Wet Carry Penalty

Wet Carry Penalty expands Valheim's Wet status into a serious environmental hazard with progressive debuffs, freezing interactions, configurable duration, and a craftable pathway to Wet immunity. This mod is designed to make Wetness feel genuinely impactful, like something you can't just ignore. Quite a few config settings to tweak it to your liking.

Features

Extends the default Wet duration to 40 minutes.
Reduces maximum carry weight while Wet.
Adds four progressively dangerous stages based on continuous Wet time.
Adds Hypothermia when the player is both Wet and Freezing.
Adds Freyr's Protection, a custom Wet-immunity mead.
Adds configurable Wet duration, drying time, carry-weight reduction, and stage timings.
Synchronizes gameplay configuration with the multiplayer host/server.

Progressive Wet Stages

Each progressive stage replaces the previous stage. The original Wet effect remains active until the player dries off.

Soaked — 10 minutes

Health regeneration: -15%
Stamina regeneration: -10%
Eitr regeneration: -10%
Movement speed: -10%
Maximum carry weight: -10%

Trench Foot — 20 minutes

Health regeneration: -25%
Stamina regeneration: -20%
Eitr regeneration: -20%
Movement speed: -15%
Maximum carry weight: -15%

Gangrene — 25 minutes

Health regeneration: -45%
Stamina regeneration: -40%
Eitr regeneration: -40%
Movement speed: -25%
Maximum carry weight: -20%

Sepsis — 30 minutes

Health regeneration: -75%
Stamina regeneration: -60%
Eitr regeneration: -60%
Movement speed: -40%
Maximum carry weight: -30%
Health loss: 1 per second

All progressive stages are removed when the Wet status ends.

Hypothermia

Hypothermia activates only while the player is both Wet and Freezing.

Health regeneration: -55%
Stamina regeneration: -50%
Eitr regeneration: -50%
Movement speed: -30%
Maximum carry weight: -25%

Hypothermia can combine with the player's current progressive Wet stage.

Freyr's Protection

Freyr's Protection is a custom mead that:

Removes the Wet status when consumed.
Prevents the player from becoming Wet while active.
Lasts for 10 minutes.
Produces six bottles after fermentation.

Mead-base recipe

Crafted at the Mead Ketill:

50 Honey
50 Dandelion
50 Thistle
50 Bloodbag
20 Root
20 Surtling Core
20 Chitin
10 Fresh Seaweed
10 Ymir Flesh
5 Chain

The completed mead base must be processed in a Fermenter.

Configuration

The configuration file is located at:

BepInEx/config/curt.valheim.wetcarrypenalty.cfg

Configurable settings include:

Wet carry-weight reduction
Wet duration
Campfire drying time
Soaked activation time
Trench Foot activation time
Gangrene activation time
Sepsis activation time

In multiplayer, the host or server's gameplay configuration is synchronized to connected players.

Multiplayer

Wet Carry Penalty and Jötunn must be installed on the server and every connected player. Incompatible or missing versions are rejected to prevent missing custom items and status effects.

Installation

Install through r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager. BepInEx and Jötunn will be installed automatically as dependencies.

For manual installation, place the WetCarryPenalty folder inside:

BepInEx/plugins/