SkillLimitExtenderFork

Skill Limit Extender Fork

The main goal of this mod is to reward players who are willing to work long and hard, pushing their skills beyond normal limits until they eventually reach godlike levels.

A Valheim 1.0.x fork of SkillLimitExtender that raises skill caps beyond 100, adds configurable XP curves, and makes skill effects continue scaling safely past vanilla limits. It includes extended damage and blocking, asymptotic stamina/eitr/health and action-time scaling, safer tool costs, optional Jump-based safe-fall scaling, mod-skill support, UI fixes, save-data safeguards, and server-synchronized configuration.

This fork is intended as a replacement for the original SkillLimitExtender 1.2.0 plus its Valheim 1 compatibility/damage patches. Do not install those packages alongside this fork.

Features

• Skill caps above the vanilla level-100 limit.
• Separate per-skill Cap and BonusCap.
• Custom XP growth curves for every skill.
• Damage scaling above level 100.
• Blocking scaling based on the same configurable extended multiplier as damage.
• Safe post-100-percent scaling for stamina, eitr, health costs, action times, and supported tool durability costs.
• Extended bow draw speed and crossbow reload speed.
• Extended Run, Swim, Dodge, Sneak stamina, Fishing, and Riding cost scaling.
• Optional Jump-based safe-fall-distance scaling.
• Automatic configuration sections for vanilla skills and discovered mod skills.
• Skill UI support for extended caps, plus invalid-entry sanitization.
• Character skill-data sanitization to prevent invalid skill entries from breaking the skills UI or save data.
• Server configuration synchronization and version/protocol checks.
• Normal BepInEx.cfg configuration only — Jotunn and YamlDotNet are not required.

Default behavior

The default configuration stays fairly close to vanilla for skill levels 0–100, while extending progression far beyond the vanilla cap.

Skills can level up to 1000, while their normal skill-effect factor stops increasing at 500 by default unless BonusCap is changed.

The default experience curve is designed so that:

• Levels 0–10 are slightly slower than vanilla.
• Levels 11–60 are slightly easier than vanilla.
• Levels 61–90 are close to vanilla progression.
• Levels 91–100 become somewhat harder than vanilla.
• Levels 101+ become progressively much harder to achieve.

This keeps the early and mid-game progression familiar while making very high skill levels a long-term goal rather than something reached quickly.

As for the effect of each skill level, levels 0–100 behave the same as vanilla. Starting from level 101, the additional effect becomes progressively weaker as the skill increases.

This prevents effects such as stamina, eitr, or health-cost reductions from ever reaching 100% reduction or going beyond it into negative values, which would otherwise cause unintended behavior such as restoring stamina instead of consuming it.

Requirements

• Valheim 1.0.x
• BepInExPack for Valheim

For multiplayer, use the same version of the mod on the server and clients.

Installation

Install through a -compatible mod manager, or place the compiled DLL in:

BepInEx/plugins/SkillLimitExtender/

Start the game once to generate:

BepInEx/config/SkillLimitExtender.cfg

If upgrading from the original SkillLimitExtender setup, remove:

• the original SkillLimitExtender DLL/package;
• SkillLimitExtenderValheim1Compat;
• any separate SkillLimitExtender damage patch;
• old Jotunn/YamlDotNet dependencies if no other installed mod requires them.

Legacy SLE_Skill_List.yaml files are ignored by this fork.

Default skill settings

Every vanilla skill starts with the following configuration:

| Setting | Vanilla behavior | Fork default |

|---|---|---|

| Maximum skill level | 100 | Cap = 1000 |

| Maximum skill-effect factor | 1.0 at level 100 | BonusCap = 500 → maximum factor 5.0 |

| Factor calculation | Effectively level / 100 up to 1.0 | Relative = false → level / 100, capped by Bon