Source-checkedQuality of life & UI

IceAndRuneStoneSkills

by WackyMole · for Valheim

Frost Cave cave paintings and regular runestones can each grant configurable one-time skill rewards, with boss runestones and Vegvisirs excluded.

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52d agoLast updated
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About IceAndRuneStoneSkills

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Frost Cave cave paintings and regular runestones can each grant configurable one-time skill rewards, with boss runestones and Vegvisirs excluded.

Ice&RuneStone Skills

Ice&RuneStone Skills rewards exploration.

Find Frost Cave cave paintings and regular runestones across the world to earn one-time skill boosts for the server.

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Features

  • Rewards exploring Frost Caves and the wider world
  • One-time skill boosts from eligible cave paintings and regular runestones
  • Separate settings for cave paintings and runestones
  • Flat or percentage-based rewards
  • Vegvisirs and boss runestones are excluded
  • Multiplayer-safe discovery tracking
  • Discoveries can be shared per world or earned once per player

How it works

  • Explore and discover eligible cave paintings or runestones.
  • Depending on config, the first discovery in that world or for that player grants a random skill boost.
  • After that, the same object is marked as claimed for the world or player.
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Notes

  • Rewards use Valheim's normal skill list, excluding None and All.
  • Skill gains are capped at 100.
  • Discoveries persist with the world.
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Configuration

  • Lock Configuration: when enabled, configuration changes are restricted to server admins.
  • Discovery Scope: choose whether discoveries are shared for the world or tracked once per player.
  • Enable Cave Painting Rewards: enables or disables Frost Cave cave painting rewards.
  • 2 - Cave Painting Rewards: configure cave painting reward mode and amount.
  • Enable Runestone Rewards: enables or disables regular runestone rewards.
  • 3 - Runestone Rewards: configure runestone reward mode and amount.

Admin Command

  • irs_resetdiscoveries: resets all mural and runestone discoveries so players can rediscover them again.
  • Server admin only.

Mostly AI Generated

I thought I would test how well AI can write a mod. I used Azumatt Template and GPT 5.4 (Med). It's a bit iffy, but if you burn enough tokens you can get something that works okay. I optimized it and profiled it. If I wrote this mod without AI, it might be better at the performance on the patches. Right now, it's just okay. This is not a hard mod to make, however the ice cave murals are challenging to target unlike RuneStones.

The AI did have a bit of problem with ServerSync and LocalizationManager which I fixed. I am not going to start writing a lot of AI mods, but this was a fun experiment to see how well it can do and it took at lot less time.

Contacts

You can reach me in Wolf Den or Odin Plus Team

Thanks

Thank you to Dupontus for the mod idea.

Highlights

From source data

Loaders

Runs on BepInEx.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 52d ago.

IceAndRuneStoneSkills 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
1.0.4, released 2026-09-14

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
BepInEx

From 5 recorded builds of IceAndRuneStoneSkills.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.0.42026-09-14n/aBepInEx
1.0.32026-05-18n/aBepInEx
1.0.22026-05-13n/aBepInEx
1.0.12026-05-09n/aBepInEx
1.0.02026-05-09n/aBepInEx

Dependencies

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run IceAndRuneStoneSkills on a Valheim server

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What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Thunderstore as “Tweaks”

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Works on a server

From source side support

Thunderstore lists server-side support for IceAndRuneStoneSkills 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 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorWackyMole, as published on Thunderstore
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

IceAndRuneStoneSkills, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install IceAndRuneStoneSkills?

Thunderstore lists server-side support for IceAndRuneStoneSkills as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.

Which loaders does it support?

BepInEx.

Is it free?

Yes. IceAndRuneStoneSkills is free to download from Thunderstore.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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