Extra Snap Points Made Easy
Quality of life building mod that adds snap points to most vanilla pieces and allows you to manually select snap points for the piece you are placing and the piece you are snapping to. Also has a snap
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ExtraSnapPointsMadeEasy
This is a quality of life building mod for Valheim.
Version 2.0.0 Notice
If you are updating from any version before 2.0.0 you may need to regenerate your config file!
Features
- Allows for manual selection of snap points on only the piece being placed.
- Disables the vanilla manual snapping by default (you can re-enable it) as this mod already added manual snapping.
- Allows for manual selection of snap points for both the piece you are placing and the piece you are snapping to.
- Allows snapping pieces to the world grid.
- Shows key hints for all of the snapping functionality and key binds added by the mod.
- Provides notifications of which snapping mode is active and the snap points selected. The location of these notifications can be set in the mod configuration.
- Automatically determines the type of each build piece and adds extra snap points accordingly.
- Dynamically updates from configuration setting changes while in-game.
- Extra snap points can be enabled/disabled:
- For all pieces,
- On a piece-by-piece basis,
- Or by piece type.
- Built in config-file watcher.
- Works with other mods that add build pieces.
Snapping Modes
This mod adds two different modes of manual snapping to provide greater precision when placing pieces.
Manual Snapping
Press a key to toggle Manual Snapping Mode, which allows you to cycle through the snap points of the piece you are placing while snapping to the closest snap-point on the piece being targeted with your mouse.
Manual+ Snapping
Press a key to toggle Manual+ Snapping Mode, which allows you to cycle through snap points when targeting a piece in game - without needing to point at them directly with the mouse!
Grid Snapping
Press a key to toggle Grid Snapping Mode, which snaps pieces to the world grid. Pieces are only snapped to the world grid on the horizontal plane to avoid snapping pieces to thin air. Precision of the grid can be toggled between 1m and 0.5m.
Key Bind Configuration
The key-binds for manual snapping are configurable via editing of the configuration file at Valheim/BepInEx/config/searica.valheim.extrasnappointsmadeeasy.cfg or via an in-game configuration manager (live updates, no restart required).
The default key-bindings are:
- Toggle Manual Snapping Mode: Caps-Lock
- Toggle Manual+ Snapping Mode: Left-Alt
- Cycle Snap Points on the piece you are placing: Q
- Cycle Snap Points on the piece you are snapping to: E
- Toggle Grid Snapping Mode: F3
- Cycle Grid precision: F4
Usage
Grab a hammer and select a piece to place. Hit Left-Alt to enable Manual Snapping Mode, a notification will then appear in the center of your screen indicating whether the snapping mode is set to Auto or Manual. Point your piece at the piece you want to snap to and hit Left-Control to cycle through the snap points on the piece you're holding. Use Left-Shift to cycle through destination snap points. For example you can snap a horizontal pillar to the middle of the vertical pillar by cycling both to their midpoint snap points. While cycling through snap points you will also receive notifications indicating which snap point is currently selected on each piece. Alternatively press Caps-Lock to enable Manual (Closest) snapping mode which will snap to the closest snap point on the target piece while still allowing you to manually select the snap point of the piece you are placing.
Extra Snap Points
This mod adds extra snap points to increase precision when building. The type of each piece is automatically determined and extra snap points are added based on the type (also works with pieces added by other mods).
Custom Snap Points: Many of the crafting and furniture items that were missing snap points have had custom ones added. For example chests, torches, sconces, and banners all have snap points added. The custom snap have been chosen to minimize clipping when snapping banners and sconces to walls of any material.
Line Pieces: If the piece has two snap points then an extr
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: