Rist

Rist

Rist adds a character level beside Valheim's skills. Every level gives you a pick, and a pick

carves one more rank into a runestone you choose. Vanilla skills are read and never written,

rescaled or reskinned.

Built against Valheim 1.0.7, Unity 6000.0.75, BepInEx 5.4.23.5, Harmony 2.9. One DLL plus one

text file, no asset bundle.

Features

• A character level with its own curve, fed by skill level-ups.
• One pick per level. Picks bank; nothing expires.
• Runestones raise a stat by a fixed amount per rank, to rank 5 by default. Every fifth rank

grants a capstone, a second and different effect.

• No runestone carries a drawback.
• A panel on the compendium bar showing every runestone, what it is worth now, what the next

rank adds, and which character level bought each rank.

• An experience bar on the HUD, cloned from one of the game's own bars, that flashes while a

pick is unspent.

• A line above other players' heads: level, total XP, days since their last death.
• Dying no longer costs skill progress. On by default, and switchable.
• The catalogue is a plain text file. Adding a runestone is one line and no rebuild.
• On a server, progress is kept in the server's own ledger rather than in the character file.

How it works

XP and levels

XP comes from skill level-ups and from nothing else. Almost everything in Valheim raises some

skill, so building, sneaking, sailing, cooking and fishing all pay in without Rist keeping a

list of what counts.

A level-up is worth the skill level it reached, not a flat amount, multiplied by that skill's

weight. Vanilla's own skill cost curve is pow(level+1, 1.5), so early levels are nearly free;

a flat rate would hand out runestones in the first hours and dry up when the deep ranks start

to matter.

The weight is what stops one activity carrying the level. On the live server, a character at

Rist level 12 held 1346 XP of which WoodCutting alone was 666, against 293 for everything

earned in a fight. Default weights:

| Weight | Skills |

| --- | --- |

| 1 | Swords, Knives, Clubs, Polearms, Spears, Axes, Bows, Crossbows, Unarmed, Blocking, ElementalMagic, BloodMagic |

| 0.5 | Dodge, Sneak, Swim |

| 0.25 | WoodCutting, Pickaxes, Crafting, Farming, Cooking, Fishing, Run, Jump, Ride |

Full price for a skill raised by something that can kill you, a fraction for repetition that

cannot. The same character comes out at level 6 under this table, with over half of it earned

fighting. SkillWeights is meant to be edited, and on a server the host's table applies to

everyone.

Cumulative XP for level N is LevelBaseXp N^LevelExponent, which is 40 N^1.4 by default.

Changing the weights affects new XP only. To re-price characters that already exist, change

WeightGeneration to any different text: every character is then recomputed once, on its next

login, from the skill levels the server has watched it reach. Runestones already taken are

kept, so a character re-priced from level 12 to level 6 still holds all twelve ranks and earns

no new pick until it passes level 12 again.

Spending picks

The panel is a fifth tab on the compendium bar, beside the raven and the trophy. There is no

keybind; the tab is the only way in.

With a controller the panel has a pointer of its own, because the game's own windows are walked

by focus and this one has none to walk. Push the left stick and a gold cross appears; A carves the

stone under it and B closes the page. Moving the mouse or a trackpad hands the page straight back

to the cursor.

Each runestone carries its own outline, rock and runes, seeded off its id, so it looks the same

in every session and on every machine. A rank cuts one more rune into the rim. The column beside

the field follows the cursor and says what the stone is worth now, what the next rank would make

it, what sits at the bottom of its track, and the character level that bought each rank.

The stones stand in five ættir, Combat, Survival, Endurance, Stealth and Utility: towers two

stones wide and up to f