TweakStats

Change the stats of any item, recipe, creature, build piece or status effect - weapon damage, attack stamina, armor, block power, food, durability, weight, stack sizes, crafting costs, creature health and drops, building health and more.

• Set a stat to a number, add to it or multiply it - weight = 5, weight = +5 or weight = 1.5x
• Change one item, several items, every item matching a name like Sword* or *Bow*, or every item of a skill (e.g., [Skill:Axes]) or type (e.g., [Type:Shield])
• Limit tweaks to certain worlds, e.g. single player ([Worlds: SinglePlayer][/Worlds]) or a specific multiplayer server (e.g., [Worlds: Midgard][/Worlds])
• Changes take effect as soon as the config file is saved - there's no need to restart Valheim or rejoin the world
• Works with items, recipes, creatures and build pieces added by other mods

Ex: crafting a stone axe that does 10,000 damage, using coins:

Documentation

NAMES.md

NAMES.md - the name of every item, recipe, creature, build piece and status effect, next to its in-game name.

STATS.md

STATS.md - every stat you can change, from weapon damage to armor to food to crafting costs, plus the damage types, damage modifiers, skills and item types they use.

Console

The tweakstats console command - looks up names in game or lists the items you're carrying and writes out every stat an item has.

Examples

# Every item that uses the Axes skill becomes an insta-kill omni-tool
[Skill:Axes]
damages.slash = 10000
damages.chop = 10000
damages.pickaxe = 10000

# Stone axes are free to craft on your single-player world
[Worlds: SinglePlayer]
[AxeStone]
description = Once upon a time, there was a sturdy stone axe. Little did it know, it was actually <color=purple>Mjolnir</color> in disguise and not really an axe at all 🔨
[Recipe:AxeStone]
resources.Wood = 0
resources.Stone = 0
[/Worlds]

# ZOOOOM (fall damage will probably kill you, but enemies can't)
[ArmorRagsChest]
armor = 1000
movementModifier = 10  # tenfold

# Powerlifter pants
[ArmorRagsLegs]
equipStatusEffect = BeltStrength
[Effect:BeltStrength]
addMaxCarryWeight = 600

# A real menace
[Creature:Greyling]
health = 5000

# Climbing the corporate ladder
[Piece:wood_stepladder]
resources.Wood = 0
resources.Coins = 10

# Clubs do fire damage
[Club]
damages.Blunt = 1
damages.Fire = 10
damagesPerLevel.Blunt = 1
damagesPerLevel.Fire = 20
[Recipe:Club]
resources.BoneFragments.amountPerLevel = 0

# Working remotely
[KnifeWood]
attack.attackRange = 100

Configuration

BepInEx\config\kriona.TweakStats.cfg is created when you first load a world with the mod, and changes take effect as soon as the file is saved. You do not need to restart Valheim or rejoin the world.

All examples are commented out - remove the # from the start of a line to use it.

Each [section] names what to change, and each line under it is stat = value. Lines starting with # are comments and are ignored.

Sections

Creature and Piece sections, and Effect sections for effects that land on creatures like Burning and Poison, only apply in single player, when hosting, or on a server that has Tweak Stats - see Multiplayer Servers.

Names ignore case. Items are named by their prefab name, like SwordIron, rather than the name shown in game, like "Iron sword". NAMES.md lists every item, recipe, creature, build piece and status effect with its name in game, and the tweakstats find command looks them up in game.

Values

Stats that are whole numbers, like maxStackSize, are rounded after adding or multiplying. Stats that aren't numbers are set:

• true or false, e.g. teleportable = true
• One of a list of choices, e.g. skillType = Axes or damageModifiers.Fire = Resistant
• The name of an item, status effect or crafting station, e.g. attackStatusEffect = Burning or craftingStation = forge, or none to remove it

Limits

Extreme values are allowed, but a few are kept inside what the game can handle without freezing, crashing or damaging your save. A value outside a limit is changed to the nearest value inside it (and logged).

An item's durability is also saved as no more than 21,000,000, the most the game can save.

Stat Names

A stat's name is the game's name without the m_, so m_attackStamina is attackStamina. Names ignore case.

Example attack and damage stats:

• attack.attackStamina - the normal attack's stamina cost
• attack.attackRange - the normal attack's reach, in meters
• damages.slash - slash damage
• damages.fire - fire damage

A group of damage types can be changed all at once - damages = 1.5x multiplies slash, fire, chop and every other damage type.

Lists are named by their entries:

• resources.Iron = 10 - the amount of iron a recipe needs, adding iron when the recipe doesn't use it
• resources.Iron = 0 - removes iron from the recipe
• resources.Iron.amountPerLevel = 5 - another stat of the entry
• damageModifiers.Frost = Resistant - an armor's frost resistance, adding it when the armor doesn't have one

A misspelled name is reported in the log with suggestions, e.g. there's no stat "damage" - did you mean damages?

Order

Every section that names an item applies to it, from the top of the file down, so a broad section followed by a specific one combines them:

[Skill:Swords]
damages = 1.2x

[SwordIron]
damages.slash = +10   # The Iron sword gets 1.2x, then +10 slash

Worlds

Sections between [Worlds: ...] and [/Worlds] only apply on those worlds:

[Worlds: SinglePlayer, Midgard]
[Skill:Pickaxes]
damages.pickaxe = 2x
[/Worlds]

• A world is named by its name, or by its ID when several share a name - a dedicated server's world is often just Dedicated
• A server can be named by the address you join it with, with or without the port, e.g. 203.0.113.5, 203.0.113.5:2456 or valheim.example.com. A server joined from the server list is named by its Steam ID, or its PlayFab ID for crossplay servers
• SinglePlayer is any world started without letting other players join
• The tweakstats world command shows the world's name and ID and the server's address or ID for wherever you're playing
• Sections outside a group apply everywhere
• Groups can't be inside each other

Issues

Lines that can't be used are skipped and logged to BepInEx\LogOutput.log with their line number and what's wrong, and the rest of the file still applies. When the file is saved while playing, a message in the top left says how many problems it has.

Console Commands

Press F5 to open the console.

dump writes the game's values before any tweaks, so multiplying is easy to work out.

Multiplayer Servers

When the server has Tweak Stats, every player who joins uses the server's config file, and their own kriona.TweakStats.cfg is ignored while they're on it. When the server's config file changes, it's sent to everyone again. Hosting a world from the start menu counts as a server: your config is sent to the players who join you.

When the server doesn't have Tweak Stats, each player uses their own config:

• Item, recipe and most status effect tweaks apply to you only, and other players see the game's own values. Your weapon's damage is worked out by your game, so a stronger weapon also hits harder in PvP
• Creature and Piece sections, and Effect sections for effects that land on creatures like Burning and Poison, are skipped. A message says how many when you join, and the log lists them

Requiring the Mod

A server can refuse players who don't have Tweak Stats, or who have a different version - the first two numbers have to match, so 1.2.0 and 1.2.3 can play together. It's set in the server's config file:

[Settings]
requireMod = auto

A refused player sees the game's "incompatible version" message, and a player with a different version of the mod also gets the reason in their log.

With requireMod = false, a player without the mod runs the creatures and build pieces near them with the game's own values, so the same creature can have different stats depending on who's near it.

Stack Sizes

When a chest or inventory loads, each stack is cut down to the item's current maxStackSize, and the rest is deleted. Raising a stack size is safe, but lowering it again - or removing the tweak - deletes whatever is over the new size. On a server, a chest is loaded by every player near it, so a player without your tweak can cut your stacks down the next time the chest changes. Only raise stack sizes on a server when every player uses the same config.

Installation

With a mod manager such as r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager, install Tweak Stats - it installs BepInExPack for Valheim too.

By hand:

1. Install BepInExPack for Valheim from Thunderstore or Nexus Mods
2. Extract the zip into your Valheim folder, or copy TweakStats.dll into BepInEx\plugins

Other Mods By Me

See all my mods on Thunderstore.

Source

The source code is on GitHub.