ConsoleBuddy

💻 ConsoleBuddy

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

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.

🌐 Available Translations

🇺🇸 English (Default)

Want to help translate Console Buddy? Community translations are welcome! Please submit a PR on GitHub or stop by our Discord.

📥 Installation

Mod Manager (Recommended)

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

Manual Installation

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

🔒 Anonymous Telemetry, Error Reporting & Privacy

Console Buddy includes lightweight, privacy-first telemetry and error reporting to help monitor mod stability, diagnose unhandled bugs, and track active version adoption across game updates.

• 100% Anonymous: We never collect personal data, Steam IDs, IP addresses, character/world names, or file system paths. Stack traces from errors are automatically sanitized to strip local user directories.
• Granular Player Control:
• Anonymous Telemetry (Opt-In): Tracks version adoption and session launches. Defaults to unchecked / disabled when first loaded (Enable Anonymous Telemetry = false).
• Error Reporting (Opt-Out): Captures sanitized mod crash diagnostics to rapidly identify and fix bugs. Defaults to enabled (Send Error Reports = true) with one-click opt-out.
• Data Disclaimers: Hover over any toggle in the startup modal for interactive tooltip disclaimers detailing exactly what data is transmitted.

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