SeneaL HUD Layout

A client-side layout and quality-of-life companion for SeneaL UI. Repositions HUD elements, improves readability, and adds configurable interface enhancements throughout Valheim.

Requires SeneaL UI. This mod does not replace it and does nothing without it.

Requirements

• BepInEx
• SeneaL UI
• Optional: Smoothbrain Passive Powers

Client-side only. Dedicated servers do not need this mod.

Features

HUD Layout

• Moves the hotbar, action slots, and food quick slots to the bottom-left corner.
• Positions health, food, and guardian power elements above the hotbar.
• Keeps the compass pinned to the top of the screen.
• Marks your death/grave pin for the SeneaL compass automatically ([Compass] DeathPinOnCompass).
• Adjusts boss bars, center messages, and event banners to prevent overlapping.
• Shifts the minimap cluster to the left.
• Positions Passive Powers icons beside the food column.
• Optionally hides SeneaL UI's unused guardian power slot and F-key hint.

Vitals

• Optional always-visible stamina, Eitr, and adrenaline bars.
• Synchronizes Eitr and adrenaline bar sizes and positions with stamina.
• Configurable bar dimensions and positional offsets.
• Adjustable number font weight.

Creature & Player HUD

• Displays current and maximum health beneath creature and player health bars.
• Configurable name, health number, and bar sizes.
• Keeps level stars consistent in size at different viewing distances.
• Colors stars according to Creature Level and Loot Control effects:
  • Green: Regenerating
  • Red: Aggressive
  • Blue: Armored
  • Cyan: Curious
  • Magenta: Quick
  • White: Splitting
  • Gold: No effect

Hotbar & Equipment

• Adds a soft gold glow to selected hotbar items and equipped gear.
• Adds a checkmark to selected and equipped items.
• Optionally fills magic item slots with their EpicLoot rarity color.
• Optional equip and gear countdown timers.
• Configurable highlight colors, sizes, and effects.

Character & Skills

• Character Stats tab on the SeneaL character panel: live health, stamina, eitr, armor, resists, food, status effects, weapon skills, and more ([Stats] StatsTab, optional hotkey and Steam portrait).
• Displays the SkillsReworked level in the character window ([Character Window]).
• Optionally displays that level under the food timers ([HealthFood] ShowLevelFoodBar and offset keys).
• On a creature kill, shows how much SkillsReworked Level XP you gained next to the damage-share percent ([Notices] ShowKillXp).

Crafting & Building

• Adds an Items button to the crafting panel to open VNEI's item search.
• Allows crafting materials made at the current station to be clicked to open their recipes.
• Adds a Back option to return to the previous recipe.
• Preserves hammer piece-search text when closing the search to place a building piece and reopening it.
• Positions crafting stat values beside their labels.

Minimap & Status Effects

• Optionally hides wind direction and day/time indicators beneath the minimap while keeping the biome name visible.
• Can move SeneaL UI's status effect list to a screen corner with configurable offsets.
• Compact Status Squares retains control of status effects when enabled.

Inventory & Item Information

• Collapses the Grillspett Item Drawer hover preview into one slot displaying the total stored quantity.
• Prevents chest deposit operations from taking coins directly out of the coin purse.
• Positions stat values beside their labels in item tooltips and crafting panels.
• Balances two-column item tooltips by moving whole sections between columns for similar height ([ItemTooltips] LeftOverflow).
• Shows a small item sprite on the tooltip type line ([ItemTooltips] ShowItemIcon), for example a hoe next to Tool.
• With Epic Loot loaded, opens shard (and rune) sockets in a dedicated window so they can be filled or emptied while SeneaL CustomUI is on. Hover the gear and press E. Turn [EpicLoot] ShardSocketWindow off to leave this to Epic Loot alone.

Interface & Notifications

• Old config entries left by renamed sections and removed settings are cleaned out of the config file on load, so the file keeps only settings this version uses.
• Hides SeneaL UI's login server-rules window. Server restrictions still apply.
• Hides SeneaL UI's chat window so compatible chat mods can display messages.
• Adjusts center messages to avoid overlapping the compass and boss health bar.
• Improves the repair window layout to prevent unwanted text wrapping.
• Supports additional EpicLoot interface adjustments, including legendary set ability buttons.

Chat

• ChatSettingsEnabled (off by default) is the master switch for every Chat setting except HideChat, HideShoutOverHead, ChatAutoScrollOnNewMessage, ChatWindowRecommendedLayout, and the chat window size/position keys. Turn it on to use shout prefix, last-used channel, shout capitalization, hide delay, and chat font.
• HideShoutOverHead (on by default) hides the yellow shout/yell text above player heads. The shout still goes to the chat log.
• ChatAutoScrollOnNewMessage (on by default) jumps the log to the latest lines when the chat box is closed and a new message arrives. While the box is open, scroll position is kept.
• ChatWindowRecommendedLayout (off by default): one switch for a built-in recommended chat layout (PosX 84, PosY -88, Width -88, Height -9). While on, the four keys below are ignored; your manual values stay in the cfg for when you turn it off.
• ChatWindowPosX / ChatWindowPosY / ChatWindowWidth / ChatWindowHeight: 0 is SeneaL's original chat. All four are pixel integers (1-step in F1, for example PosY -76). Pos moves the background, log, and input together. Negative width/height shrinks. Resetting all four to 0 rebuilds the original window. Client-only.
• DefaultToShout (off by default) opens the chat box with /s already typed in it, so your first Enter shouts — the long-range message that shows above your character — and you never have to type the prefix.
• Delete the /s and the message is a normal close-range say, exactly Valheim's own /s and plain text. The box stops prefilled and stays that way until you type /s again.
• RememberLastUsed keeps that channel between messages and across restarts, in the game's own player prefs file.
• ShoutKeepsCapitalization (off by default) reads exactly as named: off does NOT keep Valheim's shout capitalization, so a shout shows the letters the way you typed them ("hello there" stays "hello there"). On keeps Valheim's ALL CAPS shout. Whispers stay lower case, as Valheim makes them.
• HideChatPanelDelay (10) is how many seconds the chat panel stays visible after the last chat activity. It is the game's own chat hide timer; Valheim ships 10.
• With Chatter installed, the grey placeholder in its chat box follows the channel, showing /shout or /say.
• chatMessageTextFontAsset and chatMessageTextFontSize set the chat log's font and size. Any TMP font asset the game has loaded is accepted by name — Valheim's own Valheim-AveriaSansLibre (default), Valheim-AveriaSerifLibre, Valheim-Norse, Valheim-Norsebold, Valheim-Prstartk, the NotoSans/NotoSerif language sets, LiberationSans SDF, and fonts other mods add. Size is 6–64 (default 16). chatMessageFontEnabled turns the pair off. Chatter is not touched; its own font keys keep driving Chatter's panel. If the name matches nothing loaded, the log lists the font assets the game actually has.

Configuration

Configuration file:

BepInEx/config/cjayride.SeneaLHudLayout.cfg

Settings are organized by category. Key options include:

Category	Setting	Default
General	Enabled	On
Vitals	SyncVitalsSize	On
Vitals	AlwaysShowStamina	Off
Vitals	AlwaysShowEitr	Off
Vitals	AlwaysShowAdrenaline	Off
Vitals	NumberBold	0.8
Creature/Player HUD	ShowHealthNumbers	On
Creature/Player HUD	NameTextScale	0.75
Creature/Player HUD	HealthTextScale	0.94
Creature/Player HUD	StarSize	10
Powers	Scale	1.0
Slots	Highlight	On
Slots	CornerPip	On
Slots	RarityFill	Off
Crafting	ShowItemSearch	On
Crafting	ClickMaterials	On
Minimap	HideWindAndServerDay	Off
Status Effects	MoveToCorner	Off
Chat	HideChat	Off
Chat	HideShoutOverHead	On
Chat	ChatAutoScrollOnNewMessage	On
Chat	ChatSettingsEnabled	Off
Chat	DefaultToShout	Off
Chat	RememberLastUsed	Off
Chat	ShoutKeepsCapitalization	Off
Chat	HideChatPanelDelay	10
Chat	chatMessageFontEnabled	Off
Chat	chatMessageTextFontAsset	Valheim-AveriaSansLibre
Chat	chatMessageTextFontSize	16
Chat	ChatWindowRecommendedLayout	Off
Chat	ChatWindowPosX	0
Chat	ChatWindowPosY	0
Chat	ChatWindowWidth	0
Chat	ChatWindowHeight	0
Wallet	SplitForChest	On
EpicLoot	ShardSocketWindow	On

Additional settings control positioning, sizing, colors, visibility, and other behaviors.

To restore SeneaL UI's original placement behavior, set [General] Enabled to false.

Installation

1. Install BepInEx and SeneaL UI.
2. Place SeneaLHudLayout.dll in BepInEx/plugins.
3. Launch Valheim once to generate the configuration file.
4. Customize settings in BepInEx/config/cjayride.SeneaLHudLayout.cfg.

The Thunderstore zip does not ship a config file; BepInEx creates it when the game runs.

Install on each client that needs the layout changes.

Credits

• SeneaL UI: Created by seneaL.
• SeneaL HUD Layout: Created by cjayride.