DeathPenalty
Allows tweaking death related values such as skill loss amount.
About this mod Author’s original text
Allows tweaking various death related values. You can make death softer or harder as desired by editing the config.
- Tune the death penalty skill level loss percentage.
- Toggle whether skill progress towards the next level is reset.
- Modify the duration of the "No Skill Loss" buff.
- Modify the duration of the "Corpse Run" buff.
Run the game once with the mod enabled to generate the config. See config for details on what each option does.
This mod must be installed on client and server.
Some configuration options can be enforced by a server running ConditionalConfigSync. See included ConfigSync_Readme.txt file for more information.
Installation
This mod uses BepInExPack Valheim as a mod loader. You can use any BepinEx compatible mod manager to install the mod, or manually place it in the BepixEx plugins directory.
Valheim Skill Loss Calculation
Skills levels are stored as two values, the level itself and the percentage progress towards the next level.
When a player dies, the game calculate a skill loss factor using the formula 0.05 * SkillReductionRate. SkillReductionRate is a global key determined by the death penalty world modifier. As of Valheim 1.0, these are the modifier values:
- Casual and very easy: 0.15
- Easy: 0.5
- Normal: 1.0
- Hard: 1.5
The game then loops through all of the player's skills and does the following:
- Set the skill level to current level - (current level * skill loss factor)
- Reset the progress towards the next level
Because the factor is multiplied by the current level, that means losses impact higher level skills considerably more than lower level skills. At standard settings, a level 20 skill would drop to 19 for a loss of about 42 experience while a level 100 skill would drop to 95 for a loss of about 2420 experience. (Experience per level follows the formula next=Floor(current + 1)^1.5 * 0.5 + 0.5.)
This mod allows adjusting the skill loss calculation in the following ways:
- Adjust the base 0.05 constant used in the loss factor calculation, represented by the config SkillLossPercent as a percentage value (like 5%).
- Optionally skip resetting the progress towards the next level that normally occurs by setting the config ResetLevelProgress to false.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- 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.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- 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.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: