Valheim Process Progress

BepInEx mod for Valheim that shows a small progress bar above things that take time, so you can see at a glance how long is left - without guessing or checking each one.

Unofficial mod. This is a fan-made mod, not affiliated with or endorsed by Iron Gate. It marks your game as modded (the game shows this in the main menu), as Iron Gate asks mod authors to do.

What gets a bar

Anything within range of you (10 m by default):

• Growing plants - crops and tree saplings: percent grown and time left
• Picked plants that regrow - berry bushes, mushrooms, herbs: time until they're ready to pick again
• Fermenters - fermentation progress and time left; nothing is shown for an empty fermenter
• Beehives - honey stored (e.g. 2/4) and time until the next one

Finished things show a gold Ready bar. When something is stuck, the bar turns red and shows the game's own reason, for example a plant with no sun or in the wrong biome, a fermenter that needs a roof (without one the game keeps resetting fermentation), or beehives that need more open space.

Times come from the game's own calculations, so the bar always matches what will actually happen. The bars sit with the game's enemy health bars: they hide together with the HUD and follow the game's UI scale setting.

Settings

In BepInEx\config\com.michal.valheim.processprogress.cfg:

• Range - how far from you bars are shown, 3 to 40 m (default 10)
• ShowPlants, ShowPickables, ShowFermenters, ShowBeehives - turn each kind on or off

Requirements

• Valheim (tested on 1.0.15)
• BepInEx 5.4.x

Installation (players)

1. Install BepInEx for Valheim if you haven't already (see link above, or use r2modman).
2. Download ProcessProgress.dll from the latest release.
3. Drop it into <Valheim install folder>\BepInEx\plugins\ProcessProgress\.
4. Launch the game and walk up to a growing plant, a fermenter or a beehive.

Building from source

Requires the .NET 8 SDK (or newer) and a local Valheim install with BepInEx installed.

git clone https://github.com/Ab5oluteZer0/valheim-process-progress.git
cd valheim-process-progress
dotnet build -c Release -p:ValheimPath="C:\Path\To\Valheim"

If you don't pass -p:ValheimPath, the build looks for a VALHEIM_PATH environment variable, then falls back to the default Steam location (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim).

The build automatically copies the built DLL into <Valheim>\BepInEx\plugins\ProcessProgress\ for quick in-game testing.

Notes on how it works (and a few gotchas found along the way)

• Each kind of object is one small IProgressProvider class, so adding a new kind means adding one class - scanning and bars don't change.
• Growth and fermentation times are read through the game's own private methods (Plant.GetGrowTime, Plant.TimeSincePlanted, Fermenter.GetFermentationTime) rather than re-implemented.
• After you tap a fermenter, the game "resets" its start time by writing an int 0 but reads it back as a long, so the old time stays behind and an empty fermenter looks finished. Emptiness is checked by its content, like the game itself does.
• The bar height comes from the visible model, not from colliders - a fermenter has invisible volumes reaching far above the barrel.
• The area around you is scanned once a second, values are refreshed twice a second, and bars are reused from a pool, so it stays cheap even in a busy farm.

Support

All my mods are free and will stay free. If you enjoy them and want to say thanks, you can leave a voluntary tip via PayPal - it doesn't unlock anything, it just helps me keep making mods.

License

MIT - see LICENSE.