Immersive Build Camera

Immersive Build Camera is a client-side Valheim mod that improves building visibility without turning build mode into a free camera.

It adds a toggleable immersive build camera for players who want to build in survival while keeping the experience grounded. Instead of flying around with a detached camera, the view stays tied to the player and gives you better control in tight corners, roofs, interiors, beams, and awkward placement angles.

Features

• Toggleable immersive build camera
• Left and right shoulder peek
• Camera collision handling to reduce clipping into nearby objects
• Toggleable precision movement for slower placement adjustments
• Configurable keybinds
• Configurable FOV, near clip, shoulder offset, shoulder distance, and movement speed
• Client-side only
• Does not extend placement range
• Does not bypass workbench requirements
• Does not add freecam or remote building

Default Controls

Config

After launching once, the config file is generated here:

BepInEx/config/com.geronimo.valheim.immersivebuildcamera.cfg

Changelog

v1.1.1

• Uploaded the proper file.

v1.1.0

This update improves camera control, shoulder peek usability, and general polish while keeping the mod focused on immersive building. No freecam, no creative-mode tools, no placement cheats.

Added

• Smooth camera movement while immersive build camera is active.
• Dedicated camera distance controls:
  • PageUp moves the camera closer.
  • PageDown moves the camera farther.
• Hold-to-adjust camera distance behavior.
  • Holding PageUp or PageDown now continuously adjusts the camera distance.
  • No more repeated tapping.
• New camera distance config options:
  • CameraDistanceCloserKey
  • CameraDistanceFartherKey
  • DefaultBuildCameraDistance
  • MinBuildCameraDistance
  • MaxBuildCameraDistance
  • ScrollDistanceStep
  • RememberScrollDistance
• New camera smoothing config:
  • CameraTransitionSpeed
• Debug logging option:
  • EnableDebugLogs

Changed

• Shoulder peek defaults are stronger and more useful:
  • ShoulderOffsetX increased to 0.90
  • ShoulderDistance increased to 0.55
• Camera distance adjustment is now handled through dedicated keybinds instead of mouse wheel input.

Fixed

• Fixed camera distance adjustment conflicting with Valheim's build-piece rotation.
• Mouse wheel is now left alone for Valheim's normal building controls.
• Fixed camera distance controls requiring repeated taps by allowing held input.

v0.2.3

Added

• Added local player renderer hiding while immersive build camera is active.
• Added HideLocalPlayerWhenImmersive config option.
• Added ToggleShoulderPeek config option.
• Shoulder peek can now be used as either hold-to-peek or toggle-to-peek.

Changed

• The local player character is hidden only while immersive build camera is active and shoulder peek is not active.
• The local player character is restored while shoulder peeking so players can keep spatial awareness.

Fixed

• Reduced cases where the player's head or body blocks the immersive build camera view.

0.2.2

Initial public release.

• Added toggleable immersive build camera
• Added configurable build camera keybind
• Added left and right shoulder peek
• Added configurable shoulder peek offsets
• Added collision handling for shoulder peek
• Added toggleable precision movement
• Added configurable precision movement multiplier
• Added BepInEx config support
• Uses com.geronimo.valheim.immersivebuildcamera as plugin GUID