NoAutoPickup

Client-side Valheim mod. Turns auto-pickup off near player-built campfires and hearths, tamed animals, and Item Drawers so tossed items stay on the ground (drawers can vacuum them, tames can eat). Walking out of range restores auto-pickup to whatever it was before. World-generated fires (Ashlands ruins, enemy camps) are ignored.

The vanilla AutoPickup hotkey (default V, or the controller JoyAutoPickup combo) can turn it back on while you are still in a zone. When the mod changes the flag, it shows the same AutoPickup: On / AutoPickup: Off HUD message as the game.

Why

In co-op, people dump loot for Item Drawers to swallow. With auto-pickup on, the nearest player becomes the vacuum instead. Same problem when you toss food for a tame and walk back.

Range

Uses the largest of:

• Valheim default auto-pickup range (2)
• Live Player.m_autoPickupRange (BiggerPickupRadius and similar)
• Item Drawers DrawerPickupRange from kg.ItemDrawers.cfg

On the current pack that is typically 20 m because drawers are set to 20.

Install

Client only. Requires BepInExPack Valheim. Does nothing useful on a dedicated server.

Install with a Thunderstore mod manager, or drop NoAutoPickup.dll into BepInEx/plugins (a subfolder is fine).

Config

Generated at BepInEx/config/Ageous.NoAutoPickup.cfg after first launch.

Fires.Only Player Built (default on) ignores world-placed fire_pit / hearth objects so Ashlands ruin fires do not suppress auto-pickup.

Changelog

0.1.3

• Fire exclusion only counts player-built campfires and hearths (Piece.IsPlacedByPlayer()). World fires in Ashlands ruins and enemy camps no longer turn auto-pickup off. Config: Fires.Only Player Built (default on).

0.1.2

• Auto-pickup is only forced off when you enter a fire / tame / drawer zone. The default game bind (V, or whatever AutoPickup is mapped to) can turn it back on while you stay there.
• When the mod itself flips the flag, it shows the vanilla AutoPickup: On / AutoPickup: Off HUD message ($hud_autopickup:).

0.1.1

• Access Player.m_enableAutoPickup through Harmony FieldRef so Unity no longer throws FieldAccessException every AutoPickup tick.
• Skip vanilla Player.AutoPickup while you are inside an exclusion zone. Manual E pickup is unchanged.

0.1.0

• Initial client auto-pickup guard for Valheim 1.0.
• Turns auto-pickup off near campfires, hearths, tamed animals, and kg Item Drawers, then restores the previous setting when you walk away.
• Exclusion range is the largest of vanilla 2 m, live Player.m_autoPickupRange, and Item Drawers DrawerPickupRange.