Skill Cap Mod

v2.0.10·Updated 2026-10-09

Not meant to be compatible with other mods. I made this for my friends and myself.

About this mod Author’s original text

Mod restricts max skill level based on what boss has been killed.

Removes skill penalty on death.

+20% skill exp per boss kill, stacks even with the same boss.

Adds new foods, weapons, merchant items, recipes, build pieces, bombs, etc.

Capes can now be made waterproof with wax at the cauldron. This protects from rain, but not bodies of water.

Invulnerability when coming out of a portal for a few seconds.

Bosses have double HP (Up to Bonemass for now).

Corpse Run now grants 700 max carry weight.

All pickables now grant farming skill exp upon gathering.

Enemies HP and damage do NOT stop scaling after 5 nearby players.

All players positions are public upon logging on the world.

New skill perks:

Spears, 30: Location beam at impact point when thrown.

Jump, 30: Minimum fall damage distance increased from 4m to 8m.

Jump, 50: Double jump.

Swim, 20: Dive by holding block while swimming.

Swim, 30: Can attack with knives while swimming.

Sneak, 20: Sneak speed increased.

Sneak, 50: Invisible when immobile for 3 seconds.

Bows, 50: 10% chance to fire a second arrow for free.

Run, 40: Activate Second Wind when reaching 0 stamina. Instantly grants 500 stamina. 1h CD.

Disclaimer: The mod uses reflection and does not publicize the valheim library so it's probably not compatible with a lot of mods.

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_Valheim

File & checksum

Filename
Skill_Cap_Mod-2.0.10.zip
File size
34.5 MiB