GhostWalk

A WoW-style "release spirit and run back to your corpse" death experience for Valheim.

When you die, instead of just respawning at your bed with a mad dash back to loot your grave, you rise as a spirit at your respawn point. You can fly or walk back to your body to recover your gear the normal way, or find the Spirit of Resurrection and pay a small price to come back to life on the spot.

What happens when you die

You rise as a ghost. A translucent wisp takes the place of your character, the screen washes blue, and a pin marks your corpse on the map.
You're safe. While a ghost you take no damage, can't be attacked, can't fight back, and (for the most part) enemies simply won't notice you.
Get back to life one of two ways:
- Walk it off — make your way to your tombstone and loot it like normal. You're back to full ghost-free life the moment you do.
- Call the Spirit of Resurrection — a helper NPC that appears near your respawn point. Talk to it to revive on the spot instead of making the trip, at a cost (see below).

Features

Ghost form on death — invulnerable, can't attack, no stamina drain, moves faster than normal.
Grounded by default, fly when you want — you start out walking normally so you don't float through your own base; press Jump while grounded and flight kicks in (Space to rise, crouch to descend, move toward where you're looking). If you ever end up airborne without flying — fell off a ledge, got knocked off — flight switches on automatically so you're never stuck falling.
Spirit of Resurrection — an NPC that lets you revive instantly instead of walking back to your corpse. Costs a small skill penalty and some durability on your equipped gear, plus a temporary debuff (see below). It also hands back whatever gear you were wearing when you died, straight from your tombstone.
Resurrection Sickness — the price of an instant revive: reduced stamina regeneration, shorter food buff durations, and a temporary cap on your max health. Fades on its own after a while.
Teleport back to the Spirit — don't want to open your grave? Alt-interact (or hold E, depending on config) on your tombstone, or press a dedicated hotkey (default Home) from anywhere, to instantly return to the Spirit instead.
Enemies leave you alone — creatures across every biome, from a Meadows Boar to end-game bosses, are blocked from noticing, targeting, or chasing a ghost.
The map doesn't fill in while you're dead — flying/walking around as a ghost won't reveal new areas of the map. If you play with shared map progression, teammates exploring while you're a ghost still shows up on your map as normal — only your own ghosted movement is paused.
Other players see you as a wisp too — if they also have GhostWalk installed, your character model is hidden and replaced with the same glowing wisp on their screen while you're a ghost.
Ghost music — drop an audio file next to the mod and it plays while you're a ghost, fading in on death and out on revive, and ducking the game's own music underneath it.
Silent footsteps, frost aura, and a subtle screen tint round out the "you are not really here" feeling.

Almost everything above can be turned off or tuned in the config file if it's not your thing — see below.

Keybinds

Action	Key	Notes
Take off / start flying	Jump	Only while a ghost and standing on the ground. Not needed if you've turned off "fly on jump only" in the config (see below) — flight then starts immediately on death instead.
Fly up / down	Space / Crouch	Standard fly controls, once flight is active.
Loot your tombstone (normal revive)	E	Same as looting any container.
Talk to / force-revive at the Spirit of Resurrection	E	Only appears while you're a ghost.
Teleport to the Spirit of Resurrection	Alt + E (or hold E, depending on config) on your grave	Configurable which trigger is used.
Teleport to the Spirit of Resurrection (from anywhere)	Home	Configurable hotkey; works without needing to find your grave first.

Requirements

Valheim (BepInEx modded install)
BepInEx
HarmonyX (comes with BepInEx)

No other mods are required. If you're playing with others, everyone who wants to see ghosted players as a wisp (rather than a floating character model) needs GhostWalk installed too — the effect only shows up for people who have it.

Installation

Install BepInEx for Valheim if you haven't already (most mod managers, e.g. r2modman/Thunderstore Mod Manager, do this automatically).
Drop GhostWalk.dll into your BepInEx/plugins folder.
Launch the game once to generate the config file, then adjust settings to taste (see below) — or use a config-editing mod like Configuration Manager in-game.

Configuration

Everything is adjustable from the BepInEx config file (or a config manager mod). Settings are grouped as:

General — master enable/disable switch for the whole mod.
Ghost — the core death/ghost-form experience: movement speed, invulnerability, flight (including whether it requires jumping to start), stamina, map-exploration pausing, enemy targeting, corpse pin, and how close to your body you need to respawn before ghost mode is skipped entirely.
Visuals — the wisp model, its tint color, the screen wash, and the frost aura.
Music — ghost-form ambience: on/off, volume, and whether the game's own music is muted while it plays.
Revive — tombstone-looting behavior and the teleport-to-Spirit failsafe (which key/interaction triggers it).
SpiritOfResurrection — whether the Spirit NPC is available at all, and the cost of using it (skill loss, durability loss, and the strength/duration of Resurrection Sickness).

If something doesn't look right after a game update, check the BepInEx log (LogOutput.log) — GhostWalk is built to keep working even if a few individual features can't find what they're looking for on a new game version, and it logs a line explaining exactly what it skipped rather than failing silently or crashing.

Multiplayer

GhostWalk is a client-side mod — install it on whichever clients you want the experience for. It doesn't require the server or other players to have it, though a couple of features (seeing other ghosted players as a wisp) only work for players who also have it installed.

Current version: 1.4.2