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.
• 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

• Displays the SkillsReworked level in the character window.
• Optionally displays the level beneath food timers, beside the health number.

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 ([Stats] LeftOverflow).
• 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

• 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

• 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	DefaultToShout	Off
Chat	RememberLastUsed	On
Chat	ShoutKeepsCapitalization	Off
Chat	HideChatPanelDelay	10
Chat	chatMessageFontEnabled	On
Chat	chatMessageTextFontAsset	Valheim-AveriaSansLibre
Chat	chatMessageTextFontSize	16
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.

Install on each client that needs the layout changes.

Credits

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