DurabilityBegone

A lightweight Valheim utility mod that removes durability loss from player equipment and adds an optional hammer Area Repair feature.

No Jötunn required.

Features

No Durability Loss

When enabled, DurabilityBegone prevents durability loss on durability-using player items and restores damaged durability as a safety fallback.

Designed to cover:

• Weapons
• Tools
• Bows
• Shields
• Armor
• Hammers
• Hoes
• Torches
• Other durability-using inventory items

Optional Area Repair

Enable Area Repair in ConfigManager to repair nearby building pieces when you use the hammer's normal Repair action.

Area Repair:

• Uses Valheim's normal repair behavior on nearby build pieces
• Keeps normal LMB/RMB and hoe targeting intact
• Displays how many nearby pieces were successfully repaired
• Lets you configure the repair radius from 5 m to 30 m
• Excludes the single piece you manually repaired from the AoE repair count

Example notification:

Area Repair: 12 pieces repaired

Configuration

DurabilityBegone uses normal BepInEx configuration entries and is compatible with BepInEx ConfigurationManager.

Plugin ID:

DurabilityBegone.Valheim

General

Enabled

Master switch for DurabilityBegone.

Default: true

Area Repair

Enabled

Turns hammer Area Repair on or off.

Default: false

Repair Radius (m)

Sets the Area Repair radius.

Range: 5 m - 30 m

Default: 10 m

Installation

Thunderstore / r2modman

Install DurabilityBegone through your mod manager after the package is published.

Manual

1. Install BepInExPack for Valheim.
2. Place DurabilityBegone.dll in: BepInEx/plugins/DurabilityBegone/
3. Launch Valheim modded.

Requirements

• Valheim 1.0
• BepInExPack Valheim
• No Jötunn dependency

Notes

Area Repair uses Valheim's own repair behavior on nearby build pieces. Back up important worlds before testing any new building or gameplay mod.

Changelog

1.0.4

• Replaced the temporary placeholder-style icon with a polished DurabilityBegone icon built around the original hammer + red no-durability concept.
• Icon is exactly 256x256 for Thunderstore.
• No gameplay behavior changes from 1.0.3.

1.0.3

• Fixed Windows publisher packaging after compilation/install succeeded but ZIP creation failed in the inline PowerShell command.
• Replaced the fragile escaped pipeline with a pipeline-free .NET ZIP routine.
• Added final ZIP validation for required files and forward-slash entry paths.
• No gameplay behavior changes from 1.0.2.

1.0.2

• Updated Harmony patch invocation for current HarmonyX/Valheim API.
• Preserved event-driven Area Repair behavior: it only runs after a successful manual hammer repair.
• No per-frame repair scans or automatic structure polling.

1.0.1

• Rebuilt Area Repair to be strictly event-driven.
• Removed any continuous/per-frame repair behavior.
• Area Repair triggers only after a successful manual hammer repair.
• Repairs only damaged WearNTear structures directly instead of recursively calling Player.Repair.
• Eliminates repeated does not need repairs HUD spam from secondary area repairs.
• Uses a reusable non-allocating physics buffer and deduplicates structures.
• Repair Radius is now a direct-entry numeric config with no soft slider cap.
• Preserves durability-loss prevention.