OttoLens

OttoLens

For Valheim 1.0.17

Version 1.0.7, built and Harmony-checked against Valheim 1.0.17.

Look at a chest and see what is in it. Look at a smelter and see how much ore is

queued, how much fuel is left, and how long until the next bar drops. Look at a

plant and see when it is ready. OttoLens puts a small ledger next to the vanilla

hover text with the numbers the game already has but does not show you.

Maintainer: Paul Otto

What it shows

Every target gets the same panel: a title, one main meter, up to two smaller

meters, and then item rows with the icon, the name and the count.

• Chests, carts and ship holds. Every item stack inside, sorted by count, with

a slot meter and a Free N footer. Rows past the cap collapse to and N more.

• Fires, torches, braziers and hearths. Fuel left and how long it burns, in

game days when it runs long.

• Smelters, kilns and blast furnaces. Fuel, the ore queue, time to the next

bar, time to the last one, and finished bars waiting to be picked up. A

windmill smelter with no wind says so instead of showing a countdown that

would never move.

• Cooking stations and ovens. What is cooking, what is done, time until the

next piece is done, and time until the first one burns.

• Fermenters, beehives and sap collectors. What is brewing and the time to

ready, or the honey or sap level and the time to the next unit.

• Plants and pickables. Grow progress on a crop, or the reason it stopped

growing, and the item and yield on a live bush. Respawn timers on picked bushes

are opt in (ShowRespawn).

• Build pieces. Health and support, with the hammer out by default so the

panel stays out of the way during normal play.

• Mineable rocks, trees, stumps and logs. Health as a percent, and the tool

tier you need when yours is too low. Trees, stumps, logs and small rocks are

off by default because a plain tree is a hover target and the panel would

follow you through every forest.

• Item stands, armor stands, tombstones, tamed creatures, wisp spawners, shield

generators, feasts, ground items and crafting stations.

What it does not do

OttoLens only reads. It never writes to the world, so burn rates, cook times,

fuel limits and everything else about how the game plays are exactly what the

game set. It does not patch the hover text itself, so it sits alongside other

hover mods instead of fighting them. It is client only and needs nothing on the

server.

If a reader throws on some modded object, the panel hides for that target and

the error is logged once. The HUD keeps running.

A world-placed chest you have not opened yet shows its title and `Contents

unknown`. Open it once and the panel fills in. That is on by default because

the surprise is part of the game.

Lens dirt is off by default, because the Eye of Odin makes all things clear.

Bloom still glows. Only the smudges on the camera lens are gone. Set

RemoveLensDirt to false to bring them back.

The game writes BepInEx/config/potto007.OttoLens.cfg the first time it runs

with the mod loaded.

Change it in a text editor or in game with Configuration Manager. Layout knobs

apply the next time the panel builds for a new target. MaxRows, ShowNames

and SortRows rebuild the panel at once, and any change under Targets takes

effect on the target you are already looking at.

| Section | Key | Default | What it does |

| --- | --- | --- | --- |

| OttoLens | Enabled | true | Master switch. Off hides the panel and skips every reader. |

| OttoLens | ToggleKey | None | Key that flips the master switch in game. Unbound by default; set a key to enable it. It is ignored while chat, a sign, the console or any other text field has the keyboard. |

| OttoLens | OffsetX | 150 | Left edge of the panel, pixels right of screen centre. 96 to 600. |

| OttoLens | OffsetY | -32 | Top edge of the panel, pixels below screen centre. -400 to -16. |

| OttoLens | PanelWidth | 300 | Panel width in pixels. 240 to 420. |

| OttoLens | GuiScale | 1.0 | Scale of the whole panel. 0.75 to 1.6. Try