After a few hundred hours in game, several playthroughs, and who knows how many trees chopped down, rocks mined, and greydwarves killed my attention has switched primarily to construction. Anyone who has done any significant building in Valheim knows the snapping system is, uhm, imperfect, and building along the waters edge for a proper dock is extra challenging. Also, who loves nighttime and heavy fog when trying to build?

Through the use of a few mods I've been able to mostly replicate a "creative mode" interface for pure building. I'm not going to get into a debate about mods, If you lack the self control to not use features of a mod you don't want to use then the problem isn't the mod. I've used various mods for dozens of games so it's not a challenge for me getting them installed. YMMV. That being said, uhm, yay mods?

Anyway, here's a rundown of the tools I use for a (more) proper creative mode.

#1 Build Camera (https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/226) The most important of the tools, it adds a free floating build camera which moves around independent of your viking avatar. You need to be in range of a workbench, but the functionality works with the hoe as well as the hammer.

#2 WeMod (https://www.wemod.com/) Among other options WeMod allows you to remove all crafting requirements so you can free build, and can increase your carry capacity for cleaning up the materials generated by correcting build mistakes. It can also make you invisible to mobs so they don't pester you while building and/or "god mode" so you don't get beat up on while you're floating off somewhere else using Build Camera.

#3 Rune Magic (https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/1359) While it has other features, there are two we care about the most. First, it is able to perfectly level the ground in a large circular area. Second it can return any area to it's original pristine state.

#4 Heightmap Unlimited (https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/359) This will increase the upper and lower height boundaries for building/digging, configurable on how much.

#5 Extended Daytime (https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/38) It's not all clear weather and constant light, but it does increase the time available to build without the annoyance of weather effects and darkness.

#6 Hoe Radius (https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/1199) Add scroll wheel control to shrink/enlarge to hoe radius. Because who doesn't like a big hoe?

#7 Trash Items (https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/441) Adds a trashcan to your inventory dialog to quickly destroy items (for all the mess you make fixing your mistakes).

Cool but not necessarily desired:
Seafloor Walking Boots (https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/1580) Before Build Camera I used boots which let you walk on the see floor and breath underwater. Sort of redundant to Build Camera unless you are looking to start a build out under the ocean (because you can't build a workbench in the middle of the ocean for Build Camera to work).

More Gates (https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/1087) Adds several new doors & gates along with windows and a few other items. I expect this mod may break after a game update leaving gaps in my builds, but they are cool so I do still use them here and there, though I try and minimize that.

Would be cool if IronGate would integrate some of this functionality into Valheim.

Anyway, I hope some of you builders find this useful!