Portal Limit and Discovery is for Valheim servers that want portals to stay useful without letting fast travel take over the whole world.
It gives server owners two big tools: a fair portal limit for players, and discovery portals that let admins create shortcuts players have to earn by finding the other side first.
Discovery portals are the fun part.
Admins can make a portal at spawn, a town, or a hub that stays locked until each player finds and enters the matching portal somewhere else in the world.
Example ideas:
Each player unlocks discovery routes individually, so one player finding the far side does not automatically unlock it for everyone.
Set how many portals each non-admin player can own. The default is 10.
When players place a portal, they get a simple live count like:
Portals placed: 4 / 10
Players can also type this into regular in-game chat:
/portals
That shows their current portal count and the server limit.
Admins get an in-game Portal Limit UI for:
Normal players cannot open the admin editor.
Normal tagged portals still behave like regular Valheim portals.
Portal Limit only changes a portal when an admin marks it as a discovery portal, or when a player reaches the server's portal limit.
Blank-tag portals are prevented from linking together so new portals do not fake a connection before players set a tag.
/portals and /portallimit go in regular chat, not the F5/dev command panel.FULL_README.md is included in the download for server owners who want config details.Join the Discord for questions, bug reports, balance feedback, or suggestions: