PvP Kill Feed

A lightweight, PvP-only kill feed for Valheim.

When a player kills another player, everyone sees a short line at the top of the HUD:

Killer ⚔ Victim

No PvE. No death history. No extra world data. Built for busy dedicated servers.

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Features

• Player vs player only — falls, trees, mobs, and bosses never touch the network
• Crossed-swords icon with a faded bar behind each line
• Guilds colors — if Guilds is installed, names use that guild’s color picker RGB. Otherwise names stay white
• Tiny live RPC — names + colors, then gone. Join 5 seconds late and you will not see it
• Local HUD — size, position, and font are yours. The server does not overwrite them
• Optional hide — /disablekillfeed hides the UI on your screen only. Your kills still show for everyone else

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Screenshots

Without Guilds — names render white.

With Guilds — names use each guild’s color.

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Requirements

Valheim 1.0.16.

Mod	Required
BepInExPack	Yes — 5.4.2351
Jötunn	Yes — 2.30.2
Guilds (Smoothbrain)	Optional — Guilds colored names when present

Install on the dedicated server and every client. The server routes kills and does not draw the feed.

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Installation

1. Install with r2modman / Thunderstore / Gale, or place PvPKillFeed.dll in BepInEx/plugins/
2. Install Jötunn as well (and Guilds if you want faction colors)
3. Launch once to create BepInEx/config/com.rdmods.pvpkillfeed.cfg
4. Edit the HUD on your machine. Other players keep their own layout

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Chat commands

Local to you. Session only. Rejoining the server turns the feed back on.

Command	Effect
/disablekillfeed	Hide the feed on this client
/enablekillfeed	Show it again

These do not stop kills from broadcasting.

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Configuration

File: BepInEx/config/com.rdmods.pvpkillfeed.cfg

All HUD keys are local. The server does not push them.

Key	Default
Position	TopCenter	TopLeft / TopCenter / TopRight / BottomLeft / BottomCenter / BottomRight
OffsetX	0	Horizontal inset (px), -400 to 400
OffsetY	36	Vertical inset (px), 0 to 400
NewestOnTop	true	New kills stack from the top
EntryDurationSeconds	7	Time fully visible, 0.5 to 30
FadeOutSeconds	2	Fade length, 0.05 to 10
MaxEntries	3	Lines on screen at once, 1 to 8
FontSize	15	Name size, 8 to 36
IconSize	20	Sword icon size (px), 8 to 48
EntrySpacing	4	Gap between lines (px), 0 to 24
BackgroundAlpha	0.55	Bar opacity, 0 to 1
BackgroundPadX	5	Bar padding X (px), 0 to 32
BackgroundPadY	1	Bar padding Y (px), 0 to 32

Save the file and the feed updates without a restart.

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Notes

• Killer on Feed is the player hit that dropped the victim to 0 HP.
• /disablekillfeed is never saved; it is not a config flag. Its only single session command.

Known Issue:

• PvP kills resulting from status effects will not generate a kill feed broadcast. For example, if an opponent dies from a lingering poison tick rather than the direct impact of your weapon, that kill is not broadcasted on feed. Unfortunately, this cannot be fixed; Valheim's base engine treats all status effects as neutral damage sources and does not track which specific player applied them.

Support

Bugs and questions: Discord