Valheim

💻 ConsoleBuddy

Developer and player console enhancements, styling, and customization for Valheim.

GitHub Release Thunderstore Version Discord License: MIT


Take full command over your Valheim console! ConsoleBuddy empowers developers, server administrators, and players to fully customize the in-game terminal with custom font faces, font sizes, colors, console dimensions, positioning, transparency, and expanded buffer history.


✨ Features

  • 🔤 Custom Fonts & Styling: Select any installed system font (with automatic cross-platform fallbacks for Linux, Steam Deck, and Windows) and customize font size and color.
  • 📐 Custom Size & Positioning: Adjust console window width, height, and screen alignment to fit your display resolution and preference.
  • 🎨 Background Customization: Set custom background colors and transparency levels to keep gameplay visible behind the terminal.
  • 📜 Expanded Buffer History: View and retain hundreds of log lines with configurable visible lines and buffer capacity.
  • Zero Performance Impact: Operates purely on event triggers when the console opens or settings change—no per-frame overhead.

🕹️ Controls & Keybinds

Input Default Action
F5 Toggle the in-game console open and closed.
/ Navigate through prior command history.
Tab Autocomplete commands and arguments.
Page Up / Page Down Scroll through console log buffer history.

⚙️ Configuration & Settings

Tailor all visual settings in real time via the in-game BepInEx Configuration Manager (F1):

Setting Default Description
Font Size 14 The text size in points rendered in the console window.
Font Color White Color of output text (accepts Hex colors or standard names).
Font Face Consolas Name of the font face to render.
Console Width 800 Width of the console window in pixels.
Console Height 400 Height of the console window in pixels.
Console Position X/Y (0, 0) Screen offset position for the console window.
Background Color Black Background color of the terminal panel.
Background Alpha 0.75 Transparency level of the console background (0.0 = transparent, 1.0 = solid).
Buffer Limit 1000 Maximum number of log lines preserved in memory buffer.
Visible Lines 25 Number of log lines displayed simultaneously on screen.

🛡️ Advanced Safeguards

  • 🐧 Cross-Platform Resilience: Gracefully falls back to default Unity font rendering if a configured font is missing on Steam Deck or Linux.
  • 🔒 Client-Side Module: Safe for multiplayer servers; runs strictly on the client without modifying server game rules.

📥 Installation

Mod Manager (Recommended)

  1. Install via R2ModMan or Thunderstore Mod Manager.
  2. Dependencies (BepInExPack, Jotunn (JVL)) are installed automatically.

Manual Installation

  • Copy ConsoleBuddy.dll to your Valheim/BepInEx/plugins directory.

👨‍💻 Created by Vapok Gaming

Vapok Gaming

Author: Vapok
Source Code: GitHub Repository
Community & Support: Discord Server
Changelog: Release Notes

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DatHost — Valheim server hosting, first month for one euro
DatHost — Valheim server hosting, first month for one euro
DatHost — Valheim server hosting, first month for one euro