FoodHighlighter
Outlines the best healing, best stamina and best mixed food you haven't eaten - all at once. Outline is the negative of each fork's color. Nothing when all slots are full.
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FoodHighlighter
Never squint at your food bar again. FoodHighlighter draws an outline around the fork icon of the best food you haven't eaten yet - one highlight for each food type - so at a glance you know what to eat next.
The fork icon is the little food-type marker Valheim already shows on food items, colored by type (healing / stamina / eitr / mixed). This mod outlines the best one you haven't eaten in each type.
How it picks
- Every food is sorted by the same rule Valheim uses to color its fork icon - healing, stamina, eitr, or mixed.
- In each type it finds the best food (by total value) whose type you don't currently have active and outlines its fork.
- All three highlights show at once - so your best healing food, best stamina food, and best mixed food are lit at the same time. Got two stamina foods? Only the better one is outlined.
- Eaten your best of a type already? The outline moves to the next-best of that type you haven't eaten.
- All 3 food slots full? Nothing is highlighted - there's nothing new to eat.
The outline color is the photo-negative of each fork's own color, so a highlighted fork always contrasts sharply against itself and is easy to spot.
Only your own inventory is highlighted - chests and other containers are left alone.
Config
Config file: BepInEx/config/FoodHighlighter.cfg
- Enabled (default true) - master switch.
- OutlineThickness (default 1.0) - outline thickness in pixels.
Notes
Requires BepInEx. Purely visual and client-side - it changes nothing about the game itself, just adds an outline in your inventory UI.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: