AreaPickup
Pick up every dropped item in a radius with one key (default Shift+E, 10 m, adjustable 5-100 m). Leaves placed food alone.
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AreaPickup
Pick up everything around you with one key press.
Press Shift + E and AreaPickup grabs every dropped item within range. Food you've set out on tables and other placed items stay where they are. Optionally, it can also harvest nearby berries, mushrooms, stones, flint and crops.
Features
- One key press picks up everything in a radius (default 10 m, adjustable 5–100 m)
- Leaves placed-down food and decorative items alone
- Optional: harvest pickables and collect their drops in the same press (off by default)
- Nearest items first, so a nearly full inventory keeps what's closest
- Works in multiplayer: items owned by other players are requested and picked up automatically
- One summary message instead of a wall of "added X" spam
- Blacklist for anything you'd rather leave on the ground
- Live fish are ignored by default
Configuration
Edit in r2modman's config editor, or BepInEx/config/dreamscapist.valheim.areapickup.cfg. Changes apply live.
| Section | Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | Range | 10 | Pickup radius in meters (5–100) |
| General | Hotkey | LeftShift + E | Key combination that triggers a pickup |
| Filters | PickupGroundItems | true | Pick up dropped items |
| Filters | HarvestPickables | false | Harvest berries, mushrooms, crops, stones, etc. |
| Filters | IncludeFish | false | Also grab fish |
| Filters | IgnorePlacedItems | true | Leave placed-down food and decor alone |
| Filters | Blacklist | (empty) | Comma-separated prefab names to skip, e.g. Pickable_Carrot,Resin |
| Messages | ShowPerItemMessages | false | Show vanilla's message for every item |
| Messages | ShowSummary | true | Show one summary after each pickup |
| Debug | LogCandidates | false | Log every item in range and why it was taken or skipped |
Notes
- Shift + E also triggers the normal "Use" action on whatever you're looking at (E is vanilla's interact key). If that gets in your way, rebind the hotkey.
- With HarvestPickables on, ripe crops in range get harvested too, including carrots and turnips you might be growing for seeds. Blacklist their Pickable_* names (e.g. Pickable_Carrot) to leave them standing.
- Client-side only; other players don't need it installed.
Requirements
- BepInExPack Valheim
- Jötunn
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: