Ugly Yule Sweaters

Sixteen craftable, upgradable festive armor pieces, made at the Workbench. All materials are from the Meadows and Black Forest.

Northern Yule — ugly sweater set

Wear any ugly sweater + any festive pants + Knitted Yule Hat for Holiday Cheer: Frost resistance (no Freezing in the Mountains).

Item	Recipe
Ugly Sweater (Snowflake)	6 Leather Scraps, 8 Raspberries
Ugly Sweater (Tannenbaum)	6 Leather Scraps, 4 Fir Cones, 2 Raspberries
Ugly Sweater (Candy Cane)	6 Leather Scraps, 4 Raspberries, 4 Dandelions
Ugly Sweater (Snowman)	6 Leather Scraps, 4 Dandelions, 2 Coal
Ugly Sweater (Reindeer)	6 Leather Scraps, 2 Deer Hide, 4 Raspberries
Candy Cane Leggings	6 Leather Scraps, 4 Raspberries, 4 Dandelions
Yule Tartan Trousers	3 Deer Hide, 4 Raspberries, 2 Fir Cones
Knitted Yule Hat	4 Leather Scraps, 4 Raspberries, 2 Dandelions

Santa suit

Coat + Trousers + Hat gives Sleigh Ready: Frost resistance plus +100 carry weight for the sack of presents.

Item	Recipe
Santa's Coat	6 Leather Scraps, 8 Raspberries, 2 Deer Hide
Santa's Trousers	6 Leather Scraps, 6 Raspberries, 1 Deer Hide
Santa's Hat	2 Leather Scraps, 4 Raspberries, 2 Feathers

Southern Yule — Aussie summer Christmas

It's 40 degrees on Christmas down under, so no cold protection here. Wear any summer shirt + any boardies + Sunburnt Santa's Straw Hat for Slip, Slop, Slap: Fire resistance.

Item	Recipe
Bondi Santa Shirt	4 Leather Scraps, 4 Raspberries, 4 Dandelions
Christmas Koala Shirt	4 Leather Scraps, 6 Blueberries, 2 Dandelions
Bondi Santa Boardies (matches the Bondi Santa Shirt)	4 Leather Scraps, 4 Raspberries, 2 Dandelions
Gum Leaf Boardies (matches the Christmas Koala Shirt)	4 Leather Scraps, 6 Blueberries
Sunburnt Santa's Straw Hat	4 Wood, 4 Dandelions, 2 Raspberries

Looks

Each piece is built on real vanilla 3D armor and reshaped at load time, so the gear has bulk instead of being painted onto the body.

Set	Shape
Ugly sweaters	Padded gambeson cropped at the hips, bulky 3D knitted sleeves, ribbed hem, cuffs and collar
Festive pants	Baggy Wolf Hide trousers
Santa suit	Fenris coat and Wolf trousers: black belt, gold buckle, white fur trim, black gloves and boots
Aussie summer	Loose short-sleeved tunic shirts, knee-length boardies

Trim, belts, cuffs and hems are placed automatically from the character skeleton, and the knit patterns are wrapped around the body like real fabric, so motifs stay upright and whole. Each sweater has one big mirrored motif centred on the chest, with smaller ones going round the sides and back.

Base armor

The vanilla armor each group is cloned from can be changed under 4 - Base Armor. Each entry is a comma list, and the first one found in your game is used. Turn on Log Armor Bases to list every vanilla chest, legs and helmet in the BepInEx log.

Single pieces are plain armor: all the effects come from wearing a full set.

Set bonuses are timed

Each set bonus works once per in-game day, at its own time of day, and starts when the full set goes on:

Set	When	How long
Holiday Cheer (Frost resistance)	daytime	10 minutes
Slip, Slop, Slap (Fire resistance)	daytime	10 minutes
Sleigh Ready (Frost resistance, +100 carry)	night only	until dawn, up to 9 minutes

Taking the set off ends the bonus, and putting it back on the same day won't restart it. Sleeping through to a new day does. Each item's description explains its set. Turn off Timed Set Bonuses to have the bonuses on whenever the set is worn.

Upgrading

Every piece upgrades to level 4 at the Workbench, +2 armor per level. Upgrades cost only Leather Scraps (Deer Hide for the Tartan Trousers). Higher levels need a better Workbench, same as vanilla gear. Default armor: chest 4, legs 4, hat 2, so a full set is 30 at level 4. That's early-game protection; turn the sliders up for more.

Config (BepInEx/config/YouDied.UglyYuleSweaters.cfg)

• Stats: Chest/Legs/Hat Armor, Armor Per Upgrade, Max Upgrade Level
• Set bonuses: Full Set Bonuses, Timed Set Bonuses, Daytime Set Bonus Minutes, Santa Night Bonus Minutes, Santa Carry Weight Bonus
• Look: Wrap Patterns Around Body, Stitch Size mm, Pattern Scale, Sweater Length, Crop Sweaters At Hips, Sweater Full Sleeves, Sweater Sleeve Bulk mm, Knit Texture Size, Boardies Length, Santa Belt Offset, Santa Boot Height, Santa Flip Front, Remove Glow, Hide Parts
• Base armor: one entry per group, plus Log Armor Bases

All settings need a game restart.

How it works

There are no texture files. Patterns are knitted at load time onto vanilla armor models. Their shading and seams are kept, so the gear survives game updates.

Multiplayer

Install on every client and on the server. A dedicated server skips the texture work automatically.

Compatibility

Works alongside Loincloth of Shame: festive gear counts as real armor and hides the shame undies.

Building

Flat project with local HintPaths. Defaults to the Steam path on Windows and on Mac. To use another install path: dotnet build -c Release -p:ValheimDir="D:\Games\Valheim"

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