BetterUI: Forever Maintained for Valheim

This mod updates the game UI with few subtle edits. You are able to edit and select what updates you want to use.

Support

Azumatt

DISCORD: azumatt

STEAM: https://steamcommunity.com/id/azumatt/

For questions or comments, find me in the Hexium, Odin Plus Team Discord or in my own:

Features

Customizable Player HUD

• Makes player HUD elements movemable
• Custom Health, Food, Stamina, Eitr, and Adrenaline bars that can be rotated and resized
• Adjust text sizes

Customized Iventory Icons

• Show item durability colors (green/yellow/orange/red) instead of white
• Show item level in stars instead of numbers
• Custom tooltips with more info
• Adjustable Icon scale
• Show all character stats when hovering the Shield icon

Customizable Skills

• Adds XP level for your character
• Custom Character level increase notification
• Custom Skill dialog with more info
• Notifications for all XP gains

Custom Hover Text

• Fermentor, Cooking Stations, Bee hive, and plants shows either time remaining or % complete
• Chests can show % filled, filled/total, or just filled

Custom Enemy HUD

• Show Enemy level, stars, or both
• Show enemy current/max health
• Show alerted status by changing the name color
• Show tamed creatures health bar as green
• Show other players current/max health
• Customize text size
• Show your own character's health bar above your head
• Boss current/max health
• Change distance enemy HUD appears

Custom Map

• Change map pin size

Changelog

• Fixed some tooltip stuff, boss hud PR accepted, skills dialog fixes

Full Changelog can be found on the wiki tab for this mod here: https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/BetterUI_ForeverMaintained/BetterUI_ForeverMaintained/wiki/

Installation

Gale (recommended)

1. Install Gale
2. Create a new profile or use the Default
3. Select 'Online' from the left nav (house with magnifying glass)
4. Search for 'BetterUI' and download
5. Click 'Start Modded'

Manual

If you are installing this manually, do the following (You will need Bepinex installed)

1. Extract the archive into a folder. Do not extract into the game folder.
2. Move the contents of plugins folder into <GameDirectory>\Bepinex\plugins.
3. Run the game, it will generate automatically an configuration file into <GameDirectory>\Bepinex\config

FAQ

How can I see the Epic Loot info when I hover over an item in my iventory?

• In the config file, set showCustomTooltips = false

When I use the config manager to change the config values, nothing happens. Why not?

• Some config values are not loaded in real time. You must log out and log back in to see the changes.

Can I hide the Yellow XP Bar at the bottom of the screen?

• Yes you can. Check config for showCharacterXPBar and set it to false

Why are the star icons not showing on enemies anymore?

• If you want the stars back, edit enemyLvlStyle in the config.
  • DefaultStars = vanilla stars only
  • PrefixLevelNumber = level number before name (Lvl 1 Greydwarf) with no stars
  • Both = stars & prefix

How to turn off a specific hover text edit?

• You want to set the specific hover text option to Disabled.
• Example: timeLeftStyleFermenter = Disabled

How do I edit the player HUD?

• Press ESC to unlock cursor
• F7 | Toggle editing mode
• Mouse Left | Hold to Drag elements
• Mouse Right | Toggle editing layer
• Mouse Left + Mouse Wheel | Hold and scroll to Rotate Custom Bar
• Left Ctrl + Mouse Left + Mouse Wheel | Hold to scale width and height equally
• Left Ctrl + Mouse Left + Drag pointer left/right | Scale width
• Left Ctrl + Mouse Left + Drag pointer up/down | Scale height

How do I reset the Custom HUD positions?

• Clear out the value in the uiData field in the config

Thanks

Thank you to all who have contributed to keeping this mod alive!

• MKMasa
• Goldenrevolver
• Dayaleth
• redseiko
• nandryshak
• MetricMike
• BruceOfTheBow
• phtnk
• FelixReuthlinger
• JuniorAndria

Changelog

2.5.12

• Update README because Thunderstore still doesn't let me do this live.

2.5.11

• Update for 1.0

2.5.10

• Added a custom adrenaline bar, with the same rotation, scaling and HUD editing support as the health, stamina and eitr bars (customAdrenalineBar, disabled by default)
• Restored item tooltip information that the custom tooltip had fallen behind on:
  • Attack costs: stamina, eitr, health, health return on hit, and bow draw stamina drain
  • Damage multipliers for missing health
  • Status effects on utility items, trinkets, tools and other item types that previously showed none
  • Two handed left and non-equipable ammo item types, which previously showed no stats at all
  • Chain / spawn on hit effects, eitr regen modifier, full adrenaline effect, parry adrenaline and tamed only
  • New Game Plus level, item subtitle, quality level, and the name of a set effect
  • Appended item tooltips, such as the ones used by bait boxes
  • Food values now include your current maximums, and foods that only give stamina or eitr are no longer skipped
• Stacked items show both the single and total weight again
• Items are no longer marked as unteleportable when the server has the teleport all global key set
• Crafter names are run through the game's UGC filter again

2.5.9

• Tooltip and skills fixes
• Boss health bar can be moved and scaled in HUD edit mode (wylker)

2.5.8

• Update for Valheim 0.220.3

2.5.7

• Maintenance release

2.5.6

• Ashlands update

2.5.5

• Fixed the build count on the character selection screen

2.5.4

• Update for Valheim 0.217.28

2.5.3

• Fixed item quality stars

2.5.2

• Bug fixes

2.5.1

• Bug fixes

2.5.0

• Maintenance release

2.4.4

• Fix for game version 0.217.14 (JuniorAndria)

2.4.3

• Required updates for Valheim version 0.216.9

2.4.2

• Fix enemy HUD

2.4.1

• Resolve inventory related issues (thedefside)
• Resolve an issue where you could end up with no Food Bar due to conflicting config settings
• Inventory Tooltip improvements (MetricMike)
  • Show Eitr increase
  • Color code food values (red for health, yellow for stamina, blue for eitr)
  • Include food duration value in minutes

2.4.0

• Overhauled general scaling and dimension as well as custom bar rotation system (Goldenrevolver):
  • in addition to being able to rotate the custom bars ingame using the new enum config, you can now also rotate them with the mouse wheel in edit mode while not holding down the modifier key. holding down the modifier key and scrolling still changes the scale for any UI element, but additionally while holding down the modifier key moving the mouse horizontally and vertically now changes the X and Y dimension respectively (X dimension support is completely new)
  • custom bar text now scales based on Y axis only (that means that the text is no longer distorted when changing only one dimension)
  • hotbar and inventory icons now scale ingame through new component
  • improved bar update performance by saving in local variables
• New features (Goldenrevolver)
  • added font option for custom bar text and custom food bar duration text
  • added option for bee hive hover text like fermenter hover text
  • added option to not show running exp notifications
• Fix compatibility with ComfyQuickSlots and Odin's QOL (BruceOfTheBow & Goldenrevolver)

2.3.2

• Added backwards compatibility to older config versions (Goldenrevolver)
• Fixed having durability color disabled also disabling icon size rescaling (Goldenrevolver)

2.3.0

• Color of the item movement speed tooltip is now set correctly (Goldenrevolver)
• The main menu player stats no longer display the kill count if it's zero (Goldenrevolver)
• The mod no longer always displays 'Lv.0' when the user has character XP disabled (Goldenrevolver)
• Removed floating food icon next to armor icon (Goldenrevolver)
• Add Custom Eitr Bar (Goldenrevolver)
• Enable user to enable or disable the custom health/food/stamina/xp bars without errors (still requires logout/restart) (Goldenrevolver)
• Change the default position and rotation of custom UI bars so they don't overlap (Goldenrevolver)
• Fix duplicate food bar when custom health bar disabled (Goldenrevolver)

2.2.3

• Mistlands Compatibility (thedefside)

2.2.2

• Fixed ability to move QuickSlotsHotkeyBar from Equipment and Quickslots (Dalayeth)
• Fixed character stats overlapping with "Cloud Save" (Dalayeth)

2.2.1

• Added config option to enble showing your own player name/health bar/hp text above your player (redseiko)
• Performance improvements to the EnemyHud (redseiko)
• Fixed Custom HUD editing (thedefside)
• Fixed Custom Skills dialog (thedefside)
• Don't resize enemy hud heatlh bar if hp text is disabled (thedefside)

2.1.0

• Re-organized the config file. Renamed some options and updated the descriptions. It is recommended that you back up your existing file, then remove it so a new one is generated
• Add config setting to enable writing debug messages to the bepinex log
• Enemy HUD changes:
  • Add config option to show other player's current and max health numbers in multiplayer
  • Add config options to adjust the font size of Enemy, Boss, and Player health
  • Add config option to change the health bar color for tamed creatures from red to green
  • Add config option to change enemy name color based on alerted status. If disabled vanilla alerted icons show
  • Fixed enemy level number not showing when enemyLvlStyle set to 1 or 2

2.0.5

• Fixed an issue where Player couldn't jump after turning Character XP off and XP bar on (thanks to Varek!)

2.0.4

• Fix Hover text on oven (you must point to the outer shell of the oven to see it)
• Update most custom HUD settings to default to disabled

2.0.3

• Fix cooking stations not working (nandryshak)
• Fix enemy health bars (nandryshak)
• Fix food bar timer being stuck at default value (phtnk)
• Add config option to hide just the XP bar on the bottom of the screen
• Add XP level progress % to Skills dialog window

2.0.2

• Fixed issues with QuickSlots disappearing
• Custom elements now use game default rotations.

2.0.1

• Fixed issues with custom elements
• Rotate custom elements via config
• Custom UI support for QuickSlots

2.0.0

• Revamped config, old config causes issues (suggest deleting old and relaunch game)
• Ability to edit UI elements positions
• Added Custom elements (HP Bar, Stamina Bar, Food Bar)

1.6.4

• Fixed fermenter hover text after game update 0.148.6
• Skill notifications are ingnored on lvl 100 skills
• Chest hovertext now has option to show avaible free slots.

1.6.3

• Container hover text follows original format
• XP Notification customization (text size, extended information)

1.6.2

• Fixed issues with enemyHud draw distance defaulting to smaller than game default
• Skill percentage text is now scaled with skillUITextSize

1.6.1

• Fixed fishing rod causing skills to crash / losing session progress.
• Removed decimals from chest percentage.

1.6.0

• Added custom map pin size (for the 4k gang)
• More hovertext information (Cooking station, chest)
• Fixed issue with XP notification caused crashing
• More modification options on cofig.

1.5.1

• Fixed Player XP Bar scaling issues on > 16:9 resolutions. Please notify if you still have issues.
• Added custom hover text on plant & fermenter.
• Durability now supports Protanopia color palette.
• Other config edits.

1.5.0

• Added custom tooltips
• Updated recipe information. Show clearly what stats are improving when upgrading.
• Show all active item stats by hovering over your armour amount.

1.4.2

• Added skillUITextSize to config (Game still scales them)
• Padding fix on modded items quality stars
• Ability to toggle if chracter stats are visible

1.4.1

• Hotfix on config values

1.4.0

• Added Character Lvls + XP Bar to track progress
• More options to config
• Bug fixes on spawned items breaking items UI

1.3.1

• Fixed durability bars sometime showing as empty
• Small code optimization
• Updated Icon & README

1.3.0

• Added custom enemy hud
• Editable enemy hud visibility range.
• Ability to scale item image sizes. Defaulted to 75% of original size.
• Removed First Person Camera (There is an seperate mod for that, few updates coming soon.)

1.2.0

• Changed item levels to display as stars
• Added Character stats to character selection screen
• Minor tweaks on skill UI.

1.1.0

• Added Colored Durability Bars
• Added options to disable UI modifications
• Added config options to edit FPS Toggle and FOV

1.0.1

• Initial Release under Valheim Mods

1.0.0

• Initial Release, but went under the wrong section