Abilities - Experience Bars 1.6
🟠 Updated over a year ago⚠️ Install Order · 2 steps
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 1.0% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #66 of 179 User Interface mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Original mod available here: Abilities - Experience Bars
Description
This mod was updated, and quite heavily rebuilt, for 1. 6. I re-designed it with the intention to make mod added skills easier to add. I've also built in a GMCM menu so you can edit the mod in-game much more easily. Added some additional skill support and also added a few minor features such as a level up sound that plays with the level up pop up
To add new interface options. A folder with the name of the interface and the appropriate files needs to be added to assets/ui/themes. It will be detected by the mod on the next run.
New Features
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[]GMCM Integration. All options can be edited in the game menu.
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]Experience Bar Popup. This new option will show a single experience bar whenever a skill gains experience. It will only display for a set amount of time[]Theme Integration. Themes are now integrated into the mod and select-able from the menu.
[]New Level Up sound played (from UI Info Suite)
[]Once you level Farming, Fishing, Mining, Combat and Foraging to level 10 they will be replaced with a new Mastery bar. This will track your mastery experience for the next 5 levels.
[]You can now switch between 2 different sets of icons (Buffs or Skill Page icons)
[]Special support for Sword and Sorcery
[]Support for Level Forever
Mod Original Features
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[]Shows each skill level, with support quite a few custom skill mods
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]Shows skill actual experience.[]Shows skill needed experience.
[]Shows gained experience.
[]Level up messages.
Supported Mod Skills
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[]Luck
[]Magic (Not yet updated for 1. 6)
[]Cooking Skill (Not yet updated for 1. 6)
[]Yet Another Cooking Skill
[]Archeology
[]Travelling Skill
[]Binning
[]Socializing
[]Spacecore Luck Skill
[]Sword and Sorcery
Supported Themes
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[]Bog's Forest UI
[]Earthy Interface
[]Lavender Dreams
[]Lovely UI
[]Meow Interface
[]Natural Dark Wood
[]Overgrown Flowery Interface
[]Starry Ocean Garden
[]Vintage V1
[]Vintage V2
[]VPR-Inspired UI
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[]Luck
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[]Shows each skill level, with support quite a few custom skill mods
Abilities - Experience Bars 1.6 is a UI mod by Sandman53 that updates the experience bars for abilities and adds support for additional skill mods. With 1,069 endorsements and over 102,000 downloads, it's a popular choice for players wanting clearer progression tracking. Last updated in February 2025.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community favorite with 1,069 endorsements and over 102k downloads
- Actively maintained—last updated February 2025
- Expands compatibility to more skill mods, which is a big plus for modded setups
⚠️ Cons
- If you're not using any skill mods, this update might not add much for you
For Skyrim players who use ability or skill mods and want a cleaner, more informative experience bar UI. If you're into UI tweaks and track your character's progress closely, this is a solid pick. Skip if you prefer vanilla UI or don't use skill mods.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have the original Abilities Experience Bars mod installed, as this is an update patch.
- Check the mod's forum posts or comments for user reports on which skill mods are compatible.
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or MO2 to handle the file overwrites cleanly.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Stardew Valley Mods
- Author
- Sandman53
- Version
- 3.4.1
- Downloads
- 102,359
- Endorsements
- 1,069
- Category
- User Interface
- Created
- 4/18/2024
- Updated
- 2/7/2025
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