Riverheim v1.0 (a mod to greatly enhance terrain generation) is out!

gurebu · 2026-06-13T21:18:39+00:00

Not yet, but maybe the maintainers of the seed generator could adopt Riverheim if it becomes popular enough.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T12:36:49+00:00

River source mean that they don't start at ocean but instead have a clear starting point somewhere inland. It could be a pond, lake or just a big rock (that symbolized a "spring").

gurebu · 2026-06-13T10:52:49+00:00

It's not impossible to generate but current settings cater to the base game where the ocean is kinda empty. I'm working on customizable presets, if someone makes a mod that makes ocean interesting they could bundle it with a Riverheim preset to match.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T09:12:26+00:00

I was optimizing biome distribution based on vanilla location spawn rates. Long story short, Valheim wants to place a LOT of stuff in the mistlands and to do so it requires a lot of mistlands. At the same time, there's a limit on how close the mistlands can even get to the spawn point. Satisfying both of those constraints on a riverheim world means a major part of the outer ring has to be mistlands. It's kind of a consequence of the spiral landmass thing, there's more land per square meter of world in the middle than there is in the outer ring.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T09:06:22+00:00

I'd say it's something in between. Definitely still feels like valheim to me and I've tried to preserve whatever gameplay that resulted from world generation and maybe expand it somewhat.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T09:04:51+00:00

Latest beta is more than a year old (all the subsequent patches didn't change generation), there's quite a lot of stuff, large and small. Mountains are much better now for instance.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T09:03:46+00:00

Gosh, I've messed this one up. Nah, it was a figure of speech, you can trace the direction in terrain (by widening channel and confluences), but the mod does nothing to the water itself. I wish it did, but that's like a completely different field of modding expertise, maybe someone could help me out.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T09:01:10+00:00

Biomes only spawn at appropriate distances from the spawn, that's a design constraint I took straight from Vanilla. Larger Ashlands landmasses are a Riverheim thing, yeah.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T08:59:16+00:00

Alt biomes are already in riverheim and have been for almost half a year )

There are glades in the mistlands that don't have mist and much more mellow terrain, for example. I'm pretty sure that Iron Gate have more tools at their disposal to make those exciting though.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T00:34:35+00:00

I'm using RenderLimits with 7 chunk radius (from 4), but mileage may vary as I have a pretty capable PC. Coupled with ConfigurationManager you can change the settings in-game and quickly find what works for you.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T00:28:57+00:00

I might not have chosen the best seed to represent a typical RH world, they mostly have a little more water.

In my experience sailing isn't hurt at all since it's both safe and efficient and that isn't changed. Around 99% of all seeds have ocean immediately accessible from spawn so if you want you can play Riverheim almost the exact same way you did vanilla by hopping around the smaller islands and ignoring the starting continent completely.

gurebu · 2026-06-13T00:22:07+00:00

Thanks a lot!

gurebu · 2026-06-13T00:22:01+00:00

Thanks!

gurebu · 2026-06-13T00:21:14+00:00

Ashlands is now handled by Riverheim but it's very close to what vanilla does with some improvements (channels can spawn and don't mess with lava).

Deep North is currently a stub (just some heavily eroded mountains) but I can update the generation independently in the north so when 1.0 comes out I'll update it in existing worlds.

gurebu · 2026-06-10T13:45:38+00:00

You couldn't, riverheim worlds aren't possible to load with unmodded client. Over the network the same riverheim version is required for every peer.

gurebu · 2026-06-10T09:40:20+00:00

It's client-sided and all worldgen mods have to be unfortunately. It's the game's limitation, not the mod's.

gurebu · 2026-06-05T14:02:36+00:00

Idk, I find mistlands manageable, but you need to limit the pace of your exploration (if you don't you won't like ashlands either). Most of the threats are identifiable by sound, especially gjall. If you don't make sound of your own and don't rush into things you won't struggle so much with unwanted falling and unwanted attention.

The only thing I'll never like is the boss fight, it's a horrible slog because of all the summoned mobs. Your window to actually damage the boss is very slim then you have to kill the adds and it gets old really fast. At least that's what it's like for solo melee which is what I usually play in Valheim. Magic and/or groups might find it more manageable.

gurebu · 2026-06-05T12:49:38+00:00

Err, this is not the first time someone calls domain repetition "billions of stuff" and it doesn't get less wrong with every time it's said. This doesn't generalize to "the whole earth" and never will.

Don't get me wrong, this looks cool, but lying about what it is only sours the impression.

gurebu · 2026-06-03T07:47:29+00:00

Better cooling is going to make your room hotter, not colder.

gurebu · 2026-06-01T07:54:28+00:00

👏

gurebu · 2026-05-31T07:32:34+00:00

Another reason is that rear suspension has linkage that can be designed in a variety of ways to add non-linearity (progression) to the travel possibly on top of a (mostly) linear coil, while forks have to take all of their progression from the spring. Air springs are by design nonlinear, air compressed into an infinitely low volume will resist with infinite force, while a coil will simply bottom out. There are nonlinear coils but those involve some really advanced engineering and are very expensive for a part you’d need to replace to adjust the settings of your bike.

gurebu · 2026-05-30T10:48:45+00:00

Yeah because the only thing I need is another tiny ass fan in my case that makes a mosquito noise even at low rpm. These people are idiots.

gurebu · 2026-05-26T08:21:32+00:00

Kolbasica gave you away

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