Capes Precision Drop

Capes Precision Drop

Stop tossing things. Place items from your inventory exactly where you want them.

Drop seeds right next to your chickens, berries in front of a boar you're taming, or food inside a lox pen, without it bouncing off somewhere else. Place mode gives you a build-style preview of the item, and your normal build controls to aim, rotate, and place it.

Features

• Build-style placement: a preview of the item and the build marker follow your crosshair, with the same aiming and range as the hammer.
• Your own controls: place, rotate, and cancel use your build controls, including any changes you've made in Valheim's Controls menu.
• Toggle, not hold: turn place mode on once and place as many items as you like, then turn it off.
• Controller support: set your controller button or combination just by pressing it.
• Clear status: an on-screen label shows whether place mode is ON or OFF (and reminds you if no key is set yet). You can move it, resize it, or turn it off.
• Vanilla by default: with place mode off, dropping works exactly like the base game.
• Client-side: only you need it installed. It works on servers and with friends who don't have it.

Recommended: a config menu mod

To set your key or controller button in game, you need a mod that adds a settings menu (usually opened with F1). This mod doesn't require one, so use whichever you already have, for example:

• Official BepInEx ConfigurationManager
• Mod Configs, or any other BepInEx configuration manager

No config menu? You can still set everything by editing BepInEx/config/th3cap3.valheim.capesprecisiondrop.cfg in a text editor (see below).

Setup

Nothing is bound by default, so pick a key or button after installing. Until you do, the indicator shows an orange "set a place key" reminder whenever your inventory is open.

Keyboard: press F1 in game, find Capes Precision Drop, and set PlaceKey.

Controller: press F1, tick RecordPlaceButton, then press and hold your button or combination on the controller and let go. It saves automatically. Esc or waiting 10 seconds cancels. A combination, like holding a bumper and pressing another button, avoids clashing with the buttons' normal actions.

Without a config menu: open BepInEx/config/th3cap3.valheim.capesprecisiondrop.cfg (in r2modman: Settings > Browse profile folder) and set, for example, PlaceKey = LeftAlt or PlaceButton = JoyLBumper + JoyButtonY. The file appears after you launch the game once with the mod installed.

How to use

• Open your inventory. The indicator shows "Precision Drop: OFF". Press your place key or button and it switches to "Precision Drop: ON".
• Drop an item the normal way: drag it outside the inventory, or use your controller's drop button.
• The inventory closes and a preview of the item follows your crosshair.
• Use your build controls:

| Action | Keyboard and mouse (default) | Controller |

|---|---|---|

| Place | Left click, or your place key | Your build "place" button, or your place button |

| Rotate | Mouse wheel | Your build rotate controls |

| Cancel | Middle click (build "remove"), or Esc | Your build "remove" button |

Place mode stays on until you press the key again with the inventory open, so you can place several items in a row.

Settings

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---|---|---|

| Keyboard > PlaceKey | none | Toggles place mode (with the inventory open) |

| Controller > PlaceButton | none | Controller button or combination, e.g. JoyLBumper + JoyButtonY |

| Controller > RecordPlaceButton | off | Tick it to set PlaceButton by pressing it |

| General > ShowIndicator | on | Shows the on-screen label: ON (always), OFF and key reminders (while the inventory is open) |

| General > IndicatorX / IndicatorY | 0.5 / 0.07 | Label position: 0 is left/top, 1 is right/bottom |

| General > IndicatorSize | 20 | Label text size |

Good to know

• Placed items are still normal dropped items. They can tip over or roll on slopes, and animals eat them as usual.
• Only items from