Desk Swarm

Fly your desk like a drone (F11): sit, take off, move with WASD. Start a swarm and friends' desks fly in formation around you: ring, V, line, tower or trail. Everyone sees it. Only you need it to fly; everyone in a swarm needs it.

Not fully tested: not tried in the game yet.

Your desk becomes a drone. Press F11 or click the icon (a desk with rotors) to open the window.

Flying your desk. Sit at your desk (any focus activity on open ground works too, but not benches or other seat spots), then click Take off in the window, or right-click the icon. Fly with your movement keys (WASD), Space to go up and Shift to go down, and hold right mouse to look around as usual. The desk turns to face where it's going and tips a little as it flies. It stays above the ground and water, but flies through walls and trees. While you fly, Space doesn't stand you up: click Stop flying first, then Space stands you up wherever you are (in the air, you fall). You don't need anyone else to fly.

Swarms. Click Start a swarm and other players with Desk Swarm see it in their window and can click Join. Each follower's desk flies to its own spot around you and stays there wherever you walk or fly, bobbing slightly like a drone. As the leader you pick the shape:

• Ring: desks circle around you overhead
• V: a V trailing behind you, like geese
• Line: a row beside you, like Desk Snap's
• Tower: stacked on top of you
• Trail: one behind another, following your path

Spread spaces the desks out or packs them closer. Followers need to sit at their desk to fly to their spot (joining doesn't sit you down), and standing up drops them out of the formation until they sit again. Leave or End swarm stops it, and the desks stay where they are.

Everyone sees the flying, mod or not, because each player's game only ever moves their own character. Everyone in a swarm, leader included, needs the mod. Focus time counts the same as normal while you fly. When you stand up away from where you sat down, the mod tells the game you've left the areas there (so pressing F later doesn't open a bench menu from across the map).

FlyKey in the settings file sets a key for taking off (there's none by default), UpKey and DownKey change Space and Shift, FlySpeed and ClimbSpeed set how fast you fly, Tilt stops the tipping, and StartFormation picks the shape a new swarm starts with.

The icon

Like the other mods in this set, Desk Swarm puts a small pixel-art icon in a row at the bottom-right of the screen. Click it to do what the mod's key does (or to switch the mod on and off, for mods without a key), and hover over it to see its name and key. A green dot means it's on, and a greyed-out icon means it's off. The row only shows in a world, while no game menu is open, and hides while Photo Mode is on. The mods' icons and windows also hide and show with the game's eye button, in every window mode.

Settings

After the first launch, the settings are in BepInEx/config/nelphei.ontogether.deskswarm.cfg. In r2modman or Gale, open them from the config editor. Each setting has a comment explaining it. Restart the game after changing them. ShowIcon hides the mod's icon.

Mac

Install it through r2modmac. Mac keyboards use the F keys for brightness and volume, so hold Fn with the mod's key. The mods haven't been tried on a Mac yet.

More mods

Other mods in this set: Photo Mode, Emote Sync, Teleport Spots, Song Player, Trace Overlay, Focus Anywhere, Desk Snap, Chat Range, Name Designer, Outfit Slots, Quick Hide, Network Crash Fix. Source code, and notes on how they've been tested, are on GitHub.

This is an unofficial fan project, not made or supported by GigaPuff.