Potential Reforged

Customize the Forge of Potential's success chance and what happens when refinement fails.

• Set the success rate from 0% to 100%. Failure chance is the remaining percentage.
• Choose whether failed attempts destroy the item.
• Choose whether non-breaking failures reduce the item's level by one, with a minimum level of 1.
• Runs on your client; no server installation is needed. Settings apply to your own refinement attempts.

Defaults: 65% success, no item destruction, and one level lost on failure.

Successful refinement upgrades the item normally. Normal idol and material costs still apply.

Configuration

The config is generated after the first launch:

BepInEx/config/Dyls123.PotentialReforged.cfg

Close Valheim before editing, then restart to apply your changes.

[Chances]
SuccessChance = 65

[Failure]
BreakOnFailure = false
ReduceLevelOnFailure = true

Manual install

1. Install BepInEx 5 for Valheim.
2. Create BepInEx/plugins/Dyls123-PotentialReforged/ in your Valheim folder.
3. Copy PotentialReforged.dll from this ZIP into that folder.
4. Launch Valheim to generate the config.

Changelog

1.0.5

• Preserve the original equipment item and its attached mod data on successful and non-breaking failed refinement.
• Retain Epic Loot enchantments, rarity, rolled values, and other stored item metadata.
• Add optional BlacksmithingExpanded compatibility: preserve existing bonuses and prevent immediate or delayed upgrade detection from recalculating them during refinement.
• Clear ItemDataManager's pending transfer for preserved items so later spawned items cannot receive their data.
• Keep ordinary crafting, destruction refunds, and existing configuration defaults unchanged.
• Compiled and checked against game IL and isolated behavior tests; in-game and multiplayer validation pending.

1.0.4

• Added LevelsLostOnFailure: choose a loss of 1 to 10 levels, default 1.
• Applies only when level reduction is enabled and item destruction is disabled.
• Item quality remains at least level 1.

1.0.3

• Updated the mod description and simplified the README.

1.0.2

• Plugin ID and generated config: Dyls123.PotentialReforged and Dyls123.PotentialReforged.cfg.
• Manual installation folder: BepInEx/plugins/Dyls123-PotentialReforged.
• Thunderstore archive lets the mod manager create the Author-ModName folder.
• Defaults remain 65% success, no item destruction, and level reduction on failure.

1.0.1

• Renamed the generated config to local.valheim.potentialreforged.cfg.
• Defaults: 65% success, item destruction disabled, and level reduction enabled.
• The old config is not loaded; remove old PotentialControl.dll installations before upgrading.

1.0.0

• Configurable Forge of Potential success percentage; failure is the remaining percentage.
• Toggle item destruction on failure.
• Toggle one-level reduction on non-breaking failure, with a minimum quality of 1.
• Client-only settings, with no dedicated-server installation required.
• Initial release: compiled and checked against game IL; in-game and multiplayer testing pending.