No Message HUD Toggle

A client-side Valheim mod that hides selected HUD notifications and prevents the chat panel from appearing automatically. Press F8 to temporarily switch the mod on or off.

Features

• Separate filters for pickups, skill increases, new discoveries, recipes, crafting stations, and station upgrades.
• Independent controls for raid/event messages and regular center-screen notifications.
• Optional filtering of uncategorized HUD messages.
• Automatic chat popup suppression, with manual chat access through Enter.
• Configuration changes apply during gameplay without restarting the game.
• The runtime toggle leaves your saved settings unchanged.

By default, the mod hides common notifications and automatic chat popups. Raid/event messages and uncategorized notifications remain visible.

Installation

Install with Thunderstore Mod Manager, r2modman, or another compatible mod manager. The package requires BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351, as specified in manifest.json.

For manual installation:

1. Install the required BepInExPack for Valheim.
2. Close the game.
3. Place NoMessageHudToggle.dll in BepInEx/plugins/ within your game or mod-manager profile.
4. Launch the game once to generate the configuration file.

The mod runs on the client. It does not need to be installed on a dedicated server.

Configuration

Configuration file:

BepInEx/config/com.xtasy.NoMessageHudToggle.cfg

Default settings:

[General]
Enabled = true
Toggle Hotkey = F8

[Messages]
Hide Item Pickup = true
Hide Inventory Notifications = true
Hide Skill Up = true
Hide New Items = true
Hide New Materials = true
Hide New Recipes = true
Hide New Stations = true
Hide Station Level Up = true
Hide Events = false
Hide Center Messages = true
Hide Other = false

[Chat]
Disable Automatic Chat Popup = true

General settings

Enabled sets the initial state when the game starts. Editing it during gameplay changes the saved startup preference; it does not switch the current runtime state.

Toggle Hotkey defaults to F8. Press it to enable or disable the mod for the current session. The toggle does not modify Enabled or save the configuration. On the next launch, the mod uses the saved startup preference again.

The toggle is ignored while typing in chat, the developer console, portal or sign text, or a map pin name.

Message filters

Set a filter to true to hide its notifications, or false to allow them.

Dedicated unlock filters take priority over Hide New Items. For example, setting Hide New Materials = false allows material discoveries even when Hide New Items = true.

Raid/event messages are checked separately before center-screen messages. Setting Hide Center Messages = true leaves $event_* messages visible when Hide Events = false.

Hide Other does not override a recognized category that you have allowed.

Chat visibility

Disable Automatic Chat Popup = true suppresses automatic chat panel popups while the mod is active, including those caused by incoming messages and player join/leave notifications.

Press Enter to open chat manually. Incoming messages remain in chat history. Set this option to false, or temporarily disable the mod, to use normal chat visibility behavior.

Automatic configuration reload

Save changes to the configuration file while the game is running. The mod detects the change and reloads the settings after a short delay. If the file changes again during loading, the mod schedules another reload.

Filters apply to new notifications. Notifications already displayed or queued may finish displaying; suppressed HUD notifications are not replayed when the mod is disabled.

Compatibility and validation

Version 1.3.1 compiles against the locally installed Valheim and BepInEx libraries and passes automated logic checks. Its behavior in a running game, including the revised chat handling, has not yet been verified.

Valheim updates or other mods that change the same HUD/chat behavior may require a compatibility update.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Changelog

1.4.0

• Preserved discovery journal entries and counts when their popup notifications are hidden.
• Made the discovery summary independent of popup filters, including when all discovery popups are hidden.
• Preserved normal journal logging for filtered HUD messages while respecting the game's logging and hidden-HUD rules.
• Kept the normal chat visibility delay after manually sending a message or command; automatic popup suppression resumes after the manual session closes.
• Clarified that dedicated unlock settings always override Hide New Items, including when set to false.
• Updated plugin, package, assembly, and file versions together and included the rebuilt DLL in the release package.

1.3.1

• Fixed chat window access for the game's component-based UI.
• Preserved manual chat opening while the input field is waiting to gain focus and prevented the visibility timer from reopening the hidden panel on subsequent frames.
• Added hotkey blocking while entering a map pin name.
• Fixed configuration changes being missed when the file is saved again during a reload; another reload is now scheduled.
• Corrected the description of Hide Inventory Notifications: it controls the new-discovery summary using $inventory_logs_new, rather than notifications about items received from chests.
• Aligned the DLL assembly and file versions with the plugin version (1.3.1.0).

1.3.0

• Added Chat → Disable Automatic Chat Popup, enabled by default, to suppress automatic chat panel popups from incoming messages and player join/leave notifications.
• Kept manual chat access through Enter and preserved incoming chat history.
• Added support for the new chat setting through automatic configuration reload and the F8 runtime toggle.

1.2.0

• Added automatic configuration reload so edited settings apply without restarting the game.

1.1.0

• Fixed the toggle hotkey triggering while typing in chat, the developer console, portal names, and signs.

1.0.0

• Added separate filtering for raid/event notifications and regular center-screen messages.
• Added general $msg_new* unlock filtering for new items, trophies, and other unlock categories.
• Added dedicated filters for new materials, recipes, crafting stations, and station upgrades.
• Added filtering for new-discovery summary notifications.
• Added the F8 runtime toggle without changing saved configuration values.
• Used the saved Enabled setting to determine the initial runtime state.