Mini Vitals

All four vitals in one strip, the width of a header — for when four separate bar windows are three windows too many.

What it’s for

Four progress bars tell you everything you need, and cost you four windows to place, four borders to align, and four things to re-drag every time you rearrange a layout. Mini Vitals is the same information as one window: health, mana, stamina and spirit drawn side by side across a single row, sized and moved as one thing.

It is also the widget that knows your real numbers. Ordinary bars and the phone’s chrome work in percentages; this one carries 142/193 because the game sends the current value and the maximum together. Pick it when you want a compact strip and exact figures, and pick separate bars when you want each vital in a different corner of the screen.

Set it up

Common setups

A Wrayth-style stats strip across the top of the screen

This is what the widget was shaped for: one row, no title, no wasted height.

1. Add minivitals from the catalog and set its row’s zone to Header.
2. Right-click it ▸ Vitals ▸ set Layout to One row and Bar text to 191/193 — position and color already tell you which bar is which, so the word is spent space.
3. Right-click ▸ Appearance ▸ Frame and turn the border off, so the strip reads as part of the chrome rather than a box sitting on it.
4. Drag the bottom edge until the bars are the height you want, or set Bar height directly.

You’ll see: a single unbroken row across the top of your layout reading four pairs of numbers in red, blue, orange and gray, each fill draining as you take the hit that caused it.

Tips & gotchas

⚠️ In the GUI these settings are shared by every Mini Vitals window; in the terminal they belong to the window. The GUI stores Layout, Bar height, Bar text, Depleted color and the bar list once, in your per-character GUI layout — change them on one window and every Mini Vitals window changes with it. The terminal stores its own set of fields per window in layout.toml. The two frontends do not share these settings at all, so a window you tuned in the GUI arrives in the terminal with terminal defaults, and the reverse.

⚠️ The GUI version draws four bars the terminal version cannot. The GUI’s bar list offers Mind, Encumbrance, Next Level and Blood alongside the four vitals, so one window can carry your health and your encumbrance together. The terminal accepts only health, mana, stamina, spirit and concentration, and silently ignores anything else in the list — a layout using the GUI’s extra bars renders in the terminal with those bars missing rather than with an error.

⚠️ Four bars maximum in the terminal, no cap in the GUI. The terminal’s [ Edit Bars & Colors ] editor refuses a fifth tick. The GUI lets you enable all eight, and they divide the width between them.

This widget and your ordinary bars read the same feed, so both are live at once. The game sends one health update and it lands in every place that wants it: each progress window bound to health, this widget, and the phone’s status row. Running a Mini Vitals strip and a separate health bar is not a conflict and costs you nothing.

The window ships with no title on purpose, which is why the catalog row reads minivitals in lowercase where its neighbours read proper names. Give it a title under Window if you want one, or leave the title bar off entirely.

Current Only beats Numbers Only in the terminal. With both ticked you get the bare current value. The order is: current-only, then numbers-only, then the game’s own text.

Nothing here changes color at a threshold. No low-health red, no flash, no pulse — each bar draws one solid color at every value. Alerting on low health is a hotbar button’s condition state, an indicator, a sound, or controller rumble; see Make your health bar shout when you’re hurt.

Depleted color is the unfilled part of each bar. Leave it empty and the unfilled portion follows the window background, which is usually what you want. Set it to pick out how much of each bar is gone at a glance.

This widget is GemStone IV only. Both pickers hide it from DragonRealms characters — it is absent from the GUI Windows catalog and from the bare-.addwindow picker. The full six-argument form does not check, so it will build the window on a DR character. If the game is not set at all, VellumFE assumes GemStone IV and the row appears, which is why it shows up when you connect through Lich without naming a game.

See also

• Progress Bars — one bar per window, when you want them in different places
• Experience (GemStone IV) — where mind state and next-level get their full detail
• Encumbrance — the dedicated widget for the encumbrance bar
• Betrayer — where the Blood bar’s number comes from
• Dashboard — statuses in a grid, the other “several things, one window” widget
• Injury Display — where you’re hurt, where a health bar only says how much
• Make your health bar shout when you’re hurt — alerting, since bars never change color
• Creating Layouts — placing and saving these windows

[[windows]]
name = "minivitals"
widget_type = "minivitals"
row = 0
col = 0
rows = 3
cols = 80
show_border = true
numbers_only = false
current_only = false
bar_order = ["health", "mana", "stamina", "spirit"]