Valgrind

Valgrind

Valgrind is a lightweight mod designed to scale death penalty skill loss dynamically based on character progression.

About the Name: Valgrind

In Norse mythology, Valgrind ("The Gate of the Slain") is the sacred outer gate of Valhalla through which fallen warriors pass into the afterlife. In this mod, Valgrind acts as the gatekeeper of your mortality—fairly weighing and scaling your skill loss upon death rather than inflicting an indiscriminate flat penalty.

Features

• Progressive Skill Protection: Scales death penalty skill loss based on progression, protecting high-level masteries while keeping early-game deaths consequential.
• Multiple Calculation Modes: Supports Tiered Brackets, Continuous Curve scaling, and independent Per-Skill tier evaluation.
• Server-Synchronized Rules: Synchronizes and locks server rules across all connected clients using Jotunn.

Installation Type

• Location: Must be installed on both the Server and the Client.
• Enforcement: Client versions must match the server version.

Manual Install

• Ensure BepInEx and Jotunn are installed.
• Extract the downloaded.zip archive.
• Copy Valgrind.dll into your Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ folder.
• Launch the game once to generate the default configuration file.

Configuration

The configuration file is automatically created at BepInEx/config/com.bigai.valgrind.cfg after running the game once.

| Section | Setting | Default | Description |

|:--- |:--- |:--- |:--- |

| 1 - General | CalculationMode | TieredBrackets | Method used to calculate dynamic skill loss (TieredBrackets, ContinuousCurve, PerSkill). |

| 1 - General | UseTopNSkillsOnly | false | If true, average skill level is computed using only the player's top N highest skills. |

| 1 - General | TopNSkillsCount | 5 | Number of top skills to factor into the average when UseTopNSkillsOnly is enabled. |

| 1 - General | ResetAccumulatorOnDeath | true | If true, partial XP progress toward the next level is wiped on death (vanilla behavior). |

| 1 - General | EnableDebugLogging | false | Enables verbose calculation logging in the BepInEx console. |

| 2 - Tiered Brackets | EarlyGameLossPercent | 8.0 | Skill loss % for skill/average levels 75. |

| 3 - Continuous Curve | CurveMaxLossPercent | 8.0 | Maximum skill loss % applied at skill level 0. |

| 3 - Continuous Curve | CurveMinLossPercent | 1.0 | Minimum skill loss % applied at skill level 100. |

Controls & Commands

• Keybinds: None.
• Admin Commands: None.

Compatibility & Safe Removal

• Multiplayer: Must be installed on both server and clients with Jotunn.
• Save Integrity: Safe to add or remove mid-playthrough. Valgrind modifies only the skill loss calculation upon death.

AI Disclosure

I made this mod using AI. Most of the code in this mod was AI generated. If you have an issue with this, I completely understand and urge you to not use this mod. This mod ("Valgrind") is meant as a lightweight mod for small servers that don't need all the bells and whistles of a more complex mod.