Jatify UI

A new interface for Valheim, from the title screen to the last boss: dark glass, Norse lettering, Celtic knotwork, and a lot of small conveniences you stop noticing after an hour.

• Needs: BepInEx. Nothing else.
• Better with: VNEI, which fills the Compendium with every creature, drop and station recipe in your game, modded ones included.
• Language: English only for now.
• Version: 0.1.0, made for Valheim 1.0.20.
• Controls: mouse and keyboard; there's no gamepad support yet.

Most parts can be switched off on their own, and taking the mod out keeps your character and items (see Taking it out).

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Install

• With a mod manager (r2modman, Gale, Thunderstore): install Jatify UI, and VNEI if you want the full Compendium.
• By hand: copy what is in the zip's plugins folder (JatifyUI.dll and its campfire-loading folder) into a new BepInEx/plugins/JatifyUI folder. Keep them together: the loading screen looks for its art beside the DLL.
• On a dedicated server (optional): the same DLL in the server's BepInEx/plugins. It draws nothing there; it only runs stations on Auto and answers players' Automation tabs (see Servers and multiplayer).

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A walk through it

1. Starting up

• Title menu: large centred entries, with Mods and Jatify UI among them, and the "modded" notice tucked into a card. Up to four of your characters wait at the fire behind it.

• Character screen (Campfire): your characters stand at a campfire, their list on the right, your worlds and servers on the left. Every window you open from here is in the same look.
  • Drag characters to reorder them; the first four stand at the fire. The screen reopens on your last character, world or server.
  • The servers tab keeps your favourites, and can remember their passwords.
  • From here you also reach your Steam achievements, your character's stats, a world's modifiers, and Manage saves for backups, restoring and moving saves between your computer and the cloud.
  • Before Valheim deletes a save, a copy goes to a campfire-backups folder.

• Loading screen: a bar with the world's name and what it's loading, over one of Iron Gate's press-kit paintings.

Settings: Start Screen → TitleMenu, CharacterScreen, TitleParty, LoadingScreen. With CharacterScreen off, HUD → TitleScreen restyles Valheim's own character and world panels instead.

2. Out in the world

• Health, stamina and eitr: rounded bars with numbers.
  • The 1–8 bar sits on a glass panel with the tools bar to its left; the panels can be switched off.
  • Food and meads each have a labelled column on the right edge, with their keys.
• Minimap card: biome, coordinates, day and time, and the wind; it can also show your computer's clock.
• Nameplates over creatures and players:
  • Larger and easier to read, with the creature's stars underneath and a knot at each end.
  • Other players' names are red when their PvP is on and blue when it's off.
• Bosses get a long bar under the compass with their portrait touching its end.
• Sailing: the ship's controls and the wind are restyled while you steer.
• Raids: a banner under the compass names the raid, with the time left as a thin bar.

• Riding: you get a portrait frame for your mount (Fed or Hungry, its health and stamina) next to your own bars.

• Damage numbers:
  • In Norse lettering.
  • Amber for weak spots, blue when resisted, red for hits you take.

• The compass shows map pins near you with their distance.
• Cheat flags: while god mode, ghost, flying, no-cost or devcommands is on, a small strip left of the compass says so.

• Messages:
  • Valheim's messages are restyled, and saving shows a small "Saving world… / World saved" line under the compass.
  • Picked-up items float up from your character as "+1".
  • Skill-ups arrive as a banner in the middle of the screen.
  • New recipes and materials arrive as cards; a burst of them folds into one card after the first two.
  • Achievements you earn get a banner under the compass.

• Low health pulses a soft red at the screen edges, and running out of eitr flashes once.

• Hover cards say how long is left on plants, fermenters, beehives, smelters, cooking stations and ovens.

• Aim at a tree or rock to see its health (off by default).
• Ping the spot under your crosshair for everyone, without opening the map.

Settings: HUD, Compass (ShowPins, ShowNames, PinRange). Keys: PingAtCrosshair.

3. Your pack

• More room: up to four extra inventory rows (two by default).
  • When the game saves, their items are stored inside Valheim's own rows, so a game without the mod still has them, as long as those rows have room. Jatify warns you when they don't.
• Reserved rows for food, tools and meads:
  • Each slot has its own key (see Keys).
  • Pickups never land there by accident.
• Where pickups land: the bag rows first, the hotbar last, never a locked slot.
• Worn gear leaves the grid for an equipment column around a live view of your character, with durability on each slot and the PvP switch above it.
  • The Wishbone and Wisplight have slots of their own, and keys you pick up go into a key pouch; doors still take them from there.
  • Underneath are your stats and resistances, counting meads and set bonuses.
  • A Skills tab beside it lists every skill with its level and progress, sorted as you choose.

• Item tooltips are full cards:
  • picture, quality, lore, and a two-column stat table;
  • what changes compared with what you're holding or wearing;
  • set pieces and their bonus;
  • the keys you can use on that item.

• Inventory tools:
  • Tidying: sort, merge split stacks, and lock slots (Alt + click).
  • Nearby chests: To chests puts things away into nearby chests that already hold them; Restock tops your stacks back up from them.
  • Trash: a slot that asks before it destroys anything, and the Delete key does the same.
  • Armour goes on and off instantly, without Valheim's equip delay (a setting, on by default).
  • Coins weigh a tenth of Valheim's by default: a switch and an amount per coin, down to nothing (only your own carry weight changes).
  • Your grave:
    • Picking it up puts your gear back on as it was when you died: everything, armour only, or armour and weapons.
    • It shows on the compass with its distance, however far away.
    • It can be taken just by walking into it (off by default).

Settings: Grave → ReequipGear, ReequipWhat, CompassMarker, PickupOnTouch. Inventory → ExtraRows, PickupOrder, InstantEquip, LighterCoins, CoinWeight, ConfirmDelete, CharacterView, CharacterIdle, TooltipKeys. Keys: QuickStack, Restock, Merge, Sort.

4. Chests

• The window is sized to the chest, with icon buttons that explain themselves when you hover them:
  • take everything;
  • fill up the stacks you carry;
  • put everything in;
  • put in only what the chest already holds;
  • sort;
  • rename.
• Search dims everything that doesn't match.
• Locked slots in a chest are saved with it, so everyone's take and sort leave them alone.
• The foot of the window shows the chest's weight and a Used for crafting switch.
• A look at a chest shows a small card with its name, how full it is and what's inside, without opening it.
• Item chests: a chest can be kept for one item, and its icon then shows on the front of the chest like a label. Everyone running Jatify sees and keeps to it.

Keys: Ctrl + Q puts in what the chest already holds, Ctrl + E takes everything. PutAll, PutSimilar, TakeAll, TakeSimilar, ChestSort can be bound under Keys too.

5. At the workbench

• Crafting panel:
  • Finding recipes: search (Ctrl + F), category filters, favourites (a star), and a list or grid view.
  • The recipe: a full card with its stats and materials.
  • Amount: a stepper for crafting several at once.
• Queue: add recipes and they're crafted one after another.

• Nearby chests:
  • Crafting and building can count and take materials from chests within reach.
  • A chest can be left out of this.
• Build menu: the hammer's categories as tabs, a search over every piece, Can build now, type and region filters, and each piece's costs counted from your bag and nearby chests.
  • While you place a piece, a card shows what it is and what it costs.

• Stations on Auto: smelters, kilns, furnaces, refineries, fermenters, fires, ovens, shield generators and ballistas can be switched to Auto.
  • You choose what each may take (all off at first), and they refill themselves from nearby chests while you're within 40 m.
  • On a server running Jatify, smelters and fermenters keep going while nobody is near.

• Area pickup: hold a key while picking a berry bush, crop, mushroom or beehive to pick everything around it.
• Traders (Haldor, Hildir and the Bog Witch) get a proper shop window: their goods as tiles with prices, a card for the one you pick with a quantity, and your valuables to sell.

Settings: Crafting, Automation (Smelters, AreaPickup, AreaRadius, AreaSameOnly), Inventory → CraftFromChests, BuildFromChests. Keys: AreaPickup, SmelterWindow.

6. The map

• Pins: more pin kinds (ore, dungeon, cave and others), sizes you choose, and names that don't pile on top of each other.
  • A pin list sorted by distance, a search, filters by kind, and undo for a pin you removed.
• Live marks: portals, ships and carts appear on the map by themselves, and a portal shows where it leads.
• Crowded areas: groups of nearby pins fold into one; hover it for the list, click it to zoom in.
• Zoom: the map can zoom closer than Valheim allows (Map → ZoomIn, off by default).
• Discovery: ore deposits and dungeon entrances you walk past can pin themselves (both off by default).
  • Ore pins are crossed off once mined out.

Settings: Map, HUD → RealClock.

7. The character panel

Seven tabs beside your inventory:

• Crafting.
• Achievements:
  • Categories, progress, and the date you earned each one.
  • Track any of them in the top-left corner; Y folds the tracker to its header.
  • A Statistics page shows your all-time numbers.
• Trophies.
• Texts: the runestones and lore you've read.
• New Recipes: a log of everything you've unlocked and when.
• Compendium: a book of what you know of Valheim. It has chapters, an A–Z list, and a page for each entry.
  • Each page tells you how the thing is made, what it's used for, and where else it comes from.
  • Every item named on a page links to its own page.
  • Things you haven't found yet read "Not yet discovered" unless you ask to see them.
  • A developer box can show the internal ids.
  • With VNEI installed, creatures, drops and station conversions are included too.
• Automation: one row per kind of station, with how many you have and how many are on Auto. Switch a kind on, then pick what it may take. Everything starts off.

Settings: Compendium → ShowUndiscovered, DeveloperInfo; HUD → AchievementTracker, AchievementBanners.

8. The pause menu

• World card: the day, who's online, the last save, how many mods are loaded and the join code.
• Players: who is here, where they are if they share their position, and the invite code to copy. The host and admins can kick.

• Jatify UI: every setting on one searchable page. Changes apply at once.
• Mods: the same page for every other mod's settings.

9. Writing

• Signs, portals and tamed animals: naming them uses a text box that says what you're writing.
  • Signs get a live preview.
  • Portals tell you whether another portal already uses that name.

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Keys

Does	Key
Food slots 1–3	Z, X, C
Mead slots 1–3	Shift + Z, X, C
Tool slots 1–6	Alt + Z, X, C, V, B, N
Put things into nearby chests	P
Top up your stacks from nearby chests	L
Open chest: put in what it already holds	Ctrl + Q
Open chest: take everything	Ctrl + E
Search recipes	Ctrl + F
Lock a slot	Alt + click
Ping where you look	Alt + middle mouse
Area pickup	hold Left Shift while picking
Open a station's Auto card	hold Left Shift while using it
Fold the achievement tracker	Y

Most of these can be changed under Keys; Ctrl + Q, Ctrl + E, Ctrl + F, Alt + click and Y are fixed. Food and mead slots 4–6, Merge, Sort and the chest buttons are free to bind.

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Make it your own

• Settings are saved in BepInEx/config/jatify.ui.cfg. Change them on the Jatify UI page in the pause menu, in a BepInEx configuration manager, or in the file.
• Colours and size: every colour, the corner radius, the text size and the interface scale live in BepInEx/config/jatify.ui/theme.json.
  • Save the file and the game restyles itself while you play.
• Ornaments: the knotwork can be switched off for plain panels (Panels → Knotwork).
• Cursor: Jatify's cursor comes in four sizes, or you can keep your system's (HUD → JatifyCursor, CursorSize).
• Your character in the inventory: it idles and breathes, holds still, or isn't drawn at all (Inventory → CharacterView, CharacterIdle).

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Servers and multiplayer

• Only you need it. Jatify is a client mod; everyone else can play without it.
• On a dedicated server, it does two extra things:
  • It keeps smelters and fermenters on Auto working while nobody is near them, drawing from their owner's chests. What they make waits on the station until someone running Jatify comes by.
  • It answers each player's Automation tab with all their stations, not just the ones loaded around them.
• When you host, your game is the server, so that already works.
• No server rules: every setting is the player's own; a server can't switch features on or off for its players.
• Item chests and locked chest slots are saved on the chest itself, so every player running Jatify sees and keeps to them.

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Alongside other mods

• VNEI: read by the Compendium. VNEI's own button by the crafting tabs is hidden, since the Compendium replaces it.
  • VNEI's favourites and the Compendium's marks are the same list.
• Campfire: built in as the character screen. If the standalone Campfire mod is installed, Jatify leaves the character screen, the party at the fire and the loading screen to it.
• Mods by the same author (MapTeleport, AdminHammer, BuffMeDaddy) use Jatify's fonts and theme colours when it's installed. Without it they keep the same panels and colours, with Valheim's fonts.

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Taking it out

You can remove Jatify at any time. Before you do:

• Empty the Wishbone and Wisplight slots and the key pouch into your bag. Those items are kept without the mod, but you can't see them until it's back.
• Make room in Valheim's own rows for what's in the extra rows. Jatify warns you if they won't fit.

Without the mod:

• Map pins keep their place and name, but lose their Jatify icon.
• Chests stop keeping to their item and their locked slots (both come back if you reinstall).
• Stations on Auto stop refilling themselves.

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Not there yet

• English only.
• Without VNEI, the Compendium has no creatures, drops or station conversions, only Valheim's crafting recipes and build pieces.
• Stations on Auto have no per-item limits yet.
• Ore detection doesn't check line of sight.
• No gamepad support.
• Other mods' extra equipment slots (backpacks, quivers and the like) are untested and may not show in Jatify's windows.

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Good to know

• Jatify makes no web requests. The only thing it opens outside the game is your saves folder, from Manage saves.
• Problems and ideas: GitHub issues.

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Changes

0.1.0: first release.

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Credits

• Fonts: Space Grotesk and JetBrains Mono, both under the SIL Open Font License; Valheim's own Norse and Averia fonts for titles and lore.
• Icons: Phosphor Icons (MIT), redrawn where needed.
• Loading art: Iron Gate's Valheim press kit.
• Knotwork: drawn for Jatify.
• Code: written together with Claude (Anthropic's AI), which shows up as a co-author in the commit history.

Jatify UI is an unofficial, fan-made mod. It is not made, endorsed or supported by Iron Gate AB. Valheim is a trademark of Iron Gate AB.

Source: https://github.com/imdizmo/JatifyUI (MIT; the MIT licence covers Jatify UI's own code only)