Odin's Wanted Posters

Huginn and Muninn have been busy. Every beast in Valheim has a file, and Odin has slipped you a copy.

Look at a creature and press E to see its wanted poster, in the same style as the game's own item tooltips:

• Level: with its stars written out plainly
• Health: current and maximum, so you know how much fight is left
• Weak to / Resists / Immune to: blunt, slash, pierce, fire, frost, lightning, poison and spirit
• Drops: what it can drop, and how likely each drop is at its star level
• A one-line remark from Odin, because he has opinions

No item to craft, no book to read. If you can see it, Odin has a poster for it.

How the poster is filled in

Everything comes from the game's own data about the creature you're looking at, not from a built-in list. Creatures added by other mods get accurate posters too, and the posters stay correct after Valheim patches rebalance things.

The poster reuses the game's own tooltip, so it looks like it belongs.

When and where it shows

By default, look at a creature and press E. The poster stays up for 5 seconds and keeps its health up to date, even if you look away. Press E again to restart the timer, or on another creature to switch. E is also the Use key, but wild creatures can't be used, so the two don't get in each other's way (tamed animals still get their pat). Change the key with ShowKey, or set Trigger to Look to show the poster whenever you're looking at a creature, no key needed.

Placement picks where the poster goes:

• Crosshair (default): just beside the crosshair.
• AboveCreature: floating over the creature's head, following it around.
• Pinned: a fixed spot of your choosing. Open your inventory and the poster appears at its pinned spot. Drag it with the mouse, and it stays there when you close the inventory.

Configuration

Settings live in BepInEx/config/hevyh2o.valheim.odinswantedposters.cfg. If you have a Configuration Manager mod installed, you can also change them in game (usually F1); this mod doesn't need one.

Setting	Default	Controls
Trigger	LookAndPress	LookAndPress: look and press ShowKey. Look: show whenever you look at a creature.
ShowKey	E	Key that brings up the poster in LookAndPress mode.
ShowSeconds	5	How long the poster stays up after pressing the key.
Placement	Crosshair	Crosshair, AboveCreature or Pinned.
PinnedX / PinnedY	0.8 / 0.6	Pinned position as a fraction of the screen. Easier to set by dragging.
MaxDistance	30	How far away, in metres, a creature can be and still get a poster.
ShowHealth	true	Health line.
ShowWeaknesses	true	Weak to / Resists / Immune to lines.
ShowDrops	true	Drops section.
ShowDropChances	true	Percentages next to each drop.
UnseenDropsHidden	false	Show drops as ??? until you've picked that item up at least once.
ShowTames	false	Posters for tamed animals too.
ShowFlavor	true	Odin's one-line remark under the name.

Things to know

• Your eyes only. Posters are drawn on your screen. Works in single-player and multiplayer, and nobody else needs the mod.
• Hidden when you're busy. No posters while your inventory, map, menu or chat is open, or when the HUD is hidden.
• It's a reference, not a spoiler machine. If you'd rather find out the hard way what a Fuling drops, turn on UnseenDropsHidden.
• Rare drops are streaky. For drops with a 30% chance or less, the game evens out your luck over time. The percentage shown is the average.
• Found a bug or have an idea? Tell Odin in Odin's Tavern. The ravens read every note; your BepInEx\LogOutput.log helps them read faster.

Also from Odin's tavern

Odin's Stagger Home: too many meads to find the way? Press \ and Odin walks you home to your bed, round water and over logs. Odin walks you home round the trouble; the posters tell you what the trouble was.

Odin's Long Drop: at a ledge or mid-fall, the drop and the damage the landing will do, beside your crosshair. The poster lists what a creature does to you. Long Drop does the same for the ground.

Odin's Thread: a faint trail on your map and minimap of every step you took, fading with age, with your deaths and portal hops marked. The thread marks where you died; the poster explains who did it.

Odin's Nudge: alt-tabbed while something eats you? Odin flashes the taskbar and knocks when you're hurt, an enemy closes in, a raid starts or chat says your name. Tabbed back in to a stranger? Press E and get acquainted.

Odin's Latch: Odin shuts the doors you opened when it matters: an enemy close, nightfall or a raid at your base. Read the poster on whatever is outside; Odin will have shut the door on it already.

Odin's Second Hand: when an enemy gets close, Odin swaps your bow for your best melee weapon against it, and hands the bow back once it's gone. The poster shows you what a creature is weak to; Odin reads the same page when he picks your weapon.

Odin's Free Refills: no stamina costs while the coast is clear. The refills tell you when it's safe; the posters tell you what's coming when it isn't.

Odin's Almanac: press K for a forecast of the next weather changes in your biome. The posters cover what's waiting on the shore; the almanac covers the sky over it.

Odin's Saga: sleep or log out and Odin reads you the saga of your day; press J for a lifetime of deeds. Every beast on a poster is a line in a saga waiting to happen.

Odin's Hearth: press N at home to see your comfort level, what's counting, and the cheapest piece to build next. The posters warn you about the Troll; the hearth is where you recover from meeting it.

Odin's Pantry: press P to see your foods, what you could cook right now, and Odin's best three- food pick for your biome. Hunt what the posters point at, cook what the pantry suggests.

Odin's Raven Returns: after you die, a raven guards your grave; press H to see where it is, what killed you and what's still waiting there. When the poster's warning came too late, the raven shows you where you left your things.

Odin's Drunk Cam: drink a mead and the world sways; the more meads, the more it sways. Purely visual, with an intensity slider and an off key. Raise a horn to the bounty you just brought down.

Odin's Weapon Memories: every weapon remembers what it has killed and earns a name from how it was used, like Storied Frost Greataxe of the Troll's Bane. Read the poster, bring down the bounty, and your blade remembers it.

Odin's Stone Whispers: Odin whispers when a Rock or Mysterious Rock is near; press 9 and he turns your gaze to it. Check the poster on whatever is guarding the rock before you pick it up.

Odin's Dusk Horn: a low horn before nightfall, and press Home for the time to dark and the way to your bed. Out after dark anyway? At least you'll know what's hunting you.

Odin's Knot: log out and Odin asks what you were doing; log back in and he reads it back. Press ' to retie it. Tie the name of the beast you're after in your knot, and the poster tells you how to beat it.