Cartur's Safe Stamina

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Stamina costs nothing while nothing is hunting you. Clearing a forest, sinking a mine shaft, running supplies across the meadows, throwing up scaffolding - none of it drains the bar. Then something hostile walks into range and every cost comes straight back, at full price, mid-swing. The fight is still the fight. The chores stop pretending to be one.

Installation instructions

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

Main features

What's free when you're safe: chopping and mining, weapon swings, sprinting, jumping, swimming, sneaking, building/repairing/removing pieces. Each of those is its own switch, so you can leave combat or swimming paying full price if you'd rather.

What counts as safe: no hostile character within SafeRadius metres of you (25 by default). Hostility is the game's own BaseAI. IsEnemy check, not a list of prefab names, so tamed animals are ignored, a boar that hasn't noticed you still counts, and anything a mod adds is judged by the same rule as everything else.

Free swimming also means you can't drown while safe - the game only starts the drown timer once stamina is empty, so a swim that never costs anything never gets there. That's why AffectSwim has its own switch, in case you want the water to stay dangerous.

Skills still level: nothing here skips the original methods, so run, swim, sneak and weapon XP accrue exactly as they always did.

Other characters pay normally: the attack patch checks the swinger is you before waiving anything, so boars and draugr near you don't fight for free too.

Configuration

Settings live in BepInEx/config/com.jekkle.valheim.cartursafestamina.cfg, written on first run: SafeRadius (metres, 25 by default), plus AffectAttacks, AffectSprint, AffectJump, AffectBuild, AffectSwim and AffectSneak, each on by default.

Editing that file by hand works, but ConfigurationManager is easier - install it and every setting is adjustable in-game from the F1 menu, no restart needed. It is optional; this mod does not depend on it.

Requirements

BepInEx pack for Valheim. Nothing is replaced outright: every patch either zeroes a cost the game is about to charge or restores what it borrowed. Mods that change stamina amounts stack fine - they set the number, this waives it.