Valheim's Top 5 Mods of 2022 Ranked

The Viking afterlife saw plenty of mod activity in 2022, and the community made its preferences clear. Five entries rose above the noise. Some shaved hours off tedious inventory management, others rewrote what loot looked like entirely. Here is how the year shook out, counted down from five to one.

5. Unrestricted Portals

Unrestricted Portals does exactly what the name suggests. Vanilla Valheim blocks certain materials from passing through portals, forcing those long walks home with a cart full of ore. This mod cuts the rope. Players who prefer a softer touch can also customize the restriction list rather than removing it entirely.

4. Craft Build Smelt Cook Fuel From Containers

Craft Build Smelt Cook Fuel From Containers is another quality of life pick. The mod lets the crafting, smelting, cooking, and fueling systems pull resources straight from nearby chests. No more digging through ten storage bins looking for the last piece of fine wood. The name is exhausting, but the function is gold.

3. Epic Loot

Epic Loot shifts gears from convenience to gameplay overhaul. It introduces magic items across rarity tiers, from common drops to genuinely legendary gear. Enchanting joins the crafting menu too, giving players a reason to keep grinding even after they have cleared the base content. Easy to install, large payoff.

2. Equipment and Quick Slots

Equipment and Quick Slots lands at number two. Equipped gear finally gets dedicated inventory slots instead of eating space alongside food and ore. Three extra quick slots round it out. It is a small change with disproportionate impact, which is why nearly every modded server in 2022 ran it.

1. Valheim Plus

Valheim Plus takes the top spot, and it earns the throne. The mod hands admins and players control over almost every game system while keeping multiplayer sessions stable by enforcing matching configurations across all connected clients.

Inside Valheim Plus is tighter building precision, admin stat tweaks, automatic chest pulling for production stations, and a long list of additional toggles. Calling it a single mod undersells the scope. It functions closer to a configuration suite for everything vanilla left vague.

Convenience Won the Year

The pattern across all five entries is hard to miss: 2022 was the year Valheim players asked for fewer interruptions. Most of the list trims friction rather than adding spectacle, with Epic Loot as the lone exception. Useful signal for any modder eyeing the 2023 charts.

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