InstantMonsterLootDrop

Updated for Valheim 1.0

This is no longer just a tiny “poof the corpse” tweak. InstantMonsterLootDrop is a full loot-flow overhaul built on the bones of aedenthorn/InstantMonsterDrop: instant drops, a wider pickup radius, a body that stays long enough to see, and a stacked loot feed that shows everything you vacuumed in one glance.

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What it is now

Vanilla Valheim makes you wait on death animations, then flashes one pickup message at a time. This mod turns a kill into a clean loot beat:

• Loot hits the ground in 0.05 seconds. No standing around while a greyling finishes its collapse.
• The body stays for 60 seconds. You still see the kill. The ragdoll is not gone in a blink.
• Auto-pickup waits 1 second, then pulls from 3.5 meters. Close enough to feel greedy. Far enough that you can still read the pile.
• A stacked loot window in the bottom-right shows every item as it comes in. Same items combine (Wood x14). Lines slide in, punch, and fade. You are not stuck watching vanilla’s one-name-at-a-time ticker.

This fork started as InstantMonsterDrop. It has become the loot HUD you wish Valheim shipped with.

Loot notification window

A compact 250×120 panel, gold-trimmed, bottom-right by default. It replaces vanilla pickup messages so a greydwarf camp dump is a list, not a slideshow.

You can:

• Turn the window off and restore vanilla messages
• Pin it to any corner (bottom-right default)
• Move it with WindowX / WindowY offsets
• Change width, height, opacity, font size, and how long each line lingers (8 seconds by default)

Configuration

Run the game once to generate BepInEx/config/cjayride.InstantMonsterDrop.cfg.

If you already have an older config, delete it or edit these values so the new defaults apply:

Loot and bodies

• DropDelay = 0.05
• DestroyDelay = 60
• AutoPickupDelay = 1
• AutoPickupRange = 3.5

Notification window

• Enabled = true (false restores vanilla pickup messages)
• Anchor = BottomRight (BottomLeft, TopRight, TopLeft)
• WindowX / WindowY = 20 / 20 (pixels from the chosen corner)
• WindowWidth / WindowHeight = 250 / 120
• Opacity = 0.72
• Linger = 8
• FontSize = 15

You can still pick items up immediately with the use key.

Contact

• 𝕏: x.com/cjayride

• Discord: discord.gg/cjayride (find me at the top of the user list) "cjayride"

• Twitch: twitch.tv/cjayride

AI Generated

This code was not AI Generated, however, AI was used to verify that it works with the new version of the game.

v0.8.0

• InstantMonsterLootDrop is now a loot-flow overhaul, not only an instant corpse poof
• DropDelay default 0.05, DestroyDelay default 60, AutoPickupDelay default 1, AutoPickupRange 3.5m
• Stacked loot notification window (vanilla one-at-a-time messages disabled while it is on)
• Notification size, opacity, linger, font size, corner anchor, and on/off are all configurable

v0.7.2

• Version bump to republish on Thunderstore and Hexium (same as 0.7.1)

v0.7.1

• Hold auto-pickup for 2 seconds on instant monster loot so drops stay visible on the ground
• New config option AutoPickupDelay (set to 0 for vanilla auto-pickup)

v0.7.0

• Updated for Valheim 1.0 (Unity 6)
• Verified in-game on the live 1.0 client
• Build now references Unity assemblies from valheim_Data/Managed (unstripped_corlib / TextCoreModule are gone)
• BepInEx dependency updated to denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim-5.4.2350
• Ragdoll.SpawnLoot is still private; keep calling it via Harmony Traverse
• EffectList.Create now takes a ZDOID; pass ZDOID.None

v0.6.0

• Removed terminal reload
• Added compatibility for v0.217.46

0.5.3

• Fixed dependency issue with Assembly file

0.5.2

• No changes. Just updated depedency string denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim-5.4.2202

0.5.0

• Updated for Mistlands