v0.9.42 — The Waystone

ᛦ The Waystone — join by name, not by number

Give your server a proper name. Once a Waystone is raised, every join surface — the Network card, the Sail Forth join prompt, the command palette copy, and the Discord Herald post — shares valheim.your-domain.com:2456 instead of a raw IP.

What's new

• Waystone wizard (WAYSTONE chip on the Network card, or Ctrl+K → Custom domain): four guided steps —
  1. Welcome — what you need (a domain you own, or a free dynamic-DNS name like DuckDNS / No-IP)
  2. Name — pick the name; pasted URLs are cleaned up automatically (scheme, path, port, trailing dot all stripped)
  3. Point — per-step DNS instructions: A-record setup (type/name/value/TTL), Cloudflare "DNS only" grey-cloud warning, dynamic-DNS updater paths, and a port-forwarding reminder
  4. Prove — live check: BakaLoader resolves the name and compares it against your server's public IP (match / stale-record / not-yet-propagated verdicts)
• Network card shows the Waystone address with its own COPY chip; the address drill-down lists it above the raw public IP.
• Discord Herald status posts prefer the domain once set.
• Remove it any time — everything falls back to the raw IP.

Honest limit

Valheim clients resolve A/AAAA records but have no SRV support — the port always travels with the name. The wizard says so up front.

Plain-terminology mode renders the whole feature as "Custom domain" throughout.