There are a variety of mods, some made for this very situation. So in the meantime there's that...

You can have multiple saves, have one to entertain him.
I had one for my grandson in no Mans Sky that he used to shoot asteroids.

I also very much hate the skill drop on death, so much so that I started an entirely new game with an app that disabled the penalty. On my second run through my skills were about the same after three hours of play that they were on my first play through after 300 hours of play. (ok, so I die a lot )

You may ask why did I put up with this in the first place? ... Well I had taken them at their word, in that the screen prompt that said: "no skills lost" actually meant "NO SKILLS LOST" Little did I understand that it actually meant: "no skills lost for the next 15 min of play if I should die again"

I would be ok with a 1-2% drop in skill upon death, but that is not an option, It is either 5% drop, which means I don't advance in the game in skill, or 0% drop. So I pick 0% drop

The main problem I have with the skill drop at the moment is how easy it is to die "without warning". The lack of space in your inventory currently means it's not easy to carry around potions, and normally things that are going to kill you do so by just instantly kill you as they are way stronger rather than via attrition.

And it does feel a bit much, I don't die that often, maybe once every few hours as I'm exploring the swamps, but it then feels like it takes me that full few hours to rebuild my skills to where they were again.

For the OP there are mods, if playing normally... I don't see how people can say it's so easy to die. The only times I die is if I'm careless jumping around while building. No one to blame but myself lol. If you put even a sliver of effort into the game, death is avoidable 99% of the time.

It's not like the game is hard, but it can be if you don't pay attention in certain situation. I see it is one of the reason why I like the game, but in these certain moments where I have this tiny human using me as climbing practice and doing sorts of stuff to get that attention...

I can relate with Paperhero, 1-2% would be more acceptable drop, since I also feel that the time used to get them ALL back to where it was is plain unnecessary retake on the system. The polished experience does not need to be revisited, but instead live on. To put straight, chop chop chop, run, swim, jump, smash n' bash n' block n' stash. plant, gather, build outposts, and so on... repeat couple times. While all trying to keep yourself rested and especially with materials gathering every round takes you farther in the map and is more time consuming.
I admit, it is so well executed that it is enjoyable, BUT why it needs to be made work? The reason why I play is to escape that particular phenomenon?

Maybe a "Skilldrop Upon Death"0-100% slider in game creation menu.....?

Originally posted by MasterKoopa:

I have a son aged 2,5 years. He likes to watch me jumping to water making splash and encourages me too much doing it from high ground. I really cannot say no to him, you know why..
Please help me disable either fall damage or skill drops, or please developer add option to do so. I have played through to Bonemass and really get discouraged to continue since I've died many times after that and getting those skill levels back is giving me quite a rubbing against face. I'd like to continue beating those mountains mobs and keep getting silver since it quite tedious to get and is riddled with interrupts quite often, but going with ever decreasing skills is making it harder every time.

It's a survival game foremost. It wouldn't be much of a game if there was no penalty for failure. If you want easy street game play use one of the mods. Better than asking the developers to make the whole game into a mulligan.

If you install Valheim+ you can edit the death penalties. On my server they are -50% because PVP is always on.

Originally posted by Shukra:

It's a survival game foremost. It wouldn't be much of a game if there was no penalty for failure. If you want easy street game play use one of the mods. Better than asking the developers to make the whole game into a mulligan.

He's only asking for the option to choose some death penalty settings, not to nerf the entire game.
It's the sort of thing which could be covered with Casual / Normal / Hard / Hardcore modes really.

Originally posted by Shukra:

It's a survival game foremost. It wouldn't be much of a game if there was no penalty for failure. If you want easy street game play use one of the mods. Better than asking the developers to make the whole game into a mulligan.

I am really sorry but this is too easy, also I am bit offended...
You did not even bother to read the topic, eh? Try it, then continue to rest of the thread.

Best thing you could do is enable devcommands and use the 'raise skill' commands in order to fix your skills in this situation.

Coming from someone that had several capped skills till yesterday this is your best bet, I however have to go back out and get my skills back up.