Handy Tweaks is a Vintage Story mod by Interzoneism. Handy Tweaks adds practical pickup controls, faster collection, easier right-click gathering, farther item throws, and an optional offhand hunger rule.
Why this mod is worth installing
Useful for players who want less inventory clutter and fewer pauses while gathering blocks and loose items in Vintage Story. It is especially handy when mining, harvesting cattails, or clearing unwanted drops.
What Handy Tweaks adds
Discard Mode lets you blacklist item types through a hotkey. Drop an unwanted item once, and matching fresh drops stop being collected automatically; sneaking temporarily bypasses the filter, while toggling the mode off clears the marked items.
The mod speeds up collection of drops created by broken blocks, including cattails, logs, grass, stones, and sticks. The pickup radius for fresh drops is slightly larger, and the delay can be adjusted, without changing how player- or player-dropped items behave.
Right-click pickup becomes more forgiving for loose rocks, sticks, flint, and other supported blocks, even when the active slot contains something else. Dropped items can also be thrown farther to prevent immediately grabbing them again.
All tweaks can be enabled or disabled individually. An optional offhand hunger system removes the constant penalty for merely holding an item there, then applies a configurable temporary increase after sprinting or performing actions.
Where to download Handy Tweaks
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.