Legacy Build Menu
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- 🏆 #176 of 176 User Interface mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Full description on the other mod pages. In short this gives you back the old build menu interface.
https://old.thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/JamesJonesTV/Legacy_Build_Menu/
https://valheim.hexium.gg/mods/JamesJonesTV/Legacy_Build_Menu
# Legacy Build Menu
Valheim 1. 0 replaced the build menu. This puts the old one back, the way it was before 1. 0: category tabs across the
top, the icon grid under them, Q/E and the mouse wheel to switch tabs. Nothing added on top.
## Features
- The pre-1. 0 build menu, open with your usual build menu key.
- Keyboard, mouse and gamepad controls from before 1. 0.
- A search bar above the pieces (AAABuildMenu's look, SearchableBuildMenu's tricks). Every tab filters down to what
matches and the tab counts show where the hits are.
- `@ravenwood` - pieces from a mod. Matches the mod's name, its GUID or its dll name.
- `!stone` - pieces that cost that material.
- anything else matches the piece name or description.
- Mix them, `@ravenwood !stone wall` needs all three to match.
- Move the menu by dragging its bottom-left corner, resize it from the bottom-right one. The grips show when you hover
them. The grid adds columns as it gets wider and scrolls when a tab has more than fits, so no more 90-piece cap per
- Pieces and category tabs from PieceManager and Jotunn mods show up like they used to.
- The new Deep North category gets a proper tab name.
- A modded piece with a broken recipe no longer breaks the whole menu. The log names the piece instead.
- Switch it off in the config (`Use Legacy Build Menu`) to get the 1. 0 menu back, no restart needed.
- Client side only. Nothing to install on the server.
- Don't run it next to AAABuildMenu or SearchableBuildMenu. AAABuildMenu has its own classic menu option and
LegacyBuildMenu steps aside when it finds it. SearchableBuildMenu's search is built in here.
- `@` search works out a piece's mod from the asset bundle it was loaded from, or from Jotunn's registry. A piece a mod
builds by cloning a vanilla one without Jotunn has nothing to trace it back with, so `@` won't find it.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Valheim Mods
- Author
- TheRavenwoodTV
- Version
- 1
- Downloads
- 2
- Endorsements
- 0
- Category
- User Interface
- Created
- 9/12/2026
- Updated
- 9/12/2026
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