BlacksmithingExpanded

🔨 BlacksmithingExpanded

A modular, skill-driven enhancement system for Valheim.
Reward crafting, repairing, and smelting with scalable stat bonuses, elemental infusions, and structure upgrades — all built for transparency, tweakability, and community-driven balance. mod request by Aziraphale

⚒️ Core Features

🧠 Skill-Driven Progression

• Gain Blacksmithing XP by crafting, repairing, smelting ore, and feeding kilns.
• Unlock stat tiers that boost:
  • Weapon damage (physical + elemental)
  • Armor and shield block power
  • Item durability
  • Parry bonus

🔧 Upgrade-Based Bonuses

• Items gain additional stat bonuses based on their upgrade level (quality).

🔥 Elemental Infusion

• Unlock elemental damage bonuses (fire, frost, lightning, poison, spirit) at high levels.
• Configurable scaling and unlock thresholds.

🏗️ Structure Infusion

• Infuse smelters and kilns to process faster and save resources.
• Infusions expire after a configurable duration or when idle.

🛠️ Inventory Repair Unlock

• Repair gear directly from your inventory once you reach the required skill level.

⚙️ Configuration Highlights

💡 Note: You may see a config group named skill_########## in your config file. This is automatically created by the skill manager system and isn’t used by BlacksmithingExpanded.
All relevant settings are organized under the following config groups:

🗂 Config Groups

• General – XP gain, infusion logic, inventory repair
• Tooltip – UI visibility toggles
• Durability – Milestone scaling, upgrade bonuses, caps
• Armor – Armor scaling and caps
• Weapons – Damage scaling, stat caps, milestone logic
• Elemental – Elemental unlocks and bonuses
• Shields – Parry and block scaling
• Advanced – Shared gear logic, upgrade multipliers, tier unlock caps

📈 XP & Tiering

• XPPerCraft, XPPerSmelt, XPPerRepair
• InfusionTierInterval, StatTierInterval, DurabilityTierInterval
• MaxTierUnlockLevel

⚔️ Stat Scaling

• DamageBonusPerTier, ArmorBonusPerTier, DurabilityBonusPerTier
• StatBonusPerUpgrade, ArmorBonusPerUpgrade, DurabilityBonusPerUpgrade
• StatBonusMultiplierPerTier, StatBonusCapPerType
• MaxStatTypesPerTier, ArmorCap, MaxDurabilityCap

🛡️ Shield Bonuses

• TimedBlockBonusPerTier, BlockPowerBonusPerTier
• TimedBlockBonusPerUpgrade, BlockPowerBonusPerUpgrade

🔥 Elemental Control

• ElementalUnlockLevel, ElementalBonusPerTier, AlwaysAddElementalAtMax
• FireBonusAtMax, FrostBonusAtMax, LightningBonusAtMax, PoisonBonusAtMax, SpiritBonusAtMax

🔁 Smelting & Repair

• SmeltingSpeedBonusPerTier, KilnSpeedBonusPerTier
• SmelterSaveOreChanceAt100, InfusionExpireTime
• EnableInventoryRepair, InventoryRepairUnlockLevel

🔗 Compatibility

• ✅ Works with most crafting and skill mods
• ✅ No known conflicts with Blaxxun’s Blacksmithing mod
• 🔁 If used together, set crafting XP to 0 to avoid double gain

📦 Installation

1. Install BepInEx
2. Drop BlacksmithingExpanded.dll into your BepInEx/plugins folder
3. Launch the game and configure settings via BepInEx/config

💬 Community & Support

Questions or feedback?
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