TidyDrops

Ground-clutter cleanup for Valheim that is careful about what it removes.

Dropped items pile up — a cleared Seeker nest, a mining trip, a raid on your base. TidyDrops sweeps the leftovers on a timer, while leaving alone the things you actually meant to keep.

How it decides

Every item on the ground is checked in this order. The first match wins, and every one of them means keep:

Check	Kept when
Held or attached	the item is not loose on the ground
NeverDelete	its prefab name is on your list
Trophies	ItemType.Trophy — works for modded trophies too
EpicLoot rarity	at or above MinimumRarityToKeep
Player base	inside a workbench / fire area
Nearby player	a player is within PlayerSafeRadius
Age unknown	the spawn time could not be read
Too young	younger than MinItemAgeToDelete

Anything that matches none of these is removed.

Design notes

Age comes from the game. The item's real spawn time is read through Valheim's own spawntime ZDO value. If it cannot be determined, the item stays — an unknown age is never treated as "old enough to delete".

Rarity comes from EpicLoot. TidyDrops calls EpicLoot.ItemDataExtensions.HasRarity and GetRarity through a soft reference, and reads the list of rarities from EpicLoot itself, so Mythic and Ancient are handled — and any rarity added later will be too. Without EpicLoot installed, the mod simply skips that check.

Unrecognised settings fail safe. Put a typo in MinimumRarityToKeep and no magic item is deleted at all; the log tells you which values are valid.

Your config stays yours. The mod never rewrites its own settings, and never adjusts the cleanup interval behind your back.

Host only. Cleanup runs on the host. Ownership of the object is claimed before it is removed, so clients never delete objects out from under each other.

Settings

BepInEx/config/dev.demit.tidydrops.cfg, or press F1 in game.

Setting	Default	Meaning
Enabled	true	Master switch
CleanupInterval	600	Seconds between passes
MinItemAgeToDelete	1200	Minimum age before an item can be removed
MaxDeletionsPerPass	200	Safety cap; 0 disables the limit
ProtectTrophies	true	Never delete trophies
ProtectInsideBase	true	Never delete inside a player base
PlayerSafeRadius	30	Never delete near a player; 0 disables
NeverDelete	Coins,Amber,…	Prefab names to always keep
MinimumRarityToKeep	Magic	EpicLoot threshold; None disables
KeepAllMagicItems	false	Keep every magic item regardless of rarity
DryRun	false	Count and log, delete nothing
Verbose	false	Log the reason for every decision

Try it safely first

Set DryRun = true and Verbose = true, wait one pass, and read the log. You get a line per item with the reason, plus a summary:

10:39:21 оставляю TrophyDeer x1: трофей
10:39:21 оставляю SwordIron x1: редкость Legendary >= Magic
10:39:21 [DryRun] удалил бы Stone x14
10:39:21 — проход завершён за 34 мс [DryRun, ничего не удалено]:
           просмотрено 67, удалено 39, оставлено 28. Следующий примерно в 10:49:21.

Turn DryRun back off once the numbers look right.

Log messages are currently in Russian; the settings and this page are in English.

Scope

Only items in loaded zones are considered — those near you and near connected players. Items in unloaded parts of the world are untouched until someone goes there.

Note that Valheim already removes loose items after an hour on its own, when they are outside a base with no player nearby. TidyDrops gives you control over that instead of replacing it.

Multiplayer

Install on the host. Clients do not need it, since cleanup only runs host-side.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350
• EpicLoot — optional