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 2.5 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, bottom-right by default, closer to vanilla: no gold bar or hairline border unless you turn ShowBorders on. Names have a dark stroke and configurable colors so they stay readable on snow, meadows, or night. The count column grows with font size and window width so x120 is not clipped.

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)
• Toggle ShowBorders, TextOutline, TextColor, AmountColor, and OutlineColor

If old ragdolls pile up, open the console (F5) and run imd_cleanup. That force-removes leftover corpses.

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 = 2.5

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
• ShowBorders = false
• TextOutline = true
• TextColor / AmountColor / OutlineColor = white / warm cream / black

If corpses never despawn, press F5 and run imd_cleanup.

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.

v0.8.2

• Loot window borders are off by default; enable ShowBorders if you want them
• Text outline plus configurable name/count/outline colors for readability
• Amount column grows with font size and window width so triple-digit stacks are not clipped
• Ragdoll cleanup retries ownership so leftover bodies are less likely to persist
• Console command imd_cleanup force-removes leftover corpses

v0.8.1

• AutoPickupRange default is now 2.5 meters

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