SkillPoints

Skill Points Overhaul for Romestead

A balanced progression overhaul mod for Romestead built with BepInEx 6 (.NET CoreCLR).

Why This Mod?

In vanilla Romestead, earning a single favour/skill point requires exceeding an escalating 20% compound formula:

$$\text{XP Required} = 1500 \times 1.2^{\text{FavourLevel} + 1}$$

By Favour Level 15–20, acquiring a single point requires tens of thousands of XP, bringing progression to a near halt.

Skill Points Overhaul replaces this with a fair, rewarding Hybrid Progression Model and full retroactive support for existing saves.

Key Features

• Softened Progression Curve ($1.05^N$ instead of $1.20^N$)
• Keeps the satisfying feeling of gathering XP across your skills, but removes the brutal brick wall.
• Point 1: ~1,575 XP
• Point 10: ~2,440 XP
• Point 20: ~3,980 XP
• Point 25: ~5,080 XP
• Major Milestone Bonuses (Levels 25, 50, 75, 100)
• Every time any individual skill (Swords, Mining, Woodcutting, Archery, Farming, etc.) crosses a major milestone (Level 25, 50, 75, 100), you immediately receive +1 Bonus Skill Point!
• Mastering a discipline delivers exciting, high-impact progression milestones.
• Retroactive Save File Reconciliation
• Works seamlessly with existing characters!
• When loading a save file, the mod automatically audits:
• All spent SP across unlocked God Favours
• Current unspent SP
• Lifetime skill XP earned
• All milestone tiers reached across your skills
• If your character is owed points under the new system, it instantly grants the missing SP with a notification chime.
• Zero penalty: It never removes points or resets already purchased perks.

Developer Console Commands

Press ~ or \ to open the in-game terminal:

• skillpoints — Shows active mode, spent SP, unspent SP, total SP, and current curve progress.
• reconcilesp — Manually re-checks and recalculates SP for the current character.
• addpoints — Instantly grants $N$ Skill Points (e.g. addpoints 3).
• skillpointmode [hybrid | milestones | curve | vanilla] — Switch progression modes on the fly.

Configuration

Located at BepInEx\config\com.atomiz.romestead.skillpoints.cfg:

[General]

Progression mode: Hybrid (softened curve + milestones), MilestonesOnly, SoftenedCurveOnly, or Vanilla.

Setting type: SkillProgressionMode

Default value: Hybrid

Mode = Hybrid

[Curve]

Exponential growth rate per point in the curve (default 1.05 vs vanilla 1.20).

Setting type: Single

Default value: 1.05

GrowthFactor = 1.05

Base XP required for the first favor point.

Setting type: Single

Default value: 1500

BaseXp = 1500

[Milestones]

Comma-separated skill levels that award bonus Skill Points.

Setting type: String

Default value: 25,50,75,100

Levels = 25,50,75,100

Number of bonus SP awarded when a skill crosses each milestone.

Setting type: Int32

Default value: 1

PointsPerMilestone = 1

[SaveCompatibility]

Automatically check and grant missing SP for existing save files upon loading.

Setting type: Boolean

Default value: true

AutoReconcileOnLoad = true

Installation

• Ensure BepInEx 6 (CoreCLR.NET 8) is installed.
• Extract SkillPoints.zip.
• Place SkillPoints.dll into:

\BepInEx\plugins\SkillPoints\SkillPoints.dll

• Launch the game and enjoy fair progression!