Enhuddlement
ComfyMods
EnemyHud enhancement and customization.
Is there a Valheim mod to show enemy health bars and damage numbers?
Health values, yes. Enhuddlement extends Valheim's existing enemy HUD and can print the health number inside the bar, alongside control over the bar's size and colours, boss bars and enemy level display. Floating per-hit damage numbers are a different feature, and we did not find a maintained Valheim mod that adds them — see the note below before you go looking.
Mods that do this
Mining
Smoothbrain
Adds a skill that increases damage dealt while mining and item yield from ore deposits.
Tenacity
Smoothbrain
Adds a skill that reduces damage taken. Skill increases by taking damage.
The details
Enhuddlement is an enhancement of the enemy HUD rather than a replacement for it. Its documented options cover the health bar's width, height and colours, and showing the health value as text inside the bar. The text itself has settings under EnemyHud.HealthText for whether to show max health as well as current, and for an infinity symbol above a configurable threshold — which is what stops an absurd number filling the bar on modded or scaled-up creatures.
It also cleans up the parts of combat readability that are not health. Boss name and health bar can float and follow the boss instead of being pinned to the top of the screen. Enemy level can render as stars with a number or be hidden entirely, and positioned beside the name or under the bar. Enemy names can be coloured by aware or alert state, which tells you what has noticed you before it arrives.
One behaviour will make you think a setting did not apply. Its README notes most changes only take effect when the enemy HUD is rebuilt, which happens past roughly 10 metres for enemies and 100 metres for bosses. Change a value, walk away and come back rather than concluding it failed. It is designed to be edited live through the BepInEx Configuration Manager.
Check what else you run before installing. Enhuddlement un-patches BetterUI and BetterUI Reforged's enemy HUD patches to avoid conflicting with them — that is deliberate and documented, but it means whichever enemy HUD changes those mods made will stop applying.
On floating damage numbers, be sceptical of anything that promises them. Searching our Valheim index for damage-number and combat-HUD packages turns up mods for ore health, building health and HUD overlays, but nothing maintained that pops a number per hit on an enemy. If a list article names one, check its own page for the last-updated date before installing. In the meantime, health text in the bar gets you most of the way: watch the number drop and you know what the hit was worth.
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Related questions
- Does Valheim show damage numbers by default?
- No. Vanilla shows an enemy health bar without numeric values and no floating per-hit damage. Enhuddlement can add the numeric health value inside the bar; per-hit damage numbers are a separate feature we did not find a maintained mod for.
- How can I tell how much damage a weapon does without damage numbers?
- Turn on health text in the enemy health bar and compare the value before and after a hit. It is one step slower than a floating number, but it uses a mod that is actually maintained.
- Is a combat HUD mod allowed in multiplayer?
- Enhuddlement is client-side, so you can run it whether or not the server and other players do. It only changes what your own HUD draws.