Automatic stacking and picking

This mod gives you many settings for automatically stacking or picking up newly generated and manually deleted stackable items. By "auto stack" I mean that if an item is spawned (e.g. looted from a monster or viable item like a tree) or manually dropped on the ground by a player, it will look for other stacks on the ground to merge with. All features can be enabled individually.

You can also individually enable it so that if the player is within range, they will automatically acquire any stackable items spawned near them. You can also set whether players must have an item in their inventory for auto-pickup to occur. Used to avoid cluttering your inventory with useless stuff!

The mod can coincidentally increase FPS (or rather, performance) because it reduces the number of individual items on the map. You can toggle whether everything spawned on the ground during world generation/loading should automatically stack, which should improve FPS for everyone on the server.

Credit: This mod was inspired by the mod AntiStun for DST, but was rewritten to add more features and options. AntiStun takes a newly generated item, finds similar nearby items, and stacks these items onto the newly generated item. While automatic stacking can do this too, it gives you the option to use a newly generated item and find a nearby stack to add it to.

Setup information

Please note: Many settings are turned off by default.

--- ==General Settings== ---

Puff On Stack: Toggles whether to visualize automatic stacking by playing a smoke effect.

--- ==World Spawn Settings== ---

World Drop Auto Stack: Enable/disable automatic stacking of world dropped items.

World Gen Auto Stack: Controls whether generated/placed items should automatically stack when generating or loading a world. Turn this off to maintain the aesthetics generated by the world generation algorithm, for example a random skeleton may have more than one stack of the same item spread out around it.

World Auto Stack Range: Newly spawned items will look for the radius of the stack they are added to.

World Auto Stack In: ​​Setting this to "Existing" means adding new drops to the surrounding stack. "Latest" means that surrounding stacks are added to the latest stack.

World Auto Stack Ash: Also automatically stack newly generated Ash?

World Auto Stack Poop: Also automatically stacks newly generated poop?

World automatically stacks seeds: Also automatically stacks newly generated seeds?

--- ==Manual Drag and Drop Settings== ---

Manually remove auto-stacks: Enables/disables automatic stacking of player-dropped items.

Manual automatic stack range: Manually deleted items look for a range to be added to the stack. If you set it to a lower value (e.g., 2 to 5), you can still have separate stacks close to each other on the ground.

Manual Auto Stack Input: Setting this to "Existing" means manually deleted items will be added to the surrounding stack. Setting it to "latest" means adding the surrounding stack to the manually removed stack.

Manual and automatic stacking of ash: Also automatic stacking and manual dust removal?

Manual automatic stacking of poop: Also automatic stacking of manually dropped poop?

Manually auto-stack seeds: Also auto-stack manually dropped seeds?

--- ==Automatic pickup settings== ---

Auto-pickup items: Enable/disable auto-pickup of stackable items dropped by the world.

Autopick range: Manually placed items look for the range to be added to the stack.

Need an existing stack? : Whether the player must already have one of the items in their inventory or backpack in order for the item to be automatically extracted. Reduce inventory clutter!

Manual automatic ashes stacking: Also automatically pick up newly generated ashes?

Manually stack poop: Also automatically receive new poop?

Manually and automatically stack seeds: also automatically pick up new seeds?

Instructions for use

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