Fixed: the chest/storage window could only be dragged into the top half of the screen. Drag it toward the bottom and it slid back up, and the position was never saved.

The window is now free to go anywhere, and where you drop it is remembered again. If you tried to move it before and gave up, it will work now — drag it from any empty part of the panel.

(For the curious: the code that keeps the window from being lost off-screen was measuring its position in the wrong units, so it thought the panel was always falling off the bottom and nudged it upward — on every frame and every mouse movement, faster than you could drag it down. It now measures correctly, and only tidies up once when you let go of the mouse instead of arguing with you the whole way.)

Valheim 1.0 compatibility. On Valheim 1.0 the mod did not load at all — not one feature. This release fixes that, and changes how the mod fails so a single game update can never do it again.

This build requires Valheim 1.0.7. It will not load on an older game version — stay on 0.11.0 if you have not updated. There are no gameplay changes in this release.

What was wrong

Valheim 1.0 added an argument to a method the companion-totem tooltip hooks into. That one hook stopped matching — and because the mod applied all of its patches as a single batch, the first failure threw away every patch behind it. Recruiting, chores, duels, rankings, tournaments, bounties and totems were all disabled by a cosmetic tooltip.

A second 1.0 change (an extra argument on the console-command constructor) meant the old build also broke every mod's console commands, not just this one's, on any server it was installed on.

What changed

• Patches are applied one at a time now. If a future game update moves something, only the feature that depends on it stops working — the rest of the mod carries on, and the log names exactly what failed. Server owners: after a Valheim update, check LogOutput.log for [patch] lines before assuming everything is fine.
• Eight places updated for 1.0 — the totem tooltip and its save/load path, companion pack loading, smelter and fermenter chores, the Cultivator field marker, and the console commands.

If you use the ServerGuide companion mod

Item rewards from guidance throw an error on Valheim 1.0 with ServerGuide 0.15.0 or older. Update ServerGuide to 0.16.0+ alongside this release. Rankings, tournaments and bounties are unaffected in themselves — they record and display without it — but their guidance-delivered rewards need it.

The chore system grew up. One ally now runs a whole workshop instead of one machine, the Rogue took over the herds, and the farmer learned to actually farm.

One worker, a whole workshop

• A chore is a patch of ground, not a station. Post an ally at a smelter and it tends every smelter, kiln and blast furnace within about 20 metres, walking from one to the next. One Support Mage runs a whole kitchen. (Tunable: Chores/ChoreWorkRadius.)
• Several allies can share one patch. Press the chore key again to add another worker to the same ground. To take one off, press it on that ally.
• A stuck machine no longer starves the rest. A furnace with no ore anywhere, or a brew left open to the sky, is set aside for a minute while the worker gets on with the others — and it tells you what was wrong.
• The post outlives its parts. Harvest the crop you assigned at, cull the animal, tear down one furnace of six: the chore carries on. It ends when you recall the ally, or when nothing of its kind has been there for a minute.
• Workers stand at the machine they're working instead of reaching for it from across the room.
• Doors are no longer a wall. Allies open a closed door in their way and shut it behind them. Locked doors and other people's warded doors are left alone.

Everything a chore makes goes into a chest

• Smelted bars, cooked food, burnt food, tapped mead, eggs, the harvest — none of it is left on the floor now. The ally files it in the nearest chest that already holds that item, moves to the next one when that fills, and tells you when nothing will take it.
• Chests, barrels and carts all count. The Obliterator, gravestones, ship holds, other players' personal chests and chests inside someone else's ward never do.
• It only stows what the station makes — ore you dropped beside a smelter is left alone.

The Rogue keeps the herds, and clears the ground

• Husbandry moved from the Support Mage to the Rogue, and it now culls. It leaves three grown animals of each kind, spares the young and the pregnant, kills with a blade at arm's reach — never at range — and stores the meat and hides. Valheim stops a pen breeding at four of a kind, so that turnover is what keeps it producing. (Tunable: Chores/HusbandryCullLimit; 0 disables culling.)
• Hauling is the same job. Post a Rogue at an animal or at a chest and it does both: tends the herd and sweeps loose items into your chests.
• The one thing it leaves lying is food the herd eats. That was put there on purpose.

Farming, properly

• Give the mage a Cultivator and press the chore key on the ally itself — a field is ground, not a machine, so the tool is the switch. Take the Cultivator back and it stops.
• It plants a tidy square block, aligned to a grid, and lines its rows up with what's already in the bed. A new farmer sows 2×2; the block grows as it levels, and it harvests by the same armful.
• One crop per field while the seed lasts — and when that seed runs out it fills the rest of the bed with whatever else it can reach, rather than standing idle.
• It takes seed from its own pack first, then every chest in range, and it only plants where you could have planted by hand: around rocks, wild growth and build pieces, never into them.
• It harvests the field, not the countryside — no more stripping the stones, mushrooms and dandelions around your bed.
• If a seed can't grow where you've posted it, it says so and names the biome.

Kitchen work

• A mage keeps to one kind of station: the cookfires, or the stone oven, or the fermenters. A cook that wanders is never where the food is when it finishes. Staff the rest with more allies.
• Nothing burns. A station holding finished food jumps the queue, a visit clears the whole rack, and the ally checks back every second while anything is waiting.
• The cook keeps its own fire in, feeding it wood from a chest and relighting a hearth that went out.

Companions on the map

• A pin never disappears just because you walked away. The ally you left tending a smelter at home stays on your map at the spot you left it — across the world, and across a relog. A pin goes only when the companion really is gone: it died, or you sealed it into a totem. Summon it back and its pin returns.

Fixes

• Renaming a companion no longer fires your hotkeys. Typing a name with E in it closed the panel; letters bound to other mods set those off. The name field is now read-only until you click Rename, and while you're typing every key is dead until you click Save.
• Stances survive a relog. An ally left on Guard or Standby stayed there; it used to come back on Follow. Chore workers too — they no longer walk home for a moment before returning to work.
• Starting a chore ends the stance the ally was in, so a Follow companion stops trailing you the moment it gets to work.
• The castes stopped sharing chores. A Fire Mage was collecting the eitr refinery's output and an Ice Mage the smelter's bars.
• A chore that ends by itself leaves the ally on Standby, holding its post, instead of walking home. Only a recall you issued brings it back to your side.
• Your own warded base no longer blocks your own allies from using its chests.
• Fixed a crash when a cooking station was destroyed under a working companion.