Stack Tooltips

Look at a placed stack or pile in Valheim and see what it is.

Out of the box, ingot stacks, wood stacks and resource piles show nothing when you look at them, so a Tin Stack and a Silver Stack are hard to tell apart. With this mod, the name shows up under your crosshair, the same way it does for chests, beds and every other object you can look at.

Covered: every vanilla stack and pile build piece, including:

• Metal: Copper, Tin, Bronze, Iron, Silver, Black Metal, Flametal, Bloodgold and Ancient Metal stacks
• Wood: Wood, Finewood, Corewood, Ashwood, Timberwood and Yggdrasil Wood stacks
• Other: Stone, Coal, Flint, Obsidian, Black Marble and Grausten piles, Bone Stack, Pile of Skulls, Coin Stack and Coin Pile

Names use the game's own translations, so they match your language setting.

The name shows when you're not in build mode. With the hammer's build menu active, Valheim hides all hover text (chests included), and this mod doesn't change that.

It only shows the name, not an amount: stacks are decorations, not storage.

Install

Install with a mod manager, or by hand: copy StackTooltips.dll to BepInEx/plugins/StackTooltips/.

• Client-side only. Only the players who want the names need it. Servers and other players don't.
• No config and nothing to set up.

Compatibility

The mod doesn't change any of the game's hover code. When the game loads its prefabs, it adds Valheim's own name-label component (HoverText) to the stack and pile pieces, which is how the game labels simple objects itself. That means:

• Mods that change hover text, the HUD or the crosshair aren't affected, because no game code is patched to change hover behavior.
• If the game or another mod already gives a stack its own hover text, this mod leaves that piece alone.
• New stacks added in future game updates are picked up automatically, as long as their name ends in "Stack" or "Pile" like the current ones.

Side effect: using an item from your hotbar while looking at a stack now says "Can't use X on Copper Stack" instead of "Use X on what?". That's the game's own message for any named object.

Support

If this saved you some squinting, tips are always appreciated but never expected.