Permanent Corpses

Makes player ragdoll corpses permanent instead of letting them despawn after death.

Features

• Player corpses remain in the world indefinitely.
• Corpses persist through zone unloading, saving, quitting, and reloading the world.
• Tombstones are unchanged.
• Creature and enemy ragdolls are unchanged.
• Includes a world-wide cleanup command for removing saved player corpses.

Cleanup command

Open the Valheim console and enable devcommands, then run:

clearcorpses

clearcorpses removes all saved player ragdoll corpses from the current world, including corpses in unloaded areas. It does not remove tombstones.

In multiplayer, run the command as the world host/server.

Uninstalling

Permanent corpses are saved as persistent world objects. Disabling or removing the mod does not automatically delete corpses already stored in the world save.

Before uninstalling:

1. Enter the world with Permanent Corpses enabled.
2. Enable devcommands if necessary.
3. Run clearcorpses.
4. Save and quit normally.
5. Disable or remove the mod.

Installation

Install with a compatible mod manager, or manually place PermanentPlayerCorpses.dll in your BepInEx/plugins folder.

Built for Valheim 1.0 and BepInEx 5.

Multiplayer

For consistent behavior, install the mod on the host/server and clients.