Item Stand Rotation

Turn item stands into custom displays. Rotate and slide mounted items to create crossed weapons, mirrored blades, swords planted in the ground, or weapons embedded in a wall.

Item Stand Rotation adds a placement preview and an editor for items on Valheim's vanilla wall and floor item stands.

Features

• Rotate around three axes fixed to the stand.
• Move items along three axes, including into/out of a wall or the ground.
• Preview before committing; cancel to restore the saved placement.
• Edit mounted items without removing them.
• Read live angles and position offsets, with the selected control highlighted yellow.
• Use coarse or fine steps. Save rotation and position separately for each stand.
• Keep walking, jumping, and looking while conflicting actions are captured during editing.

Quick start

1. Look at an empty item stand and use the hotbar slot containing a supported item to start its preview. To adjust an already mounted item, look at its stand and press F8.
2. Scroll to rotate. Press T to change axis.
3. Press G to switch to Move mode, then scroll to slide the item.
4. Left-click to save, or right-click / Escape to cancel.

The item stays in your inventory until a new placement is confirmed. Keep the stand itself within reach: its interaction point does not move with the displayed item.

Controls

Action	Default
Edit mounted item	F8 while looking at the stand
Switch Rotate / Move	G
Cycle X / Y / Z	T
Adjust selected axis	Mouse wheel
Fine adjustment	Shift + wheel
Turn 90 degrees in Rotate mode	F; twice for a half-turn
Reset current mode	R: rotation in Rotate, position in Move
Save rotation and position	Left-click
Cancel and restore	Right-click or Escape

Rotation steps are 15 degrees, or 1 degree with Shift. Movement steps are 5 cm, or 1 cm with Shift. New editing sessions start in Rotate mode on X.

Walking, jumping, and looking stay available. Inventory, map, chat, combat, sprint, crouch, building, and standard mod shortcuts are captured during the preview. After saving/canceling, release held keys and mouse buttons before using other actions. Losing game focus cancels the preview.

Axes and examples

Axes follow the stand, not the camera or the current direction of the weapon.

Axis	Wall stand	Floor stand
X	Into/out of the wall	Up/down through the surface
Y	Up/down along the wall	Forward/back along the surface
Z	Sideways along the wall	Sideways along the surface

Move mode slides along these directions; Rotate mode turns around them. X rotation on a wall stand gives the familiar clock-hand motion.

Crossed or mirrored weapons: edit with F8, choose an axis with T, and try F twice for a half-turn. Return to X to adjust the diagonal against the wall.

Sword in the ground: use a floor stand, rotate the blade downward, press G, select X, and slide the blade into the terrain.

Weapon in a wall: rotate the blade toward the wall, switch to Move, and use X for depth. Use Y for height and Z for sideways placement.

R resets only the current mode. To reset everything, press R once in Rotate and once in Move, then confirm.

Installation and updates

Install Item Stand Rotation with Gale, r2modman, or Thunderstore Mod Manager. The required BepInExPack Valheim dependency is declared in the package.

For manual installation, install BepInExPack Valheim first, then copy this ZIP's BepInEx/plugins/StandTurn/StandTurn.dll into your game's matching folder.

Close Valheim before updating. Disable/remove any earlier local StandTurn or Item Stand Rotation package so only one Item Stand Rotation DLL is enabled. Earlier StandTurn rotations and positions are retained. This release preserves the plugin ID and saved-data keys used by the local builds.

Configuration

Settings are created in BepInEx/config/com.keeton.standturn.cfg on first launch. Close the game before editing the file, then restart it.

Setting	Default	Purpose
EditKey	F8	Open the mounted-item editor
MoveModeKey	G	Toggle Rotate / Move
FacingAxisKey	T	Select X / Y / Z
FacingKey	F	Quarter-turn in Rotate mode
RotationStep	15	Degrees per wheel event
FineRotationStep	1	Degrees with Shift
MoveStep	0.05	Meters per wheel event
FineMoveStep	0.01	Meters with Shift

The older FacingKey/FacingAxisKey names are retained for existing configurations. R, Shift, and mouse save/cancel controls are fixed. Advanced surface-normal settings should normally stay at their defaults. DefaultFacingAxis from older builds is ignored.

Compatibility and limitations

• Supports vanilla wall and floor item stands and items those stands already accept. Does not unlock unsupported items, modify armor stands, or add scaling.
• Editing controls require keyboard and mouse.
• Item movement is visual decoration. The stand, its interaction point, and vanilla removal/drop behavior are not relocated. Items may intentionally intersect terrain or structures.
• Avoid combining with mods that also change item-stand transforms, including Item Stand All Items, unless you have tested the combination.
• The input filter covers standard managed shortcut APIs. Mods with custom input callbacks or direct native polling may still conflict.
• Angle readouts represent the current orientation. Equivalent 3D orientations can use different X/Y/Z values; the display does not change how the item moves.

Multiplayer

Every player who should see or edit the custom placements needs the same Item Stand Rotation version. Unmodded clients show the vanilla pose. There is no version-enforcement handshake or custom server RPC.

Multiplayer synchronization and dedicated-server behavior have not been verified. This is an early public release; multiplayer support is not claimed as tested.

Removing the mod

Disable or remove Item Stand Rotation. Mounted items remain on their stands and display their vanilla placement. Stored custom adjustments are inactive without the mod. To clear a stand's adjustments first, reset both modes and save.

Troubleshooting

• No editor: check that the stand is a supported vanilla stand, within reach, and that you have access to it. Confirm only one Item Stand Rotation DLL is enabled.
• Controls remain captured: release held buttons/modifiers. Cancel the preview if it is still active.
• Unexpected direction: verify the selected axis and mode; axes follow the stand. Use right-click to cancel or R to reset the current mode.
• Missing on another player's screen: check matching mod versions on both clients.

For a bug report, include Item Stand Rotation version, Valheim version, item and stand type, other stand/input mods, steps to reproduce, and relevant Item Stand Rotation error lines from BepInEx/LogOutput.log. Omit unrelated log data and personal information.

License

MIT. Original Item Stand Rotation artwork and source are included in the separate source release. No Valheim, Unity, or BepInEx binaries are bundled.