Recent XP Bars

Adds four small XP bars to the bottom of the screen showing your most recently active skills. As soon as you gain XP in a skill, a bar appears for it; the four most recent stay on screen.

Features

• Four bars tiled across the bottom edge of the screen — one quarter of the window width each
• Newest skill on the left, oldest on the right (LRU eviction when a fifth skill gains XP)
• Skill name + current level rendered with a black outline so it's legible against any background
• Bar fill = progress to next level (resets to ~0 after a level-up)
• Tick marks split each bar into ten equal segments for quick at-a-glance reading
• Cylindrical gradient look — bars appear rounded rather than flat rectangles
• Color flips to red when you don't have the Rested status effect — a quick visual reminder that you're missing the XP gain bonus
• Auto-scales to any window resolution (windowed and fullscreen both look right)
• Tracks gains on every skill tick — chopping a tree, blocking a hit, sprinting, crafting all update bars instantly

Configuration

A config file is generated at BepInEx/config/com.foxego.valheim.recentxpbars.cfg after the first launch:

Installation

Via Mod Manager (recommended)

Install with r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager. Subscribe to the BepInExPack Valheim dependency and this mod; the manager handles the rest.

Manual

1. Install BepInEx for Valheim.
2. Drop ValheimRecentXpBars.dll into <Valheim install>/BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Launch the game.

Notes

• The "Rested" status-effect lookup uses the same stable-hash key Valheim itself uses, so the red/gold color toggle matches the game's own rested-state check.
• No assets shipped — all visuals are generated procedurally with IMGUI, so the plugin DLL is under 15 KB.
• No hard dependency on other mods; only BepInEx is required.

Contact

Bug reports, feature requests, and feedback welcome on Discord: discord.gg/5JY7RHfHjF

Changelog

All notable changes to this mod are documented here. Format loosely follows Keep a Changelog. Versions follow SemVer.

[0.13.2] - 2026-06-04

Added

• Contact section in the README with a Discord invite for bug reports, feature requests, and feedback.

[0.13.1] - 2026-06-04

Changed

• Preview screenshot in the README now references an externally hosted image URL instead of an embedded base64 data URL (Thunderstore's markdown renderer strips data: URLs).

[0.13.0] - 2026-05-28 — Initial Thunderstore release

Added

• Four XP bars tiled across the bottom of the screen showing the most recently active skills (LRU eviction once a fifth distinct skill gains XP).
• Newest skill on the left, oldest on the right.
• Bar fill represents progress to the next level; updates on every XP tick (not just level-ups).
• Tick marks dividing each bar into ten equal segments for at-a-glance reading.
• Cylindrical vertical gradient on bar fills and backgrounds — bars appear rounded rather than flat.
• Black 1-pixel text outline so skill name + level stays legible against any background.
• Bars turn red when the player does not have the Rested status effect — a visual warning that the XP-gain bonus is missing.
• Auto-scales to any window resolution via a 1080p reference matrix; works correctly in windowed and fullscreen modes.
• Config file with toggles for enabled state, vertical offset, bar-width fraction, and an extra UI scale multiplier.
• No hard dependency on any other mod beyond BepInEx.

Technical notes

• Harmony patch on Skills.RaiseSkill with a Prefix/Postfix pair that snapshots (level, GetLevelPercentage) via Traverse into the private Skills.GetSkill, since the public GetSkillFactor returns level/100 rather than progress within the current level.
• Rested-buff detection uses the same GetStableHashCode key the game itself uses, so the red/gold toggle stays in sync with Valheim's own rested check.
• All visuals are procedurally generated IMGUI textures — no asset bundles, no shipped images. Plugin DLL is ~13 KB.