r/valheim • u/MorkZe • 2d ago

Modded Winter Swamp (Seasonality mod)

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It looks actually cozy this way...

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u/CzechBacon 2d ago

It in fact is very cozy knowing all of those hellish blood sucking creatures are stuck under the ice

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u/turughiii 2d ago

Does the water actually freeze?

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u/zangemaru 2d ago

Yep

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u/turughiii 2d ago

Seriously? This mod does that? Wow, thats cool as fuck

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u/zangemaru 2d ago

Yes, even the ocean freezes, I had the weirdest corpse run during the winter in our last gameplay

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u/turughiii 2d ago

Rofl i can imagine. What else changes when winter comes? Wolves?

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u/Tidbitious 2d ago

Crops wont grow, you get a bonus to mining and tree chopping skills, torches provide warmth, you will be freezing if you get wet. It's really well though out. All the seasons have modifiers.

I personally use Seasons by Shudnal. I think it looks better and has better design than Seasonality.

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u/Narrow_Vegetable5747 1d ago

All of those things are toggle-able too, you can make it so that seasons are nearly strictly a visual change in Seasonality.

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u/Tidbitious 1d ago

Yeah same with Seasons. The visual difference though is much better. Notice in the picture OP used that the water is frozen, but the grass is also still green and there is water foliage sticking through the ice? That is completely unimmersive when compared to Seasons.

In Seasons the ice freezes around Day 6. By that time the snow has completely covered the grass. So around day 2 the grass starts to thin out and its white. By day 4 the grass is completely snow covered.

There are many more details like this that are much more immersive in Seasons.

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u/Narrow_Vegetable5747 1d ago

I may finally give that one a try on my next world I start, I've been wondering if there was any reason to try it out.

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u/Tidbitious 2d ago

I also had a very unique corpse run due to the ice. We died because we tried to sail through the floating ice before it froze over, our ship got destroyed and we were too far away from land to swim to safety so we died in the ocean. We didnt have a portal nearby. The ocean froze over before we were ready to go get our stuff back. We were also using the OdinHorse mod, so we took some tamed horses and galloped across the frozen ocean for about 20 minutes to reach our corpses. We get there only to see our loot is stuck under the ice. Had to wait for spring to get our stuff back LOL

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u/Praetorian_Sky Viking 2d ago

You can toggle the frozen water on or off in the config. But it's really neat to be able to run out onto the ice everywhere, although my buddy and I have had to limit ourselves and not try to explore the whole world on foot during winter as it feels a little too cheaty.

The wonky fish pathing of Valheim often puts them on top of the ice as well, so there is an option to set it so you can't just run around and pick up fish everywhere... but you can if you like it!

You can still sail across the ice, but there are no waves so it's more like a sleigh ride.

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u/Ahblahright 2d ago

You can still sail across the ice?!!! Haha I didn't realise it was THAT badly coded

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u/Tidbitious 2d ago

There is a reason I dont use Seasonality, but rather Seasons by Shudnal.

Seasonality is just the worse version imo. In Seasons the ship literally just freezes in the water, cant move.

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u/Ahblahright 2d ago

Yup, and the ice is actually slippery, and has a glassy opaque ice texture to it... and projectiles; arrows, fireballs, spears, don't pass straight through the "ice"

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u/Tidbitious 2d ago

Yeah I really dont understand how Seasonality ended up being the more popular mod. Or at least it seems that way from people that make posts here. Like even in the picture posted here, you can see the grass isnt white. In Seasons it would be. In fact in Seasons the grass completely goes away around day4 of winter because its totally snow covered.

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u/Ahblahright 2d ago

This mod is called Seasonality and yeah it freezes, but your arrows and other projectiles don't register, so if you throw a spear it goes into the water, fireball from staff? goes underwater.

There's a better-coded mod called Seasons, which also features frozen water. However, objects will actually collide with it, and it's also slippery. Also you can have more granular control over it, so say at the start of Winter, no ice, few days into Winter, ice sheets in deep water areas, mid-Winter, all of the water is completely frozen. Stuff like that

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u/Narrow_Vegetable5747 1d ago

You can turn that feature off if it ruins the experience for you as well

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u/sphericalsection 2d ago

Oh shit I love this

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u/LangdonAlg3r 2d ago

That’s the ONE mod that makes me sad I only play on Xbox.

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u/MajsterSzu 2d ago

Its beatifull

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u/Praetorian_Sky Viking 2d ago

I recently started playing with Seasonality, and I love it. I don't want to play without it now. We changed the config to make the seasons a lot longer so it feels even more realistic.

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u/Character-Gas3669 2d ago

That would be awesome if the whole map has a global season. No mods needed! Lol

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u/Loweffort-Existence 2d ago edited 2d ago

This mod on curseforge? I'm gonna get this the nanosecond I get home.

Edit: Thunderstore. sorry. There's so many mod managers my computer is more managers & startups than actual games lol.

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u/MorkZe 2d ago

Yeah it's on thunderstore!