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Suggest an article ↗Jotun Invasions
Protection and Cleanup Jotun invasions create a persistent hostile area around a central core. They begin when the Malicious Ice at the end of Mörkhalla is destroyed. Invasion trigger reference Sunshine Alley adds placement safeguards and automatic cleanup to keep invasions away from established building areas and remove their remaining creatures when they end.
Read article ↗Petrified Gammaltrolls
Automatic Cleanup Petrified Gammaltroll bodies and their broken remains are automatically removed after six hours of real elapsed time . This clears abandoned remains without requiring players to return and finish breaking them apart.
Read article ↗Deep North: How Snow Restores
Cleared ground in the Deep North can gradually fill with snow again. Restoration follows snowfall and respects overhead shelter and active shield coverage.
Read article ↗Build Menu: New
The New tab collects building pieces and crafting recipes your character discovers during the current play session. It gives you somewhere to review new unlocks after their discovery messages have disappeared.
Read article ↗Build Menu: Can Build
The Can Build tab shows available building pieces you have enough carried materials to make. It helps you find something you can afford without browsing through recipes with missing resources.
Read article ↗Forge of Potentials
Success Chance The Forge of Potentials lets you attempt further upgrades on eligible equipment, including upgrades beyond its normal quality limit. Every attempt carries a risk of destroying the item. On Sunshine Alley, each attempt receives a fresh, independent random roll .
Read article ↗Heat Centered Comfort
How Comfort Works Sunshine Alley calculates comfort around the heat source warming you . Arrange your furniture around the fire, then enjoy its comfort anywhere that source can warm you while you are sheltered.
Read article ↗Discord Link Instructions
You will not be able to do anything in game until you register your Discord account with your Steam account. You will get an in-game message telling you to register in Discord with a OTP. After you get this message go to any channels and use the command /register and enter your OTP. Discord bot will confirm the registration, and shortly after it will be confirmed in-game.
Read article ↗Creature Breeding Towers
Breeding population checks use horizontal (2D) distance, so adults of the same species, offspring and eggs within the breeding radius still count even far above or below the parents. Dropping offspring down a tower does not make room for more births: once the local population limit is reached, breeding stops. Give your animals room and move offspring out of the horizontal breeding radius.
Read article ↗Creature Smoke Immunity
Your animals are safe from smoke damage. Sunshine Alley prevents smoke damage to non-player creatures, including your tame animals. Players still take normal smoke damage, so provide ventilation for yourself when working around fires indoors.
Read article ↗Metal Teleport
All Server Access also lets your character carry metals and ore through available portals. After finishing the required boss progression, write at a public hub cartography table to claim All Server Access. This removes the normal inventory item restriction that prevents ore and metal from traveling through ordinary portals. You still need an available portal route and permission to use it; worlds that disable portals keep their own travel rules.
Read article ↗Auto Close Doors
Use Left Shift + Use on a warded door to toggle its automatic closing. Ordinary doors linked to an enabled ward close automatically about five seconds after opening by default. A player with permission can hold Left Shift and interact with the door to turn this behavior off or back on; the hover text shows its current setting. Sunshine Alley's custom gates always close automatically and keep that behavior.
Read article ↗Personal Iron Gate
The personal gate is a special in-game addition to Sunshine Alley .
Read article ↗Personal Resource Knowledge
Your own boss victories let you harvest and collect more of the world's resources. Sunshine Alley uses your character's boss progression to unlock configured higher-tier resources and items. Having a strong borrowed tool does not by itself unlock a resource or item you do not yet know. The world's era release dates also apply, so a 'not released' message means you need to wait for that world's schedule as well as complete your progression.
Read article ↗Deep North Access
Your character's Fader victory opens the way into the Deep North. Sunshine Alley checks your own Fader progression before allowing safe exploration of the Deep North. Without it, the biome inflicts an escalating frost penalty. Complete that victory on the character you plan to take north; someone else's progression does not unlock the region for you.
Read article ↗Ashlands Access
Earn your character's Queen victory before exploring the Ashlands. Your own Queen progression unlocks the Ashlands for your character. Entering the biome before you have that credit causes an escalating heat penalty, even if another Viking in the world has already defeated her. Fight the Queen with your character close enough to receive the victory, then prepare for the Ashlands' normal dangers.
Read article ↗Boss Victory Credit
Stay within 60 metres when a boss dies to receive your character's victory credit. A boss's defeat awards its progression flag to the characters nearby when it dies, using a 60-metre range. You can earn the credit together with a group, and it is recorded separately for each character. Hanging or borrowing a trophy does not replace receiving that boss-defeat credit.
Read article ↗Hardcore Permanent Ghost
On Hardcore, a fallen character remains a ghost around spawn. Hardcore deaths permanently mark that character as dead. The character can remain in ghost form around the starting area but cannot resume ordinary gameplay or interact with items and buildings. Moving too far from spawn returns the ghost to the starting area. Choose another character to continue playing.
Read article ↗Safe Home Logout
You can leave immediately from a safe home or a permitted, charged ward. Use the game's Log Out or Quit action. Sunshine Alley skips its 20-second exit countdown when you are safe at home, or inside an enabled, charged ward where you are permitted, and have no dangerous status effects or nearby enemy awareness. Being inside someone else's ward without permission prevents the safe-exit shortcut. Otherwise, let the exit countdown finish.
Read article ↗Signs
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Read article ↗Respawn System
Nearly everything respawns, but on different timers. from stumps quickly. Stumped trees regrow after days (IRL). If you hover over the tag item left behing it will show a timer - most times Copper, silver, stones, structures, mostly anything destroyable will respawn after days (IRL). will without vanilla respawn will respawn in hours.
Read article ↗Pickable Respawn
Pickables, such as carrot seeds, barley, etc. if they do not have a vanilla respawn time, they will respawn in hours. These pickables are also protected against destruction, such as berry bushes, and can only be removed from inside your own ward. Certain limitations like tar from drained Tarpits.
Read article ↗Weightless Large Coin Stacks
Coins weigh nothing and can share a stack of up to one million. Sunshine Alley sets the weight of coins to zero and raises their stack limit to 1,000,000. Large amounts are displayed in a shortened quantity format in inventory slots. Coins still occupy an inventory slot.
Read article ↗Ward
Sunshine Alley Wards are different from the Vanilla game. Wards are for Individual use to protect your bases and property. Territories are used for communal facilities. Expired wards continue to protect your Base from being claimed by someone else. Note: Unwarded Bases are not safe from being claimed by other players Wards give a protected area of 32 metres. It is a cylinder of infinite height. Mob spawn: Unlike Vanilla wards, these will prevent mob respawn in its full radius.
Read article ↗Opt-in players
A disabled ward lets another player opt in to its permitted list. To give a nearby player access, disable the ward and have them aim at it and use its Permit action. The default Permit key is T. Re-enable the charged ward afterward to restore its restrictions. A permitted player can also use Unpermit to leave the list while the ward is enabled. Permissions and ownership use Steam accounts, so the same account's characters share that access.
Read article ↗Map
Your ward map pins show how long their charge will last. Your own wards appear automatically on the map with a remaining-charge countdown. A charged, enabled ward is green; a charged, disabled ward is black. A ward with two days or less remaining turns yellow, even if it is disabled, so you can find the wards that need attention before their charge expires.
Read article ↗Unattended Combat Protection
Warded build pieces have extra combat protection when permitted defenders are absent. For building pieces linked to an enabled ward, combat damage is suppressed while no owner or explicitly permitted player is being rendered nearby. A stranger does not count as a defender. When a permitted defender is present, the server's configured ward damage reduction applies instead. This concerns combat damage to linked pieces; it does not replace structural support or ward permissions.
Read article ↗Toggle In Range
Toggle overlapping wards together with /enable and /disable. Use /disable to request disabling the charged, loaded wards covering your position where you have access. Use /enable to request enabling the eligible charged wards covering you. These actions do not affect preserved bases or wards outside your current coverage. The server can still reject an enable request if your ward limit or other requirements are not satisfied.
Read article ↗Supercharge Preserves Food
Food lasts while you stay inside a supercharged ward where you are permitted. Supercharge a normal ward with one Black Core using the Supercharge action shown while hovering it; the default key is Y. While you are inside its enabled coverage and have permission, your eaten food's remaining time is preserved. This lets you work around the base without spending your meal's duration. The ward hover text shows how long the supercharge lasts in real-world time.
Read article ↗Show Boundaries
Aim at a ward to reveal its boundary, or use /flash to find nearby wards. Hovering a ward shows its area marker so you can judge which parts of the base it covers. The /flash chat command flashes wards whose coverage contains your current position. On objects displaying Warded, hold Left Alt while aiming at them to see their connected ward IDs. These checks help you find gaps or identify which ward controls an object's access.
Read article ↗Recharge All Owned
Recharge several of your wards from one ward, using Molten Cores. Carry Molten Cores, hold either Shift key while aiming at a ward you own, and use the Recharge key. The hover text changes to Recharge All and shows how many of your wards you can afford to recharge. This convenience action costs one Molten Core per successfully recharged ward. If you cannot afford every eligible ward, the earliest expiry dates are handled first. Single-ward recharge without Shift uses a Thunderstone instead.
Read article ↗Rain Protection
An active ward helps keep uncovered building pieces from weathering in rain. Building pieces connected to an enabled, non-abandoned ward are treated as protected from ordinary rain wear. This is useful for outdoor decks and exposed wooden details. It does not remove the ordinary need for structural support, and it does not promise protection from Ashlands or lava damage. Keep the ward charged and check its coverage rather than assuming every nearby piece is linked.
Read article ↗Permit Steam Account
Ward owners can add or remove a player by Steam ID. Use /optsteam followed by a player's numeric Steam ID in chat to choose an account. Then aim at a ward you own: its Permit or Unpermit prompt names that ID. Press the shown Permit key to request the change. This lets you manage permission without waiting for the player to visit the ward. Check the ward's permitted-player list after the update. Use /optsteam 0 to clear the selected account.
Read article ↗Oven Hot Tub Fuel
An enabled, charged ward can keep your oven and hot tub supplied with fuel. Cooking stations and hot tubs inside an enabled ward with remaining charge report at least enough fuel to keep operating. You still need to supply food and meet the usual operating conditions. This benefit does not remove the coal requirement from ordinary smelters or blast furnaces.
Read article ↗Map Expired
Orange ward pins show expired wards; red pins show abandoned ones. When one of your wards expires, its map label shows the time left before abandonment and its pin turns orange. After abandonment, the pin turns red and its label identifies the owner. These pins help you find a base that needs attention; they do not renew or protect the ward by themselves.
Read article ↗Check Real Time Expiry
Check a ward's expiry before leaving your base for a while. Aim at a ward to see its owner, remaining charge, supercharge time and permitted players. Its timers use real-world time, and the hover text marks those durations as IRL. An expired ward cannot be enabled until it is recharged. Recharge a normal ward with a Thunderstone using the Recharge key shown in its hover text; the default is R. A payment is consumed when the service confirms a successful extension.
Read article ↗Fire Fuel
Fires inside an enabled, charged ward do not run out of fuel. Fireplaces inside an enabled ward with remaining charge have infinite fuel. The same benefit applies to world-generated fireplaces. Ordinary conditions such as water, shelter and smoke can still prevent a fire from burning. Keep your own ward enabled and charged to retain this benefit at home.
Read article ↗Enchanting
EpicLoot addon developed by and heavily modified and balanced for our servers exclusively, including many new enchants and artifacts as well as alteration of drop rates and other changes to imrpove the balance of the game with EpicLoot enabled. It does not include the latest addition of Mythic enchants, instead we have our very own unique enchant system. Enchanting is a feature available to players who have completed the and unlocked access to the . This game mechanic allows players to enhance their armor and weapons by using specific enchanting materials.
Read article ↗Third party addons
While most of our customization and unique features are handled by our in-house developed Sunshine addon, we have some additional third party addons either in its original form or enhanced to fit our ecosystem better. Some of our third party addons which can also be downloaded for your own local worlds: - - - - - - - - - - The list may be incomplete and addon we use can change at any time.
Read article ↗Bed
Vacate Beds Hold Left Shift and use a bed to clear its owner. Left Shift plus the Use control vacates an owned bed when you have access through its ward protection. This lets the bed be claimed again. Normal use without Left Shift retains the usual bed interaction.
Read article ↗Tree Stump Regrowth
Leave a tree's stump behind if you want the tree to grow back. Sunshine Alley turns supported tree stumps into growing plants. Beech, birch, fir, oak and pine stumps regrow their tree species; swamp-tree, Yggdrasil-shoot and supported Ashlands-tree stumps also regrow in their allowed biomes. Growth still takes time and depends on a suitable biome, but these stump plants do not require normal sapling spacing or an open sky.
Read article ↗Tombstone Protection
When you die you will get 2 tombstones. Both these tombstones are lootable only by you for a periosd of 7 days irl One will hold everything in your inventory, as per vanilla Valheim The Second will be your gear - the extra slots we provide for . After 7 days these tombstones are lootable by anyone. Tombstones are not protected forever and if you do not get your gear in time, it can be taken. Stealing from someone elses tombstones is seen as bad manners, unless it's only trash and abandoned materials.
Read article ↗Tarred Fire Arrow
Tar, obsidian and feathers can become Tarred Fire Arrows. Craft 20 Tarred Fire Arrows at a level 4 Workbench using 2 Tar, 8 Wood, 4 Obsidian and 2 Feathers. These custom arrows add another fire-arrow option once you can obtain the required materials and station level.
Read article ↗Boss Summoner Loot
Summoner is entitled to all boss loot. When the summoner's client handles a summoned boss's loot, Sunshine Alley tries to place the rewards directly into that player's inventory, respecting space and carrying capacity; leftovers appear beside them. Otherwise the loot drops into the world. Other players do not automatically pick up marked boss loot, but they can still pick it up manually. Trophies are distributed to every attending players.
Read article ↗Starred Boss Drops
Extra boss stars can mean more non-trophy rewards. For boss drops that do not already use the normal level multiplier, Sunshine Alley scales non-trophy quantities with the boss's star level. Eligible one-per-player rewards count nearby players, within roughly 100 metres, rather than everyone online. Trophy quantities do not receive this extra star multiplier, but are given 1 to each attending player.
Read article ↗Starred Rare Drops
Starred creatures offer better chances at some rare drops. For drops that do not already use the normal level multiplier, Sunshine Alley raises a non-guaranteed drop's chance by half its base chance for each extra star. This includes eligible trophy and rare-drop rolls. A higher chance still does not guarantee a drop.
Read article ↗Ship Crew Rowing
Bring a crew: extra passengers increase a ship's paddling strength. Rafts, karves, longships and drakkars gain paddling force when more players are aboard. Each passenger beyond the first adds half of the ship's base paddling force, so two Vikings provide 1.5 times the base force and three provide twice the base force. This changes forward and reverse paddling; wind-driven sailing is separate.
Read article ↗Ship
Locking Ships As we have had multiple cases of Ships being "borrowed" on the High Seas King Eric has enabled our worthy Vikings to claim ownership of their vessels. Simply Highlight the rudder and you will see the command to claim it, based on your keyboard mapping Once a Ship is claimed you can unclaim it the same way.
Read article ↗Keybinds
All keybinds for Sunshine Alley and additional plugins can be changed directly through in-game menu -> settings -> Keyboard & Mouse Right clicking a key will remove/unbind it. Middle-mouse clicking will restore to default keybind.
Read article ↗Rested Persists on Logout
Your remaining Rested time pauses when you log out. Sunshine Alley remembers the remaining Rested duration for your character and world when you disconnect, then restores it when you reconnect. It is kept in the running server's memory, so a server restart will clear the saved duration.
Read article ↗Quick Stack
Press Insert to put matching supplies into nearby containers. Quick Stack uses Insert by default and searches containers within 10 metres. It moves items into containers that already contain that item type and that you are allowed to access. Your first inventory row and equipped items stay with you; and active are excluded. The shortcut can be changed in Sunshine Alley's settings. Quick Stack are executed by server and will not work on movable containers such as Carts and . Additional and can be excluded from Quick Stack behavior.
Read article ↗Recovery Chest
A Recovery Chest lets you withdraw the items from one recovered base. When a recovery is available for your character, a Recovery Chest becomes available in the hammer's build menu. Place it to request one recovered base's item batch, then wait until the server has prepared the items. The chest is take-only and cannot be dismantled while the recovery is active. Empty it to turn it into a normal Chest; another available batch can then be claimed with another Recovery Chest.
Read article ↗Raid Busy World
Prepare your defenses when the world is busy: raid checks speed up with more Vikings online. The random-raid clock advances faster as more players join the world. One online Viking uses the normal rate, and each additional Viking adds half that base rate. This increases how often the server can consider a random raid; the event still has to meet its eligibility checks.
Read article ↗Containers
Serverside containers and inventory All items in containers and inventory are managed by the server. Opening a container will render a readonly version until confirmed contents are delivered. Changes are sent to the server for approval, updating both inventory and container at the same time, eliminating chance of item loss with container use. This does not apply to moving containers, such as those found on ships, carts, etc.
Read article ↗Quick Stack Slot Exclusion
An orange inventory slot keeps anything placed there out of Quick Stack. Alt-clicking an occupied main-inventory slot cycles between a yellow item-type exclusion, an orange slot exclusion and no exclusion. A slot exclusion stays at that position when the item moves. Alt-clicking an empty slot toggles its slot exclusion directly. These choices are saved for your character.
Read article ↗Quick Stack Item Exclusion
Alt-click an inventory item to keep that item type out of Quick Stack. Hold either Alt key and left-click an occupied slot in your main inventory. The first click marks the item type yellow, keeping every item of that type out of Quick Stack even if you move it to another slot. These choices are saved separately for each character.
Read article ↗Personal Portals
Personal Portals and are teleportation devices in your game, each with distinct functionalities. This article explores their mechanics, usage, and strategies for maximizing their potential for exploration, teamwork, and base management. With Personal Portals, players can target specific destinations directly, eliminating the need to construct a separate home portal for each remote location, and can completely replace the original teleporters.
Read article ↗Public Portal
A public portal can connect to one of your own personal portals. Interact with a public portal, select one of your personal portals or a public destination, and confirm. Your selected destination is personal to your current session and applies to the public portals you use. It does not change where other players' public portals lead. Public Portals, managed by admins, provide shared teleportation options for the entire player base.
Read article ↗Personal Portal Shared Controls
permissions let trusted players change your personal portal's destination. Inside an active ward, a permitted player can reconnect a personal portal when both that player and the portal's owner have ward access. The destination list belongs to the portal's owner. Traveling through a personal portal normally remains possible for visitors, but a preserved base restricts its personal portals to their Steam owner.
Read article ↗Lox Partner Distance
Breeding lox can find a partner up to 16 metres away. Sunshine Alley extends the lox partner-search radius to 16 metres, giving a fed, tame pair more room to move around. The normal hunger, taming and nearby population requirements still apply.
Read article ↗Cartography Table
Cartography Pins By default, you do not add your pins to cartography table. Map pins and cartography commands: /removemypins :: Removes all personal pins from map /removeotherspins :: Removes all pins from others from map /removeallpins :: Removes allpins from map /writepindata :: Enables adding pins to cartography one time
Read article ↗HUD Enhancement
The HUD is fully customizable.
Read article ↗Hotbar Cycle Inventory Rows
Switch the top hotbar between the first two inventory rows. Use Enhanced Hotbar: Previous Bar or Next Bar to choose inventory row 1 or 2 for the top hotbar. The defaults are Page Up and Page Down. Your normal hotbar controls then use items from the displayed row; the items themselves stay in their inventory positions. Opening the inventory temporarily returns the displayed bar and native inventory hotbar actions to row 1. uses its own shortcuts.
Read article ↗Hotbar Second Row Shortcuts
Assign direct shortcuts to items in the second inventory row. contains eight Enhanced Hotbar slots: Row 2 Slot bindings. They start unassigned. Set one to use that column of inventory row 2 directly, regardless of which row the top hotbar is showing. A separate HUD slot appears when both a binding and an item are present. Modifier combinations such as Shift plus a number can give the second row its own controls.
Read article ↗Hildir
Hildir is on both Progression and Main At present she does not offer anything above the vanilla game. Accessing her goods is Era gated based on individual player progressions, and induvidual hildir quest tracker. She has a public Portal on the Her clothing is quite good for stamina preservation when planting crops providing, of course, that the Deathsquitos don't get you.
Read article ↗Hammer Remove Transport
Your hammer can dismantle carts, karves and longships. Sunshine Alley makes carts, karves, longships and the Ashlands ship removable with the hammer. The normal removal and access checks still apply. Check the cargo before dismantling a vehicle.
Read article ↗Playerbuilds timed removal
Build your permanent base away from charred and plains fortresses. Player-built pieces near the configured charred and plains fortress locations suffer automatic decay. The affected area extends to twice the location's exterior radius, and each damage tick removes 25% of a piece's maximum health after a 30-real-minute interval. Treat structures near these forts as temporary infrastructure and place a lasting base farther away.
Read article ↗Expanded World
Sunshine Alley can extend a world's outer terrain while retaining its familiar inner area. Expanded worlds provide additional exploration space, and their map and ocean edge follow the server's chosen size. The exact radius, outer biomes and locations depend on that world's settings; expansion does not remove the world's final edge.
Read article ↗Egg Auto Pickup
Chicken and Asksvin eggs can be collected with automatic pickup. Sunshine Alley enables automatic pickup for Chicken Eggs and Asksvin Eggs. With your automatic pickup enabled, walking close can collect eligible eggs instead of requiring a manual interaction. Inventory space, carrying capacity, ward access and your progression restrictions still apply.
Read article ↗Fortress Respawn
Fortresses respawn at random intervals, ranging from to hours after looting. Look for the green spotlight from them. When this happens the landscape around the fort and its structure will also revert back to original. Do not put a portal too close or it will be gone.
Read article ↗Dyrnwyn Fragment Respawn
Dyrnwyn blade and tip fragments can return at different charred fortresses. After a blade or tip fragment is collected, that fragment type enters a shared world cooldown of to hours. Its next batch appears at randomly selected known charred-fortress altar sites. Watch chat for the found and respawned announcements, then explore other fortresses. With extended world, the fragment can spawn at multiple locations simultaneously to maintain the same probability to find. If either is picked, all clones will despawn.
Read article ↗Dungeon Respawn
Dungeons respawn completely after minutes irl.. Entering a dungeon starts its regeneration timer. After the configured interval, the server regenerates that interior so its world-generated contents can be explored again. Player-built pieces, player characters and tombstones are preserved by this cleanup; loose, unowned objects in the interior are not protected. Morkhalla deletes any portals built inside on respawn, effectively requiring consumtion of key.
Read article ↗Smelters
Fast Load Hold Left Shift and use the fuel or ore input to add as much fuel or ore from one stack as the machine's remaining capacity allows.
Read article ↗Build Zoop Rows
Preview and build a row of up to ten repeated pieces. a piece in , then tap Confirm to enter the repeated-row preview, called zoop . Aim to either side of the locked piece to change the row length. Origins are spaced 2 metres apart by default; hold the 1 metre or 4 metre spacing modifier to change that. Hold Confirm for one second to build the row, or tap it again to leave zoop. Every piece uses normal materials and placement checks; a blocked preview cannot start building, and construction can stop if resources run out. You can change zooping distances in .
Read article ↗Build Todo List
Ctrl-click build pieces to make a construction to-do list. Hold Ctrl and click a piece in the build menu to add one to your to-do list. The list appears beside the build menu and offers buttons to adjust quantities by 1 or 10. Click a list entry to select that piece for building. Placing a listed piece reduces its remaining quantity automatically. The list is saved for your character. When opening , the will show up next to the inventory.
Read article ↗Build Todo Materials
See how many materials your planned construction still needs. Add pieces to your construction to-do list with Ctrl-click in the build menu. Its materials panel totals the recipes and compares what you carry with what the remaining plan requires. The same carried-versus-needed list is shown while you have a container open, making it easier to collect the supplies for a project. The list updates as you change quantities or place planned pieces.
Read article ↗Build Search Calculator
The build search field can work out simple sums for your project. Type a calculation such as 24*6 or 100/4 into the build menu's search field to see the result. It supports two non-negative numbers with addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, including decimal numbers. This is handy when estimating repeated sections or material quantities without leaving the game.
Read article ↗Build Search All Categories
Search all hammer build categories with one shortcut. Use Quick Search in enhanced build mode to equip a hammer from your inventory, open the build menu, show all categories, and focus the search field. You can immediately type the piece name. The default key is N; your configured key appears in the build helper panel and Keyboard & Mouse settings. You still need to have discovered the piece and carry the correct materials.
Read article ↗Build Save Piece Shortcuts
Save favourite build pieces to your own building shortcuts. While is active, hover a piece in the build menu and press a Build Mode slot key to save it. Press that key while building to select the saved piece and equip its required tool from your inventory. There are ten bars of ten slots; hold the Switch Build Bar Modifier and scroll to cycle bars. By default the slots use 1 through 0 and the bar modifier is Ctrl. Assignments are saved separately for each character.
Read article ↗Build Save Item Shortcuts
Your building shortcuts can hold inventory items as well as pieces. In , open your inventory, hover an item, and press a Build Mode slot key to assign that item type to the current bar. The shortcut later finds that item in your inventory and uses or equips it. This can keep a hammer, hoe or useful consumable close at hand without depending on its inventory position. Using a combat weapon through a slot exits enhanced build mode. You can scroll between multiple build bars by holding CTRL and using scroll wheel. There are 10 different build bars you can use.
Read article ↗Build Repair Shortcut
Jump straight to hammer repair without searching the build menu. In , use the Repair shortcut to equip a hammer from your inventory and select its repair action. The default is F. Repairing still uses the game's ordinary repair action. Holding the Mass Modifier while using this shortcut instead enters mass dismantle where ward permissions allow it.
Read article ↗Item stand
The range of items available to be attached has been increased - almost anything is attachable. When placing item stands while inside the , you can select item from your inventory to and place directly without having to guess how the attached item will look. Note that enchanted items - weapons or Armour that are attached may appear to lose enchantment when removed - to fix, place in a box, leave area, return and the item should load correctly when collected from box. In extreme cases of this infrequent bug you may need to close the game and restart to flush buffers etc.
Read article ↗Build Preview Item Stands
Preview an item on its stand before placing the stand. Select an item stand in , open your inventory, and click a compatible item. The build preview shows the selected item attached to the stand. Place the stand to attach that item from your inventory after paying the stand's building costs. Click the same item again to clear the selection. The item must remain in your inventory and still be compatible when the stand is placed.
Read article ↗Build Menu Tap And Hold
Tap the build-menu control to choose a piece; hold it to face your view. During with keyboard and mouse, a short tap of the normal Build Menu control opens or closes the build menu, equipping your inventory hammer if needed. Holding it for a little longer turns your character toward the camera's view with an unarmed blocking pose.
Read article ↗Build Mass Dismantle
Select several removable pieces and dismantle them together. Inside an enabled ward where you are permitted, enter and use Mass Modifier plus Repair to enter mass dismantle. Hold the modifier while aiming at pieces to select them; selected pieces turn blue. Release and hold the modifier again over a selected piece to remove it from the selection. Up to 50 pieces within 30 metres can be selected, and both you and each target must remain in permitted ward coverage. Hold Confirm for three seconds to request removal. Normal removal restrictions and ward checks still apply; Escape leaves the selection.
Read article ↗Build Copy Rotation
Match a build preview's rotation to a piece already in the world. Select a piece in , aim at an existing piece, and use Copy Rotation. Your selected piece stays selected while its preview adopts the target's full rotation. This is useful for continuing an angled wall or matching a tilted decoration.
Read article ↗Build Lock And Nudge
Lock a build preview in place, then nudge it into position. Hold the Build Mode: Toggle key to enter ; its default is H held for half a second. With a valid build preview selected, tap the Hold Placement key to lock it. The direction keys move the locked preview by 1 metre, or by 0.25 metre and 0.10 metre with the small and tiny nudge modifiers. The defaults are arrow keys plus Page Up/Down, Ctrl for small nudges, and Shift for tiny nudges. Hold Confirm to build; placement range, materials and normal placement restrictions still apply. The helper panel shows your current bindings. You can change the nudge distance in .
Read article ↗Build Inside Dungeons
You can place build pieces inside dungeons where protection rules allow it. Sunshine Alley enables dungeon placement for build pieces. You still need the resources and any required crafting station, and ward protection, protected locations and other ordinary placement checks can prevent a particular placement.
Read article ↗Crystal Smelter
The Crystal Smelter is similar to the Crystal Kiln but is designed for different materials such as tin, copper, iron, and, silver. It provides several benefits: Reduces lag. Increased capacity for processing materials. More efficient than standard smelters. Eliminates the need for large smelting areas. The Crystal Kiln takes 25 Ore in a load, and 100 coal. It is significantly faster in processing the ore but the cost is double the coal.
Read article ↗Build Copy Piece
Point at an existing build piece to select another just like it. In , aim at a piece and use Copy Build. This selects that piece and copies its rotation, including any tilt. You must know the piece and carry a build tool that can place it. The target can be up to 30 metres away. Find the Copy Build binding in settings or the build helper panel.
Read article ↗Enhanced Build Mode
Hold H to enter and exit enhanced build mode (keys can be changed). ESC instant out of build mode (panic, combat). A new build hotbar on the bottom of the screen for keys 1-0. Hold Alt and Scroll wheel to cycle through different hotbars. Mouse over any build piece, terrain actions, serving tray items and click any key from 1-0 to assign the operation to hotbar. Mouse over any items, weapons, tools, food, and click any key from 1-0 to assign the item to hotbar. Clicking weapon action equips weapon and turns off build mode. Inside enhanced build mode, keyboard shortcuts works different. it's with building in mind. no more equip hammer before opening build menu, right click anywhere! or copy build pieces directly without hammer equipped. We know what you want in build mode! Copy build piece default to Mouse 4 Copy build rotation default to Mouse 5 Hold placement by clicking H, now you can move around and see how it looks before you commit. and of course, you can nudge the piece exactly 1m in all 3 axis with arrows and page up/down. Once you're happy, hold left mouse button to confirm placement. Quick search default key N, again, no more equip build hammer, open menu, look for search bar... just N and start typing! Quick search support very basic math, no more open calculator to calculate how much Iron your boat can carry. Repair mode default key F (forsaken power disabled in buildmode, who needs Bonemass Buff when fighting doors?), hated the effort to equip hammer, o
Read article ↗Colored Sign
Colored Signs are a fun and decorative addition we have introduced. These signs can spice up your builds and help organize your storage system. Reflecting light, they serve as useful decoration pieces. You can create Colored Signs using the building hammer. They have a normal wood cost, but the coloring materials vary depending on the desired color. The materials required for each color are as follows: Yellow Mushroom{{:buildpieces:yellow_mushroom.webp ?25x25}} Surtling Core{{:buildpieces:surtling_core.webp ?25x25}} Freeze Gland{{:buildpieces:freeze_gland.webp ?25x25}} Guck{{:buildpieces:guck.webp ?25x25}} Here is an example of using the signs for decoration purposes, with the display from . Have fun using Colored Signs to enhance your builds!
Read article ↗Boss Summoning Progression
Boss offerings work when your character is ready and that boss's era has arrived. A boss altar checks your character's required progression as well as the world's release schedule for that boss. If the boss has not arrived yet or your character lacks the required knowledge, the offering is blocked and a message explains why. Finish your earlier progression and return when the boss is available.
Read article ↗Bogwitch Curse Deaths
After Bonemass, a death can bring seven more world days of night to a cursed world. On a world with the Bog Witch curse enabled, a player's death after the primary curse is lifted starts a seven-world-day night curse. Another death restarts the expiry from the current world day, extending the darkness for everyone. Travel prepared and help each other stay alive if you want daylight to return.
Read article ↗Bogwitch Curse
When the Bog Witch curse is enabled, the world remains in permanent night. Defeating Bonemass lifts that primary curse.
Read article ↗Kill Quests
Quests that requires you to kill certain mobs or bosses, are only counted if you or your nearby party members lands the killing blow. Form before taking on kill quests. Certain quests can have minimum mob star requirement. Killing blow requirements are only for
Read article ↗Afk Farming
Stay involved in the adventure: AFK farms do not earn loot or skill gains. Taking a break is fine! Sunshine Alley blocks creature loot and skill gains when no active player is present. Unattended kill farms and automatic skill training therefore stop earning rewards once you are marked AFK. Stay involved while farming or training, and feel free to take a break when you need one.
Read article ↗Sunshine Saga
Embark on an epic Viking adventure with "The Sunshine Saga" , designed to immerse you in a world of quests, challenges, and intriguing narratives. Begin the saga at the sacrificial stones on the Main Server by speaking with Ida. Embark on a journey filled with quests, mysteries and choices in "The Sunshine Saga". Your Viking adventure awaits – may the gods guide you!
Read article ↗Quests
There are many quests both on Prog and Main. Some are standalone, others are in a chain. Typically if you see a NPC with a large yellow exclamation mark over their head - There is a Quest you qualify for. If you are new to the server it is strongly recommended you do the quests you are offered at the Sacrificial stones when you log in. This will take a lot of pain from your experience. Sunshine Alley does not offer detailed lists of the quests, nor walkthoughs Discovering the quests etc is seen as part of the charm and challenge
Read article ↗Haldor
Haldor the merchant has had his stock in trade seriously expanded on our Server You can buy most items from him, if you have the coin. He will also buy nearly everything from you. Haldor's Cash has endless cash. The prices he charges and pays are dynamic based on trading activity. If activity on an item stops it will slowly revert to the default value. The more you sell, the less he pays. The more you buy, the more he charges. There are regular pricing updates in the Discord channel #sunshine-alley-gazette
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