TombstoneLock
Smoothbrain
Lets you configure who can access your tombstone. Can also remove tombstones after a time.
Is there a Valheim mod to keep your items when you die?
Yes. Valheim doesn't have a built-in 'keep inventory' toggle, but mods cover every level of it: lock your grave so only you can loot it, zero-out skill loss, or flip a world rule that stops item drops entirely.
Mods that do this
AzuSkillTweaks
Azumatt
Mod that allows tweaking of skill gain factors and percent of skill loss on death. Ripped out from OdinsQOL.
ZenWorldSettings
ZenDragon
Burn all woods, use spark to light fires, refill candles, hide sky tree, limit snowstorm particles. Prevent tombstone abuse. Protect newbies from hard spawns. Door keys: break/repair. Shield Gens: protect fires, eject fuel. Turrets multi-target
ZenPlayer
ZenDragon
Hide helmet visual, equip gear after swim, equip while running, control riding stamina usage, death & skill loss, durability, food, health, inventory, sleep, stamina, knowledge, autopickup, per-player difficulty
DarwinAwards
Smoothbrain
Adds a death feed to your server.
RequipMe
Neobotics
Instantly re-equip from your tombstone!
The details
The lightest option is TombstoneLock: your death chest becomes openable only by you, which mainly matters in multiplayer where a teammate or passing player could otherwise clean out your grave before you run back.
If your actual pain is losing skill XP rather than items, AzuSkillTweaks lets you set the death skill-loss to zero while leaving everything else vanilla. Many players run this alongside a grave-protection mod.
For a true 'keep everything on death', use a world-rules mod like ZenWorldSettings that exposes a no-item-drop toggle. Don't stack two world-rules mods that both touch death, or their settings will fight each other.
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Related questions
- Does Valheim have a keep-inventory option without mods?
- No. Vanilla always drops your full inventory on death and drains skill XP. The only way to change it is a mod or a community-config server setting.
- Will a keep-items mod work in multiplayer?
- Yes, but the server and every player usually need the same mod installed. Server-side world-rules mods are the most reliable for shared worlds.