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 pets and summons deal (charged to the player they follow).

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.

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.

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.

Changelog

1.0.3 - 2026-09-21

• On Linux the cursor stayed pinned to the centre of the screen while the detail window or the settings were open, for the reason found in TidyChests by @Chulii: vanilla re-locked the mouse every frame and the mod undid it after the warp had already happened. Vanilla's mouse capture is now skipped while a window is open, so the cursor is released once and stays free.

1.0.2

Everything here came out of a review of the first release; nothing changes what the meter shows when it is right.

• Rejoining a world left the mod deaf. The game builds a new routed RPC for every session and never clears the one it kept before, so the mod believed its handlers were still registered: from the second world on it sent packets and received none, and the previous world's numbers carried over. The channel now follows the object itself and starts the session clean.
• The greeting went out before any player had finished connecting, so nobody ever heard it and clients only learned of each other through the first damage packet - which double-counted that first half second. It is now sent whenever the company changes, and it carries whether the sender shares at all, so a client that keeps its numbers to itself is not mistaken for one that reports them.
• A batch from farther away than the share radius was dropped whole, which could lose your own hits: the owner of a creature may stand a long way from it. What a packet says about you is now always kept.
• With pet damage on, every wild creature got a row of its own: a raid filled the window with the names of what was attacking it. Only tamed creatures and summons count now.
• Damage over time was charged to the last attacker even when the game had discarded the blow (a dodge, a corpse, PvP being off), so a burn from a campfire could land in someone's row. The note is now taken only when the game really handed the fire, poison or spirit to a status effect.
• Players seen only through other clients' packets were named "..." for the rest of the session; they are now looked up in the player list the server keeps.
• A packet naming a meter this version does not have threw inside the RPC handler. It is refused, along with a count the packet could not possibly hold.
• Your own row can be collapsed in the detail window and stays collapsed.
• Installed on a dedicated server the mod no longer takes part in the meter - it has no player, so it recorded hits nobody would ever see and made its clients stop estimating theirs. Only the configuration channel runs there now.
• Damage to trees, ore and buildings is marked as an estimate, which is what it always was: it is measured as it is swung, before the target's resistances.
• Blows the game throws away as too small to matter are no longer counted, and the keys of creatures can no longer stray into the range a player's id can occupy.

1.0.1

• The buttons of the detail window were drawn without their labels, which left the window tabs, the settings button and the close button of the settings panel invisible. They were there and they worked; there was nothing to read on them.
• The column heads of the detail window are pinned to the same distances from the right edge as the numbers they name, instead of being spaced out by hand.

1.0.0

First release.

• A compact window that appears under the minimap when a fight starts and fades out when it ends: one row per player with the damage, the share of the total and a bar split into damage kinds.
• A detail window (Ctrl+D) with a tab per window length - 30 seconds, 5, 10 and 30 minutes - the totals for the window, and rows that open into their damage kinds.
• Damage is taken from the client that owns the target, so the numbers are the ones the target really took. Fire, poison and spirit are counted as they tick and charged to whoever started them.
• Clients with the mod share what they see, so a group has one complete picture. A blow at a creature owned by a client without the mod is recorded as sent and marked with a ~.
• Damage taken, healing, damage to trees, ore and buildings, and pet damage can be turned on.
• A settings panel in game for what gets changed often; the rest is in the config file.
• Optional server configuration for Enabled, ShareDamage and ShareRadius.