HUD Compass, Day/Time Label & Moving HUD Windows

Part of the 7DTD Modding Knowledgebase. Verified against the July 2026 Steam build (Uncover mod HUD-layout options).

Hiding the compass — the vanilla switch

XUiC_CompassWindow.ShowCompass is a public static bool the game already honors: the compass sprites/texture in windowCompass bind their visibility to {show_compass}, and the DAY/TIME/temperature label exists twice in the XML — one spot under the compass ({showtimecompass}) and one at the very top edge ({showtimenocompass}) — so with ShowCompass = false the strip disappears and the label relocates to the top automatically. No Harmony needed; just set the static (re-assert it each frame if other code might flip it).

The DAY/TIME/temp label internals (windowCompass bindings)

• Values: GameUtils.WorldTimeToElements(world.worldTime) (day/hour/minute tuple), titles Localization.Get("xuiDay"/"xuiTime"), temperature XUiM_Player.GetOutsideTemp(player) gated by World.TemperatureSurvival.
• Display gates: EffectManager.GetValue(PassiveEffects.NoTimeDisplay, ...) == 0 and SandboxOptions.SandboxOptionManager.GetBool(SandboxOptions.ShowDayTime) (note: SandboxOptionManager lives in the SandboxOptions NAMESPACE next to an enum of the same name — fully qualify or using SandboxOptions;).
• Day turns red when World.BloodMoonWarningHour != -1 && GameStats.GetInt(EnumGameStats.BloodMoonDay) == day && warnHour <= hour.
• Temp colors: ≤32 0099FF, ≤50 00FFFF, ≥100 FF0000, ≥85 FF8000.
• To suppress just the label (e.g. to redraw it elsewhere), Harmony-postfix XUiC_CompassWindow.GetBindingValueInternal(ref string value, string bindingName) and overwrite value = "False" for showtimecompass / showtimenocompass.

Moving vanilla HUD windows at runtime

XUiView.Position (Vector2i, the XML pos) has a working runtime setter (marks the view dirty; anchor is preserved — pos is relative to it). Recipe:

1. Resolve the window: xui.GetChildById("windowQuestTracker") (searches all window groups; window ids = <window name=...>).
2. Capture view.Position as the original once per resolve, then set original + offset / restore original.
3. Re-resolve when the cached controller's ViewComponent.UiTransform == null (UI rebuilt); re-apply every frame guarded by if (view.Position != want) — XUi re-parses XML pos on rebuild, so idempotent enforcement self-heals.

Top-right HUD occupants (toolbelt group): windowLocation (pos -259,-40), windowQuestTracker / windowRecipeTracker (both -255,-88), all anchored TopRight. Bottom-right: HUDRightStatBars (anchored BottomRight at 0,0). XUi positions are in the 1080p-authored unit space; convert real screen px via xui.GetPixelRatioFactor(). See HudLayout / HudStatBarShift in Uncover.