GooCosmetics

Give your gear the look and particle effects of gear you have collected, a name of your choice, or no visible model. Stats, upgrades and durability never change, and nothing is used up.

How to use

1. Open your inventory, hover a piece of gear and press T (controller: select it and press Back).
2. Pick a look: drag an item onto Appearance, or click Collection.
3. Optional: pick Particles, type a Name, or tick Hide model.
4. Click Apply Illusion.

To	Do
Remove an illusion	Hover the item and press -, or click Remove Illusion
Undo the last change	Undo
Use the item's own look or effect	Original look / Original particles
Show looks' icons in your inventory	Tick Use donor icons
Close	T or Esc

Works on weapons, shields, armor, capes and pickaxes. Not on tools, torches, fishing rods or utility items.

Controller

Button	Action
Back	Open or close the window
D-pad / left stick	Move
A	Click; on a slot, open its collection
X	Original look, Clear choice, reset name or favorite
LB / RB	Previous / next page
B	Back out: collection, window, inventory
Y	Close everything

Collection

Each character remembers every piece of gear that passes through its inventory, even after it is sold or lost.

• Only looks that fit your item are shown.
• Search by name. Click a look's star (or right-click it) to favorite it; Favorites only shows just those.
• Show locked, under Illusion window in the config, shows looks and effects you don't have yet as dark silhouettes with ?. Names and details stay hidden until unlocked.
• Show Enemy Gear off hides all monster looks and trophy helmets.

Particle effects

Weapons can wear the effects of weapons you have collected, such as Frost fire or Blood lightning.

• Choosing a look also picks its effect. For another one, drag a weapon onto Particles or click its Collection.
• Original particles keeps your item's own effect, No particles removes it, Clear choice goes back to the look's.

Names

Name any gear in your inventory, with or without a look: type in the Name box and press Enter. Tick Look's name to use the look's name; Reset gives back the item's own. Names stay with the item, upgrades included. A colored name (or diamond) means the item wears an illusion.

Hide model

Helmets and capes: tick Hide model and apply. You keep the piece and its stats, but it isn't drawn.

Monster looks

Pick up the listed item to unlock a look. Items you had before installing count.

Look	Unlocked by
Skeleton bow	Skeleton or Draugr trophy
Brenna's flaming sword	Brenna's trophy
Troll log	Troll trophy
Rancid mace	Rancid Remains trophy
Fuling sword	Fuling trophy
Berserker mace	Fuling Berserker or Thungr trophy
Fuling shaman bone staff	Fuling Shaman trophy
Fuling shaman feather staff	Fuling Shaman or Zil trophy
Dvergr arbalest and staffs	Dvergr trophy
Charred greatsword / bow / staff	Charred Warrior / Marksman / Warlock trophy
Charred helmet	Any Charred trophy
Lord Reto's blade	Dyrnwyn hilt fragment
Burning troll log	Trollstav
Jotun greatsword, battleaxe and axe	Jotun trophy
Fallen Warrior and Shadow weapons and tower shield	A Fallen Warrior orb
Odin's hood and cape	Always available
Flaming iron sword	Iron sword

goocosmetics monsters lists them all and what unlocks them.

Trophy helmets

Turn your helmet into a creature's head: pick up its trophy, then choose it at the end of the helmet's Collection. Includes 48 trophy looks and compatible trophies from other mods.

Most trophies replace your character's head. Fuling Shaman is a hat; Bonemaw is a helmet. Removing the look restores your normal appearance. A dropped helmet shows its real model.

Adjust a trophy head

Enable Vanilla trophy fitting under Illusion window in the config. Fitting for modded trophies is on by default. Apply a trophy look, equip the helmet, then open Trophy fit > in the illusion window (controller: LB / RB).

• Adjust the trophy's size, rotation and position while watching your character.
• Inner hood adds a backing behind the trophy. Show head and Show beard keep your own head and beard visible.
• Save fit keeps your changes. Revert restores the last save; Reset to default restores the starting fit. Leaving the page discards unsaved changes.

Fits are saved per trophy for all your characters in this profile and affect only your view. Turning fitting off keeps your saved fits.

Monster projectiles

• A bow wearing the Charred bow shoots Charred Marksman arrows (elemental arrows keep their effects).
• A Staff of Embers wearing a Fuling shaman staff shoots the shaman's fireball and explosion.

Only the look changes; damage stays the real item's.

Particle fade and inertia

Effects on held weapons and torches react to how fast the weapon moves:

• Fade: particles fade sooner while the weapon moves fast, so trails are shorter.
• Inertia: particles keep part of the weapon's motion instead of stopping dead.

Each has a slider for attacks and one for everything else. These also work on fists. Lightning effects are excluded; Toxic cloud is excluded on non-fist weapons.

Also

• Armor stands, dropped gear and thrown spears show illusions.
• Epic Loot magic items keep their names and enchantments. Use the Marker indicator to keep rarity colors.

Settings

In your mod manager's config editor (gnls.GooCosmetics.cfg), or with the console commands below.

Setting	Default
General > Enabled (restart Valheim after changing)	On
Open illusion window / Remove illusion	T / -
Open illusion window (controller) / Remove illusion (controller)	Back / None
See illusions on other players	On
Allow mixing of unknown types (modded weapons of unknown type share looks)	Off
Illusion name color	Purple
Illusion indicator (NameColor, Marker or Both)	NameColor
Show real names (the real item in grey under a changed name)	Off
Monster projectiles	On
Particle adjustments (switches all four particle sliders)	On
Particle fade outside attacks / in attacks	75 / 75
Particle inertia outside attacks / in attacks	15 / 15
One collection at a time	On
Particles follow the chosen appearance	On
Show locked	On
Vanilla trophy fitting	Off
Modded trophy fitting	On
Debug logging	Off

Set General > Enabled off and restart Valheim to disable GooCosmetics. Your saved illusions and fits are kept.

Particle sliders go from 0 (Valheim's own) to 100. Your existing settings and trophy fits are kept when updating.

Console commands

• goocosmetics monsters / effects: monster looks and trophy helmets / particle effects and what unlocks them.
• goocosmetics appearance, window, controls: show or change settings, keys and buttons.
• goocosmetics name [right|left] [set <text>|own|look]: name the window's item or a held item.
• goocosmetics undo: undo the last change.
• goocosmetics icons [clear]: saved monster icons; clear redraws them.
• goocosmetics debug [on|off|dump]: debug logging.
• goocosmetics report: write a diagnostic file.
• goocosmetics unlock <item|all> / lock <item|cheated>: add or remove looks (needs devcommands).

Multiplayer

Players with GooCosmetics see your illusions and monster projectiles, unless they turn off See illusions on other players. Use the same version to see all looks. Players without it see your real gear.