Well, OK, a lot of the weights in Valheim are ridiculous ... but necessary for game mechanics. Otherwise a 4x2x1 stone block, eight cubic meters of stone, would weigh roughly forty tons and ten players working together wouldn't be able to place one without a crane.

But ingot weights are particularly grating. It starts with being able to smelt a 10lb chunk of ore and get a 12lb ingot of metal out of it. (WTF? Physics doesn't work that way!) And then there's smelting 24lb of copper and 12lb of tin together to yield 12lb of bronze. (Do you EVEN MATH, bro?) And then we top it off by taking almost as much metal as you can carry at one time, to make a sword that is stated to weigh 0.8lb (the weight of a heavy knife).

I mean, yeah, OK, wastage. But 97% metal wastage? HOLY MOTHER OF INEFFICIENCY, BATMAN. What the heck did you do, cast an iron bar four feet long by eight inches square and then FILE IT DOWN to make your sword?!?

There's mods that fix the bronze issue in a fair way by simply making the basic recipe return three ingots instead of one, AS IT SHOULD. And we can fudge the weight issue of nails somewhat reasonably by saying that when the recipe says it makes "20 nails" from one ingot, what it *means* is 20 HANDFULS of nails. (We'll handwave for the moment the issue of why one ingot of metal makes 20 bronze nails but only 10 iron ones. We'll ... pretend the iron nails are bigger. Yeah. That's it. I can live with that.)

But there's just no way to argue that metal ingots in Valheim are not WAY TOO HEAVY. Because I'll tell you, if you can find a deposit of metal ore where ten pounds of ore yields TEN pounds of metal, let alone TWELVE, you haven't found ore, you have found *pure native metal*. In the real world, a metric ton of silver ore yields *grams* of silver; a metric ton of the richest copper ores can yield as much as twelve kilograms of copper. Iron ores are actually an almost fantastically rich outlier, taking about 1.6 tons of iron ore to make a ton of steel.

For game purposes it would be *REASONABLE* for Valheim to approximate an average by having 10lb of ore yield a single ingot of metal, but reducing the weight of that ingot to 1lb. Iron is not being smelted from ore, you're just remelting scrap iron, which should be MUCH less lossy; but to avoid weirdness with math and crafting, you should still get 1lb ingots, just more of them. Maybe 8 1lb ingots from 10lb of dirty, rusty scrap iron. But that's a separate issue. (We'll handwave the upgrading mechanism for tools, weapons etc for now. I SEE NUSSINK! NUSSINK!)

So we have a situation where metal ingots are ridiculously too heavy for any possible ore yield, while other items, swords for example, are too LIGHT. (A one-handed bronze or iron sword should weigh between 2 and 4 pounds. I have an arming sword with a 35½" blade and it weights 3.04lb. My CHEF'S KNIFE weights 0.7lb. So don't try to tell me a sword weighs 0.8.)

Anyway, where I'm going with this whole line of argument: Does anyone know of a Valheim mod that allows *changing the weights* of specific items? Really only *just a few items*, mostly the metal ingots should be reduced to 1lb each, though I'd increase the weights of a few of the metal weapons and tools as well.