Gands Damage Function

Prevents the boring mid-late game where you take near zero damage from previous biome enemies. By introducing an armor penetrating mechanic to low damage hits.

Stronger attacks remain close to vanilla.

This is a perfect companion mod to a hardcore or survival server. Keeps the game from getting stale once you scale.

Features

In Vanilla Valheim once you have iron armor, a Greydwarf hit will only deal 0.3 damage. With this mod that same Greydwarf hit will deal ~3.89 damage so you can't just go grab a coffee while a previous-biome mob is hitting you.

• Applies only to armor on player characters.
• Keeps shield blocks and parries vanilla values.
• Preserves normal stronger-hit behavior.
• Server-enforced configuration.
• Configurable coefficient if you want to increase or decrease the damage penetration.
• The settings are server controlled. When connected to a server, clients use the server's values.
• Required on the server and all connecting clients.

Damage Comparison

Example values at 46 armor and 100% strength. Shield-blocked hits remain vanilla and are not shown.

At the default strength of 100, weak hits remain noticeable while larger hits are unchanged.

Configuration

The configuration file is generated at:

BepInEx/config/gand.valheim.gandsdamagefunction.cfg

Enabled

Enables or disables the custom armor formula.

Default: true

Damage Floor Strength

Controls the strength of the damage floor.

• 0 = completely vanilla armor damage
• 100 = recommended default
• 200 = maximum strength

Default: 100