RacesOfValheim

RacesOfValheim

A comprehensive Valheim mod allowing you to play as unique races, each providing new mechanics, visual forms, and a progression system for your journey.

Languages: English · Italiano · Русский. The mod follows the language set in Valheim. See Translations.

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Development & Feedback

This is a stable release, but more races and refinements are planned! Wiki: https://wiki.aledanidev.ovh/ Bug reports, feedback, ideas: https://discord.gg/jJzuKBZNC Support the mod: Patreon — NandorTheModder

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New in v1.5.10

Using a player model mod such as EnhancedValheimVRM? Turn off Skeleton - Visuals → Body Model Enabled and Skeletons keep the vanilla body, so no bones clip through your model. Trols can pick their own skin and hair colour under Trol - Appearance. Full details in the changelog.

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Features

Races of Valheim introduces 10 custom playable races:

1. Skeleton

• Stamina-less Combat: Skeletons use no stamina and do not have a stamina bar.
• Undead Diet: Cannot eat normal food. Max health increases automatically as you defeat bosses to make up for lack of food buffs.
• Lit Sockets: Your skull carries the eye lights of the creature your tier is built from, in that creature's own colour — so they change as the body does.
• Body Model switch: with a player model mod (EnhancedValheimVRM and the like), set Skeleton - Visuals → Body Model Enabled to off and Skeletons keep the vanilla body. Abilities stay the same.

2. Skadi

• Ice Affinity: Resistant to cold, with unique frost mechanics.
• Drake Form: Can transform into a frost Drake, letting you fly.
• Dragon Form: Evolve into Moder and later even the Skeleton Dragon.
• Elemental Magic: The Cold Spell and all three dragon breaths raise the Elemental Magic skill when they connect — one cast is worth one cast, however many shards it throws. The Frost Aura earns a fraction of that per tick that actually burns something. Both amounts are configurable, and the dragon forms' melee stays on Unarmed, where it always was.

3. Fenrir

• Beast Form: Transform into a wolf-like beast.
• Cultist Form: Transform into a Cultist. Its claws cost nothing, but the fire breath (hold Right Mouse) runs on eitr — 12.5 per second — and eitr comes from the Mistlands, so the form unlocks at Yagluth with its flames still out of reach. Holding the button with an empty pool now says so.
• Cursed Claws: The wolf's hands, kept on in the man's shape — see Claws.
• A Pack of Your Own: The Pack Trough keeps a standing pack of wolves, ulvs and, late, fenrir — see Race Stations.
• Progression: Forms grow as you defeat bosses, unlocking new powers and reducing cooldowns. Immune to fall damage.

4. Aswid

• The Vampire: Life-draining abilities.
• Bat Form: Press G to become a bat and fly. Monsters see, hear and wake for the bat, and can hurt it — both are configurable under Aswid - Bat Form if you would rather scout untouched.
• Vampiric Aura: A passive life-draining aura around you, always on in every form (half damage as human, full as bat, double as mist) — no key to hold. Press [I] to toggle it (and Devour) off, e.g. before trading with Haldor or Hildir, since it does not recognize traders from monsters.
• Blood Magic Mastery: Cast Blood Magic items with infinite Eitr (health cost only).
• Benedictus et Afflictus: Passive speed/jump bonuses double at night.
• Claws of the Beast: Press [K] to grow blackened claws for a limited time — see Claws.
• Burning Eyes: Spectral green sockets, smoke trailing off them, that hold a red glow only in the final stage.
• Undead Vigor: Infinite stamina. Consume the lifeforce of enemies instead of eating normal food.

5. Furling

• Goblin Heritage: Play as a Goblin (Fuling). Males have no beard/hair.
• Combat Mastery: All combat skills gain 2x XP permanently.
• Boss-Driven Progression: Every boss unlocks a new racial ability.

6. Trol

• Trol Heritage: 20% larger than a human.
• Kindling: the one drawback — fire lands 50% harder on a Trol than on anyone else, and no armour or resistance changes that.
• Immense Strength: Increased carry weight; armor scales up as you defeat bosses.
• Rock Throwing: Hurl huge boulders at enemies.
• Tree Weaponry: At higher tiers, True Form lets you rip logs and wield them as weapons or throw them.
• Your Own Colours: pick your skin and hair colour under Trol - Appearance. Other players see them too.

7. Draugh

• Born Dead, Buried Alive: Undead warrior: resistant to physical/poison, weak to fire/spirit.
• Rotten Diet: Eats only raw meat, eyes, entrails or blood—nourishes you for longer.
• At Home in the Swamp: Swamp undead ignore you; water no longer slows you.
• Zombie Ritual: At endgame, a fatal blow does not kill you outright.