GrindstoneSkills

Deeper skills for Valheim: every one of the game's skills does more, and four new skills join them.

Features

Skills: the game's keep your levels; perks grow from nothing at 0 to full at 100 (below).
Milestones: abilities that unlock at set levels (below).
Finds and snags: felled trees, broken rock and fishing lines can hide loot.
Skill book: the Skills window shows each skill's page at your level.
Skill loss on death: configurable for every skill; Catch Up trains a skill twice as fast back to its best.
Icons: every skill has its own.
Works with Elite Creatures Reborn, FeastMaster, OpenKeep and ShipConfig.

Skills

Cooking: faster cooking and fermenting, slower burning, extra dishes and ingredients back.
Sailing (new): tougher ships you build, faster ships you steer, a wider map reveal aboard.
Woodcutting: trees fall where you aim, domino felling, clean splits, more wood from old growth, replanting.
Pickaxes: gold seams for clean strikes, rich veins of up to three stars, extra ore, splash damage.
Foraging (new): extra berries, mushrooms and herbs from wild picks.
Fishing: a tension fight on the line, more bites, bigger fish, chum, snags and an angler's log.
Husbandry (new): faster taming and breeding, starred young, twins, produce, extra honey, tougher wolves.
Defense (new): more health, less damage, regeneration, poise, longer parries; shield Reflex, Bash and Thorns.
Farming: faster growth, closer planting, bonus crops, seeds back, giant crops, tending and a compost bin.
Running: more carry weight, half the overloaded drain.
Jumping: cheaper jumps, safer and softer falls.
Sneaking: faster, quieter crouching and stronger backstabs.
Swimming: dry off faster, longer breath, a wider pickup in water.
Dodging: longer invulnerable rolls.
Riding: a faster gallop and a tougher mount.
Crafting: sturdier crafted gear and built pieces, a chance of a material back.
Weapons: a skill behind your best weapon skill trains faster; a trait per weapon at 50.

Milestones

Sailing 25 and 50: Wind Call (K at the helm turns the wind), Lookout (O shows enemy name tags).
Pickaxes 25 to 100: Read the Rock (a deposit's stars), Echo (points to ore), Unbroken (clean-strike streaks).
Foraging 25: Sweep picks the same plants around you.
Fishing 25 to 75: Species, Size and Water Sense name the fish; Legendary fish; Grace keeps a tired line.
Husbandry 20 to 50: Animal Lore timers, the Animal Feeder, Calm while taming.
Defense 25 to 100: Riposte, Shield Wall, Hardened, Last Stand (a killing blow leaves you at 1 health).
Farming 25 to 100: Rows of three then five, Auto Replant, Heat and Cold Tolerance for crops.
Running 75: Second Wind when you run dry. Jumping 50: a Roll on hard landings.
Sneaking 75: Vanish from hunters. Dodging 50 and 75: Counter, Heavy Roll. Crafting 75: Journeyman stations.

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

Discord: https://discord.gg/Q2sMPGQ4T3

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.