Potential Reforged

Customize the Forge of Potential's success chance and what happens when refinement fails.

• Set the success rate from 0% to 100%. Failure chance is the remaining percentage.
• Choose whether failed attempts destroy the item.
• Choose whether non-breaking failures reduce the item's level, and set the loss from 1 to 10 levels. Item level cannot fall below 1.
• Runs on your client; no server installation is needed. Settings apply to your own refinement attempts.
• Keeps existing item data and bonuses when refinement succeeds or fails without destroying the item.

Defaults: 65% success, no item destruction, and one level lost on failure.

Successful refinement upgrades the item normally. Normal idol and material costs still apply.

Modded items

Surviving refinement keeps the original equipment item, including its custom data, crafter information, and attached mod data. Epic Loot enchantments, rarity, and rolled values are retained. BlacksmithingExpanded's existing bonuses and original smith skill are retained without recalculating them for the refining player's skill or the new quality. The item's normal quality-based stats still change, and refinement repairs it to its modded maximum durability.

Neither mod is required. Other mods that attach data to the item may benefit from the same preservation, but compatibility with every mod is not guaranteed. Stackable items retain vanilla handling. Destruction still destroys the item and uses the normal refunds.

Version 1.0.5 has passed compilation, game-IL patch checks, and isolated preservation tests. In-game testing with Epic Loot and BlacksmithingExpanded, including save/reload and multiplayer, is still pending.

BreakOnFailure	ReduceLevelOnFailure	Failed attempt
false	false	Item keeps its current level
false	true	Item loses the configured number of levels, minimum level 1
true	Either	Item is destroyed; normal game break refunds apply

Configuration

The config is generated after the first launch:

BepInEx/config/Dyls123.PotentialReforged.cfg

Close Valheim before editing, then restart to apply your changes.

[Chances]
SuccessChance = 65

[Failure]
BreakOnFailure = false
ReduceLevelOnFailure = true
LevelsLostOnFailure = 1

LevelsLostOnFailure accepts whole numbers from 1 to 10 and defaults to 1. It only applies when ReduceLevelOnFailure = true and BreakOnFailure = false. Existing configs gain this setting after launching the updated mod.

Manual install

1. Install BepInEx 5 for Valheim.
2. Create BepInEx/plugins/Dyls123-PotentialReforged/ in your Valheim folder.
3. Copy PotentialReforged.dll from this ZIP into that folder.
4. Launch Valheim to generate the config.