Dvergr Craftsmanship

Build like a master craftsman. Dvergr Craftsmanship makes the structural support of pieces you place scale with your current Crafting skill.

The mod does not change how Crafting levels up. Valheim already grants Crafting skill from building and repairing; this mod only reads your current skill and uses it to improve the pieces you place.

What It Does

When you place a supported building piece, Dvergr Craftsmanship snapshots your current Crafting skill onto that piece. Higher-skill builders create pieces that lose less structural support as that support travels through connected pieces.

In practical terms:

A beginner's building pieces behave almost like vanilla pieces.
A more experienced craftsman gets better spans and more forgiving structural chains.
The bonus is stored on each piece when it is placed.
Existing pieces do not automatically improve just because your skill rises later.
Lower-skilled players can still repair higher-skilled pieces without damaging their bonus.

Current Release Scope

This release includes only the working structural-integrity system:

Crafting-skill-based support-loss reduction
Permanent per-piece skill snapshot
Hammer reinforcement for full-health pieces
Hammer-hover display showing the stored support-loss reduction
Crafting tier notifications

This release does not add new build pieces yet. Load-bearing walls, nail-gated variants, firebreak walls, headers, and similar future pieces are intentionally not included in this package.

How The Bonus Works

The configured bonus creates a multiplier from your Crafting skill:

multiplier = 1 + (CraftingSkill / 100) * (MaxIntegrityBonusPercent / 100)

Dvergr Craftsmanship then reduces structural support loss:

effectiveSupportLoss = vanillaSupportLoss / multiplier

With the default MaxIntegrityBonusPercent = 40:

Crafting 25 reduces support loss by about 9.1%
Crafting 50 reduces support loss by about 16.7%
Crafting 75 reduces support loss by about 23.1%
Crafting 100 reduces support loss by about 28.6%

The result is subtle at low skill and more noticeable as support travels through longer chains.

Reinforcing Existing Pieces

If EnableReinforce is enabled, you can improve an existing full-health piece with the hammer:

Equip the hammer.
Aim at a full-health building piece.
Use repair.
If your current Crafting skill is high enough above the piece's stored skill, the piece is reinforced.

Reinforcement never lowers a piece's stored bonus. A lower-skilled player can still perform ordinary repairs, but they cannot downgrade a master-built piece.

Hover Display

With the hammer equipped, hover a supported piece to see its stored bonus:

-16.7% support loss (Crafting 50)

Vanilla or unstamped pieces are not given noisy 0% text.

Config Options

The config file is generated at:

BepInEx/config/com.cdjensen.dvergrcraftsmanship.cfg

Setting	Default	Description
`EnableMod`	`true`	Enables or disables all Dvergr Craftsmanship mechanics.
`MaxIntegrityBonusPercent`	`40`	Main tuning knob. Allowed range is `20-60`. At skill 100, this controls the multiplier used to reduce support loss.
`EnableReinforce`	`true`	Allows hammer repair on full-health pieces to improve their stored Crafting bonus.
`MinimumReinforceSkillDelta`	`5`	Required Crafting skill improvement before reinforcement can upgrade a piece.
`EnableTierNotifications`	`true`	Shows a short message when Crafting reaches 25, 50, 75, and 100.
`ShowIntegrityHoverText`	`true`	Shows support-loss reduction while hammer-hovering stamped pieces.
`DebugLogging`	`false`	Enables verbose diagnostic logging for placement, reinforcement, and support calculations.

Compatibility Notes

Dvergr Craftsmanship patches Valheim's WearNTear.GetMaterialProperties to reduce structural support loss. Other mods that change structural integrity may stack with or overwrite similar behavior.

If using Valheim Plus or another structural-integrity mod, check that only the behavior you want is enabled.

Installation

Install with a mod manager, or manually place DvergrCraftsmanship.dll into:

BepInEx/plugins/DvergrCraftsmanship/

Requires BepInExPack Valheim.

Support

Bug reports and feature requests:

GitHub - Dvergr Craftsmanship