GrindstoneSkills

Deeper skills for Valheim: five of the game's skills do more, and four new skills join them.

Features

• Cooking: faster cooking and fermenting, extra dishes and saved ingredients.
• Sailing (new): tougher, faster ships, wider map reveal, Wind Call (K) and Lookout (O).
• Woodcutting: aimed falls, domino felling, clean splits, old growth, finds and replanting.
• Pickaxes: clean strikes on seams, rich veins, extra ore, an ore echo and finds.
• Foraging (new): extra yield, sweep picking and best-time hints.
• Fishing: a fight on the line, legendary fish, snags and a catch log.
• Husbandry (new): faster taming, stronger young, twins, produce and an Animal Feeder.
• Defense (new): more health, less damage, cheaper blocks, Riposte, Shield Wall and Last Stand.
• Farming: faster growth, giant crops, row planting, auto replant and a compost bin.
• Every skill: a skill book page shows it at your level; configurable skill loss on death.

Install

Needed on the server and every client. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put GrindstoneSkills.dll in BepInEx/plugins. Removing the mod forgets the new skills' levels; empty and take down Animal Feeders and Compost bins first.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.GrindstoneSkills.cfg, plus GrindstoneSkills.Finds.yml, GrindstoneSkills.MineFinds.yml, GrindstoneSkills.Forage.yml and GrindstoneSkills.Snags.yml beside it. Every setting is described in its file and applies without a restart; the server's values bind every player. Console: fishlog lists your catches.

Links

Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/issues (name the mod and version). Licence: GPL-3.0.

Shout outs

• The BepInEx and Harmony teams, for the tools every Valheim mod stands on.
• Iron Gate Studio, for Valheim.
• Thunderstore, for hosting this page.
• The Valheim modding community, for the hard work and dedication that keeps enhancing an already great game.
• Every modder who keeps their mods open source so others can collaborate, learn and build on them.