Builderheim

This page describes a world setup I’ve named Builderheim. The aim is to provide a sandbox Valheim server that is vanilla (no mods needed) and fully facilitates building, so you can be focussing on creativity instead of grinding for materials and food.

🚫 No build cost for anything

📖 All recipes are known

🕊️ Mobs are passive and raid events won’t happen

⚡ No stamina drain

🌀 Teleport everything

📦 3x resources drop

✅ Vanilla, no mods needed

👥 Supports multiplayer on a server

⚒️ Setup for a Valheim Builder Paradise

Global key name	Value	Effect on world
allpiecesunlocked	1	All buildpieces in the hammer are available by default
allrecipesunlocked	1	All recipes in workbenches are available by default
noworkbench	1	You can build any item without a workbench nearby (except for workbench upgrades, they want their workbench nearby)
passivemobs	1	Mobs will not attack you, unless provoked
teleportall	1	You can teleport any material in your inventory
resourcerate	300	You get 3x as much resources from collecting and gathering
dungeonbuild	1	You can build in any dungeon
staminarate	1	You never use any stamina
eventrate	0	There will be no raid events at base or elsewhere
nobuildcost	1	You can build without having the resources for it in your inventory
nocraftcost	1	You can craft at workstations without having the resources for it in your inventory

So when you land in the world, you can build a shack, place your workbenches, make clothing, tools and food and get straight to building.

The best thing is that you can then upload your world files to a server and others can join in on the fun.

🛠️ How to Have a Builderheim World

1 Create or have a world

2 Enable the console

Be sure you can access the console of Valheim.

3 Open the console

Press F5 to open the console window.

4 Enable devcommands mode

Type devcommands into the console window.

5 Set your global keys

You can now start setting your global keys. setkey lets you set a particular global key’s value. For example:

setkey noworkbench 1

The console should verify that a global key has been set. Repeat this for every item in the above list of global keys.

📋 Useful Console Commands

setkey <name> <value> — Set a particular global key’s value
listkeys — See the current list of keys you have set
resetkeys <name> — Reset a key back to its default

6 Test your world

Be sure to test everything in your local world.

7 Upload to a server

You can now upload this world to your favourite Valheim hoster. The world modifiers are now set in the Global Keys of the worldfile, so they will apply to anyone entering the world.

⚠️ Important: Apparently, using the modifier sliders in the interface to set specifics for a Valheim world doesn’t store that in global keys, but somewhere else. So you can’t have an uploaded shared world if you used the sliders to set up a builder friendly (or harsher) world — the info is not in the world files you would upload.

There are other Global Keys you can set — find them over at Valheim Wiki: Global Keys.