Skeleton Selector

Short description

Choose your next Dead Raiser skeleton with an illustrated radial menu. Hold, aim, release. English and Russian UI with customizable controls.

Choose who answers your call

Skeleton Selector adds an illustrated selection wheel to Valheim's Dead Raiser. Equip the skull, hold your menu key, point at the skeleton you want, and release to confirm. Your next summon uses that choice.

Four choices

• Random — keep the game's normal random selection.
• Warrior — a sword-wielding skeleton without a shield.
• Archer — a skeleton equipped with a bow.
• Shield Warrior — a sword-wielding skeleton with a shield.

Each option has its own portrait. Hover highlighting previews your choice, while a separate highlight marks the currently selected type.

Features

• Hold-to-open, release-to-select radial menu.
• Menu available only while the Dead Raiser is equipped.
• Customizable keyboard or mouse binding, changed directly in the menu.
• English and Russian interface, with automatic language selection.
• Settings persist between sessions.
• Optional equipped-weapon hint showing your selection and menu key.
• Built-in portraits: no separate image installation required.

The mod selects equipment for future summons. It does not replace existing skeletons or change the game's resource costs, summon limit, health, damage, or skill scaling. You still cast with the Dead Raiser normally after making your selection.

Controls

1. Equip the Dead Raiser.
2. Hold Mouse4 — usually the forward side button on a mouse.
3. Hover over a sector.
4. Release the menu button to select it.

Release in the center, outside the wheel, or in a gap to keep your previous selection. Right-click or Esc cancels. The world continues running while the wheel is open.

To change the binding, hold the menu button and left-click Key: … · Change. Release the old button and press the new key or mouse button. Left-click, right-click, and Esc are reserved.

To change the interface language, hold the menu button and click Language to cycle through Auto → English → Русский. Auto uses Russian when Valheim is set to Russian, and English for other game languages.

Installation

Requires Valheim and a working BepInEx 5 installation.

1. Close Valheim.
2. Copy the archive's BepInEx folder into your Valheim folder, preserving the folder structure. The DLL belongs at Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/SkeletonSelector/SkeletonSelector.dll.
3. Start the game and equip the Dead Raiser.

Alternatively, install the package with a Thunderstore-compatible mod manager and launch Valheim through that manager. The declared BepInEx dependency is installed by the manager.

The mod uses its own menu; Jotunn and Configuration Manager are not dependencies.

Configuration file: BepInEx/config/local.valheim.skeletonselector.cfg.

Compatibility and current status

Version 1.2.0 is built against Valheim 1.0.15 and BepInEx 5.4.23.5. Compilation, radial hit detection, and translation checks have been completed. In-game testing of this release and multiplayer verification remain pending; compatibility with other game versions is not yet established.

Other mods that change skeleton spawning or equipment may affect the result. If the requested equipment cannot be selected, the mod falls back to the game's normal selection and displays a warning. Dedicated gamepad navigation is not included.

Uninstall

Close the game and remove SkeletonSelector.dll from its plugin folder. The optional configuration file can also be removed. Do not delete your world or character saves.

Artwork

The four menu portraits were generated with AI and are included in the mod.

Changelog

1.2.1

• Reduced all four embedded portraits from 1254x1254 to 256x256 to reduce the DLL and download size.
• Kept the on-screen portrait size unchanged (108x108).
• Added mipmaps and trilinear filtering. Controls and translations are unchanged.

1.2.0

• Added English and Russian translations for the interface and equipment-selection warnings.
• Added an in-menu language selector: Auto, English, Russian.
• Auto follows Valheim's language, with English as the fallback.

1.1.1

• Hold the menu key to open the wheel; release over a sector to confirm.
• Release in the center, outside the wheel, or between sectors to cancel.
• Rebinding, loss of focus, and unequipping do not commit a selection.

1.1.0

• Added an illustrated radial menu with four skeleton types.
• Restricted the menu to an equipped Dead Raiser.
• Added in-menu key rebinding, Mouse4 default, and embedded portraits.

1.0.0

• Initial equipment selector: Random, Warrior, Archer, Shield Warrior.
• Persistent selection with vanilla summon costs, limits, and stats.