and all of your game data as well. To back up everything, just move up one level and copy and paste "Valheim" folder which is immediately under the "Irongate" folder all by its lonesome.

Mod-away!

*With or without cloud enabled, if my memory is right.