Star Pointer

Super Mario Galaxy's Co-op experience brought to Risk of Rain. Only playable in Multiplayer.

Watch a teammate with a free star cursor and help by holding enemies, shooting Star Bits, activating shrines and healing allies.

Controls

Control	Action
Mouse	Move the Star Pointer
WASD	Move the camera
Scroll up / down	Zoom in / out
Primary (left mouse by default)	Hold an enemy in place or activate an interactable
Secondary (right mouse by default)	Shoot Star Bits
Utility (Shift by default)	Toggle following your teammate's camera
Special (R by default)	Switch to the next teammate
Hover over Star Bits	Collect them for money
Shake the cursor over an ally	Heal them while you keep shaking

Skill controls follow your RoR2 bindings. Mouse and keyboard are required.

Star Bits

Enemies killed by anyone drop colorful Star Bits. Hover over them to collect $1 each before they disappear after 30 seconds.

Shooting costs $1 for a burst of two Star Bits that gently home toward enemies. When you're out of money, you fire single gray Star Bits for quarter damage. Shots use the watched teammate's stats and on-hit item effects. Fired Star Bits cannot be collected.

Helping your team

Hold Primary over an enemy to root it, or use it to activate chests, shrines and other interactables you can afford, including Shrines of the Mountain and Newt Altars. Interactions that cost health, items or equipment are unavailable.

Shake the cursor back and forth over an ally for half a second to begin healing 1% of their maximum HP per second. Keep shaking to continue; brief slips off the ally are forgiven. Healing has a visual and sound effect.

Star Pointer has no HP and cannot collect items. It does not count toward teleporter charging and dies when all normal player teammates are dead. Other Star Pointers cannot keep the run alive.

The camera can move through terrain, with localized transparency to help you see your teammate and enemies while clipped inside it. Walls still block shots and interactions.

Skins

• Player 2: orange, default.
• Player 1: blue, alternate in Appearance.

Installation

Install through a Thunderstore-compatible mod manager. All players and the host/server need the same version and dependencies. Select Star Pointer in character selection.

For manual installation, install the dependencies listed in manifest.json and copy plugins/StarPointer into BepInEx/plugins. The package includes PassivePlayers.dll; install only one copy.

Settings appear in BepInEx/config/local.starpointer.survivor.cfg after first launch.

Known limitations

This is an early release; multiplayer and terrain rendering still need broader in-game testing. Some bosses can ignore roots, and unusual modded interactables may not work.

For mod developers

The included Passive Players API lets other spectator-style survivors share the team-wipe behavior. See PASSIVE_PLAYER_API.md for details.