CombatStats

A combat meter for Valheim 1.0: who dealt how much damage, of which damage type, over the last 30 seconds, 5, 10 or 30 minutes.

Two windows. A compact one appears under the minimap when a fight starts and fades out when it ends: one row per player, the damage, the share of the total, and a bar split into the damage kinds it is made of. A detail window has the whole picture - a tab per window length, the totals for the window, and rows that open into their damage kinds.

Client-side. Other players need nothing, and neither does the server; when they do have the mod, the numbers get better (see Together with other players).

Keys

Both are configurable, and either can be set to None to turn it off.

What it counts

Out of the box, damage dealt to creatures, by players.

The rest is off by default and each has its own switch, in the settings panel or in the config file: damage taken, healing, damage to trees, ore and buildings, and what tamed creatures and summons deal (charged to the player they follow, or to a row of their own). Only something that belongs to a player counts there: wild creatures never get a row.

Some details worth knowing:

• The numbers are what the target really took, after resistances, armour and the world modifiers, measured on the client that owns the target. The killing blow counts in full, overkill included.
• Fire, poison and spirit are counted as they tick, not when the blow lands, so a target that dies early or walks into water never produces the rest of the damage - which is what really happened.
• The average is damage per hit, not per second: a quiet stretch inside a window does not dilute it. A blow carrying two damage kinds is one hit.
• Damage to trees, ore and buildings is measured as it is swung, before the target's own resistances, so those rows are marked with a ~ like any other estimate.

Together with other players

The client that owns a creature is the only one that sees what it really took, so that client shares what it recorded with the other players who have the mod. What that means in practice:

Packets are ignored when they come from farther away than ShareRadius (96 m), so a fight on the other side of the map stays out of your meter. ShareDamage turns the sharing off entirely; you then still see your own numbers.

A player without the mod is unaffected: the packets are named after the plugin, and a client that does not know the name drops them. Nothing here is part of the game's version check.

Settings

The ones that get changed often are in the game, behind the settings button of the detail window: when the compact window shows itself, where it sits, how wide, how large and how solid, how many rows it lists, the window it adds up, the size of the detail window, and the switches for the extra meters.

The rest lives in BepInEx/config/muindor.CombatStats.cfg, and in ConfigurationManager if it is installed:

Optional server configuration

Install the mod on a dedicated server (or on the machine hosting the session) and turn Server.ConfigPriority on in its config file: every client that also has the mod then runs on the server's values for the settings marked [synced], instead of its own. It stays optional on both sides, and a player without the mod can still join.

Only Enabled, ShareDamage and ShareRadius travel - a server may decide whether its players exchange combat data at all. The windows, the keys and the colours stay each player's own, and the client's config file is never written to.

A dedicated server takes no part in the meter itself: with no screen and no player of its own it records nothing and answers no greeting, so its clients keep estimating their blows on whatever the server happens to own.

Installing

Use a mod manager, or copy plugins/CombatStats into BepInEx/plugins.

Needs BepInExPack Valheim.

Compatibility

Nothing here changes how the game plays; it only reads hits as they are applied. The meter shares its numbers over one routed RPC named after the plugin, which any client without the mod ignores.