GrindstoneSkills

Deeper skills for Valheim: Cooking and Sailing. A good cook makes better food: every dish comes out with 0 to 3 stars, stars make food stronger and last longer, and every kitchen can throw away dishes below the stars you want. Built on the game's own Cooking skill, so the levels you already have count. A good sailor builds tougher ships, sails them faster, sees more of the map at sea, and from level 50 can send out a lookout pulse that marks every enemy around the ship.

Cooking

• Stars on dishes. A dish's stars are rolled from the cook's Cooking level when it finishes: on a cooking station or the oven when it is done, at the cauldron, mead cauldron or prep table when it is crafted. 0 stars is the vanilla dish; every dish you already own is 0 stars.
• Stars make food better. By default a 1★ dish gives 10% more health, stamina and eitr and lasts 10% longer, 2★ gives 20% and 20%, 3★ gives 35% and 30%. A dish stays at full strength for its extra time, then fades as usual.
• Better cooks, better odds. At level 0 almost everything is 0★; at level 100 half of all dishes are 3★. The odds table is fully configurable.
• Starred ingredients help. A stew made from 3★ meat has better odds than one made from plain meat; above level 100 only starred ingredients raise the odds further. You choose whether recipes use your lowest or highest stars first (lowest by default, so your best food is kept).
• Meads keep their stars. A mead base's stars pass through the fermenter into every mead it makes.
• Trash filter. Shift+E on a cooking station, oven, cauldron, mead cauldron or prep table sets the fewest stars it keeps: Keep all, 1★ and up, 2★ and up, or 3★ only. Dishes below are thrown away, so a late-game kitchen can hand out 3★ food only. The station shows your own chance of keeping a dish.
• Kitchen perks from your level: food cooks up to 50% faster and takes twice as long to burn, meads ferment up to 30% faster, extra food comes up to 50% of the time (the game's own bonus stops at 25%), and crafting at a kitchen sometimes gives back an ingredient.
• Cooking experience as the game gives it, more for rich late-game dishes, and triple the first time you make each dish.
• Stars stay apart. 1★ and 3★ stacks never merge, in inventories, chests or on the ground.
• Multiplayer. Stars are decided on the machine that owns the station, the cook's level travels with the food, and experience reaches the cook even when someone else's filter throws the dish away.

Sailing

A new skill in the skills panel. Every perk grows from nothing at level 0 to its full value at level 100.

• Tougher ships. A ship you build gets up to 50% more health, set by your Sailing level when you place it.
• Faster ships. A ship you steer is up to 20% faster, under sail and at the oars, whoever else is aboard.
• Wider exploration at sea. While you are aboard a ship you uncover the map up to twice as far around you.
• Lookout, from level 50. Press O aboard a ship: a pulse races 100 m out over the water, and everyone aboard sees the name tags of the enemies it reached (serpents, drakes, anything hostile, but not bosses) for 30 seconds. Once a minute. Players nearby see the pulse too.
• Experience comes from steering: about 40 per kilometre sailed at the helm, and a quarter of that for everyone else aboard. Level 50 takes a few hours at the helm.
• Multiplayer. A ship's health is the same on every machine, and the speed follows whoever is at the helm, even when the ship's physics runs on another player's machine.

Every skill

• Gentler deaths, if you want them. Choose how much of every skill's level dying costs and whether you keep the progress toward the next level. The defaults are the game's own.

How to Install

1. Install BepInEx for Valheim.
2. Install this mod on every client and on the server.

For manual install, drag GrindstoneSkills.dll into the BepInEx/plugins folder.

Settings

All in BepInEx/config/com.GrindstoneSkills.cfg, reloaded while the game runs.

• Stars: the food and duration bonus of each star.
• Odds: the chance of 0, 1, 2 and 3 stars at levels 0, 25, 50, 75, 100 and 130, and how many levels a star of the ingredients is worth.
• Kitchen: the trash filter switch and every perk's value at level 100 (perks grow from nothing at level 0).
• Experience: an overall multiplier, the tier scaling, the first-dish bonus and fermenter experience.
• Death: how much of every skill's level dying costs (5% by default, as in the game; 0 keeps every level) and whether the progress toward the next level is lost (on by default, as in the game).
• Display (each player's own): stars on icons, and which stars recipes use first.
• Sailing: a switch for the whole skill, each perk's value at level 100, and the helm and crew experience.
• Lookout: the level it unlocks at, its radius, how long tags stay and the cooldown; the key is each player's own.

Console

With devcommands on, raiseskill sailing 50 and resetskill sailing work like they do for the game's skills, and raiseskill all includes Sailing.

Server settings

Gameplay settings come from the server. With Lock Configuration on (the default), every player uses the server's values and cannot change them locally; server admins can still edit them in game. With it off, each player uses their own file. In the console (F5), charter status shows whether the server binds your settings, charter diff lists where the server's values differ from your own file, and charter versions lists the mods on both sides.

Works with

• FeastMaster: FeastMaster sets each food's base values; GrindstoneSkills' stars add on top.
• OpenKeep: starred food stacks and quick-stacks by star count.
• ShipConfig: ShipConfig sets each ship's base health and speed; Sailing adds on top. After ShipConfig's ship health setting changes in game, ships already loaded lose the Sailing health bonus until they load again.

Good to know

• Sailing is a skill of this mod's own (the game has none). If you remove GrindstoneSkills, the game forgets your Sailing level the next time it saves your character.
• Ships built before you installed GrindstoneSkills keep the game's health.

Building

Requirements: .NET SDK 8, Valheim installed with BepInEx, and the ValheimModLibs repository checked out next to this one. pack.ps1 builds the mod and creates a Thunderstore zip in thunderstore/.

dotnet build GrindstoneSkills/GrindstoneSkills.csproj -c Release

Bugs and feature requests

The source lives on GitHub. Found a bug or want a feature? Open an issue at https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/issues and name the mod, its version and what happened.

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.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0). You are free to use, study, share and modify it, and anything you distribute that is built from it must carry the same freedoms and be released under the same licence, with source. See the LICENSE file for the full terms.

Changelog

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.