Krool World UI

Small HUD additions for Valheim that show what the game keeps hidden: how close a skill is to its next level, how much you are carrying, how much health your food has lost, when to eat, and when the auto-save lag spike is coming. It can also pin your workbenches on the map with Norse-sounding names.

• Client-side only. The server and other players do not need it.
• Read-only, with one exception. It reads game state for display. The only thing it ever changes is your own map: Bench Pins adds a pin when you build a workbench, as you would by hand. It never touches your character or world.
• Pick what you want. Every feature has its own on/off switch in an in-game settings window (F7). No other config mod needed.

At a glance

Feature	What you get	On by default
Skill XP bars	A skill icon with an XP bar that fills as you earn XP, plus a floating +0.8% Swords	Yes
Carry weight	A vertical weight bar beside your food, styled like the health bar	Yes
Food max health	A faint red segment on the health bar: the max health your food has lost as it wears off	Yes
Food reminders	A toast when food runs low, a message while you have none, and an optional "can eat again"	Yes ("can eat again" off)
Save countdown	A clear 5-second countdown before the auto-save, so its lag spike never catches you mid-fight	Yes
Bench pins	A map pin with a random Norse name (Hrafnvik, Trollhaven, Odinheim) when you build a workbench	Yes
Settings window	Every option in game, with a live preview	Press F7

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Skill XP bars

Swing an axe and a Woodcutting tile appears at the bottom right of the screen, just above the key hints: the skill's icon, with its XP bar underneath.

• See every gain. The darker part of the bar is where you were when the tile appeared. The lighter part is what you have earned since, so each swing visibly adds to it, carrying over through a level-up.
• Lines up neatly. Each skill gets its own tile, side by side (up to 4). After 3 seconds without XP a tile fades out and the others slide over.
• Stays clear of the game's own UI. It sits above the attack, block and build key hints, and only ever moves up to make room, so it does not hop when you equip something.
• Floating text. A blue +0.8% Swords floats up over your character like a damage number. Only you see it. Quick gains are added together. Set it to Level Up Only or Off if you prefer.
• Your layout:
  • Style: Tiles (icon over bar, default) or Rows (a wide bar with the skill name, level and +12% gained on it).
  • Tile size, an optional level number in the tile's corner, bar color.
  • Placement: Bottom Right, Below Stamina, Right Side (clear of the minimap), or Custom, plus nudge offsets.
• Hides while the inventory, the big map or the menu is open.

Carry weight

Your weight, always on screen, without opening the inventory. It sits left of the food icons and is built like the health bar beside it: a weight icon next to the fork, a bar rising above it, and your weight over your max on top.

• Exact numbers. Matches the inventory screen, including your strength belt and the extra slots and backpacks from other mods.
• Grows with you. The bar is 110 pixels tall at the normal 300 max and grows with your capacity: a Megingjord (+150) makes it half again as tall. You can turn the growth off.
• Reads at a glance:
  • Thresholds (default): your fill color, orange from 80% full, red when over.
  • Gradient: blends through the three as you fill up.
  • Single: one color.
  • Over capacity it flashes, like the inventory does. All three colors can be changed.
• Text: weight over max (default), weight only, percent, or none, at any size.
• When to show it: Always, Near Limit (only when you are close to full), or When Changed (a few seconds after you pick up or drop something).
• Bar length, thickness and position are adjustable.

Food max health

Valheim quietly shrinks each food's health bonus as it wears off. A food at half its time gives only about 81% of its health, and the drop speeds up near the end.

• The health bar continues past its end in a faint red segment: the max health you have lost this way.
• That is exactly what eating fresh food would give back, so you can tell when a top-up is worth it.
• Color and opacity are adjustable.

Food reminders

A small toast at the top of the screen with the food's icon, its name and the time left. Each kind has its own switch:

Reminder	Default	When
Running out	On	A food drops under 4 minutes (adjustable)
Can eat again	Off	A food passes half its time, the point where the game lets you eat it again
No food	On	Stays up while you have no food, until you eat or press Backspace

• The no-food message waits until a new character has arrived, and shows again after you respawn. Set it to Any Slot Empty to be told whenever a food slot is free.
• A soft two-note chime plays with each reminder. It follows the game's sound volume, and can be turned down or off.
• Timed reminders show once per food and fade after 6 seconds. They do not repeat until you have eaten that food again.
• The countdown uses fixed-width digits, so it holds still.
• Moves down to clear the raid banner, and hides while the inventory, the big map or the menu is open.

Save countdown

Valheim auto-saves every 30 minutes, and on a big world the save freezes the game for a moment. On hardcore that hitch can be the difference in a fight. A few seconds before it, a box near the top of the screen counts down: World save in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, then Saving...

• Exact in single player and as host: it reads the game's own save timer.
• On a dedicated server: it times the world save from the server's 30-second warning, which every player receives. Your own client also saves your character on its own timer; that shows as Character save in 5.
• A soft tick each second, a brighter one on the last. It follows the game's sound volume and can be turned off.
• Start time (3 to 30 seconds) and position are adjustable.

Bench pins

Build a workbench and a pin appears on your map, named like a Norse settlement: Hrafnvik, Frostgard, Trollhaven, Eikthyrhold, Meadhall.

• One pin per base. No new pin if one is already within 30 meters (adjustable), so a camp with three benches gets one pin.
• Pick the icon: fire, house (default), hammer, dot or portal.
• Pick the name: random (default), the station's name, or none.
• Make it yours: the name bank is two editable lists, prefixes and suffixes, in F7. Add your clan's names.
• Workbench only by default; switch to All Crafting Stations to also pin forges, stonecutters and the rest.
• Pins are saved with your character like any pin you place. Removing the bench leaves the pin.

Settings window

Press F7 in game.

• One section per feature, each with its own On/Off on the header. Click a section's name to open or close it; the window remembers which are open.
• Hover any setting to see what it does, its default and its range.
• Every option in one place: sliders for sizes and timings, click-to-cycle buttons for choices, and a color swatch with an editable hex value.
• Reset sits next to anything you changed, and Reset all on a section's header.
• Preview on HUD shows sample skill tiles for your top skills, the food reminders, a sample max-health segment and a looping save countdown (with sound on the first pass), so you can place and size things live.
• Esc or F7 closes it. While it is open your character ignores input, and the mouse wheel scrolls the window instead of zooming the camera.

The same settings are in BepInEx/config/krool.kroolworldui.cfg (in r2modman: Config editor). Colors there are hex RRGGBBAA; the last two digits are opacity.

Full settings list

Generated from the mod's code on every build, so it always matches the F7 window.

General

Setting	Default	Range or choices	What it does
Settings Key	F7	Any key	Key that opens this settings window.

Skill XP Bars

Setting	Default	Range or choices	What it does
Enabled	On		Show a skill on the HUD while you gain XP in it.
Style	Tiles	Tiles, Rows	Tiles: the skill icon with its XP bar underneath, side by side. Rows: a wide bar with the icon on the left, stacked.
Placement	Bottom Right	Bottom Right, Below Stamina, Right Side, Custom	Bottom Right: above the key hints, growing left. Below Stamina: centered under the stamina bar. Right Side: right edge of the screen, below the minimap. Custom: placed by Anchor X and Anchor Y.
Tile Size	64	40 to 128	Tiles: width in HUD pixels. The tile is a third taller than it is wide.
Tile Level	Off		Tiles: show the skill level in the tile's corner.
Labels	Name And Level	Name And Level, Icon Only	Rows: Name And Level shows the skill name and level on the bar. Icon Only: just the icon and the bar.
Show Gain Text	On		Rows with Name And Level: show the XP gained since the bar appeared, as a percent of a level.
Bar Width	220	100 to 500	Rows: width of one bar in HUD pixels.
Bar Height	22	12 to 48	Rows: height of one bar in HUD pixels.
Bar Color	DBA847FF	Hex RRGGBBAA (AA = opacity)	Bar color. Progress you had is a darker shade, new XP a lighter one.
Hold Seconds	3	0.5 to 30	Seconds a bar stays fully visible after the last XP gain.
Fade Seconds	0.6	0 to 5	Seconds the fade-out takes.
Max Bars	4	1 to 10	Most skills shown at once (fewer if they would not fit on screen). The stalest one is reused past this.
Offset X	0	-400 to 400	Nudge left (-) or right (+), in HUD pixels.
Offset Y	0	-400 to 400	Nudge down (-) or up (+), in HUD pixels.
Anchor X	0.5	0 to 1	Custom placement: horizontal center (0 = left of screen, 1 = right).
Anchor Y	0.3	0 to 1	Custom placement: top edge (0 = bottom of screen, 1 = top).
Floating Text	Every Gain	Off, Every Gain, Level Up Only	Float each XP gain over your character like a damage number, seen only by you. Level Up Only: just new levels.
Floating Text Color	73B8FFFF	Hex RRGGBBAA (AA = opacity)	Color of the floating XP text.

Weight

Setting	Default	Range or choices	What it does
Enabled	On		Show your carry weight on the HUD, left of the food icons.
Show	Always	Always, Near Limit, When Changed	Always. Near Limit: only at or above Near Limit Percent. When Changed: for a few seconds after your weight changes.
Near Limit Percent	80	10 to 100	Percent of max weight where the bar turns to the near-limit color (and where it appears, in Near Limit mode).
Changed Seconds	3	1 to 15	When Changed mode: seconds the bar stays after a change.
Colors	Thresholds	Thresholds, Gradient, Single	Thresholds: fill color, near-limit color past Near Limit Percent, over color when overweight. Gradient: blends from fill to near-limit to over as you fill up. Single: always the fill color.
Fill Color	CC9E4CFF	Hex RRGGBBAA (AA = opacity)	Bar color under the limit.
Near Limit Color	FF8C1FFF	Hex RRGGBBAA (AA = opacity)	Bar color near the limit.
Over Color	DB291FFF	Hex RRGGBBAA (AA = opacity)	Bar color when overweight.
Text	Current And Max	Current And Max, Current, Percent, None	Numbers above the bar: current over max, current only, percent, or none.
Text Size	16	10 to 28	Font size of the numbers.
Bar Length	110	40 to 220	Bar length in HUD pixels at the normal 300 max weight.
Bar Thickness	16	6 to 32	Bar thickness in HUD pixels (the health bar is 32).
Scale With Max Weight	On		Grow the bar with your max weight: a Megingjord (+150) makes it 50% longer.
Offset X	0	-200 to 200	Nudge left (-) or right (+), in HUD pixels.
Offset Y	0	-200 to 300	Nudge down (-) or up (+), in HUD pixels.

Food Max Health

Setting	Default	Range or choices	What it does
Enabled	On		Extend the health bar with a faint segment showing max health your foods have lost as they wear off.
Color	BF2E2473	Hex RRGGBBAA (AA = opacity)	Color of the lost-health segment. Lower the last two digits to make it fainter.

Food Reminder

Setting	Default	Range or choices	What it does
Enabled	On		Food reminders on the HUD. The switches below pick which ones.
Running Out	On		Remind when a food has less than Threshold Minutes left.
Threshold Minutes	4	1 to 15	Running-out reminder: minutes left that trigger it.
Can Eat Again	Off		Remind when a food can be eaten again (the game allows it once half its time has passed).
No Food Message	On		Keep a message up while you have no food, until you eat or press Dismiss Key. Shows on a new character after the arrival, and after respawning.
No Food When	No Food	No Food, Any Slot Empty	No Food: only when all your food is gone. Any Slot Empty: whenever a food slot is free.
Dismiss Key	Backspace	Any key	Hides the no-food message until you next eat.
Show Seconds	6	2 to 20	How long a reminder stays on screen.
Sound	On		Play a soft chime with each reminder.
Sound Volume	0.35	0.05 to 1	Chime volume (also follows the game's sound settings).
Anchor X	0.5	0 to 1	Horizontal position of the reminder's center (0 = left, 1 = right).
Anchor Y	0.84	0 to 1	Vertical position of the reminder's top edge (0 = bottom, 1 = top). It moves down on its own to clear the raid banner.

Save Countdown

Setting	Default	Range or choices	What it does
Enabled	On		Counts down the last seconds before the auto-save, so its lag spike does not catch you mid-fight. Works in single player, as host, and on a dedicated server.
Seconds	5	3 to 30	How many seconds before the save the countdown starts.
Sound	On		A soft tick each second of the countdown.
Sound Volume	0.35	0.05 to 1	Tick volume (also follows the game's sound settings).
Anchor X	0.5	0 to 1	Horizontal position of the countdown's center (0 = left, 1 = right).
Anchor Y	0.72	0 to 1	Vertical position of the countdown's center (0 = bottom, 1 = top).

Bench Pins

Setting	Default	Range or choices	What it does
Enabled	On		Adds a map pin when you build a workbench, so you can find your camps again. This adds a pin to your map like you would by hand; removing the bench leaves the pin.
Pin Stations	Workbench Only	Workbench Only, All Crafting Stations	Workbench Only, or every crafting station (forge, stonecutter, artisan table, and so on).
Icon	House	Fire, House, Hammer, Dot, Portal	Which map pin icon to use.
Names	Random Name	Random Name, Station Name, No Name	Random Name: a Norse-sounding name from Name Prefixes + Name Suffixes. Station Name: "Workbench". No Name: just the icon.
Skip Near Pin Meters	30	0 to 200	No new pin if one is already on your map this close (meters), so a base gets one pin, not one per bench. 0 = always pin.
Announce	On		Show the new pin's name in the top-left messages.
Name Prefixes	Ulf, Hrafn, Jarn, Frost, Grim, Skjold, Bjorn, Eld, Svart, Thor, Odin, Rune, Troll, Mead, Ash, Ygg, Valk, Draugr, Fenris, Storm, Iron, Wolf, Raven, Boar, Elk, Ember, Hel, Njord, Sig, Hjalm, Gunn, Kald, Myrk, Vind, Stein, Gull, Sol, Eikthyr, Bonemass, Greyling		First halves of random names, separated by commas.
Name Suffixes	heim, gard, vik, stad, borg, holt, fjord, hall, by, hold, keep, stead, haven, mark, fell, dal, ness, wall, rest, ford, hof, skali, rock, watch, hearth		Second halves of random names, separated by commas.

Settings saved by an older version keep their values. Removed settings are ignored.

Install

• r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager: search for Krool World UI and install. BepInEx comes with it.
• Manual: install BepInExPack Valheim, then put KroolWorldUI.dll in BepInEx/plugins.

Compatibility and tips

• Used in a modpack with EpicLoot, ExtraSlots, AdventureBackpacks, Quick Stack, MultiUserChest, PlantEverything and Warfare.
• Something overlaps? Other mods like the bottom-left corner too. Every element has nudge offsets in F7, and Preview on HUD shows where things land.
• Floating text too busy while running or sneaking? Set FloatingText to Level Up Only.
• Updated and the defaults look off? Settings you saved earlier are kept. Use Reset in F7 to take the new defaults.

Source, issues and changelog: github.com/Krool/KroolWorldUI. MIT licensed.