WidePickaxe
Dig with a wide pickaxe: adjustable radius and depth, square or circle, flat floor, ground preview, whole rocks in one hit, and undo.Wide Pickaxe
Dig large areas with one swing. You set the radius and depth, pick a square or a circle, and see exactly where you'll dig before you hit.
Also on Nexus Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/4736
Features
- Adjustable radius: from 1 to 12 m by default, 3 m to start.
- Adjustable depth per hit. By default each hit digs as deep as the vanilla pickaxe.
- Square or circle shape.
- Flat floor: the whole area is dug to the same depth. You can turn this off for vanilla-style fading edges.
- Ground preview: green means within reach, red means too far or protected. The hole is centred on the crosshair.
- HUD: shows width, depth and shape next to the crosshair while you hold a pickaxe.
- Mines rocks too: boulders, ore veins and scrap piles inside the area drop their usual loot. Ore your pickaxe is too weak for is left alone.
- Whole rocks in one hit: hit a boulder, vein or scrap pile directly and all of it comes down at once.
- Fair drops: stone and other drops scale with the dug area and depth, up to one full stack.
- Undo (Alt+Z): restores the terrain and the rocks, and takes back the items the dig gave you, from the ground or from your inventory. It keeps the last 30 digs.
- Toggle (Backspace): switch between wide digging and the vanilla pickaxe.
- English and Russian text.
Controls (while holding a pickaxe)
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Radius larger / smaller | Up / Down arrow |
| Depth larger / smaller | PageUp / PageDown |
| Square / circle | Left / Right arrow |
| Wide dig on / off | Backspace |
| Undo last dig | Alt + Z |
Configuration
The config file is BepInEx/config/com.valheimtools.pickaxeradius.cfg.
| Section | Option | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | Enabled | true | Turn wide digging on at start |
| Dig | Radius / MinRadius / MaxRadius / RadiusStep | 3 / 1 / 12 / 0.5 | Radius in metres |
| Dig | Depth / MinDepth / MaxDepth / DepthStep | 0 / 0.1 / 4 / 0.25 | Depth per hit in metres (0 = vanilla) |
| Dig | SquareShape | false | Start with the square shape |
| Dig | FlatBottom | true | Same depth across the whole area |
| Dig | SmoothEdges | false | Also run vanilla smoothing over the area |
| Dig | DigAtCrosshair | true | Centre the hole on the preview |
| Dig | ScaleDropsWithArea | true | Scale drops by the dug volume |
| Dig | MineObjects | true | Mine rocks, veins and scrap inside the area |
| Dig | WholeRocks | true | Mine a whole rock if the area touches it |
| Dig | WholeRockOnHit | true | One hit on a rock mines all of it |
| UI | ShowHud | true | Show the HUD next to the crosshair |
| UI | ShowPreview | true | Show the dig area on the ground |
| Keys | ToggleKey / UndoKey / UndoHistory | Backspace / Alt+Z / 30 | Keys and undo depth |
Installation
With a mod manager (r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager): click Install. BepInEx is installed automatically.
Manual: install BepInExPack Valheim, then copy WidePickaxe.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/.
Changelog
- 1.0.0: First release on Thunderstore.