Vampirizm: Player Guide

Become a vampire in Valheim. Drink blood instead of eating, hide from the sun, and get stronger with every drink.

Numbers below are the defaults. Your server may use different settings.

Installing

1. Install BepInEx and Jotunn (with a mod manager like r2modman or Thunderstore, or by hand).
2. Put Vampirizm.dll in BepInEx/plugins/Vampirizm/.
3. If you play with friends, everyone (and the server) needs the same version of the mod.

How to become a vampire

There are two ways:

• Craft a Vampire Rune at a Workbench: 1 Leech trophy, 1 Stone, 2 Rubies. Use it at night, outside under open sky, in clear weather (no rain, snow, fog or storm). If something is wrong, the game tells you why and the rune is not used up.
• Get bitten by another vampire. You can turn this off for yourself in the mod settings.

After you turn, your food is gone and your blood bar starts a quarter full.

The blood bar

A red bar appears next to your health bar. It is your new "food".

• More blood = more health and stamina, and faster healing.
• Blood slowly goes down over time. When it is empty, you are as weak as a fresh character.
• The bar pulses when you are running low. Go feed!

How to feed

You can't eat normal food anymore. Meads and potions still work.

Drink raw meat

Use raw meat or blood items from your inventory or hotbar, like you would eat food. Their tooltip shows how much blood they give. Cooked food and fish give nothing.

Best sources: Bloodbag and Giant blood sack, then Lox, Serpent, Bjorn and Wolf meat.

Bite creatures

1. Put away your weapon, shield and torch. Hands must be empty.
2. Walk right up to an animal.
3. Press secondary attack (mid mouse button by default).

You grab the creature and drink for 2 seconds. Then wait a few seconds before biting again.

• You can bite: boars, deer, necks, hares, chickens, wolves, bjorns (bears), lox and Fulings (goblins).
• You can't bite: skeletons, draugr, Unbjorns (undead bears), greydwarves, blobs, surtlings, bosses and tamed animals.
• Taking a big hit or the target running away stops the bite.

Biting gives twice as much experience as drinking items, so it is the fastest way to level up.

Getting stronger

You have a new skill called Vampirism. It goes up every time you drink blood.

Higher skill gives you:

• A bigger blood bar (more health and stamina when full).
• Stronger fists. Your bare hands hit up to 5 times harder at max skill.
• Eitr (magic). Starting at Vampirism level 50, you gain an Eitr bar that grows as your skill increases.
• New powers:

Level	Power	Key	What it does
10	Dash	Left Alt	Quick jump forward. Costs a bit of blood.
25	Invisibility	H	Monsters ignore you and players can't see you. Attacking or getting hit ends it. Uses blood while on.
50	Bat form	B	Turn into a bat and fly. Jump to go up, crouch to go down, sprint to fly faster. Bite from the air. Uses blood while on.

Press the power key again to turn invisibility or bat form off. You can change the keys in Settings → Controls (look for "Vampire: …").

Dangers

The sun

The sun burns you during the day when you are outside.

• Stay under a roof, in a dungeon, or in a cave during the day.
• Rain makes it weaker. Thunderstorms stop it.
• The Swamp and Mistlands are safe. The Ashlands burn twice as hard.
• Right after sunrise and right before sunset you have a short safe time.
• You get a warning before the burning starts. Armor does not help.

Tip: Rub Ooze on yourself (use it from your inventory) for 5 minutes of sun protection. Water and rain wash it off.

Silver

• Silver weapons and arrows hit you twice as hard. So do spirit (ghost) attacks.
• Carrying silver hurts you! Every stack of silver in your bag (ore, bars, silver gear) burns you every second. Store it in a chest.

Death

You stay a vampire when you die, but you lose half your blood.

Good things

• No cold. You never freeze, even in the Mountains.
• Sleep during the day. You can go to bed any time. If everyone in the world is a vampire and in bed during the day, you all wake up at dusk, ready to hunt.
• Bats are your friends. Cave bats never attack you.

Quick tips for new vampires

1. Turn at night, then get indoors before sunrise.
2. Keep some raw meat in your hotbar as an emergency snack.
3. Hunt deer and boars with your bare hands to level up fast.
4. Keep Ooze with you for daytime trips.
5. Never carry silver. Put it in a chest right away.
6. Travel by night, rest by day.

Source and issues

https://github.com/igentuman/vampirizm