PotatoRunes
Valheim's hover text, crafting menus and status effects in the runic font from the game's signs. Client-only, works on any server.Potato Runes draws Valheim's text in the runic font the game uses on signs: the hover text that shows when you look at something, the crafting station menus, and the status effects beside the minimap. It only changes your own game: nobody else needs it, and it works on any server, modded or not.
Crafting stations. The station's name, every recipe in its list and the selected recipe's name are drawn in the runic font. Descriptions, stats and requirement counts keep the game's font, where numbers read better. The names can take a color of your own: recipes you can't make yet stay grey, and Epic Loot's rarity colors still show.
Status effects. The names under the status effect icons, and the time left on each (your comfort while resting), are drawn in the runic font. The names can also be hidden, leaving just the icons, or left as the game has them.
Nothing is shipped. The font is read from the game's own sign when you load in, so the mod is a single small file and follows the game if Iron Gate ever changes the sign. Text added by other mods (Potato Tweaks' chest icons and station timers, for example) picks up the same font.
Settings. In BepInEx/config/potato.runes.cfg, or in game with Configuration Manager (F1). Changes show at once.
| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Runic hover text | Switches the runic font on or off for the hover text | On |
| Text size | Size of the hover text compared with the game's own, from 0.8 to 1.6. Raise it if the letters are hard to read | 1.15 |
| Bold | Draws the hover text thicker | Off |
| Runic crafting menus | The station's name and the recipe names in the runic font | On |
| Crafting menu colored | Draws those names in Crafting menu color | Off |
| Crafting menu color | The color for them | Warm gold |
| Status effect names | Runic, Shown (the game's own) or Hidden | Runic |
| Runic status effect timers | The time left on each status effect, and your comfort, in the runic font | On |
If a Valheim update breaks something the mod relies on, it switches itself off, writes why in the BepInEx log, and the game keeps its normal text.
Hiding the status effect names started in Potato Tweaks, on an idea from RandyKnapp's Minimal Status Effects. If you used it there, your choice carries over the first time Potato Runes starts.
Bug reports go to GitHub Issues, where the source lives too. Questions are welcome on Discord: relanebeis.
Needs BepInExPack Valheim.
The code is under the MIT License: use it, change it and share it freely. The icon and screenshots are © TheRealRel under CC BY-NC 4.0: free to share and adapt with credit, but not for commercial use. See LICENSE.