Install with Gale
🛏️ RuneboundRest
RuneboundRest reworks Valheim's Rested/Comfort system end to end: how fast comfort builds up, what conditions let you rest at all, how long the Rested buff lasts, and how much it's worth. On top of that it adds a brand-new Well Rested buff for actually sleeping through the night in your own claimed bed.
Every gameplay setting is server-synced and admin-lockable — the server's config file is the one that matters on a multiplayer world.
⚔️ Features
🌙 Reworked Rested Buff
Base duration, duration-per-comfort-level, and the skill XP multiplier while Rested are all config-driven. Defaults roughly double vanilla's generosity (960s base duration vs. vanilla's 480s, 120s per comfort level vs. 60s), and the XP bonus while Rested defaults to 3x (vanilla is 1.5x).
An AlwaysRested toggle exists for servers that want the buff permanently active.
🔥 Configurable Resting Conditions
Vanilla hardcodes what lets you start Resting (fire, shelter, dryness, not being sensed by enemies). RuneboundRest replaces that logic with individually toggleable rules: require fire or not, require shelter or not, allow resting while wet, allow resting near enemies, and how many seconds of sitting/resting it takes to acquire the buff (default 4s vs. vanilla's 10s).
🧭 Comfort Area
The radius the game scans for comfort-providing furniture and how often it rescans are both configurable (default 30m radius / 6s interval vs. vanilla's 10m / 2s).
🪑 Sitting & Lying
Extra comfort points and a faster rested-buildup-speed multiplier apply while actively sitting or lying in a bed, both independently configurable for sitting vs. sleeping.
🌟 Well Rested — sleep a full night, in your own bed
A brand-new buff, separate from the comfort-driven Rested buff above. It's granted the moment you wake from a server-confirmed full night's sleep in your own claimed bed — the same "everyone in the group is asleep" moment that skips the night to morning in vanilla. Grants bonus health regen, stamina regen, and a stacking skill XP bonus for its duration. Can be disabled entirely if you only want the comfort-based Rested system.
⚙️ Configuration
(Run the game once to generate the config file in BepInEx/config. All settings below are server-synced and admin-lockable via 0. Server Sync > LockConfiguration — on a locked server, the host's values win.)
1. Core Rested Buff
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
AlwaysRested |
false |
Permanently have the Rested buff; the timer never decreases. |
BaseRestedDuration |
960 |
Base Rested duration in seconds (vanilla: 480). |
DurationPerComfortLevel |
120 |
Seconds added per comfort level (vanilla: 60). |
SkillXPMultiplier |
3.0 |
XP gain multiplier while Rested (vanilla: 1.5). |
2. Resting Conditions
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
RequireFireForResting |
true |
Require a nearby fire to start Resting. |
RequireShelterForResting |
false |
Require shelter to start Resting. |
AllowRestingWhileWet |
false |
Being wet no longer blocks Resting. |
AllowRestingNearEnemies |
false |
Being sensed by enemies no longer blocks Resting. |
SecondsToAchieveRested |
4 |
Seconds of Resting needed before the Rested buff is granted (vanilla: 10). |
3. Comfort Area
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
ComfortSearchRadius |
30 |
Radius (m) scanned for comfort-providing pieces (vanilla: 10). |
ComfortUpdateInterval |
6 |
Seconds between comfort rescans (vanilla: 2). |
4. Sitting & Lying
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
SittingComfortBonus |
2 |
Extra comfort while actively sitting. |
SleepingComfortBonus |
4 |
Extra comfort while lying in a bed. |
SittingRestedBuildSpeedMultiplier |
2.0 |
Rested-buildup speed multiplier while sitting. |
SleepingRestedBuildSpeedMultiplier |
4.0 |
Rested-buildup speed multiplier while lying down. |
5. Utility
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
EnableDebugLogging |
false |
Verbose [RuneboundRest Debug] logging. Local to you — not server-synced. |
6. Well-Rested Buff
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
EnableWellRested |
true |
Grant the separate Well Rested buff for sleeping a full night in your own claimed bed. |
WellRestedDuration |
1200 |
Well Rested duration in seconds. |
WellRestedHealthRegenBonus |
0.25 |
Extra health regen while Well Rested (+25%). |
WellRestedStaminaRegenBonus |
0.25 |
Extra stamina regen while Well Rested (+25%). |
WellRestedSkillXPBonus |
0.5 |
Additional skill XP bonus while Well Rested, stacks with the normal Rested bonus (+50%). |
📥 Installation
Mod Manager (Recommended)
- Install Gale.
- Make sure BepInEx is installed.
- Search for RuneboundRest → Install → launch through the manager.
Manual
- Install BepInEx.
- Extract the release into
Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/.- e.g.
steamapps\common\Valheim\BepInEx\plugins\RuneboundRest.dll
- e.g.
- Launch the game.
⚠️ Multiplayer: every player on the server must have the mod installed. 📦 One file. No external dependencies to install alongside it — RuneboundRest bundles its own config-sync library.
Dedicated Server
- Install BepInEx on the server, exactly as on a client.
- Drop
RuneboundRest.dllinto the server'sBepInEx/plugins/. - Start the server once, then stop it — that writes
BepInEx/config/wubarrk.runeboundrest.cfg. - Edit the server's config. Every gameplay setting is server-synced: on connect the server pushes its values over each client's, so the server's file is the one that decides everything above except
EnableDebugLogging. - Restart.
🏰 Come Play It With Us
RuneboundRest is one piece of a bigger table. Wubarrk builds several mods for Valheim, meant to be run together on Wubarrk's modded server. Details on joining live on the Discord.
Forged by Wubarrk. Rest well. 🔥
License: MIT — use, modify, and redistribute freely, including commercially; just keep the copyright notice. See LICENSE.md for the full text.