GraveOfTruth

A small Valheim mod that makes dying feel appropriately embarrassing.

• When you die, the obliterator's lightning comes down on your fresh grave, and once the thunder has rolled the loser jingle plays out of it, echoing off the hills — everyone nearby sees and hears it. The bolt is cosmetic and hurts nobody.
• Dying also brings a short thunderstorm down on your head.
• Coming back to loot the grave plays the jingle one more time, echo and all, with a gust of wind.

The jingle is broadcast to the server, so every player running the mod hears it from the grave; players without it hear nothing. The weather is client side only — nobody else sees your storm. Releases before 0.1.0 only had the tombstone sound.

Install

Use a mod manager (Gale / r2modman) and install GraveOfTruth from Thunderstore, or drop the contents of the release zip into BepInEx/plugins/rauschekuh-GraveOfTruth/.

Requires the BepInEx pack for Valheim.

Build from source

Needs Windows, the .NET SDK, and an installed copy of Valheim.

.\scripts\setup.ps1     # find game + BepInEx, stage reference assemblies into lib/
.\scripts\deploy.ps1    # build and install into your Gale profile
.\scripts\package.ps1   # build dist/GraveOfTruth-<version>.zip for Thunderstore

scripts\decompile.ps1 dumps the game's own C# into decompiled/ when you need to look up an API.

All three of lib/, decompiled/ and Valheim.props are generated and gitignored — re-run setup.ps1 after a Valheim update.

Changelog

0.1.2

• The death storm is only for show now: it no longer makes anyone Wet.
• Improved distant deaths
• The death storm is shorter and dry

0.1.1

• Lighter mod page icon; nothing in the game changed.

0.1.0

• Lightning on the grave: the obliterator's bolt comes down on the fresh tombstone, cosmetic and harmless.
• The loser jingle plays out of the grave once the thunder has rolled, with two fading echoes.
• Dying brings a short thunderstorm down on everyone.
• Looting the grave plays the jingle one more time, with a gust of wind.
• All of it is broadcast to every modded client.

0.0.1

• Tombstone sound only.