Spell Casting Hotkey Bar

Description

Grants the ability to assign hotkeys to cast spells — no more opening the spell wheel every time you want to Windstep. Pick up to 8 spells, give each a key. Configure it through Maxxfilth's Mod Menu, or edit config.txt in the mod folder.

A hotkey does exactly what selecting the spell from the wheel does, so the game still handles unlocks, rune costs, cooldowns, animations and placement. Placed spells (Summon Shelter etc.) still show their placement ghost — click to place, or press the key again to cancel. The mod never writes to your character or world save, and it's client-side only: it works in any world, hosted or joined.

Installation instructions

1. Install UE4SS for RSDragonwilds.

2. Drop the SpellHotkeys folder into RSDragonwilds\RSDragonwilds\Binaries\Win64\ue4ss\Mods\ (the zip is already laid out this way — extract it into the game's root folder.

3. Optional: install Maxxfilth's Mod Menu for in-game settings.

How to use

1. Give a slot a key: Esc → MODS → Spell Hotkeys (with Mod Menu), or set Slot1Key = Z in config.txt and restart. Unbound keys in Dragonwilds: I L N O T U Z. Mouse 4/5, numpad and F-keys work too. Avoid F10 (UE4SS console) and F11 (fullscreen). Every accepted key name is listed in KEYS.txt inside the mod folder.

2. Bind a spell to it: open the spell wheel (Q), point at a spell and press that key. Done — it's saved. Point at an empty wheel slice and press the key to clear the slot.

3. Close the wheel and press the key to cast.

Main features

- Up to 8 spell hotkeys, bound straight from the spell wheel — no menus needed to pick a spell.

- Hotkey bar above the Health bar: spell icon, key label, cooldown countdown with a dark sweep, same clock as the wheel.

- Red X when a spell can't be cast right now (not enough runes, swimming, mounted…); grey when it's not unlocked yet; a red flash when you press a key on cooldown or mid-air.

- Settings apply live: show/hide bar, hide empty slots, key labels, cooldown seconds, bar scale, horizontal offset, height above the bottom of the screen.

- Only reads game state and drives the game's own wheel code. Never touches saves, never bypasses a check. Works without Mod Menu (config.txt).

Requirements

- UE4SS for RSDragonwilds (the "latest" package) — required.

- Mod Menu by Maxxfilth — optional, recommended. Gives you in-game key pickers and sliders; without it, edit config.txt.

- One key per slot, no modifier combos.

- If something goes wrong, ue4ss\UE4SS.log has lines tagged — please include them in bug reports.

Shout outs

- Maxxfilth — for the Mod Menu.

- patches822 — DragonwildsHUD, the reference for building a HUD from Lua in this game.

- KZekai — the UE4SS package for RSDragonwilds.