Ugly Yule Sweaters

Sixteen craftable, upgradable festive armor pieces, made at the Workbench. All materials are from the Meadows and Black Forest.

Northern Yule — ugly sweater set

Wear any ugly sweater + any festive pants + Knitted Yule Hat for Holiday Cheer: Frost resistance (no Freezing in the Mountains).

Santa suit

Coat + Trousers + Hat gives Sleigh Ready: Frost resistance plus +100 carry weight for the sack of presents.

Southern Yule — Aussie summer Christmas

It's 40 degrees on Christmas down under, so no cold protection here. Wear any summer shirt + any boardies + Sunburnt Santa's Straw Hat for Slip, Slop, Slap: Fire resistance.

Looks

Each piece is built on real vanilla 3D armor and reshaped at load time, so the gear has bulk instead of being painted onto the body.

Trim, belts, cuffs and hems are placed automatically from the character skeleton, and the knit patterns are wrapped around the body like real fabric, so motifs stay upright and whole. Each sweater has one big mirrored motif centred on the chest, with smaller ones going round the sides and back.

Base armor

The vanilla armor each group is cloned from can be changed under 4 - Base Armor. Each entry is a comma list, and the first one found in your game is used. Turn on Log Armor Bases to list every vanilla chest, legs and helmet in the BepInEx log.

Single pieces are plain armor: all the effects come from wearing a full set.

Set bonuses are timed

Each set bonus works once per in-game day, at its own time of day, and starts when the full set goes on:

Taking the set off ends the bonus, and putting it back on the same day won't restart it. Sleeping through to a new day does. Each item's description explains its set. Turn off Timed Set Bonuses to have the bonuses on whenever the set is worn.

Upgrading

Every piece upgrades to level 4 at the Workbench, +2 armor per level. Upgrades cost only Leather Scraps (Deer Hide for the Tartan Trousers). Higher levels need a better Workbench, same as vanilla gear. Default armor: chest 4, legs 4, hat 2, so a full set is 30 at level 4. That's early-game protection; turn the sliders up for more.

Config (BepInEx/config/YouDied.UglyYuleSweaters.cfg)

• Stats: Chest/Legs/Hat Armor, Armor Per Upgrade, Max Upgrade Level
• Set bonuses: Full Set Bonuses, Timed Set Bonuses, Daytime Set Bonus Minutes, Santa Night Bonus Minutes, Santa Carry Weight Bonus
• Look: Wrap Patterns Around Body, Stitch Size mm, Pattern Scale, Sweater Length, Crop Sweaters At Hips, Sweater Full Sleeves, Sweater Sleeve Bulk mm, Knit Texture Size, Boardies Length, Santa Belt Offset, Santa Boot Height, Santa Flip Front, Remove Glow, Hide Parts
• Base armor: one entry per group, plus Log Armor Bases

All settings need a game restart.

How it works

There are no texture files. Patterns are knitted at load time onto vanilla armor models. Their shading and seams are kept, so the gear survives game updates.

Multiplayer

Install on every client and on the server. A dedicated server skips the texture work automatically.

Compatibility

Works alongside Loincloth of Shame: festive gear counts as real armor and hides the shame undies.

Building

Flat project with local HintPaths. Defaults to the Steam path on Windows and on Mac. To use another install path: dotnet build -c Release -p:ValheimDir="D:\Games\Valheim"

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1.3.1

Upgrading: the Southern Cross Yule Shirt and Christmas Boardies are gone. Those items vanish from inventories on load, so recraft as the Christmas Koala Shirt / Gum Leaf Boardies.

• Patterns now wrap around the body like real fabric (upright, same size everywhere, unbroken across seams). New options: Wrap Patterns Around Body, Stitch Size mm.
• Real 3D shapes instead of painted-on armor:
  • Ugly sweaters: bulky padded body cropped at the hips, real 3D knitted sleeves as bulky as the body (plain with a stripe), ribbed hem/cuffs/collar.
  • Festive pants: baggy Wolf Hide trouser cut.
  • Santa suit: Fenris coat + Wolf trousers with black belt, gold buckle, white fur collar/placket/deep hem/cuffs, black gloves and boots. Trim is placed automatically from the skeleton.
  • Aussie summer: loose short-sleeved tunic shirts, knee-length baggy boardies with bare shins.
• Classic ugly-sweater layout: one big mirrored motif on the chest (tree, snowflake, face-on reindeer, snowman, a Santa-hat kangaroo face, a Santa-hat koala), smaller motifs round the sides and back, zigzag bands at yoke and hem.
• Crisper knitting: patterns are drawn at 2048 px (new option Knit Texture Size) and the base armor's quilting/fur no longer speckles through.
• Santa's Hat now matches the red velvet of the coat and trousers.
• Boardies icons are cut at the knee.
• New Ugly Sweaters: Snowman and Reindeer.
• New Sunburnt Santa's Straw Hat.
• Timed set bonuses: once per in-game day. Holiday Cheer and Slip, Slop, Slap work by day for 10 minutes; Santa's Sleigh Ready works by night until dawn (up to 9 minutes). Options: Timed Set Bonuses, Daytime Set Bonus Minutes, Santa Night Bonus Minutes.
• Effects come only from full sets: the per-piece summer speed bonus is gone (and its option).
• Summer gear is now a set: any summer shirt + any boardies + Sunburnt Santa's Straw Hat gives Slip, Slop, Slap (Fire resistance).
• Summer chest designs sit higher so the boardies' waistband no longer covers them.
• New Christmas Koala Shirt (replaces the Southern Cross shirt).
• Removed the plain Christmas Boardies: each summer shirt now has its own matching boardies.
• New matching boardies: Bondi Santa Boardies and Gum Leaf Boardies.
• Redrawn Aussie prints: kangaroos and a koala in Santa hats.
• Base armor for every group is configurable ("4 - Base Armor"); old default values are upgraded automatically.
• New look options: Sweater Length, Crop Sweaters At Hips, Sweater Full Sleeves, Sweater Sleeve Bulk mm, Knit Texture Size, Boardies Length, Santa Belt Offset, Santa Boot Height, Santa Flip Front, Remove Glow, Hide Parts.
• Compatible with Loincloth of Shame.
• Fixed: tunic skirt over pants, glowing fur bases, Fenris spikes, missing body paint errors.

1.2.0

• Santa suit: belt with gold buckle, white fur hem/collar/front/cuffs, black boots with white fur tops, all placed automatically from the armor skeleton. New options: Santa Flip Front, Santa Belt Offset, Santa Boot Height.
• Bulkier gear: sweaters now built on the Lox Fur Jacket, festive pants on Lox Fur Trousers, Santa's Coat on the Fenris Coat, Santa's Trousers on Wolf Hide Trousers (each falls back to Leather if missing).
• Base armor for every group is now set in the config ("4 - Base Armor"), so you can try other looks without recompiling.
• New "Log Armor Bases" option dumps every vanilla chest/legs/helmet and its 3D part count to the log.
• New: Sunburnt Santa's Straw Hat for the Aussie summer set.
• Patterns are smaller so the Christmas motifs read better.
• Fur bases no longer pass along their own resistances.

1.1.0

• Fixed: vanilla tunic skirt no longer hangs over the pants (new "Hide Tunic Skirt" option, on by default).
• Fixed: compatible with Loincloth of Shame (our textures no longer carry the vanilla rag texture names, so LoS stops painting shame patterns on summer gear).
• Knitted Yule Hat (year-round Yule hat) completes the ugly sweater set.
• Santa suit: Santa's Coat, Santa's Trousers, Santa's Hat.
• Full-set bonuses: Holiday Cheer (Frost resistance) and Sleigh Ready (Frost resistance + carry weight).
• Southern Yule (Aussie summer Christmas): Bondi Santa Shirt, Southern Cross Yule Shirt, Christmas Boardies.
• Sweaters no longer give Frost resistance on their own; it's now the full-set bonus.
• All pieces upgradable to level 4 (configurable).
• Summer pieces (Rag-based) use softer shading so the blotchy rag texture doesn't muddy the patterns.

1.0.0

• Initial release: 3 ugly sweaters, 2 festive pants.