Drakes Forge Runtime

Loads Forge packs: Valheim items, build pieces and reskins made with Drakes Asset Forge, built at load time from your own game's prefabs.

A pack is plain files (recipes + the author's PNGs). It never contains Valheim's models or textures: meshes and materials are borrowed by name from your install, so packs are tiny and need no asset bundles.

For players

Install this and the pack you want. That's it. Packs installed under BepInEx/plugins are found automatically.

For pack makers

• Made with the Drakes Asset Forge desktop app (browse Valheim, import, edit, publish).
• What a pack can do: borrow any vanilla mesh or material, tint and retexture (armour body textures too), recolour fire, lights and glow, add flat sprites (banners, signs, notes), change any component setting, remove or add components, set costs, crafting stations, hammer tabs and snap points.
• Packs in the app's push folder hot-reload while the game runs: look, settings, snap points and costs update live.
• A pack exported as a C# mod compiles Forge into the mod itself and doesn't need this runtime.

Requires Jotunn.