Deft Hands

Stop wrestling with the scroll wheel to turn that crate the right way up. Deft Hands lets you rotate whatever you're holding by simply moving the mouse, like you'd turn it in your actual hands.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/606b6498-2157-4809-b052-3694c6b663d3

What you get

• Rotate with the mouse. Hold Left Alt and move the mouse — the item turns whichever way you move it.
• Big items, full freedom. Crates, barrels and friends spin on any axis. Hold right mouse button while rotating to swap left/right movement between rolling and turning.
• Things feel heavy. A bundle of logs takes a moment to get going and drifts to a stop; a light tobacco crate just spins. Prefer it subtle? Pick the Light preset, or switch it off for crisp 1:1 control.
• Hang things your way. Tilt hooks, maps, shelves and other wall-attachable items with the mouse and they hang at that angle — on walls, ceilings and floors.
• Scroll to push and pull. The scroll wheel smoothly moves your held item closer or farther.
• Old-school still works. The game's original scroll rotation stays available — or turn it off if mouse rotation is all you need.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/24d5d3af-5c76-4b30-b9fd-e4f86cddca80

HooksHangMore

Got HooksHangMore? Mouse rotation swings its hooks too — smoothly, no more notch-by-notch scrolling.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a25d296d-15f6-44d5-8fb3-f6dc2bb4f8cb

Installation

With a mod manager: grab Deft Hands from Thunderstore with r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager — BepInEx comes along automatically.

By hand:

1. Install BepInEx 5.
2. Extract the release zip into Sailwind/BepInEx/plugins.
3. Set sail.

Also plays nicely with NANDTweaks — its rotate and push/pull keys keep working as usual.

Settings

Tweak everything in BepInEx/config/com.keevi.defthands.cfg, or in-game with Configuration Manager.

Setting	Default	What it does
Mouse rotation control	On	Rotate held items by moving the mouse.
Rotation activation key	Left Alt	Hold it to rotate.
Rotation sensitivity	2	How fast items turn (0.5–10).
Alternative rotation axis	Off	Left/right turns big items around the vertical axis instead of rolling them.
Axis swap key	Right mouse button	Hold while rotating to flip the axis above.
Wall attachment rotation	On	Roll hooks, shelves and other wall-attachable items to hang them at an angle.
Invert vertical	Off	Reverses which way up/down movement tilts the item.
Invert roll	Off	Reverses left/right rolling of big and wall-attachable items.
Invert turn	Off	Reverses left/right turning of big items on the alternative axis.
Push/pull on scroll wheel	On	Scroll moves the held item closer or farther.
Legacy rotation control	On	Keeps the game's original scroll rotation around.
Rotation inertia	On	Heavy items take a moment to spin up and drift to a stop.
Weight preset	Standard	How heavy things feel: Standard or the subtler Light.