Last Swing

🪓  Last Swing

See how much is left in a tree, stump or rock — but only while you are actually swinging at it.

💾 Save-safe  ·  ⚙️ BepInEx 5  ·  🪵 Trees, stumps, rocks & ore  ·  🎨 Configurable

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🍃  Comfort, not a cheat. It shows a number the game already worked out. It does not change one — trees do not fall faster, tools do not hit harder, nothing is made cheaper.

🪓  What it does

Chopping a tree in Moonlight Peaks tells you nothing. Hit one looks and sounds exactly like hit four — the same shake, the same puff of leaves, the same thud. So the only way to know whether a rock is nearly broken is to keep swinging and find out.

The game is already tracking the damage on every tree, stump and rock. It just never shows you.

Last Swing puts it on screen, and only when you want it there.

Land a hit on something and a small bar appears above it — one notch per hit, so a glance tells you how much is left without reading a number. It runs yellow, then orange, then red as the thing gets closer to coming down. Underneath, it tells you how many more swings your current tool needs.

And the part I cared about most: it stays out of the way. The bar only appears once you have actually hit something. Not once it has ever been hit — a tree you half-chopped three days ago stays silent until you swing at it again. Point your axe at a forest and nothing happens. Look away and it fades.

✨  Main features

• []A health bar on any tree, stump or rock you are chopping or mining. One notch per hit, so you can read it at a glance instead of counting.[/]

  []It only appears once you land a hit. Aiming at something shows nothing, however damaged it already is, so the world stays clean until you commit.[/]

  []Yellow, then orange, then red as it depletes. Both thresholds are yours to set.[/]

  []"3 swings" — how many more hits your equipped tool needs, worked out from its real damage rather than raw hit points. Upgrade your axe and the count drops.[/]

  []"tool too weak" before you swing, when your tool cannot hurt the target at all. The game only tells you afterwards, once the energy is gone.[/]

  []Works on rocks and ore, not just trees. Stumps too.[/]

  []Bar-only mode: one setting turns off all the text and leaves the bar on its own.[/]

  []Fades out when you look away, with a short linger so it does not flicker while you reposition mid-chop.[/]

  []Save-safe. The mod only reads. It writes nothing to your save, patches nothing with Harmony, and can be removed at any time.[/]

📋  Requirements

• []BepInEx 5 (win_x64), version 5. 4. 23. 4 or newer — the only thing this mod needs[/]

📥  Installation

🟢 With Vortex

Open the Files tab, click the Vortex button, and enable the mod. Done.

🔧 Manually

• []Install BepInEx 5 (win_x64) into your Moonlight Peaks folder if you have not already. The BepInEx folder sits beside Moonlight Peaks.exe.[/]

  []Launch the game once, then quit, so it creates the BepInEx/plugins folder.[/]

  []Download the archive from the Files tab and extract it over your Moonlight Peaks folder. The file should end up at Moonlight Peaks/BepInEx/plugins/LastSwing/LastSwing.dll[/]

  []Launch the game.[/]

🎛️  Configuration

Settings live in BepInEx/config/com.dirtyredz.moonlightpeaks.lastswing.cfg, written on first launch. The defaults are meant to be left alone.

🪄  Prefer to set things in game? Install Mod Nook and Last Swing shows up in it on its own. The colour thresholds are the case for it — pick the yellow and the red off a palette with a live preview rather than typing hex into a file, and set bar width, thickness and opacity on sliders you cannot push out of range. Nothing here needs it; it just makes this mod easier to live with.