💀 InstantMonsterLootDrop

Updated for Valheim 1.0

Turn every kill into a satisfying loot experience! ⚔️

Based on the original InstantMonsterDrop by aedenthorn, this fork transforms Valheim's monster loot system with instant drops, improved auto-pickup, longer-lasting corpses, and a custom stacked loot notification window.

🔗 Links: Thunderstore · GitHub

✨ Features

⚔️ Instant Loot Drops

No more waiting for death animations to finish before collecting your rewards.

• ⚡ Drop Delay: Loot drops after just 0.05 seconds.
• 💀 Persistent Corpses: Bodies remain visible for 60 seconds, so you can still see your kills.
• 🧲 Improved Auto-Pickup: Automatically collects nearby loot after a 1-second delay, within a 2.5-meter radius.
• 📦 Stacked Loot Notifications: See everything you've collected in one compact window instead of watching vanilla's one-item-at-a-time messages.
• 🔢 Item Stacking: Identical items combine into a single line, such as Wood x14.
• 🎯 Animated Notifications: Loot entries slide in, pop, and fade away.

🖥️ Custom Loot Notification Window

A compact 250 × 120 loot panel, positioned in the bottom-right corner by default.

Designed to stay readable without unnecessary visual clutter, the window uses configurable text colors and outlines, with borders disabled by default.

Customize the display to suit your HUD:

• 📍 Corner Placement: Choose BottomRight, BottomLeft, TopRight, or TopLeft.
• ↔️ Position: Adjust WindowX and WindowY offsets.
• 📐 Window Size: Customize width and height.
• 🌫️ Opacity: Adjust panel transparency.
• 🔠 Font Size: Change text size and accommodate larger item counts.
• ⏳ Notification Duration: Control how long each entry remains visible.
• 🖼️ Borders: Toggle the panel border on or off.
• 🎨 Text Styling: Customize item names, quantities, and outline colors.
• 🔔 Vanilla Messages: Disable the custom window to restore vanilla pickup notifications.

⚙️ Configuration

Launch the game once to generate the configuration file:

BepInEx/config/cjayride.InstantMonsterDrop.cfg

⚔️ Loot & Corpse Settings

🖥️ Notification Window Settings

💡 Updating from an older version? If the new defaults aren't applied, delete your existing configuration file or update the values manually.

🧹 Corpse Cleanup

If old monster corpses accumulate or fail to despawn, open the in-game console with F5 and run: imd_cleanup

This command force-removes leftover corpses.

🎮 Gameplay Notes

• You can still pick up items immediately using the Use key.
• Auto-pickup handles nearby loot after the configured delay.
• Disable the custom notification window whenever you prefer vanilla pickup messages.

📬 Contact

• 𝕏: x.com/cjayride
• Discord: discord.gg/cjayride — Find cjayride near the top of the user list.
• Twitch: twitch.tv/cjayride

🤖 AI Disclosure

The code was not AI-generated. AI was used to help verify compatibility with the updated version of Valheim.

v0.8.5

• Optional DisableCorpseDespawnSound and DisableCorpseDespawnParticles (both default false; vanilla despawn VFX/SFX stay on unless you turn these on)

v0.8.4

• Rechecked against Valheim 1.0.21 (Steam build 26249040); Ragdoll.SpawnLoot, DestroyNow, Player.AutoPickup, and EffectList.Create still match
• Pickup range is applied on spawn and config change instead of every physics tick
• Loot window disables itself when idle so IMGUI OnGUI is not running every frame
• Cached SpawnLoot / ragdoll field lookups; skip config rewrite on plugin load
• Dedicated / batch-mode servers skip the loot HUD component

v0.8.3

• Verified against Valheim 1.0.21 (Release build, Steam build 26249040).
• BepInEx dependency set to denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim-5.4.2360.

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