About SmartSkills
From ThunderstoreImproves various aspects regarding the skills in the game.
Smart Skills
Today, I got jealous that the Iron Gate devs seem to have the smoothest brains out there. While I obviously envy their smooth brain, when it comes to the skill system in the game, it's okay for the brain to have a few wrinkles. Occasionally.
Features
- Remembers the highest level a skill has ever reached. If you drop below that skill level, the skill will gain bonus experience, until you are back at that level.
- Weapon skills gain bonus experience, if you have any other weapon skill at a higher level. Makes switching weapon types less painful.
- Doubles swimming experience gained and removes the skill loss of the swimming skill.
- Removes the blood magic experience the shielded player gets, if the shield expires.
- The caster of a shield now gains blood magic experience, if the shielded player attacks something.
- Sneak increases backstab damage.
- Sneak gains bonus experience on backstab.
Can be installed on a server, to enforce the configuration.
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Dependencies
Needs 1 other project installed alongside it.
SmartSkills 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
- 1.0.2, released 2024-06-21
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 3 recorded builds of SmartSkills.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.2 | 2024-06-21 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.1 | 2024-06-21 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.0 | 2024-06-16 | n/a | BepInEx |
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run SmartSkills 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 SmartSkills 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. 1 other project installed alongside it.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSmoothbrain, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
