Friendly Clock

A day/night dial for Valheim that tells you when it is without ruining the mood with exact numbers.

• Painted dial: sunrise at the top, noon on the right, sunset at the bottom, midnight on the left. The hand sweeps through the day.
• Time-of-day words under the dial: Midnight, Before Dawn, Dawn, Morning, Midday, Afternoon, Evening, Dusk, Night…
• Optional day counter.
• Part of the vanilla HUD: hides when you hide the HUD, and menus and the inventory draw over it.
• Drag it: open your inventory, then drag the clock anywhere. The position is saved.

Client-side only. Nobody else needs it, and neither does the server.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.mous.friendlyclock.cfg (or in-game with ConfigurationManager, changes apply live):

• Style: Dial, Words or DialAndWords
• ShowDayCounter
• Size, FontSize, Opacity, Position
• DayPhases: comma-separated names spread evenly over the day, starting at midnight. Keep 12 entries to match the 12 wedges of the painted dial.
• MaxWidth, FontSize, Background of the phase tooltip (see below)

Phase file with hover tooltips

Create BepInEx/config/FriendlyClock.phases.md to replace DayPhases. Each ## heading is one phase, in order from midnight; the markdown under it shows as a tooltip when you hover the clock with the inventory or map open. Supports headings, bold, italic, lists, > quotes, --- rules and raw TextMeshPro tags. The file reloads while the game runs. A full example (Old Norse phases with pronunciations) ships next to the DLL as FriendlyClock.phases.md; copy it to BepInEx/config/ to use it. Excerpt:

## Ótta
> ### The deep night before dawn
> - **Pronunciation:** **OHT-tah**
> - **Sounds like:** _"Oht"_ (rhymes with _boat_) + _"tah"_

Custom art

The dial is made of three 512×512 PNG layers next to FriendlyClock.dll: clock_face.png, clock_hand.png (pointing up, rotating around the image centre) and clock_cap.png. Replace them with your own and they reload while the game is running. If a file is deleted, a simple built-in dial is drawn in its place.

License

MIT — source at https://github.com/EnyMan/valheim-mods

Changelog

1.1.1

• Fix the clock falling back to the drawn dial instead of the painted art after switching worlds.

1.1.0

• Optional BepInEx/config/FriendlyClock.phases.md: each ## Word heading is a phase, and the markdown under it shows as a tooltip when you hover the clock with the inventory or map open (headings, bold, italic, lists, quotes, rules, TextMeshPro tags). Reloads live. An example ships next to the DLL.
• New Tooltip settings: MaxWidth, FontSize, Background.

1.0.0

• Initial release.