FortifySkillsRedux

FortifySkillsRedux

FortifySkillsRedux is a remake of the FortifySkills mod for Valheim that changes how skills are lost on death. Rather than being punished for dying by losing a flat 5% of every skill, you are instead rewarded for staying alive for longer. This is achieved by adding a new fortified skill level for each skill that is used when you die to reset your skills to their fortified skill level. This means that no matter how many times you die, your skills will never drop below their fortified skill levels.

Server-Side Info: This mod does work as a client-side only mod and only needs to be installed on the server if you wish to enforce configuration settings.

Version 1.4.0 Notice

Configuration settings have changed! Please delete your config file and let the mod regenerate if if you're having any issues.

Installation

Via Mod Manager (Recommended)

• The best way to install the mod is using r2modman and installing it from Thunderstore.
• The next best way is to use Thunderstore Mod Manager.

Manual

• Download and install BepInEx Pack
• Download and install Jotunn
• Download this mod and move the "FortifySkills.dll" into "<GameLocation>\BepInEx\plugins"

Mechanics

The Fortify skill level increases very slowly at first but if you get your active level significantly higher that your fortified level it will level a little quicker giving you an incentive not to die. Because of this your fortified level may fall a long way behind your active level if you stay alive for a long time and you can lose more than you would with the vanilla 5% penalty. To make up for this your active level increases a little faster than Vanilla as well.

There are two major gameplay advantages to this:

• A string of deaths won't destroy your skill level. No need to worry about the No Skill Drain buff ending just before you die.
• Less used skills won't wither away completely from the occasional death. If you use one weapon type a lot early game but then switch to something else, now a few deaths without training the original weapon skill won't completely reset it.

Your Fortify skill level will be displayed in parenthesis in your skill list next to your active skill level.

Configuration

Changes made to the configuration settings will be reflected in-game immediately (no restart required) and they will also sync to clients if the mod is on the server. The mod also has a built in file watcher so you can edit settings via an in-game configuration manager (changes applied upon closing the in-game configuration manager) or by changing values in the file via a text editor or mod manager.

Global Section

Verbosity

• Low will log basic information about the mod. Medium will log information that is useful for troubleshooting. High will log a lot of information, do not set it to this without good reason as it will slow down your game.
• Acceptable values: Low, Medium, High
• Default value: Low.

Use Individual Settings [Synced with Server]

• If enabled, use the config settings for each individual Vanilla skill and the Modded skill config settings for all skills added by mods. If disabled use the config setting from the Mechanics section for all skills.
• Acceptable values: False, True
• Default value: false.

Item Loss on Death Tweaks

Allowing Keeping Containers on Death [Synced with Server]

• Whether to allow keeping items that can hold other items (such as a backpack) when you die.
• Acceptable values: False, True
• Default value: false.

Allow Keeping Non-Teleportable Items on Death [Synced with Server]

• Whether to allow keeping items that cannot be teleported when you die (will check inside of backpacks)."
• Acceptable values: False, True
• Default value: false.

Mechanics

Active Skill XP Multiplier [Synced with Server]

• Controls XP gained for the active skill level. 1 = base game XP, 1.5 = 50% bonus XP, 0.8 = 20% less XP.
• Default value: 1.5

Max Fortify Skill XP Rate [Synced with Server]

• Controls maximum rate of XP earned for the fortified skill as a percentage of vanilla XP rates. Values below 1 mean that fortified skills will always increase slower than vanilla skills. Values above 1 mean that fortified skills can increase faster than vanilla skills if your active skill level is high enough.
• Default value: 0.8

Fortify Skill XP Per Level [Synced with Server]

• Controls XP gained for the fortified skill. For every level the active skill is above the fortified skill increase the percentage of XP gained for the fortified skill by this amount up to Max Fortify Skill XP Rate.
• Default value: 0.1

IndividualSkills Section

There is a section with the same config settigns for each skill in the Vanilla game and one additional section for all skills added by mods. These settings are only used if Use Individual Settings is Enabled and they allow you to customize the XP gains for each individual skill.

Compatibility

All skill mods by Smoothbrain

• The XP multiplier settings in this mod stacks multiplicatively with the XP multiplier in Smoothbrain's skill mods.
• If you set EnableIndividualSettings to True and keep ModdedSkillXPMult set to 1.0 it will not impact the XP gain rates of Smoothbrain's skill mods while still letting you customize the skill gain rates for Vanilla skills via the IndividualSkills XP multiplier settings.

Incompatibilities

• May have issues with anything that changes the SkillsDialog text in-game.
• Currently does not correctly scan the inventory of backpacks added by AdventureBackapcks to determine if they contain non-teleportable items.

Notes