SkillDrasil

A skill tree for Valheim. Your deeds feed the roots. Your choices shape the branches.

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Valheim 1.0 · BepInEx + Jotunn · English & Русский · Safe to add to and remove from existing saves

Vanilla skills

Repeat an action and that skill levels up.
Die and you lose levels in everything.
No choices: every Viking ends up the same.

SkillDrasil

Actions feed five branches; full branches give points.
You spend the points on masteries and perks.
Death costs progress, never your choices.

The World Tree

Five branches. Masteries are the roots, perks are the crown, and the trunk grows with every point you spend in the branch.

How it works

Earn

Every swing, shot, swim and stew feeds XP into that skill's branch. A full bar grants a branch point, spent only in that branch.

Masteries

Every vanilla skill has 5 ranks worth 20 levels each, so all of Valheim's own skill effects still apply. Gear and mead bonuses stack on top.

Perks

Two per tier, unlocked at 3, 6 and 9 points spent, some with several ranks: Berserkgang, Silent Death, Rune Ward, Featherfall and more.

Keystones

At 15 points a branch offers a keystone: a big bonus with a real drawback, like Bear Shirt (+30% melee, −40% armor). Only one in the whole tree: choose who you are.

Free points

Every boss felled in your world and every new biome you discover grants a free point for any branch.

Abilities

Each branch has one active ability, unlocked once you know a tier 1 perk: War Cry, Hunter's Mark, Völva's Chant, Gale Step, Tireless Toil. Cast with Alt + 1–5; cooldowns show on your HUD.

Death

You lose part of each branch's unspent XP, never your points. You rise with Severed Roots for 10 minutes: masteries one rank lower, tier 3 perks and your keystone silent.

Respec

Craft a Rune of Forgetting at the workbench (10 Stone, 10 Resin, 5 Greydwarf Eye) and consume it to refund every point.

A long saga, not an evening

Point n in a branch costs 60 × n^1.25 XP. The first points come in minutes; a well-filled branch takes many evenings, not a single one.

Point	Cost	Total so far
1st	60	60
5th	~450	~1,200
10th	~1,070	~5,300
20th	~2,540	~24,000

Safe for your saves

Your vanilla skill levels are never written. The tree lives in its own entry in the character file.
First load of an existing character: every 20 vanilla levels in a skill become 1 point in that skill's branch.
Uninstall and your vanilla skills are exactly as they were. Reinstall and your tree is back.
Only Runes of Forgetting in your bags disappear without the mod.

Multiplayer

Every player and the server must run SkillDrasil, same major.minor version. Jotunn refuses mismatched connections, so nobody joins with an unfair advantage. Balance settings come from the server; each character keeps its own tree.

Install

Easiest: install SkillDrasil from Thunderstore with r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager. BepInEx and Jotunn come with it; skip to step 4. Manual install:
Install BepInExPack Valheim.
Install Jotunn.
Back up your characters: …\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\characters_local or, with Steam Cloud, Steam\userdata\<id>\892970\remote\characters.
Download the latest release and put SkillDrasil.dll in BepInEx/plugins/SkillDrasil/.
Start the game and press K, or the Skills button in your inventory.

Settings

BepInEx/config/rgboutl4w.skilldrasil.cfg

Key	Default
`FirstPointXp`	60	XP for a branch's first point (server)
`CostExponent`	1.25	How steeply point cost grows (server)
`SeveredRootsSeconds`	600	Debuff length after death (server)
`PerkStrength`	1	Scales all perk bonuses, 0–3 (server)
`OpenTreeKey`	K	Opens the tree
`Modifier`, `KeyWarrior`…	Alt, 1–5	Ability hotkeys
`ShowPointsHint`	true	HUD hint while you have points to spend
`CheckForUpdates`	true	Main-menu notice when a new release is out