Soul Anchor

Autor:xNeliox

Soul Anchor adds a complete revival system to Valheim. Carry a Soul Anchor to revive yourself automatically, or use Eir's Breath from the hotbar to rescue a downed ally within 60 seconds.

Features

• Self-revival through a carried Soul Anchor that becomes a repairable Broken Soul Anchor
• Rescue downed allies from up to 3 metres away
• No skill or inventory loss after a successful revival
• 40% health and 5 seconds of protection after revival
• Violet-white Mistlands-style body lightning and a matching pulsing light during protection
• 30-second revival cooldown
• Downed players are ignored by monsters
• Give up with R, gamepad Y, or hold Interact for 2 seconds in VR
• Custom icons and custom dropped-item models
• Automatic Valheim language detection, with complete English and German text and English fallback for every other integrated language
• Glowing downed-player soul markers with rescue time and distance
• Synchronized group map markers and a dedicated revival progress ring
• Audible warnings at 10, 5 and 3 seconds
• Valheim's standard red death pin for the last final death
• Multiplayer synchronization

English is the primary and fallback language. When Valheim is set to German, the complete German translation is selected automatically. Other game languages fall back to English.

Recipes

Item	Station	Ingredients	Result
Soul Anchor	Black Forge level 1	1 Greydwarf Shaman trophy, 1 Wolf trophy, 1 Lox trophy, 10 Fine wood	1
Broken Soul Anchor repair	Black Forge repair button	No material cost	1 restored Soul Anchor
Mead mixture: Eir's Brew	Mead ketill	20 Honey, 20 Cloudberries, 10 Bloodbags, 5 Freeze glands, 10 Thistle	1
Eir's Breath	Fermenter	1 Mead mixture: Eir's Brew	6

Installation

Install with a compatible mod manager, or copy SoulAnchor.dll into BepInEx/plugins/SoulAnchor.

When upgrading from an older German-named build, delete every old Seelenanker.dll first. Do not run Seelenanker.dll and SoulAnchor.dll together.

Jötunn is required. In multiplayer, the dedicated server and every player must use the same Soul Anchor version.

Server configuration

After the first start, settings are written to BepInEx/config/xNeliox.valheim.soulanchor.cfg. The server controls all gameplay, item, recipe and effect settings and Jötunn synchronizes them to connecting players. Restart after editing recipe ingredient lists.

Configurable settings include rescue time, ally-revival duration, revival cooldown, restored health, protection duration, independent item switches, recipes and output amounts, skill loss after final death, and revival-effect volume and strength.

Console test commands

spawn SoulAnchor 1
spawn BrokenSoulAnchor 1
spawn EirsBreath 6
spawn EirsBrew 1

Compatibility

Built for Valheim 1.0.15 with Jötunn 2.30.0. Mods that replace death, skill loss, inventory repair or player controls may conflict.

Credits

Revival sound: Elemental Magic Spell Cast D by RescopicSound, used under the Pixabay Content License. Full source and license links are included in SOUND_CREDITS.md.

AI disclosure

The in-game inventory and status icons use AI-generated artwork that was integrated and configured for this mod. The dropped-item models are created procedurally by the mod.