Painting

Painting is a Valheim mod that lets players color buildings and placeable pieces with a custom paint bucket system.

Create your paint, pick your color, then apply or reset paint directly in the world.

What this mod adds

• A Paint Bucket (Material) item used to create paint.
• A Paint Bucket (Paint) item that stores your selected color.
• A color crafting UI with:
  • Red / Green / Blue sliders
  • Optional metallic effect
  • Tar-based black paint option
• Painting controls in gameplay:
  • Attack to apply paint
  • Left Alt + Attack to reset painted objects
• Visual support:
  • Bucket color preview in inventory/hotbar
  • Hover text showing current color and target result

How painting works

1. Craft a Paint Bucket (Material).
2. Use the bucket to open the paint UI.
3. Spend resources to create a Paint Bucket (Paint).
4. Equip the paint bucket and aim at a valid placeable object.
5. Attack to apply paint, or Left Alt + Attack to reset.

Paint data is synchronized and saved for persistent networked objects, so colors stay consistent in multiplayer.

Paint creation rules

• RGB channels use:
  • Raspberry (red)
  • Resin (green)
  • Blueberries (blue)
• Metallic toggle uses:
  • Copper Ore
• Tar mode uses:
  • Tar (creates black paint and disables RGB channels)
• RGB total must stay between 20 and 50 (tar mode bypasses this range).

Recipe

Paint Bucket (Material) (Workbench):

• 3x Copper
• 10x Wood

For now mod in beta and supports painting of literally almost every possible network object. In future will probably limit that to only build pieces