CheatDeath

v1.0.8·Updated 2026-09-10

Fatal attacks instead reduce your health to set %. Afterwards you take reduced damage. Triggers once per 10 min. For hardcore or sloppy players.

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Cheat Death

Fatal attacks instead reduce your health to set %. Afterwards you take reduced damage. Triggers once per 10 min. For hardcore or sloppy players.

Features

Fatal blow calculated as your health reaches 0 no matter what action caused the effect.

You can configure:

  • cooldown
  • status effect name
  • ability to cleanse burning, poison and puke on effect proc
  • duration of protection
  • health threshold (percent or fixed amount) to which your hp will be saved/restored on proc
  • fatal blow message picked from config value

Temporary protection config:

  • damage modifiers type (resistant, very resistant, immune, etc.)
  • damage resistance type (blunt, pierce, etc.)
  • fall damage modifier and max fall speed
  • stamina consumption on jump and run
  • max carry weight added
  • health over time (how much health will be restored in protection duration)
  • health per second (while protection is active)

Post protection config:

  • damage modifiers type (resistant, very resistant, immune, etc.)
  • damage resistance type (blunt, pierce, etc.)
  • fall damage modifier and max fall speed
  • stamina consumption on jump and run
  • max carry weight added
  • health per second (for limited duration)
  • default duration is 1 minute
  • you can also configure custom status effect to apply when main protection is over

All config values are server synced.

Cooldown

Cheat Death ability takes some time to recover. This time is tied to the world where you died. It means player will have different cooldown in different worlds.

There is console command setcheatdeathcooldown [seconds] to manually set cooldown.

Cooldown is based on a world time by default. It could be changed to use global real time instead.

Icon replace

Put file CheatDeath.png next to plugin main file CheatDeath.dll and it will be loaded as status effect icon instead of regular skull icon.

Installation (manual)

copy CheatDeath.dll to your BepInEx\Plugins\ folder.

Incompatibility

Mod should be compatible with anything.

Configurating

The best way to handle configs is Configuration Manager.

Or Official BepInEx Configuration Manager.

Dependencies

  • BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350
  • ConditionalConfigSync 1.0.5

Install ConditionalConfigSync as a separate dependency; do not copy its DLLs into this mod's package.

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Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.

Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

denikson-BepInExPack_Valheimshudnal-ConditionalConfigSync

File & checksum

Filename
CheatDeath-1.0.8.zip
File size
67.3 KiB