Lower Elemental Resistances

v1.0.4·Updated 2026-04-20

Lowers the player's fire, frost, lightning, poison, and spirit resistances for more hardcore play

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Lower Elemental Resistances

This mod lowers to player's elemental resistances (fire, frost, lightning, poison, and spirit) for a more hardcore playthrough.

Features

  • Lowers all elemental resistances to 'very weak'
  • Elemental resistances are individually configurable any available resistance value

Mod details:

Valheims damage system works like this...

BaseDamage + (Modifier * BaseDamage) = Total Damage

Ex. Player has 'very weak' poison resistance and receives 1 poison damage: 1 + (2.0 * 1) = 3 Total Damage.

Modifiers include

  • Very Resistant: 0.25
  • Resistant: 0.5
  • Weak: 1.5
  • Very Weak: 2.0

By default the players elemental resistances are all 'normal'. This mod will change them all to 'very weak' and you can optionally configure it to 'weak'.

Support & Feedback

Please give me feedback if you have any thoughts about the mods! If you have any issues feel free to message me in the the OdinPlus Discord (see link at top of page).

Credit & thanks

I'd like to thank coemt for their help in making this mod! If you're someone that's interested in making mods, come by the OdinPlus discord and ask for help! Give it a shot!

Donations/Tips

I make mods because I enjoy it and want to make Valheim more enjoyable for everyone. If you feel like saying thanks you can tip here.

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Source Code

Source code is available on Github.

| Github Repository: | Lower Elemental Resistances |

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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_ValheimValheimModding-Jotunn

File & checksum

Filename
Lower_Elemental_Resistances-1.0.4.zip
File size
170.6 KiB