BetterUI

BetterUI & Party

Quality-of-life UI improvements for Valheim: repositionable/scalable HUD bars, item quality

stars, colored durability bars, an enhanced enemy health bar, extra hover-text info, a combined

character level/XP bar, character-select stats, a combined weapon/armor stat tooltip, and a

built-in Party system - invite nearby players with a keypress and see everyone's HP/stamina live

in a movable HUD panel.

Features

• HUD editor: press F7 to toggle edit mode. While active, drag a HUD bar (health, stamina,

food, eitr, adrenaline) with the left mouse button to move it, or scroll while hovering it to

resize it. Positions/sizes persist in the config.

• Item quality stars: item quality shown as gold star icons directly on the icon (inventory

and hotbar), instead of vanilla's plain number. HotbarEnabled lets you turn the hotbar ones off

independently (leaving it exactly as vanilla, which never showed a quality indicator there) while

keeping the inventory grid ones.

• Durability color: the durability bar is colored green/yellow/orange/red by remaining

percentage.

• Enemy HUD: configurable level display (vanilla stars, text prefix, or both), a live HP

number on the health bar, name color by alert state, a bigger/thicker bar, and enemies can be

set to always show their HUD within a configurable distance instead of only while aimed at.

• Hover text extras: containers show free slot count, fermenters and cooking stations show

remaining time - all with selectable display styles.

• Character level bar: a combined level (summed across all skills) shown as an XP bar at the

bottom of the HUD, with a level-up message.

• Character-select stats: kills/deaths/crafts/builds shown under the character name on the

character-select screen.

• Combined stats tooltip: hovering the armor value in the character panel shows a combined

weapon damage/block/armor/movement summary.

• Party: /invite or look at a nearby player and press the party key (Party.InviteKey, default J,

rebindable - deliberately not E, so it never clashes with doors) to invite them

to a party (same key leaves it once you're grouped), accepted via a popup on their side. A

movable/scalable HUD panel (F7 edit mode, like every other bar) then shows each online member's

name, HP and stamina, kept live via a direct sync between clients. ShowHpBar/ShowStaminaBar

toggle each bar independently. A small icon of each member's selected Forsaken power is shown next

to their name (ShowGuardianPower, on by default; only for members running a version that has it).

The party survives deaths and portals: a member who died shows a skull-and-crossbones icon, one who is

far away (e.g. portalled) shows an arrow, both greyed out, and they return to normal when back in range.

TogglePanelKey (unbound by default) shows/hides the panel. The party also survives logging out and server

restarts: the party id is stored with your character, and members find each other again when they log in

(no leader needed - anyone can invite, anyone can leave).

Notes

• Uses vanilla's own HUD bar objects directly (repositioned/rescaled), not custom-built bars.
• Report bugs/suggestions on Discord:

Credits

Inspired by matias-kovero/BetterUI, which hasn't

been updated in several years. This mod aims for the same goals (a more informative, more

configurable HUD) but is an independent, original implementation written from scratch against the

current Valheim 1.0 API, not a port or copy of that mod's code - the old codebase predates the 1.0

update and no longer builds against it. The icon is reused from the original project (public on

GitHub, BSD 2-Clause licensed) so returning players recognize it. All credit for the original idea,

feature set, and icon artwork goes to its author, Matias Kovero.