VanillaSkillsModifier
Customize vanilla skills to your pace: leveling speed, skill effect strength, weapon damage scaling, and extra features like sneak backstab bonuses.
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Vanilla Skills Modifier
Customize vanilla skills to your pace: leveling speed, skill effect strength, weapon damage scaling, and extra features like sneak backstab bonuses.
What It Does
Vanilla Skills Modifier gives you simple config control over the normal Valheim skill system.
You can adjust:
- XP gain for all vanilla skills
- Normal skill effect strength for all vanilla skills
- Individual XP and effect multipliers for combat, movement, and utility skills
- Extra weapon, tool, and magic damage scaling
- Optional Sneak-based backstab bonus scaling
The mod keeps the normal skill logic in place and lets you tune how strong or fast that logic becomes.
Config
After launching the game once, edit:
BepInEx/config/mgdev.vanillaskillsmodifier.cfg
The config sections are numbered with two digits so keeps them in the right order.
Current sections:
- 01 - Global
- 02 - Smart Tweaks
- 03 - Swords
- 04 - Knives
- 05 - Clubs
- 06 - Polearms
- 07 - Spears
- 08 - Blocking
- 09 - Axes
- 10 - Bows
- 11 - Elemental Magic
- 12 - Blood Magic
- 13 - Unarmed
- 14 - Pickaxes
- 15 - Wood Cutting
- 16 - Crossbows
- 17 - Jump
- 18 - Sneak
- 19 - Run
- 20 - Swim
- 21 - Fishing
- 22 - Cooking
- 23 - Farming
- 24 - Crafting
- 25 - Dodge
- 26 - Ride
Most settings use 1 by default, which means unchanged.
Example: if AllSkillsXpMultiplier is 1.5 and SwordsXpMultiplier is also 1.5, Swords XP gains become 2.25x.
Recommended Values
Most multiplier settings include a recommended range of 0.1 to 10.
You can go higher, but very large values such as 20 or 50 may make the game heavier to process and can cause slowdowns or instability, especially when many effects stack together.
Requirements
- BepInExPack Valheim
Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.
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: