🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Quad's Party HUD

A party HUD: health bars, stamina and distance for every player in your group, live and at any range, on the right of the screen.

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✨ Features

What it shows

• Each player's Steam picture, name, health, stamina and distance, live, at any range.

• Each picture has a ring that is green, amber or red by how healthy that player is, and an arrow next to their distance points the way they are, relative to where you are looking. F8 hides or shows the panel (handy for screenshots). It hides itself while menus are open.

• With the AICompanion mod: each player's companion shows under them (health, distance, what it is doing).

📸 Screenshots

The party panel on the right of the screen

Close up: health, stamina, distance and the arrow to each player

🎮 How to use

Key	What it does
F8	Show or hide the party panel

🧩 Other mods

Known clashes: none known.

Works with our mods

• Quad's Companion: each player's companion shows under them (health, distance, what it's doing).

Found a clash with another mod? Tell us which one and what happened.

👥 Multiplayer

Who needs it: Only the players who want it.

Players with the mod share their exact health, stamina, Eitr, food and buffs at any distance (ShareMyStats is each player's own choice); players without it show what the game shares nearby. The host decides whether stats are shared at all (AllowSharing, for PvP servers).

🌍 Languages

English, Русский (Russian), Deutsch (German), 简体中文 (Chinese), Português do Brasil (Portuguese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Polski (Polish), Türkçe (Turkish). It follows the game's own language setting.

The translations were made with AI, so a few words may be off. To correct one, or to add your language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.partyhud/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json, Italian.json, Japanese.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from English.json (it wins over the built-in one). Or tell us the better words and we'll put them in for everyone.

⚙️ Settings

In BepInEx/config/com.quad.partyhud.cfg, made the first time the game runs with the mod. r2modman and Thunderstore Mod Manager edit it under Config editor.

General

Setting	Default	What it does
Enabled	true	Show the party panel.
ShowSelf	true	Include yourself in the panel.
ShowPortraits	true	Show each player's Steam profile picture. Off (or no picture available) = a coloured initial.
ShowDistance	true	Show how far away each player is.
HideInMenus	true	Hide the panel while the inventory, crafting window, build menu, trader or big map is open, so it doesn't overlap them.
MaxPlayers	8	Most players to show (you first, then the rest alphabetically).
ToggleKey	F8	Press to hide or show the panel (handy for screenshots).
ShowDirectionArrow	true	Next to each player's distance, an arrow pointing the way they are, relative to where you are looking.
ShowFood	true	Show three food slots under each player's picture: what they are eating and how long it has left. Only for players who also have this mod.
ShowStatusEffects	true	Show each player's buffs and debuffs (food, rested, wet, poison...) as small icons under their bars. Only for players who also have this mod.
ShowCompanions	true	With the AICompanion mod: show each player's companion under them (health, distance, what it is doing).

Layout

Setting	Default	What it does
OffsetX	10	Gap from the right edge of the screen (UI pixels).
OffsetY	300	Gap from the top of the screen (UI pixels). Raise it if it overlaps your minimap.
Scale	1	Size of the panel (1 = normal, 1.25 = bigger).
AvoidShipHud	true	While you are steering a ship, move the panel down so it does not cover the wind indicator and the rest of the ship display.
Compact	false	A smaller, tighter panel: a small picture and thinner bars, for when you want it out of the way.
OnLeft	false	Put the panel on the left edge of the screen instead of the right.
Opacity	0.85	How solid the panel background is (0.2 to 1).

Sharing

Setting	Default	What it does
ShareMyStats	true	Send your health, stamina, Eitr, food and buffs to the other players who have this mod (a few times a second, at any distance). Off: they only see what the game itself shows of you when you are near.
AllowSharing	true	Players with this mod share their exact health, stamina, Eitr, food and buffs with each other at any distance. A PvP server may want this off (each player then sees only what the game shows of players near them). In multiplayer the server's value applies.

🤖 Made with AI

Made with the help of Claude (Anthropic), with Claude Code: designed, written and checked together, and tried in the game.

💬 Join us on Discord

Come hang out with the people who make and play these mods. In the Quads Lab Discord you can:

• 🛠️ Get help and report bugs straight to us
• 👀 See new mods first, and help test them before they're released
• 🗳️ Suggest ideas and vote on what we make next
• 🏰 Share your builds, bases and arena runs
• 🤖 Talk AI coding and vibe coding with people building things with AI, the way these mods are made

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🧪 About Quads Lab

Quads Lab is where Quad H (HardHeadHackerHead) builds software with AI, of every kind: these Valheim mods are one of its projects. Each mod is designed by a player, written with Claude Code and tested in our own world, with bobisme as our tester.

• 🌐 quadslab.io
• 🧰 All Quads Lab mods on Thunderstore
• 💻 Source code on GitHub
• 💬 Discord
• 🐞 Found a bug? Open an issue on GitHub

📜 Recent changes

• 1.10.2 Its party panel no longer fill the log with "The LiberationSans SDF Font Asset was not found": each text is given the game's font before it starts (it looked for TextMeshPro's default font, which the game doesn't have, every time a text was made). Nothing changes on screen.
• 1.10.1 Much less network traffic: your game now sends your health, stamina, food and buffs to the other players only when something they would see has changed (at most once a second, and every 2 seconds anyway), instead of three times a second. On a busy server that is about a third of the traffic or less, and the party panel looks the same. Works with players on older versions.
• 1.10.0 Now in your language: English, Russian, German, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, French, Polish and Turkish, following the game's own Language setting. The game's own names are used for its things (items, creatures, lands, stations). The translations were made with AI: to correct a line, or add a language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.partyhud/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from translations/English.json on GitHub. Fixed: names and status lines no longer vanish in Chinese.

Every change is on the Changelog tab.