Deft Hands

Stop wrestling with the scroll wheel to turn that crate the right way up. Deft Hands lets you rotate whatever you're holding by simply moving the mouse, like you'd turn it in your actual hands.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/606b6498-2157-4809-b052-3694c6b663d3

What you get

• Rotate with the mouse. Hold Left Alt and move the mouse — the item turns whichever way you move it.
• Big items, full freedom. Crates, barrels and friends spin on any axis. Hold right mouse button while rotating to swap left/right movement between rolling and turning.
• Things feel heavy. A bundle of logs takes a moment to get going and drifts to a stop; a light tobacco crate just spins. Prefer it subtle? Pick the Light preset, or switch it off for crisp 1:1 control.
• Hang things your way. Tilt hooks, maps, shelves and other wall-attachable items with the mouse and they hang at that angle — on walls, ceilings and floors.
• Scroll to push and pull. The scroll wheel smoothly moves your held item closer or farther.
• Old-school still works. The game's original scroll rotation stays available — or turn it off if mouse rotation is all you need.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/24d5d3af-5c76-4b30-b9fd-e4f86cddca80

HooksHangMore

Got HooksHangMore? Mouse rotation swings its hooks too — smoothly, no more notch-by-notch scrolling.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a25d296d-15f6-44d5-8fb3-f6dc2bb4f8cb

Installation

With a mod manager: grab Deft Hands from Thunderstore with r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager — BepInEx comes along automatically.

By hand:

1. Install BepInEx 5.
2. Extract the release zip into Sailwind/BepInEx/plugins.
3. Set sail.

Also plays nicely with NANDTweaks — its rotate and push/pull keys keep working as usual.

Settings

Tweak everything in BepInEx/config/com.keevi.defthands.cfg, or in-game with Configuration Manager.

Changelog

1.2.1 - 2026-10-04

Fixed

• Big items pushed with the scroll wheel are no longer held back by the game's easy cargo placement in tight spots; scrolling hard now overpowers it, while gentle scrolling still lets it push the item away
• Big items pushed against a wall no longer get dragged into or through it when you look around

1.2.0 - 2026-09-30

Added

• Wall attachment rotation: tilt hooks, maps, shelves and other wall-attachable items with the mouse to hang them at any angle on walls, ceilings and floors
  • Can be turned off with the new "Wall attachment rotation" config option

Fixed

• Items attached to ceilings and floors are no longer turned to a fixed or skewed direction; they now face the way they look in your hand (vanilla bug)

1.1.0 - 2026-09-26

Added

• "Axis Inversion" config section:
  • Invert vertical — reverses which way up/down mouse movement tilts the held item
  • Invert roll — reverses which way left/right mouse movement rolls items
  • Invert turn — reverses which way left/right mouse movement turns items around the vertical axis

Changed

• Turning on the alternative axis now goes the other way by default

1.0.0 - 2026-09-25

Initial release

• Mouse rotation control
• Push/pull on scroll wheel
• Ability to disable legacy rotation control
• Weight simulation with presets