Some feature requests

[JTF195]

Love your work so far. This is the best Valheim character editor yet

Some features I'd like to see, in no particular order:

• Rearrange the order of skills
  For example, one of my characters has skills in this order: Run, Jump, Swim, ... etc
  Another character has Run, Clubs, Blocking, ... etc

• Edit the Crafted By tag on an item
  Both when renaming a character (rename that character's crafted items too), and also just whenever

• Compatibility with inventory size/slot mods
  Making changes with Loki currently deletes items equipped in EquipmentAndQuickSlots, and probably has similar interactions with other mods that extend the inventory size

• Show the name of the character in the dropdown menu rather than the filename, and rename the file when renaming a character.

Edit: I just noticed these are already on your list:

• Edit character stats (kills, deaths, crafts, builds)
  These stats are stored at the top of the character file, and are visible on the character select screen with the BetterUI mod
  The game currently doesn't increment the kill counter by default, but StatsLogger enables that

• Clean up world map/explore/location data
  Each time a character joins a new world, it adds 4MB to the file size of the character.fch file.
  Would it be possible to prune old worlds?

[Wufflez]

Hi, thanks for the suggestions - yes as you noticed, a few of those were already on my mind ha. At the moment the world data is just kinda skipped over as a black box, and put back exactly as it was. I do intend on making it so the user can inspect and even modoify that data too - as somebody else has asked if it's possible to set a custom spawn location which I'd guess is in those world data blobs.

My only concern, and I say this without even looking at the data once yet - is that there might not be an obvious way to identify each world for the user to select which ones to trim. The game serialises the world data as a dictionary where each world is looked up by a numeric 'world id' so hopefully there's something more useful inside the data itself I could display to the user. If not maybe just showing a preview of the map and fog of war thing, with the waypoints etc, would be enough for users to flick through them and quickly identify worlds that may not even exist any more. I guess it's easy enough to revert to a backup if you mess up and delete the wrong one.

I'll have to download those mods and see how they save the 'extra' slots. If it's a case of just saving items in positions outside the 8x4 grid then that'd be easy to detect and adjust the inventory view accordingly to match their inventory size. I'll download some of those mods and test to see how they work.

I'll admit, I've only got one character myself and hadn't thought about the order of the skills. The game likely saves the skills in the order you 'discover' them by doing actions so. I would imagine if I go and make a new character and only increase 2 or 3 skills then the file will only contain data for those skills too ha. Your point is very valid though, I will adjust it so they show up in the same order as the UI in-game for consistency.

[JTF195]

I will adjust it so they show up in the same order as the UI in-game for consistency.

They already do, fortunately. And I guess I didn't word that very well. I would actually like to edit the order the skills are stored in the file and displayed ingame

each world is looked up by a numeric 'world id' so hopefully there's something more useful inside the data itself I could display to the user

Maybe you could load the data from the locally stored worlds and cross reference those. That would at least let you trim out all of the worlds that aren't local

Some other crazy ideas, if you can figure out how to load worlds:

• Repair all buildings (including the ones randomly generated in the world)
• Edit the Crafted By tag on ALL items in the world
• Reset terrain modifications
• Reset boss death state / world "level"

[Wufflez]

Ah I see, that's no problem. Do you think something like being able to drag and drop the skills into a new order would be fine? If the game just shows them the order they're in the file then that would be pretty simple I think.

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[JTF195]

Do you think something like being able to drag and drop the skills into a new order would be fine?

Yup. That would be perfect

[JTF195]

Some more random ideas:

• Character appearance previews
• Edit Compendium entry unlocks
• Edit trophy collection, "known" items, recipes, etc
• Edit boss kill state (if that's stored in the character as well as on the world)
• Edit misc statistics tracked by StatsLogger, besides the default ones
• View/edit any other mods' information stored in the .fch file

More ideas for editing Worlds:

• Delete player-created buildings
• Delete auto-generated buildings (separately if possible)
• Edit the number of days passed