GroupHUD

GroupHUD

See how your group is doing – at a glance.

GroupHUD is a standalone party system for Valheim: invite your friends and see everyone's health, stamina, food, effects, distance and state in a clean HUD that looks like it belongs to the game.

Download: · Hexium · · Support: Discord – Mobrin's Forge

Features

Group system

• Invite via the group menu (open your inventory), by looking at a player, or with /party chat commands
• Accept an invitation with E (controller: X) – no inventory needed, hold to decline; while an invitation is open, E does nothing else
• Accept / decline, leave, kick and pass on leadership with one click
• Leader goes offline? The next member takes over automatically
• Configurable maximum group size
• No friendly fire between group members (optional)
• Group members marked on map and minimap, their names shown in gold above their heads

Vitals panel

• Bars for health, stamina, eitr and adrenaline – same colors and textures as vanilla, with numbers (125 / 125)
• Food with icon, name and remaining time, guardian power with cooldown
• Status effects with icon, name and time – including effects from other mods, debuffs highlighted in red
• Tooltips for effects and food with the original Valheim description and values – in the panel and also on your own food, guardian power and effects in the vanilla HUD
• State of every member: in combat, at the helm, riding, swimming, crafting, building, fishing, mining, chopping, AFK, sleeping …
• Distance and direction, click a name to see the member on the map
• Low health warning and death messages

Controller

• Invite by looking with the Use button – the hint at the crosshair looks exactly like a vanilla chest
• Panel and group menu are part of the vanilla LB / RB window row: panel ↔ inventory ↔ group menu ↔ character ↔ … ↔ crafting, all the way round, with the same sound
• The active window gets the yellow frame, the selected button a white one – like in vanilla; in GroupHUD nothing is selected until the first D-pad press, so no tooltip pops up while you switch windows; with Extended Player Inventory the extra slots are framed together with the inventory
• D-pad chooses, A presses, B closes the inventory – next time you are back in the same window
• The selected button shows the same hint as with the mouse: what is set now and what a click does
• Every window remembers your spot – the last button is framed again when you come back (the hint follows with your next press); the very first time, the first D-pad press jumps to the button furthest in that direction
• Reopen the inventory (B or Y) and you are back in the window you left – panel, group menu, Info and the other windows; inventory and crafting keep their slot and recipe
• With a chest open, the GroupHUD window you control comes to the front – back in the chest or inventory, the chest lies on top again
• The key for the group menu stands next to its title: Group (LB / RB)
• The lock is greyed out with the controller – moving and resizing windows needs the mouse for now (planned)
• Never triggers other mods: while GroupHUD is active, the game and other mods (e.g. Quick Stack Store) see no controller buttons

HUD & layout

• Vertical or horizontal – members below each other or side by side (layout button on panel and menu)
• Move panel, menu and messages with the mouse – unlock with the lock button in the group menu (with the controller: planned)
• Resize at the grip or the right/bottom edge, Shift + drag to zoom, double-click for the default size
• Windows snap gently to each other and to the screen edge while you drag them – the dragged one always stays on top
• Separate cards – unlock, then the chain button turns every member into its own window; × hides a card, the HUD button brings it back
• The group menu flies in and out together with the vanilla inventory; an open chest simply lies on top of GroupHUD – nothing jumps around
• Every button explains itself: hover it to see what is