Vampirizm

Vampirizm: Player Guide

Become a vampire in Valheim. Drink blood instead of eating, hide from the sun, and get stronger with every drink. Unlock Blood Rage, dash, invisibility and bat form, and perform Blood Altar sacrifices for permanent character stat boosts.

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

Installation

Mod manager (recommended): install with r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager. BepInExPack and Jotunn are installed automatically.

Manual:

1. Install BepInExPack_Valheim (tested with 5.4.23.3).
2. Install Jotunn 2.30.2 or newer.
3. Copy the included plugin files (Vampirizm.dll, YamlDotNet.dll and third-party notice) into BepInEx/plugins/Vampirizm/.

The server and all clients must run the same Vampirizm version; Jotunn checks this when you connect. Previously tested with Valheim 1.0.17; isolated headless blood altar checks also pass on l-1.0.20. Rendered two-client altar acceptance remains pending.

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.

Vampire dishes also boost a skill by +15 until their food slot runs out: crimson jerky (Run), hunter's tartare (Swords, Knives, Spears and Bows), black blood pudding (Blocking), seeker blood jelly (Blood magic and Jump), serpent blood aspic (Swim). The jelly also gives +20 eitr and the aspic +25 eitr, and each speeds up eitr regen by 20%.

Place vampire food

Bloody stew and the other vampire dishes can be set out like feasts: equip the Serving Tray, pick the Food tab and place the dish. Anyone can place it, but only a vampire can eat it — walk up and press Use. It gives the same blood as drinking it from the inventory. Removing a placed dish with the Serving Tray gives the item back.

Bite creatures

1. Put away your weapon, shield and torch. Hands must be empty.
2. Get within 1 meter and face the animal.
3. Press secondary attack (mid mouse button by default).

The closest eligible target in a forward 45° cone is selected. You make a short, smooth dash toward it, then drink for 2 seconds. Only boars, necks and hares are lifted; other creatures stay at their normal height. 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.

Drain damage grows with Vampirism (×1–5) and Blood magic (×1–2), multiplying together up to ×10. This also applies to bat-form bites. Ordinary drain gains blood and experience from actual damage dealt; bat form keeps its fixed blood reward per full bite.

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. | | 20 | Blood Rage | Q | 25 blood for 90 seconds of +20 Run, Jump, Dodge, Blocking, Unarmed, Swim and Sneak. 25% higher jumps, claws, animated cosmetic wings and red glint; status icon shows remaining time. 60-second cooldown after exit. | | 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. |