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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

Requirements

• Valheim (BepInEx modded install)
• BepInEx
• HarmonyX (comes with BepInEx)

No other mods are required. If you're playing with others, everyone who wants to see ghosted players as a wisp (rather than a floating character model) needs GhostWalk installed too — the effect only shows up for people who have it.

Installation

1. Install BepInEx for Valheim if you haven't already (most mod managers, e.g. r2modman/Thunderstore Mod Manager, do this automatically).
2. Drop GhostWalk.dll into your BepInEx/plugins folder.
3. Launch the game once to generate the config file, then adjust settings to taste (see below) — or use a config-editing mod like Configuration Manager in-game.

Configuration

Everything is adjustable from the BepInEx config file (or a config manager mod). Settings are grouped as:

• General — master enable/disable switch for the whole mod.
• Ghost — the core death/ghost-form experience: movement speed, invulnerability, flight (including whether it requires jumping to start), stamina, map-exploration pausing, enemy targeting, corpse pin, and how close to your body you need to respawn before ghost mode is skipped entirely.
• Visuals — the wisp model, its tint color, the screen wash, and the frost aura.
• Music — ghost-form ambience: on/off, volume, and whether the game's own music is muted while it plays.
• Revive — tombstone-looting behavior and the teleport-to-Spirit failsafe (which key/interaction triggers it).
• SpiritOfResurrection — whether the Spirit NPC is available at all, and the cost of using it (skill loss, durability loss, and the strength/duration of Resurrection Sickness).

If something doesn't look right after a game update, check the BepInEx log (LogOutput.log) — GhostWalk is built to keep working even if a few individual features can't find what they're looking for on a new game version, and it logs a line explaining exactly what it skipped rather than failing silently or crashing.

Multiplayer

GhostWalk is a client-side mod — install it on whichever clients you want the experience for. It doesn't require the server or other players to have it, though a couple of features (seeing other ghosted players as a wisp) only work for players who also have it installed.

Current version: 1.4.3