Live Experience Tracker

A small client-side Valheim mod that shows your skill XP as you earn it, in the bottom-left corner just above your health and food.

Every time an action grants skill XP a row appears for that skill, stacking upward from the health panel:

Swords  [██████░░░░░░]  (7.35 / 12.02)  +1.00
Run     [██░░░░░░░░░░]  (0.41 / 2.33)   +0.02

• Skill name in yellow, progress bar to the next level, current / needed XP in white, and the latest gain in green.
• Keep doing the same thing and the row updates live with each gain.
• Stop, and the row fades out after a few seconds (5 by default, configurable).
• Several skills at once give several rows, each with its own timer, always sorted alphabetically.

Works with vanilla skills and with custom skills added through Jötunn.

Installation

Install with r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager, or drop LiveExperienceTracker.dll into BepInEx/plugins.

Requires BepInExPack Valheim and Jötunn. Client-side only: it does not need to be on the server and does nothing on a dedicated server.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/dsoltyka.LiveExperienceTracker.cfg is created on first launch. All settings apply immediately, and everything is editable in-game with Configuration Manager.

Section	Setting	Default	Meaning
General	DisplaySeconds	5	Seconds a row stays after its last XP gain
General	FadeSeconds	0.5	Fade-out length at the end of that time (0 = pop out)
General	DecimalPlaces	2	Decimals for the XP numbers
Layout	FontSize	16	Text size
Layout	BarWidth / BarHeight	120 / 10	Progress bar size in pixels
Layout	ElementSpacing	6	Gap between name, bar and numbers
Layout	RowSpacing	2	Gap between rows
Layout	OffsetX / OffsetY	0 / 4	Nudge from the health panel's top-left corner
Colors	SkillName, Values, Gain, BarFill, BarBackground		Row colors

How it works

The game applies every skill gain through Skills.Skill.Raise. The mod postfixes that with Harmony, reads the skill's accumulator and next-level requirement, and updates the matching row. The UI is plain uGUI + TextMeshPro parented to the HUD root, using the HUD's own font so it matches the rest of the interface. It hides with the HUD (Ctrl+F3) and is anchored to the health panel, so it follows GUI scale changes and the panel growing with food.

Building

The project imports shared MSBuild props from the ValheimModBuild repo, which must be cloned next to this one:

<parent>/
  ValheimModBuild/
  ValheimLiveExperienceTracker/

Then:

dotnet build                                          # build + copy DLL into your Thunderstore profile
dotnet build -c Release -p:ThunderstorePack=true      # also write thunderstore/manifest.json and the upload zip

Paths to the game and the BepInEx profile are configured once in ValheimModBuild/Valheim.Local.props (see that repo's README).

License

MIT. See LICENSE.