VitalityRewrite

v1.2.6·Updated 2026-09-22

By running, swimming, jumping, mining, woodcutting and not dying;) you can increase your Vitality skill which improves many base attributes of your character.

About this mod Author’s original text

Complete rewrite of Vitality Skill. Credits for the idea go to Xerepp01. His mod was not being maintained anymore and didn't work in the latest version of Valheim anymore. While this was fixed by Hub, there where still many unwanted quirks in that version of the mod. I have rewritten the whole thing with the aim of removing those quirks, keeping as many of the the ideas of the original mod as I deem reasonable and making the config both complete and understandable.

The vitality skill will have the following effects on your character:

Increased maximum health

Increased maximum stamina

Increased maximum eitr (only active if you have positive eitr already)

Decreased health regeneration timer

Increased base stamina regeneration

Increased base eitr regeneration

Decreased delay before stamina regeneration starts again

Jump and swim stamina cost reduction

Walking and running speed

Swimming speed and turning speed while swimming

Carry weight increase

Jump height increase

Fall damage decrease (both fixed compared to original mod where fall damage was reduced the longer you where in the air and configurable now)

Wood cutting damage increase (should have been in the original mod but failed to work)

Mining damage increase (should have been in the original mod but failed to work)

The vitality skill can be increased by:

Running (unchanged).

Swimming (not just floating). Compared to original mod no longer gaining this and running gain when running in shallow water...

Jumping. Increased by almost a factor of 10 since this was doing almost nothing in original mod.

Wood cutting. Slightly increased skill gain per hit with better axe.

Mining. Slightly increased skill gain per hit with better pickaxe.

The amount of gain can be modified in the config file.

Remark: All changes to variables usually constant in vanilla Valheim are now done at character load and whenever the vitality skill is leveled up rather than every 0.02 seconds. This means, that some changes done in Configuration Manager will not automatically be applied during the game. You can force an update though via 'vitalityrewrite apply' in the console (does not required devcommands). You can also reload a changed cfg file using 'vitalityrewrite reload'.

Changelog

1.0.1 Added option to reset your "fall velocity" when doing a jump. Does nothing without other mods but lets you dampen your fall using in-air jumps (EpicLoot offers an enchant to do this, others could as well).

1.0.2

  • Recompile with new Valheim version (0.216.9) which seems to fix tree issue
  • Fixing jump spam level up

1.0.3

  • Fixing for Hildirs Patch

1.0.4

  • Continuing to fix for Hildir

1.1.0

  • Running and Swimming will now only increase the skill every few seconds (same amount, just less increase spam)

1.1.1

  • Recompile for 0.217.22

1.2.0

  • Vitality skill now also effects Eitr

1.2.1

  • Fixing compatibility with Epic Loots Airjump

1.2.2

  • Server bugfix attempt

1.2.3

  • Recompile for 0.217.46

1.2.4

  • Fixing for Ashlands (0.218.15)

1.2.6

  • Recompile for 1.0

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_Valheimpipakin-SkillInjector

File & checksum

Filename
VitalityRewrite-1.2.6.zip
File size
148.0 KiB