Surge

Surge

Change how much adrenaline a trinket needs before it goes off.

Installing

Needs BepInEx. Nothing else. Through a mod manager it is one install. By hand, put

Surge.dll in BepInEx/plugins/Surge.

Then start the game once and quit. That first run writes the config file. It does not exist

before the mod has loaded, which is the usual reason people think it is broken.

Nothing changes until you edit that file. Every default is a no-op on purpose.

Changing the settings

The file is BepInEx/config/ezomic.valheim.surge.cfg. Open it in any text editor. Every

setting has a comment above it, so the file explains itself.

To make every trinket take longer to fire:

Multiplier = 2

To set exact numbers on some trinkets and leave the rest alone. These are absolute values, not

multipliers, and Multiplier has to be 1 or it still applies to everything you did not name:

Multiplier = 1

PerTrinket = TrinketBronzeHealth=35,TrinketFlametalStaminaHealth=45

Save the file and it applies straight away. No restart, and you do not have to leave the

world. That is deliberate. The right number here is a feel judgement rather than a fact, and

you find it by fighting something, changing the value, and fighting the same thing again.

One thing that will make you think it did not work. Valheim writes an item's tooltip once, at

the moment your cursor arrives on it, and never rewrites it while it sits there. So if you are

hovering a trinket when the change lands, the tooltip keeps showing the old number. Move the

cursor off it and back on and you will see the new one. The crafting panel is the same, it

refreshes when you click a different recipe. Nothing is wrong when this happens and the value

in the game has already changed, it is just the interface not being asked again.

Set Verbose = true and the mod lists every trinket it found in BepInEx/LogOutput.log, with

what it changed each one to.

What the number is

A trinket gives you an adrenaline bar. Parrying, dodging and staggering fill it. Missing an

attack and taking unblocked damage drain it, and it decays on its own after a short delay.

When it reaches the top, the trinket's effect fires and the bar empties.

So the max is not a stat you want more of. It is a charge time. Raise it and the effect takes

a longer run of good fighting to earn. Lower it and it pays out more often for less.

It scales close to linearly. Fill and decay are both curves over how full the bar is rather

than fixed amounts, so they stretch along with it, and 2 really is about twice as long.

One thing does not stretch. The grace period before an idle bar starts decaying is a fixed

number of seconds, so a longer bar gives a lull in the fight more chance to eat into it. High

values are harder than the number makes them look, and against things that die too fast to

keep the bar fed the payoff can get out of reach entirely.

The trinkets

Read off the game rather than a wiki. The prefab name is what PerTrinket wants.

| Trinket | Prefab | Vanilla max |

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

| Fins of Destiny | TrinketChitinSwim | 10 |

| Heart of the Forest | TrinketBronzeHealth | 50 |

| Bronze Pendant | TrinketBronzeStamina | 50 |

| Wolf Sight | TrinketSilverDamage | 55 |

| Evasion Mantle | TrinketBlackStamina | 60 |

| Nimble Anklet | TrinketIronStamina | 60 |

| Iron Brooch | TrinketIronHealth | 65 |

| Pulsating Earrings | TrinketCarapaceEitr | 65 |

| Jörmundling | TrinketFlametalEitr | 70 |

| Resounding Shackle | TrinketScaleStaminaDamage | 75 |

| Crystal Heart | TrinketSilverResist | 80 |

| Bracelets of the Brave | TrinketBlackDamageHealth | 85 |

| Brimstone | TrinketFlametalStaminaHealth | 100 |

Thirteen of them, running 10 to 100. That spread is why the default is a multiplier rather

than one flat number. The value is doing per-trinket balance work, not marking tiers. Fins of

Destiny at 10 charges almost constantly and Brimstone at 100 is a long earn, and a single flat

value throws all of that away. FlatValue is there if you want to flatten it