Smartpickup
b0n3
Gives Valheim autopickup three modes: Normal, Smart, and Off, with configurable pickup range options.
Is there a Valheim mod to auto pick up items and loot?
Valheim already picks items up automatically when you walk over them, so what these mods actually change is the radius and what gets ignored. SmartPickup adds a Smart mode that only collects items already in your inventory, AutoPickupIgnorer maintains a block list, and SuperConfigurablePickupRadius just widens the range.
Mods that do this
AutoPickupIgnorer
PipMods
Allows the player to specify which items will and won't be auto-picked-up.
SuperConfigurablePickupRadius
TastyChickenLegs
Updated for Valheim 1.0. Configure Every Aspect of Player Pickup Radius. Insanely Configurable. Now with ServerSync
The details
Naming what you actually want first saves installing the wrong thing. Vanilla auto-pickup already exists; the two real complaints about it are that the radius is small and that it sweeps up clutter you have plenty of. Those are separate problems with separate mods.
SmartPickup addresses both with modes rather than lists. Its three states are Normal, Smart, and Off, cycled through Valheim's existing auto-pickup toggle so no new keybind is needed, and it shows the current mode in game. Smart mode only picks up items you already carry, which is a neat shortcut around maintaining a filter list at all. Pickup range is configurable from 1 to 100 and can optionally apply in Normal mode too.
AutoPickupIgnorer is the explicit-list approach, for when you want stone ignored but not wood. Its config lists items commented out with a leading #; you remove the # to start ignoring an item. Its own README warns the generated list is not exhaustive as the game adds items, and points at the Jotunn item list for the correct internal names, which are not always what the item is called in game. A hotkey — the single quote by default — cycles between ignoring per the config, ignoring everything, and vanilla behaviour.
SuperConfigurablePickupRadius does one thing: it sets the radius, with a documented default of 3, and uses ServerSync so a server can push the value. That server sync exists for a reason worth knowing — its changelog notes server owners were concerned a large radius could be used to pull items from a distance. If your server enforces a value, that is why.
Keep radius honest and consider the neighbours. A wide sweep is genuinely useful after a fight or while mining, but it is also what makes base sorting infuriating, which is what the toggles in the first two mods are for. If you also want more to pick up rather than an easier time picking it up, that is DropMoreLoot's territory — it multiplies drops and adjusts weight, and carries its own pickup radius setting that would overlap with these.
New to mods? Read the install & configuration guide. Read the full install & configuration guide →
Related questions
- Does Valheim have auto pickup without mods?
- Yes. Items you walk over are collected automatically, with the exception of things you dropped yourself. Mods change the radius and add filtering rather than adding the behaviour.
- Can you stop auto pickup from grabbing stone and wood?
- Yes, two ways. AutoPickupIgnorer takes an explicit ignore list in its config file, and SmartPickup's Smart mode only collects item types you are already carrying, which sidesteps list maintenance.
- Do these need to be installed on the server?
- SmartPickup and AutoPickupIgnorer are client-side. SuperConfigurablePickupRadius uses ServerSync, so a server running it can push its radius to connected players.