GrindstoneSkills

Deeper skills for Valheim: every one of the game's skills does more, and four new skills join them.

Features

• Skills: the game's keep your levels; perks grow from nothing at 0 to full at 100 (below).
• Milestones: abilities that unlock at set levels (below).
• Finds and snags: felled trees, broken rock and fishing lines can hide loot.
• Skill book: the Skills window shows each skill's page at your level.
• Skill loss on death: configurable for every skill; Catch Up trains a skill twice as fast back to its best.
• Icons: every skill has its own.
• Works with Elite Creatures Reborn, FeastMaster, OpenKeep and ShipConfig.

Skills

• Cooking: faster cooking and fermenting, slower burning, extra dishes and ingredients back.
• Sailing (new): tougher ships you build, faster ships you steer, a wider map reveal aboard.
• Woodcutting: trees fall where you aim, domino felling, clean splits, more wood from old growth, replanting.
• Pickaxes: gold seams for clean strikes, rich veins of up to three stars, extra ore, splash damage.
• Foraging (new): extra berries, mushrooms and herbs from wild picks.
• Fishing: a tension fight on the line, more bites, bigger fish, chum, snags and an angler's log.
• Husbandry (new): faster taming and breeding, starred young, twins, produce, extra honey, tougher wolves.
• Defense (new): more health, less damage, regeneration, poise, longer parries; shield Reflex, Bash and Thorns.
• Farming: faster growth, closer planting, bonus crops, seeds back, giant crops, tending and a compost bin.
• Running: more carry weight, half the overloaded drain.
• Jumping: cheaper jumps, safer and softer falls.
• Sneaking: faster, quieter crouching and stronger backstabs.
• Swimming: diving, dry off faster, longer breath, a wider pickup in water.
• Dodging: longer invulnerable rolls.
• Riding: a faster gallop and a tougher mount.
• Crafting: sturdier crafted gear and built pieces, a chance of a material back.
• Weapons: a skill behind your best weapon skill trains faster; a trait per weapon at 50.

Milestones

• Sailing 25 to 75: Wind Call (K at the helm turns the wind), Lookout (O shows enemy name tags), Fog Lift (N clears fog and mist around the ship).
• Pickaxes 25 to 100: Read the Rock (a deposit's stars), Echo (points to ore), Unbroken (clean-strike streaks).
• Foraging 25: Sweep picks the same plants around you.
• Fishing 25 to 75: Species, Size and Water Sense name the fish; Legendary fish; Grace keeps a tired line.
• Husbandry 20 to 50: Animal Lore timers, the Animal Feeder, Calm while taming.
• Defense 25 to 100: Riposte, Shield Wall, Hardened, Last Stand (a killing blow leaves you at 1 health).
• Farming 25 to 100: Rows of three then five, Auto Replant, Heat and Cold Tolerance for crops.
• Running 75: Second Wind when you run dry. Jumping 50: a Roll on hard landings. Swimming 50: Water Builder.
• Sneaking 75: Vanish from hunters. Dodging 50 and 75: Counter, Heavy Roll. Crafting 75: Journeyman stations.

Install

Needed on the server and every client. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put GrindstoneSkills.dll in BepInEx/plugins. Removing the mod forgets the new skills' levels; empty and take down Animal Feeders and Compost bins first.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.GrindstoneSkills.cfg, plus GrindstoneSkills.Finds.yml, GrindstoneSkills.MineFinds.yml, GrindstoneSkills.Forage.yml and GrindstoneSkills.Snags.yml beside it. Every setting is described in its file and applies without a restart; the server's values bind every player. Console: fishlog lists your catches. Translate: save a copy of English.yml as GrindstoneSkills.translations.<Language>.yml in BepInEx/config.

Links

Discord: https://discord.gg/Q2sMPGQ4T3

Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/issues (name the mod and version). Licence: GPL-3.0.

Shout outs

• The BepInEx and Harmony teams, for the tools every Valheim mod stands on.
• Iron Gate Studio, for Valheim.
• Thunderstore, for hosting this page.
• The Valheim modding community, for the hard work and dedication that keeps enhancing an already great game.
• Every modder who keeps their mods open source so others can collaborate, learn and build on them.