Mining Progression

Adds a Mining skill that increases mining damage, ore yield and pickaxe lifetime.

• Gain Mining experience from successful pickaxe strikes against ore deposits.
• Level 50 by default: +15% mining damage, approximately +12.5% ore and 15% more pickaxe uses.
• Level 100 by default: +30% mining damage, approximately +25% ore and 30% more pickaxe uses.
• Bonuses increase gradually. Your level saves with your character.
• Extra ore is rolled per dropped item, so individual deposits vary. Ordinary stone and loot from containers are not multiplied.
• Pickaxe lifetime improves through reduced wear per melee attack, including Vein Mining swings. It does not repair the tool or change its maximum health. Other weapon types are unaffected.
• Includes a transparent pickaxe-and-rock skill icon and a matching bronze-ring Thunderstore icon.

Four server-synchronized settings, adjustable separately:

Maximum bonuses apply at level 100. Set a bonus to 0 to disable it. At the default maximum durability bonus, each attack uses approximately 23.1% less durability, giving 30% more uses. Configure through a compatible configuration manager or BepInEx/config/branchofyore.miningprogression.cfg on the server. Existing installations keep their saved settings; set damage and durability bonuses to 30 to use the new defaults. Normal death penalties apply.

Works with copper, tin, iron scrap, silver, flametal, obsidian and chitin deposits. The required pickaxe tier still applies. The damage bonus only affects ore mining, not combat or buildings.

Installation

Requires BepInExPack Valheim and Jotunn on the server and every player. Import the ZIP as a local mod, or copy plugins/MiningProgression/MiningProgression.dll to BepInEx/plugins/MiningProgression/.

This is a standalone mod. It does not require Smoothbrain Mining and must not be enabled alongside that mod; both provide a Mining skill and bonuses. No existing character skill is migrated from Smoothbrain Mining.

Vein Mining 0.3.4 is optional. The integration applies the Mining damage bonus to shared work, grants experience on accepted contributions and uses the stored contributor level for each part's ore bonus. The mods remain separate downloads.

Early test release for Valheim 1.0.16. Separate-client multiplayer testing is pending. See TESTING.md for verification details.

0.1.4

• Simplified the description; mentions the custom in-game skill icon.
• Gameplay and default settings are unchanged.

0.1.3

• Simplified the description to mention Vein Mining only as optional compatibility.
• New upload version; gameplay and default settings are unchanged from 0.1.2.

0.1.2

• Default mining damage and pickaxe lifetime bonuses increased to 30% at level 100 and 15% at level 50.
• Ore yield remains 25% at level 100. All bonuses remain independently adjustable; existing saved settings are preserved.

0.1.1

• Mining skill now reduces pickaxe wear, with 25% more uses at level 100 by default.
• Added Maximum Pickaxe Durability Bonus alongside separate damage, yield and XP settings.
• Added a bronze-ring Thunderstore icon with crossed pickaxes, matching the other mods.

0.1.0

• Added the Mining skill with gradual ore damage and yield bonuses.
• Added server-synchronized damage, yield and XP settings.
• Added a transparent pickaxe-and-rock skill icon.
• Added optional integration with Vein Mining 0.3.4.