HearthCodex

HearthCodex

Learn the creatures of Valheim instead of reading a completed wiki on day one.

By BlackHearthx. Open the book with F7 by default.

Observe a creature to discover its identity. Defeat it with credited kill participation to complete its entry.

HearthCodex adds a progressive in-game bestiary. Unknown creatures stay hidden as???; discovery reveals their name and portrait, while study unlocks the useful details: health, resistances, weak spots, drops, habitats, variants, and weapon suggestions based on recipes your character knows.

What you get

| Feature | What it means in play |

| --- | --- |

| Progressive discovery | Observe ordinary creatures and use Vegvisires to discover bosses. |

| Study through combat | A credited kill completes the creature's entry. |

| Useful combat notes | Base health, resistances, immunities, weak spots, and drops. |

| Suggested weapons | Known recipes ranked against the selected creature, with varied weapon styles. |

| Biome browsing | Filter the catalogue by biome or by unknown, discovered, and studied state. |

| Boss collection | Browse every boss in a dedicated category above the biome list. |

| Creature portraits | Trophy art first, with a safe rendered fallback when no useful trophy exists. |

| Per-character progress | Every character keeps a separate journal. |

| Localization | English, Brazilian Portuguese, and European Portuguese. |

Weapon suggestions compare expected quality-one primary-hit damage at the character's current weapon skill after target resistances. They show relevant resource, full-draw, and reload costs and vary weapon families when possible. Weaknesses explain why damage changes but do not hide a stronger neutral option. This remains guidance rather than a complete DPS simulator: animation speed, combos, weak spots, projectile spread, damage-over-time stacking, and special effects can change the practical result.

Your first session

• Press F7 to open HearthCodex.
• Approach a creature and keep it clearly in view to discover it.
• Defeat the creature and receive Valheim's kill credit to complete the entry.
• Open the book again and browse its combat notes, drops, and suggested weapons.

Installation

Install with a -compatible mod manager. BepInEx and Jötunn are installed automatically.

For manual installation, install BepInEx and Jötunn first, then place HearthCodex.dll in a folder under BepInEx/plugins.

Configuration

After first launch, settings are written to BepInEx/config/com.blackhearthx.hearthcodex.cfg. You can change the open key, observation distance and duration, interface scale and position, visible sections, optional numeric multipliers, and diagnostic logging.

Compatibility

The catalogue is built from creatures, recipes, spawn lists, locations, and dungeon rooms available in the running game. Compatible modded creatures and weapons can be included automatically. Bad or incomplete sources are skipped without stopping the remaining catalogue.

HearthCodex is client-side and does not enforce installation on the server. Multiplayer study progress follows the kill credit sent by Valheim to participating players.

Existing characters automatically recover per-creature kills already recorded by Valheim. Those creatures become studied without another fight; HearthCodex keeps the greater count when both records exist.

Português do Brasil

O HearthCodex adiciona um bestiário progressivo ao Valheim. A tecla padrão é F7.

Observe criaturas comuns para descobrir sua identidade e use Vegvisires para descobrir chefes. Quando você participa de uma morte reconhecida pelo jogo, a ficha é estudada e libera vida, resistências, pontos fracos, espólio, biomas e armas recomendadas. As recomendações usam somente receitas conhecidas pelo personagem e procuram variar os tipos de arma.

O progresso é separado por personagem. Criaturas desconhecidas continuam como???, evitando revelar antecipadamente nomes e variantes que você ainda não encontrou.

Personage