Console Buddy

A lightweight, performance-friendly quality-of-life mod for Valheim that allows you to fully customize the look, feel, size, positioning, and buffer capacity of the in-game developer console window.

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Features

• Custom Fonts: Choose any font installed on your system or use the default game font.
• Custom Typography: Adjust font size and font color with ease.
• Console Styling: Customize background tint and opacity/transparency.
• Flexible Positioning: Adjust horizontal offsets and vertical height/margins to fit any screen resolution or UI layout.
• Expanded History & Buffer: Increase the console scrollback limit and visible history lines so you never lose command logs or debug output.
• High Performance: Event-driven formatting updates ensure zero frame rate impact during gameplay.

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Configuration Options

Console Buddy generates a configuration file at BepInEx/config/vapok.mods.consolebuddy.cfg upon first run. All settings can be tweaked directly in the config file or adjusted in real time in-game using the BepInEx Configuration Manager (F1).

🎨 Console Appearance

Setting	Type	Default	Description
Font Size	Integer (5–100)	20	Sets the font size of the text rendered in the console window.
Font Color	Color (RGBA)	Grey	Sets the text color of console logs and output.
Font Name	String (Dropdown)	Default Console Font	Selects which font family to render console text with. Lists all fonts installed on your operating system alongside the default game font.
Console Background Color	Color (RGBA)	#00000086 (Semi-Transparent Black)	Sets the background tint color and transparency (alpha) of the console window.
Buffer Limit	Integer	3000	Sets the maximum number of history/log lines retained in the console buffer before old lines are discarded.
Visible Lines Shown	Integer	300	Sets the maximum number of visible lines rendered in the active console output viewport. (Note: Requires game restart to change).

📐 Console Positioning

Setting	Type	Default	Description
Console Background Left Offset	Integer (0–5000)	0	Adjusts the left horizontal offset/margin of the console background window.
Console Background Right Offset	Integer (-5000–0)	0	Adjusts the right horizontal offset/margin of the console background window.
Console Background Height	Integer (-500–500)	0	Adjusts the bottom/vertical height offset of the console window.

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Installation

Using a Mod Manager (Recommended)

1. Install via Thunderstore Mod Manager, r2modman, or Gale.
2. Launch the game through your mod manager.

Manual Installation

1. Ensure BepInEx for Valheim and Jötunn (ValheimLib) are installed.
2. Download the latest release from Thunderstore or GitHub Releases.
3. Extract the ConsoleBuddy.dll file into your Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ directory.

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Mod Author Details

• Author: Vapok
• Source Code: GitHub
• Discord: Vapok's Mod Community
• Patch Notes: Changelog