ImpactfulSkills

ImpactfulSkills

This mod aims to make progression in Valheim, especially skill related progression feel impactful and meaningful.

In the base game, many skills have a significant impact on how powerful your character is, but that is often not felt due to the slow progression and no milestones that provide feedback.

This mod aims to fix that by providing additional functionality, benefits, or bonuses that occur as you level up.

Reporting issues or feedback

Got a bug to report or just want to chat about the mod? Drop by the discord or github.

Skills and Effects

All of the below effects are configurable! Want it to be more powerful or less powerful? Its easy to modify through the config file or an in-game config editor!

When a skill level-up unlocks one of these features, its name is shown in the middle of the screen, eg "Rockbreaker unlocked!". Server admins can turn this off for everyone with EnableUnlockMessages, and each player can turn it off for themselves with ShowUnlockMessages.

The compendium has a Skill Perks page that lists every skill this mod changes, your level in it, and each of its perks with a short explanation. Perks you have not reached yet are greyed out with the level they unlock at, and anything the server has turned off is left out.

AOE harvesting, AOE mining, rock breaker and multi-planting can all be switched off and on again at any time with the AOE toggle key (N by default).

Bonuses stop growing at their level 100 values, even when gear, food or other mods boost a skill past 100. Server admins can let a skill's bonuses keep growing with its BonusesPastLevel100 setting, eg MiningBonusesPastLevel100.

Woodcutting

Woodcutting now improves the amount of wood you get from trees and bushes. Along with the amount of seeds, and resin you get.

Woodcutting also gives you increased _chop_ damage, which makes it faster to cut down trees.

| Woodcutting 0 | Woodcutting 50 | Woodcutting 100 | | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | | | | |

Mining (Pickaxes)

Pickaxes now improves the amount of ore and stone you get from mining things. Along with providing an AOE mining effect (which strengthens as you level up) when you get to the requisite level (default 50).

• Innate - Pickaxe damage grows with your skill, so rocks and ore break faster.
• Innate - Mining a Leviathan down no longer deletes it out from under you, dropping you into the water or lava. It dives and sinks away instead (ProtectLeviathansWhenMined).
• 25 - Critical hits: each swing has a 10% chance to deal triple damage (configurable with ChanceForMiningCritHit and CriticalHitDmgMult).
• 75 - Rock breaker: each swing has a small chance, up to 5% at level 100, to break the whole vein at once (configurable with RockBreakerMaxChance).

| Pickaxes 0 | Pickaxes 50 | Pickaxes 100 | | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | | | | |

Gathering (Farming)

Gathering increases the bonus number of items you can harvest from any plant. This is partly influenced by luck, and partly influenced by your level. Plants from other mods count too: anything grown from a sapling, its wild counterpart, and wild pickables that drop food are recognised automatically, and server admins can add anything else with GatheringAllowedItems. From an early level (default 12) a healthy plant shows roughly how long it has left to grow when you look at it. If another mod already shows grow times, each player can turn this off for themselves with EnableFarmingGrowthTimeDisplay. Additionally at a moderate level of gathering you gain AOE harvesting (default 25) which increases in range with your skill. Gathering skill also increases the range at which you can harvest with the scythe, reaching over 3x as far as AOE harvesting by hand at level 100 (configurable with ScytheHarvestRangeMultiplier). Multi-planting unlocks at the same level (default 25), and the size of the planting grid grows in steps as your skill rises. Farming also pays for the cultivator: planting costs full stamina at Farming 0 and nothing at all at Farming 100, and every plant in a grid costs the same as one placed by hand (configurable with PlantingCostStaminaReduction). At a higher level (default 50) your plants stop caring about the biome they are in, so crops you tend can grow anywhere you can cultivate ground - including the cold of the Mountains and Deep North and the heat of the Ashlands.

| Farming 0 | Farming 50 | Farming 100 | | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | | | | |

Weapon Skills