AFK Skill Trainer

AFK Skill Trainer

A Valheim BepInEx plugin that trains your skills on a T.W.I.G. while you're away from the keyboard.

Stand near the dummy and press '. Your character walks in close enough for the mode, then keeps

attacking, blocking, parrying or rolling. It drinks a stamina potion or rests when stamina runs out, eats

when it can, stays on the spot and stops when the skill reaches 100. Dodge mode needs much less: it rests

instead of drinking and only eats when it has to.

Client-side only: only you install it. The server and other players don't need it.

Controls

| Key | Does |

| --- | --- |

| ' | Start or stop training |

|; | Switch the training mode: attack, block, parry, dodge, then back to attack (works mid-training) |

Training modes

• Attack swings whatever weapon is in your hands and trains that weapon's skill. Unarmed trains

Unarmed. It walks you in until the T.W.I.G. is inside three quarters of the weapon's reach, read from

the game, so every swing lands.

• Block holds your shield up against the T.W.I.G.'s swings to train Blocking. The mod drives the

block directly, so your block hold/toggle setting doesn't matter. Blocking the T.W.I.G.'s 1-damage

swings costs well under 1 stamina each and a parry costs none

(Valheim Wiki), so block and parry mode hardly ever rest.

• Parry raises the shield just before each swing or rock lands, so every block is a parry, which

earns more Blocking experience than a plain block. Each kind of T.W.I.G. swing is timed separately, and

each T.W.I.G.'s rock for where you stand, since a rock takes longer to fly from further away: the first

of each is held with a plain block while the mod measures it. Tower shields can't parry, so with one this

mode holds block and says so when it starts.

• Dodge rolls just before each swing or rock lands, so the hit lands while you're invulnerable, which

trains Dodge. It rolls into the T.W.I.G. and walks you back to the start spot between swings. You can't

roll while over-encumbered, so if the rolls aren't happening it stops and says why. It only eats when it

has to and rests instead of drinking potions (Food and potions in dodge mode).

Block, parry and dodge walk you in to about 1.3 m from the T.W.I.G., inside the range all of its swings

come from, so it swings at you.

Parry and dodge need to see the T.W.I.G.'s swings. If they can't, for example because another player's

game runs the T.W.I.G., parry mode holds block and dodge mode rolls on a steady 3 s beat, and the mod says

so in the corner of the screen.

Rocks

A T.W.I.G. throws rocks at you when you're out of reach of its swings, up to 12 m away. Parry and dodge

mode watch every T.W.I.G. that close, not just the one you train on, so a second T.W.I.G. nearby gets

its rocks parried or rolled through too. A shield only stops hits from your front half

(players on the Steam forum), so parry mode

doesn't raise it for a T.W.I.G. behind you; dodge mode rolls for those as well, since a roll works against

attacks from any direction (Valheim Wiki: Dodging). When

training starts, the log lists each other T.W.I.G. it watches and whether it's in front of you, so you can

move one that's behind you.

Parry and dodge can also train against rocks on purpose: start 4 to 12 m from a T.W.I.G. and training

stays where you stand instead of walking you in. A rock comes every 6 s at most, so this is slower than

training up close. If no rock comes in the first 12 s, parry mode holds block and dodge mode rolls on a

beat until one does; if none ever comes, start closer. Block and attack mode always walk you in, and

switching to one of them while training at range does too.

Walking in

Training only ever walks you closer: if you're already close enough, it starts where you stand.

Switching mode with; walks you in again if the new mode needs you closer. If something is in the

way, it trains from as close as it got, as long as that's within 0.4 m of the spot. If it can't get

that close, it gives up after 5 s, or 2 s for