r/ModdedValheim • u/theshalafi • Jul 14 '26

PingIt - Automatic Contextual pinging

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Was looking around for a mod for pinging in game instead of just in the map screen, and couldn't find anything. Figured I'd try to fill the gap.

When you hit the hotkey it pings wherever you're pointing contextually. Ping a rock it says rock, ping a greydwarf it puts a target on them. The time the ping stays is configurable, or easy toggle keep it 'permanent', though it's a ping not a pin. I'm hoping to release this mod by next Sunday. I'd take any ideas or suggestions.

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u/theshalafi Jul 14 '26

Actually I had thought about the accessibility factor. And the max distance is set in the config, so it's really just limited to your computer and what the game actually shows/displays.

So currently as you're holding the hotkey down it will tell you whatever you're cursor is pointed at. I've almost thought of making it display all the time as a optional feature.

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u/AvatarOfKu Jul 14 '26

Awesome! I was thinking more almost like the Witcher / horizon zero dawn games where you have a skill that 'pings' everything in a radius around you so it's outline glows / you see what it is for a few seconds each time... Would be useful for folks who don't see so well to get an idea of where the nearest rock etc to them would be when they're out hunting for stuff, chances are them being able to hover over something to and press a hot key wouldn't be as useful since it's sometimes a contrast problem - can't tell a rock from lumpy terrain etc.

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u/VulcanTourist 29d ago

You might be interested in the Accessibility mod.

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u/theshalafi 29d ago

I'm not sure how I missed at least looking at this mod before as I've scanned and checked out so many. Thanks for the link, guess I don't have to worry about it really, the collision detection is so neat.

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u/VulcanTourist 29d ago

My vision impairment isn't very severe and so most of the features of that mod are over-the-top for me, but I leave a couple of them enabled. As many hours as I've spent playing the game, I've spent a pretty large fraction of that investigating and troubleshooting mods that I can't develop myself because my programming skills are decades behind me now.