Construction Drone Master

It introduces a highly responsive, standalone free-fly camera mode that detaches your visual perspective into a floating drone viewport, allowing for pixel-perfect snapping and asset placement in tight spaces, high scaffolding, or complex roof lines.

Unlike legacy utilities that rewrite camera pipelines using destructive modifications, this mod is designed from the ground up to maintain complete compatibility with first-person perspective mods and client-side multiplayer networks.

Core Mechanics & Features

• []Immersive Client Viewport Insulation: Built entirely on a non-destructive postfix rendering layer. The mod allows your companion first-person mod to process eye-origins and head tilts naturally on every single frame first. It then cleanly layers your flying drone coordinates on top of that baseline, preventing perspective collisions, broken positioning matrices, or screen-shaking glitches.[/]

  []Airtight Locomotion Body Anchor: Features a rigid hardware-level transform lock that anchors your Viking's physical model securely to the ground. The exact frame the drone view untethers, character body velocity translation vectors are completely bypassed. Your avatar remains frozen like a heavy base station on the ground, entirely insulating your physical position from keyboard input bleed-through when using flight navigation keys.[/]

  []Right-Click Build Menu Intercept: Features an unmanaged interface firewall that monitors peripheral inputs natively. The exact millisecond you right-click to bring up your circular piece-selection wheel or inventory pages, the camera's looking math freezes instantly. This safely isolates your mouse tracking control to picking building assets on your screen without causing your viewpoint to wildly spin into the sky. Mouse steering dynamically resumes the moment the UI closes.[/]

  []Hard-Clamped Proximity Firewall: Includes a strict compile-level 20. 0-meter maximum radius flight envelope calculated in raw CPU registers. If the drone camera is pushed past this 20-meter threshold from your physical anchor position, the mod executes an automated safety exit pass, sounds a top-left status banner, and snaps your view back to your eyes instantly to protect your client from scene rendering exceptions.[/]

  []0ns Dormant Lifecycle Footprint: Engineered with strict code hygiene to operate with an event-driven framework. High-speed boolean gates immediately discard tracking calls when you are not actively building. The plugin remains entirely asleep inside your registers, consuming absolute zero hardware performance overhead and allocating zero memory garbage collections.[/]

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  Multiplayer & Compatibility Data Safety

  • []100% Multiplayer & Co-op Stable: Fully verified for multiplayer sessions on local co-op worlds or remote dedicated servers. All spatial calculations are executed locally on your client machine. It never modifies your character's actual root database coordinates (

    ZDO), ensuring you remain entirely hidden from server-side anti-cheat kicks or network desynchronizations.[/]

    []Zero-Drift Client Syncing: By locking down positional data pools natively, your character model sends clean target velocity packages across the lobby network. Your Viking appears perfectly rooted and still to every other player in your session without animation stutters or gravity-drift sliding.[/]

    []Vanilla Server Friendly: Operates purely as a client-side assembly. It does not require any server-side companion files, script configurations, or heavy third-party core frameworks to attach cleanly.[/]

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    Hotkeys & Operational Deployment

    • []Engagement: Equip an active construction tool (Hammer, Hoe, Cultivator, or Shovel) and press B to cleanly detach your visual perspective into drone view.[/]

      []Flight Controls: Use W, A, S, D to navigate horizontally, Spacebar to ascend, and Left Control to descend cleanly through building frames.[/]

      []Disengagement: Press B again while in mid-flight, or simply scroll away/unequip your construction tool to re-anchor your camera lens back to your first-person head coordinates instantly.[/]

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      Configuration Parameters

      A customized tracking configuration file (

      com.ninefinger.plugins.valheim.constructiondronemaster.cfg) will automatically generate inside your

      BepInEx\config\path upon your very first launch, exposing the following variable sliders:

      [*]ToggleBuildCamera(KeyboardShortcut, Default = B) — The custom hotkey trigger assigned to tether or drop your drone camera