The Cold warning is off by default. Cold does no damage, so the warning worth having is the Freezing one. Turn on Warn When Cold if you want the earlier heads-up.
When it is on it is now subtle by default: new Cold Warning Strength (default 0.30) scales the Cold vignette and how far its label swings toward red, as a fraction of the Freezing warning. 0 leaves a steady label and no vignette at all.
Existing config files keep whatever Warn When Cold they already hold; set it to false by hand if 1.4.0 turned it on for you.
1.4.0 — 2026-10-02
Freezing warning. A blue center vignette and a label when the mountains start killing you: "You are cold." as soon as you are cold, "You are freezing!" once Freezing sets in. Cold does no damage on its own, so it is the warning that there is still time to get to a fire.
New [Freezing] settings: Vignette Intensity, Vignette Extent, and Warn When Cold to skip the mild stage and only warn when it is dangerous.
hv_testfreezing toggles the new overlay for visual testing.
1.3.0 — 2026-09-21
The warning labels no longer cover other things at the top of the screen, such as a compass mod or the boss health bar. They move down below whatever is there, and back up a few seconds after it goes away.
New [Labels] settings: Placement switches between that Automatic behavior and Manual, which pins the labels at Manual Y Offset pixels from the top of the screen.
The smoke and poison labels no longer draw on top of each other when you are both smoked and poisoned. Visible labels now stack in order: hunger, smoke, poison.
hv_labels console command lists what Automatic placement is avoiding.
1.2.1 — 2026-09-15
The poison overlay now actually appears when you are poisoned. The status effect it watched for was never filled in, so only the test command and the config preview could show it. It reads the hash from the game now instead of a hardcoded number, which also keeps the smoke overlay working if those ever change.
1.2.0 — 2026-09-09
Rebuilt for Valheim 1.0.7 (Unity 6).
Dismiss key (default H, configurable): acknowledge a warning to clear the vignette and label. The HUD status icon stays as a quiet reminder; the full warning returns on its own if hunger worsens, and resets once you eat.
No hunger nag before the first meal of a session.
Dependency bumped to BepInExPack 5.4.2350.
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