GrindstoneSkills

Deeper skills for Valheim: five of the game's skills do more, and four new skills join them.

Features

• Cooking: faster cooking and fermenting, extra dishes and saved ingredients.
• Sailing (new): tougher, faster ships, wider map reveal, Wind Call (K) and Lookout (O).
• Woodcutting: aimed falls, domino felling, clean splits, old growth, finds and replanting.
• Pickaxes: clean strikes on seams, rich veins, extra ore, an ore echo and finds.
• Foraging (new): extra yield, sweep picking and best-time hints.
• Fishing: a fight on the line, legendary fish, snags and a catch log.
• Husbandry (new): faster taming, stronger young, twins, produce and an Animal Feeder.
• Defense (new): more health, less damage, cheaper blocks, Riposte, Shield Wall and Last Stand.
• Farming: faster growth, giant crops, row planting, auto replant and a compost bin.
• Every skill: a skill book page shows it at your level; configurable skill loss on death.

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.

Links

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.

Changelog

0.18.0

• Every remaining game skill grows perks: Running, Jumping, Sneaking, Swimming, Dodging, Riding and Crafting, each with its own switch.
• Weapons: a skill behind your best weapon skill trains faster; each weapon skill gets a trait at 50.
• Catch Up: a skill below its best level trains twice as fast until it is back.
• Blood Magic trains when a cast shield absorbs damage; crossbow reloads pause instead of restarting.
• Icons for every game skill.

0.17.0

• The skills window lists skills in the game's order again.
• New: a Sort by dropdown above the skills list (Default, Name, Level); your choice is remembered.

0.16.0

• The skills window lists skills A to Z by name, in your language.

0.15.0

• Removed the last of item stars: no star odds on skill pages or crop hovers, and no star settings.
• Removed the kitchen trash filter, heirloom seeds, companion planting, best-time hints, starred bait and Prime Cuts.
• Stars on eggs and other star items are bronze (1), silver (2) and gold (3).
• An API for other mods: skill levels and item stars (Hearthhold uses it).
• Removed settings are deleted from the .cfg.
• Eggs still show their hen's stars.
• Fixed: after Alt + Tab, the Sailing keys could stop working or act as if Shift, Ctrl or Alt were held.

0.14.1

• Husbandry: extra honey is rolled by the hive; two players or a double press no longer both get paid.
• Fixed: a giant crop another mod kept from being picked still dropped its extra crops.
• Fixed: after Alt+Tab, a stuck Alt could block the Wind Call (K) and Lookout (O) keys.
• Less work every frame for plants, fish, rocks, compost bins and hover text; less network traffic.
• Update the server and every client together.

0.14.0

• Sailing: an API for other mods; ShipConfig's ship panel shows your Sailing bonuses and abilities.

0.13.3

• Farming: less work for every growing plant and every E press, even with Farming off.
• Faster loading: the config file is written once instead of once per setting.

0.13.2

• Sailing: Wind Call (K) works only while you steer a ship; elsewhere the key does nothing.
• Less work every frame keeping the config in sync with the server.

0.13.1

• Less work every frame reading the hotkeys.

0.13.0

• Removed: stars on dishes, wild picks, crops and seeds. Nothing rolls a star any more, so items stack like vanilla.
• Giant crops are no longer 3-star. The star settings stay in the config but do nothing.
• Items that are already starred keep their stars.

0.12.1

• Fixed: no more "LiberationSans SDF Font Asset was not found" warnings from the skill book and the fishing tension bar.

0.12.0

• Sailing: Wind Call (level 25): K aboard turns the ship's wind to blow where you look, for 60 s.
• Cooldown 3 minutes; settings in the new section 35 - Wind Call, Wind Call Key per player.
• The Lookout key now fires while you hold W, and never while you type in chat.

0.11.0

• Changed: Riposte no longer staggers what it hits; its 25% bonus damage (Riposte Damage) stays.

0.10.0

• New: a skill book. Click a skill to see what it does at your level, perks and milestones included.
• Hover a name or gold word for what it does; the list's old tooltips are gone.
• Removed: the Defense plate and Show Plate; Defense's page shows the same.
• Pickaxes: seams open within reach, stay open longer and glint softer.
• Old configs keep the old seam times: set Seam Window At 0 and Seam Window At 100 to 2.6 and 5.6.
• Fixed: copper and silver deposits could count as plain stone, and boulders as ore.
• New skill icons, closer to the game's own.

0.9.1

• Woodcutting and Pickaxes have their own skill icons.

0.9.0

• New: Fishing, on the game's own skill, so existing levels count.
• Reeling while a fish thrashes strains the line until it snaps; fish tire after four thrashes.
• Longer strike window; a perfect strike skips the first thrash.
• From level 75, running out of stamina no longer loses the fish at once.
• More bites with level, at dawn, dusk and in rain; starred bait and chum help.
• Fish can grow to level 5 on the hook; one in 200 is legendary, for anglers of 50+.
• Nibbles name the fish and its size; casts read the water.
• An angler's log keeps your catches and records; /fishlog lists it.
• More bonus items, bait back, longer casts and line, and snags (GrindstoneSkills.Snags.yml).
• Bigger fish clean into better-starred raw fish.
• Reeling an empty line no longer trains Fishing. Settings in sections 50 to 54; own skill icon.

0.8.2

• Cooking and Sailing have their own skill icons.

0.8.1

• Farming has its own skill icon.

0.8.0

• New: Farming. The planter's level decides how crops grow, the picker's level the harvest.
• Crops ripen with 0 to 3 stars, raised by starred seeds and companion crops; a few grow giant.
• Faster growth (more in rain), closer rows, and daily tending.
• From level 75 crops grow unshielded in the Ashlands, at 100 in the Mountains and Deep North.
• Bonus crops, seeds back, row planting from level 25 and auto-replant from 50.
• The almanac shows when a plant ripens and, from level 20, its star odds.
• The windmill keeps stars. New compost bin: feeds nearby crops for faster growth and better stars.
• Settings in sections 29 to 32. Changed: 0★ crops and flour now lower a dish's ingredient stars.

0.7.0

• New: Husbandry, a skill of its own for taming, breeding and keeping animals.
• Faster taming, longer fed time, and from level 50 animals being tamed neither flee nor attack you.
• Faster breeding, bigger herds, stronger young, twins and faster growing up.
• More butcher drops, produce from living animals, extra honey, starred eggs, optional Prime cuts.
• Petting makes animals content and breed faster; a following wolf hits harder and takes less damage.
• Animal Feeder from level 25; Animal lore on hover from level 20; optional taming levels.
• Elite Creatures Reborn 3.10.0 or later: stronger young get a star there too.
• raiseskill and resetskill work for Husbandry. Settings in sections 23 to 28.

0.6.0

• New: Defense, a skill of its own, trained by blocking hits and taking them.
• At level 100: +25 max health, more food health, 10% less damage and regeneration out of combat.
• More poise, a wider parry window, and blocks and dodges 10% cheaper.
• Guard perks: Reflex, Shield Bash, Thorns, more adrenaline, less shield wear and knockback, Desperation.
• Milestones: Riposte at 25, Shield Wall at 50, Hardened at 75, Last Stand at 100.
• A Defense plate shows your damage reduction; milestones show as status icons.
• raiseskill and resetskill work for Defense. Settings in sections 19 to 22.

0.5.0

• New: Foraging, a skill of its own for wild picks, which used to train Farming.
• Berries, mushrooms and herbs come off with 0 to 3 stars, for the kitchen and eating raw.
• Each plant has a best time to pick (dry, rain, night) for better stars; its hover says when.
• Up to 50% extra yield, and sweep picking from level 25.
• What counts as foraging is in GrindstoneSkills.Forage.yml, open to other mods' items.
• Changed: 0★ berries and mushrooms now count toward a dish's ingredient stars.
• raiseskill and resetskill work for Foraging.

0.4.0

• New: Pickaxes, on the game's own skill, so existing levels count.
• Seams: hit a glinting chunk in time for double damage and, on ore, an extra drop.
• Clean strikes chain; from level 100 (Unbroken) each hits harder, up to ×4.
• Splash damages neighbouring chunks. Rich veins: ore deposits with 0 to 3 stars drop more.
• Read the rock (25) shows a deposit's stars; Echo (50) points to the nearest ore deposit.
• Extra ore and less pickaxe wear. Broken rock can hold amber, amber pearls and rubies (GrindstoneSkills.MineFinds.yml).
• More experience in later biomes and on ore.

0.3.0

• New: Woodcutting, on the game's own skill, so existing levels count.
• Timber!: trees fall away from where you chop; your own logs hurt you less.
• Domino felling: a falling log can knock over the next tree, up to five deep.
• Clean splits and old growth give more wood. Falling trees can hide finds (GrindstoneSkills.Finds.yml).
• Swings give back stamina and wear the axe less; the stump comes out; a sapling may take root.
• More experience for harder wood, felled trees and broken logs. New store icon.

0.2.0

• New skill: Sailing, trained by steering a ship (the crew earn a share).
• Ships you build get up to 50% more health; ships you steer go up to 20% faster.
• Up to twice the map reveal radius aboard a ship.
• Lookout (level 50): O aboard sends a 100 m pulse; everyone aboard sees enemy name tags for 30 s.
• raiseskill and resetskill know Sailing.

0.1.0

• First version: Cooking, on the game's own skill, so existing levels count.
• Dishes get 0 to 3 stars from the cook's level; meads keep their base's stars; starred ingredients help.
• Stars boost a dish's health, stamina and eitr and make it last longer.
• Trash filter: Shift+E on a kitchen sets the fewest stars it keeps.
• Kitchen perks: faster cooking and fermenting, slower burning, extra food, a chance to keep an ingredient.
• More experience for richer dishes and the first time you make each.
• Skill loss on death is configurable for every skill.