ValheimSkill Calculator

Every skill levels on its own curve: the XP for the next level is xpToNextLevel(level) = floor(level+1)^1.5 * 0.5 + 0.5. That means each level costs more than the last, and taking one skill from 0 to 100 is about 20,301 XP in total. Read from Valheim 0.221.12 game files.

A hard death takes 5% off every skill you have and resets your progress toward the next level. Because it is a percentage rather than a flat amount, the higher your skill the more each death costs, which is why deaths sting far more late in a run.

If you die again within 10 minutes of your previous death, that second death costs no skill levels at all. The game calls it a soft death. If you have just died and your corpse is somewhere dangerous, the recovery run inside that window is effectively free.

The curve is superlinear, so cost accelerates near the top. Levels 90 to 100 alone are about 4,673 XP, more than twice what the first forty levels cost put together. That is why most players plateau well short of 100 on anything but their main weapon.

24 in this build, covering weapons, blocking, movement, crafting and the magic schools. Each one levels independently through use, and each one takes the same percentage hit when you die.

Yes. Skills live on your character rather than the world, so they follow you wherever you play and are not reset by a server restart. If your crew shares a Physgun Valheim server, everyone keeps their own progression while the world itself stays online.