NearbyPanel

Lists the creatures around you — how far, which way, how high, how many stars, what they have noticed, and how far along any animal you are taming is. Press N.

Client-side only. The server does not need it, and it will not stop you joining a server that does not have it. Players without the mod are unaffected and see nothing different.

Features

Every creature within 50 m, nearest first, refreshed four times a second
Distance along the ground, so it is the number you actually walk
Direction in one of three formats: degrees from where you are looking (0 ahead, 180 behind), relative letters, or world compass points that do not turn when you do
Star rating, and altitude relative to you
What each creature has noticed: nothing, something, or you specifically when the game can confirm it
A red row for anything hostile that has been alerted — the deathsquito you did not see take aggro
Live taming progress, read from the same record the game uses, so an animal a friend is taming reports its progress too, along with whether it is hungry or frightened
Filter the list by name with nearby_filter boar, or clear it with nearby_filter
nearby_dump writes the current list to the log, which is useful in a bug report
Other players are never listed

The panel takes no clicks and never touches your cursor, so it cannot interfere with the game.

Scope

It lists every creature within 50 m, which means it shows you things through trees and fog that you could not see yourself. Decide whether that suits the people you play with.

Two limits are fixed in the source rather than left as settings: the 50 m radius, because reach is what separates this from surveillance and a limit you can slide is not a limit, and other players are never listed. The game only keeps creatures loaded within roughly 64-128 m of you, so nothing beyond that is visible to any client-side mod anyway.

Configuration

A config file is generated on first launch at BepInEx/config/I3_rett.NearbyPanel.cfg. Edit it with a text editor, or in game with Configuration Manager. The settings most people want are the toggle key, the screen corner the panel is pinned to, and the direction format.

Compatibility

No Harmony patches, no RPC, and nothing is ever written to the world, so removing the mod cannot damage a save
Running nearby_dump does not mark your character as having used cheats
Tested against Valheim 1.0.16 with BepInEx 5.4.2351

Installation

A mod manager does this for you. Manually: extract NearbyPanel.dll and NearbyPanel.Core.dll into BepInEx/plugins/NearbyPanel/.

Source

MIT licensed. Code and issues: https://github.com/I3-rett/NearbyPanel