GhostWalk

GhostWalk

A WoW-style "release spirit and run back to your corpse" death experience for Valheim.

When you die, instead of just respawning at your bed with a mad dash back to loot your grave, you rise as a spirit at your respawn point. You can fly or walk back to your body to recover your gear the normal way, or find the Spirit of Resurrection and pay a small price to come back to life on the spot.

What happens when you die

• You rise as a ghost. A translucent wisp takes the place of your character, the screen washes blue, and a pin marks your corpse on the map.
• You're safe. While a ghost you take no damage, can't be attacked, can't fight back, and (for the most part) enemies simply won't notice you.
• Get back to life one of two ways:
• Walk it off — make your way to your tombstone and loot it like normal. You're back to full ghost-free life the moment you do.
• Call the Spirit of Resurrection — a helper NPC that appears near your respawn point. Talk to it to revive on the spot instead of making the trip, at a cost (see below).

Features

• Ghost form on death — invulnerable, can't attack, no stamina drain, moves faster than normal.
• Grounded by default, fly when you want — you start out walking normally so you don't float through your own base; press Jump while grounded and flight kicks in (Space to rise, crouch to descend, move toward where you're looking). If you ever end up airborne without flying — fell off a ledge, got knocked off — flight switches on automatically so you're never stuck falling.
• Spirit of Resurrection — an NPC that lets you revive instantly instead of walking back to your corpse. Costs a small skill penalty and some durability on your equipped gear, plus a temporary debuff (see below). It also hands back whatever gear you were wearing when you died, straight from your tombstone.
• Resurrection Sickness — the price of an instant revive: reduced stamina regeneration, shorter food buff durations, and a temporary cap on your max health. Fades on its own after a while.
• Teleport back to the Spirit — don't want to open your grave? Alt-interact (or hold E, depending on config) on your tombstone, or press a dedicated hotkey (default Home) from anywhere, to instantly return to the Spirit instead.
• Enemies leave you alone — creatures across every biome, from a Meadows Boar to end-game bosses, are blocked from noticing, targeting, or chasing a ghost.
• The map doesn't fill in while you're dead — flying/walking around as a ghost won't reveal new areas of the map. If you play with shared map progression, teammates exploring while you're a ghost still shows up on your map as normal — only your own ghosted movement is paused.
• Other players see you as a wisp too — if they also have GhostWalk installed, your character model is hidden and replaced with the same glowing wisp on their screen while you're a ghost.
• Ghost music — drop an audio file next to the mod and it plays while you're a ghost, fading in on death and out on revive, and ducking the game's own music underneath it.
• Silent footsteps, frost aura, and a subtle screen tint round out the "you are not really here" feeling.

Almost everything above can be turned off or tuned in the config file if it's not your thing — see below.

Keybinds

| Action | Key | Notes |

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

| Take off / start flying | Jump | Only while a ghost and standing on the ground. Not needed if you've turned off "fly on jump only" in the config (see below) — flight then starts immediately on death instead. |

| Fly up / down | Space / Crouch | Standard fly controls, once flight is active. |

| Loot your tombstone (normal revive) | E | Same as looting any container. |

| Talk to / force-revive at the Spirit of Resurrection | E | Only appears while you're a ghost. |

| Teleport to the Spirit of Resurrection | Alt + E (or hold E, depending on config) on your grave | Configurable which trigger is used. |

| Teleport to the Spirit of Resurrection (from anywhere) | Home | Configur