Stjarna

Item quality shown as stars on the icon, instead of a small number in the corner of the slot.

Valheim writes an item's upgrade level as a digit tucked into the corner of its inventory slot, and shows nothing at all on the hotbar. Stjarna draws a row of stars across the top of the icon: filled for the upgrades an item has, hollow for the upgrades it can still take.

What It Does

• Stars on inventory slots, chest slots and the hotbar
• A hollow star for each upgrade still available, so a slot shows how far a piece can go as well as how far it has come
• A gold row on a fully upgraded item
• Stars on the crafting and upgrade list

On slots that show a keybind number, the row moves to the right so the number stays readable.

Stjarna does not change what an upgrade costs, what it does, or how many an item can take.

What It Leaves Alone

• Items at quality 1. Everything you craft starts there, so a star on every item would tell you nothing. Turn them on with ShowQualityOne
• Items that cannot be upgraded at all, such as materials, food and arrows
• Items that can take more than six upgrades. Those keep the game's own number, which is easier to read than a long row of small stars. MaxPips sets the limit
• The tooltip, which still lists quality as a number

Settings

BepInEx/config/gbv.valheim.stjarna.cfg, or the Configuration Manager in game. Run stjarna_reload after editing the file by hand.

Setting	Default	What It Does
Enabled	true	Turn everything off without uninstalling
Inventory	true	Stars on inventory and chest slots
Hotbar	true	Stars on the hotbar
CraftingList	true	Stars on the crafting and upgrade rows
ShowHeadroom	true	Hollow stars for the upgrades still available
ShowQualityOne	false	Show a row on items still at quality 1
MaxedTint	true	Turn the row gold when an item is fully upgraded
Scale	1.0	Size of the stars, from half to double
VerticalOffset	0	Move the row up or down, as a percentage of the slot's width
BindingClearance	28	How much of a slot to keep clear for its keybind number, as a percentage of the slot's width. 0 spreads the stars across the whole slot
MaxPips	6	Most stars to draw on one item. Above this, the game's number is shown

Console Commands

Command	What It Does
stjarna	Whether it is working, and what it is set to
stjarna_reload	Redraw the stars after editing the config file by hand

Neither needs admin or cheats, and neither changes your character.

If Something Looks Wrong

Check BepInEx/LogOutput.log for a line starting Stjarna:. If a Valheim update has moved something, the log names which part stopped working and what you will notice. That is worth reporting.

BetterUI has a quality stars feature of its own. With both installed you will see Stjarna's. To use BetterUI's instead, set Enabled and HotbarEnabled to false under [ItemLevelStars] in zenox.betterui.cfg.

If the stars sit too close to something another mod draws on your slots, VerticalOffset moves the row and Scale makes it smaller.

Installing

Client only. A server install does nothing, and other players do not need it.

Credits

Built for Guys Being Vikings.