About VanillaSkillsModifier
From ThunderstoreCustomize vanilla skills to your pace: leveling speed, skill effect strength, weapon damage scaling, and extra features like sneak backstab bonuses.
Vanilla Skills Modifier
Customize vanilla skills to your pace: leveling speed, skill effect strength, weapon damage scaling, and extra features like sneak backstab bonuses.
What It Does
Vanilla Skills Modifier gives you simple config control over the normal Valheim skill system.
You can adjust:
- XP gain for all vanilla skills
- Normal skill effect strength for all vanilla skills
- Individual XP and effect multipliers for combat, movement, and utility skills
- Extra weapon, tool, and magic damage scaling
- Optional Sneak-based backstab bonus scaling
The mod keeps the normal skill logic in place and lets you tune how strong or fast that logic becomes.
Config
After launching the game once, edit:
BepInEx/config/mgdev.vanillaskillsmodifier.cfg
The config sections are numbered with two digits so Thunderstore keeps them in the right order.
Current sections:
01 - Global02 - Smart Tweaks03 - Swords04 - Knives05 - Clubs06 - Polearms07 - Spears08 - Blocking09 - Axes10 - Bows11 - Elemental Magic12 - Blood Magic13 - Unarmed14 - Pickaxes15 - Wood Cutting16 - Crossbows17 - Jump18 - Sneak19 - Run20 - Swim21 - Fishing22 - Cooking23 - Farming24 - Crafting25 - Dodge26 - Ride
Most settings use 1 by default, which means unchanged.
Example: if AllSkillsXpMultiplier is 1.5 and SwordsXpMultiplier is also 1.5, Swords XP gains become 2.25x.
Recommended Values
Most multiplier settings include a recommended range of 0.1 to 10.
You can go higher, but very large values such as 20 or 50 may make the game heavier to process and can cause slowdowns or instability, especially when many effects stack together.
Requirements
- BepInExPack Valheim
Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 5 mo ago.
VanillaSkillsModifier on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Optional on the server
- Server type needed
- BepInEx
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.0.0, released 2026-05-30
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 1 recorded build of VanillaSkillsModifier.
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run VanillaSkillsModifier on a Valheim server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogQuality of life & UI
Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.
Works on a server
From source side supportThunderstore lists server-side support for VanillaSkillsModifier as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
- ✓AuthorMGDev, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
