ValheimKillFeed
Server-aware kill feed with random flavor phrasings drawn from a user-editable text file.
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ValheimKillFeed
A kill feed mod for Valheim. When a player dies — to another player, a mob, fall damage, drowning, smoke, fire, falling out of the world, or their own campfire — the event is broadcast to every connected client and rendered as a fading HUD overlay.
Phrasings are drawn from a random table keyed by the dominant damage type of the killing blow (slash / pierce / blunt / chop / pickaxe / fire / frost / lightning / poison / spirit) for combat deaths, or by cause (fall / drown / smoke / oob / fireplace) for environmental deaths.
phrasings.txt
Ships in BepInEx/plugins/ next to the DLL. Edit it to add your own lines. Format:
[pierce]
A {killer} gored {victim} clean through.
{victim} caught a {weapon} the wrong way.
[blunt]
{victim} got pancaked by a {killer}.
[fall]
{victim} forgot how gravity works.
Sections: [blunt], [slash], [pierce], [chop], [pickaxe], [fire], [frost], [lightning], [poison], [spirit], [fall], [drown], [smoke], [oob], [fireplace]. Lines starting with # and blank lines are ignored. Placeholders: {victim}, {killer}, {weapon}, {distance}.
Config
BepInEx/config/valheim-kill-feed.cfg:
- Position — HUD anchor (TopLeft, TopRight, BottomLeft, BottomRight)
- EntryDurationSeconds — how long each entry stays before fading
- MaxEntries — most lines on screen at once
- FontSize — pixel size
Install
- Install BepInEx for Valheim.
- Drop ValheimKillFeed.dll and phrasings.txt into BepInEx/plugins.
- Mod must be installed on every client that should see the feed. The dedicated server doesn't need it.
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: