Runic Build Camera 1.0.9

Move your view around a project while your Viking stays put. Place, repair, and remove building pieces from the angle you need, using Valheim's familiar building controls.

Features

• Detached building camera with adjustable movement speed and range.
• Remote placement, repair, and removal using normal building requirements and costs.
• Optional pickup of loose materials near the camera, including underwater drops.
• Player ward protection for camera pickups.
• Optional Wisplight mist clearing that follows the camera.
• Mouse and controller support with separate look-inversion settings.

Controls

Equip a hammer or another building tool and press B to toggle the camera. Close the piece-selection menu to move freely.

• Movement and look: your normal Valheim inputs.
• Up and down: jump and crouch.
• Faster movement: hold run.
• Exit: press B, put away your hammer, or select a hotbar item.

Your character stays in place and remains vulnerable to damage while you use the camera.

Picking up items

Enable your character's auto-pickup toggle and leave PickupEnabled on. Eligible loose items are collected within PickupRange of the camera. Distance includes depth; move the camera closer to submerged items if needed.

Inventory space, carry weight, item eligibility, and other mods' normal pickup restrictions still apply. Fish are excluded, including anglerfish and pufferfish. The camera does not collect from chests or other containers, pick up placed objects, or free items trapped in tar.

Player wards: enabled player-built wards block camera pickup unless you own the ward or have permission. Every overlapping player ward must allow access. Disabled wards do not block pickup.

Game-created wards: do not block camera pickup. Building actions continue to follow their normal ward restrictions.

Wisplight

When you have an active Wisplight, its mist-clearing effect can follow the detached camera. Adjust DemisterRangeMultiplier to change its range. The effect returns to your character when the camera closes.

Installation

Install with a Thunderstore-compatible mod manager, or install BepInExPack for Valheim and copy RunicBuildCamera.dll and the Translations folder into BepInEx/plugins/RunicBuildCamera.

Close Valheim before updating. Replace the previous version instead of keeping duplicate copies. Launch once to generate BepInEx/config/chazman.RunicBuildCamera.cfg.

Client-only: each player who wants the camera installs it locally. The dedicated server does not need this mod. Runic Build Camera is standalone and requires only BepInEx; no other Runic mods are required.

Compatibility

Do not use Runic Build Camera alongside Build Camera Custom Hammers Edition. Disable or remove that mod first. Runic Precision Build Tool can be used alongside this mod.

Configuration

Edit BepInEx/config/chazman.RunicBuildCamera.cfg while the game is closed.

Section	Setting	Default	Accepted range or meaning
General	Enabled	true	Master client-side switch
Controls	ToggleShortcut	B	BepInEx keyboard shortcut
Camera	CameraRange	60	1 to 100 metres
Camera	MoveSpeed	10	0.5 to 50 metres per second
Camera	FastMoveMultiplier	3	1 to 10
Camera	WorldRelativeMovement	false	false uses camera-relative movement
Remote Actions	RemoteActionDistance	100	1 to 100 metres from avatar to target; camera ray is 50 metres
Pickup	PickupEnabled	true	Enable loose-world-item pickup checks; containers are excluded
Pickup	PickupRange	10	1 to 50 metres around the camera
Pickup	PickupIntervalSeconds	0.25	0.05 to 2 seconds
Mist	DemisterFollowCamera	true	Move the player's active Wisplight effect with the camera
Mist	DemisterRangeMultiplier	2	0.25 to 5
Controls	InvertMouseHorizontal	false	Mouse horizontal look
Controls	InvertMouseVertical	false	Mouse vertical look
Controls	InvertControllerHorizontal	false	Controller horizontal look
Controls	InvertControllerVertical	false	Controller vertical look

Languages

The mod follows Valheim's selected language, with English fallback. Keep the included Translations folder beside the mod DLL when installing manually.

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