ThreeChoiceChests

By Riiin.

Make every chest a choice. Instead of dropping one random reward, supported chests let you pick one of three items.

The item the game originally rolled is always included among the choices. The other options come from the appropriate reward pool, so the chest's normal item tier and category rules still apply.

What it changes

Supported containers:

• Small Chest
• Invisible Chest
• Large Chest
• Legendary Chest
• Damage / Healing / Utility Chests
• Large Damage / Healing / Utility Chests
• Equipment Barrel

Hover to see what you're choosing

Move your cursor over any candidate to see its name and a short description. The tooltip uses the game's familiar inventory-card appearance and item-tier colors.

When playing in Simplified Chinese (zh-CN), ThreeChoiceChests provides 217 custom short descriptions for supported vanilla items and equipment, including clearer effect summaries and colored mechanic highlights.

Item names follow your current game localization. Other languages, modded items, and entries without a custom description use the game's available localized text instead. The descriptions are private to the ThreeChoice picker; they do not overwrite the Logbook or global item text.

The mod works independently of Riiin Chinese Retranslation. You can use either mod on its own or install both.

Multiplayer: the reward goes to the opener

When you open a supported chest, its reward is assigned to you. After you choose, the item goes directly into your inventory rather than dropping on the ground for another player to grab.

Multiple pending rewards are handled by a single shared queue. Players take their turns choosing; simultaneous per-player choice windows are not supported yet. Each reward stays assigned to the person who opened its chest.

Sale Star support

If a supported chest produces more than one reward, including Sale Star bonuses, each actual reward gets its own three-choice selection. Each selection uses the tier and category of that specific reward.

For example, a Legendary Chest with a Sale Star bonus can give two separate red-item choices. The base game still handles Sale Star activation, consumption, and reward rolls.

Keep moving after opening a chest

Once you've successfully opened a chest, you can move away without the ThreeChoice selection panel closing because of distance. This only affects this mod's own picker; ordinary chest interaction distance and the Artifact of Command are unchanged.

Scoreboard and pause support

• You can open the scoreboard / inventory while a choice is pending. The choice panel temporarily hides and returns with the same candidates, without rerolling or losing the reward.
• Escape / pause-menu interruptions can be recovered without consuming the pending choice.
• ThreeChoiceChests is compatible with UniversalPause. Without it, the mod retains its built-in single-player choice-pause fallback.

Intentionally unchanged

These containers retain their vanilla behavior:

• Lunar Pods
• Void Cradles
• Free Chests
• Command Chests
• Adaptive Chests

Installation

Install through r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager.

For manual installation, put ThreeChoiceChests.dll inside a folder under BepInEx/plugins/, with the dependencies installed.

Dependencies

• BepInExPack
• HookGenPatcher
• R2API.Prefab

What's new in 1.3.1

• Added working hover tooltips to the three-choice candidate icons.
• Candidate tooltips show localized item names and short effect descriptions, with item-tier card colors matching the game's inventory tooltips.
• Improved tooltip behavior when switching between candidates or reopening the choice panel.
• Preserved the existing Sale Star support, multiplayer reward ownership, shared choice queue, and distance fix from 1.3.0.

This standalone mod does not include the separate AD/AP gameplay overhaul.