Cartur's HD Blood

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Description

Higher resolution ground blood, and a real burst of blood on every hit and kill. Vanilla draws its ground blood from a 64x64 texture, and most creatures throw nothing into the air at all when you hit them. This replaces the first and fixes the second.

Installation instructions

Use a mod manager (Vortex, r2modman, Thunderstore, or Gale) - it pulls in BepInEx for you. Manually: drop CarturHDBlood.dll into BepInEx/plugins.

Main features

Ground blood: three new 1024 and 512 textures replace the game's 64x64 decal, with a different mark for a graze than for a kill, and two large marks alternating so the same shape doesn't repeat. Each one ships with its own normal map, so light catches the strands and droplets and the blood reads as wet rather than as a flat stain.

Blood in the air, on every hit: a greydwarf death throws a burst of blood that most of the game simply doesn't have. This mod gives it to them, scaled down for a hit, and sized to the creature - a chicken bleeds less than a troll.

Per-creature colour is preserved. Neck blood is green, greydwarf yellow, boar and deer red. That's the game's own design, and this mod keeps it rather than painting everything red.

Settings, all on the same 0-none / 1-vanilla / 3-a lot scale: GroundBlood (default 1. 5) controls how much blood ends up on the ground, HitBlood (default 0. 25) controls blood thrown into the air per hit, and DeathBlood (default 1. 0) controls blood thrown into the air per death. Everything else lives under Advanced.

Requirements

BepInEx pack for Valheim. That's the only dependency - no other mods are needed. Works alongside texture packs, including HD Valheim Textures.

Shout outs

Artwork and design by Cartur.