Immersive Looting B42: Search & Reveal

Preface

This mod is inspired by Immersive Looting: Search Mode and the gradual search-and-reveal looting experience in Escape from Tarkov. Based on that idea, I rebuilt it for Build 42 and added my own design ideas and features.

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Introduction

Turns "opening a container and instantly seeing everything inside" into a looting process that actually takes time to confirm.

When opening a container, the items inside will not be revealed immediately. Instead, they will first appear as unknown items. The player must search gradually to identify the contents of each item stack.

This gives looting a bit more process, pacing, and tension; and before a container has been fully searched, Transfer All cannot be used directly.

Searching creates a small amount of noise and may attract zombies. Holding Shift during searching allows fast searching, but it creates louder noise and may also cause sudden mishaps.

If the darkness search penalty is enabled in Sandbox Settings, dim or dark environments will slow searching down, while player light sources can reduce this penalty. Darkness can also make fast-search mishaps more likely.

Search time is affected by item value and rarity. More valuable or harder-to-identify items may take longer to reveal. The Foraging skill also affects looting speed. At high Foraging levels, low-value items may even be revealed instantly. Searching can grant a very small amount of Foraging XP.

The Foraging skill does not affect item generation inside containers. Item generation still follows the vanilla logic completely; this mod only adds an unknown overlay and search process on top of existing items.

Most of the settings above can be enabled, disabled, or adjusted individually in Sandbox Settings.

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Features

• Gradual item reveal (default key Z, configurable in key bindings)
• Fast search (default key Shift, configurable in key bindings)
• Optional darkness-based search slowdown and fast-search mishap multipliers
• Basic controller support (Interact to search, Run binding for fast search)
• Search time affected by item value and rarity
• Noise risk (normal, fast, mishap)
• Further noise reduction based on the Dextrous trait and/or Sneaking skill
• Foraging XP
• Right-click search nearby containers (optional)
• Exclude safehouse containers
• Language support: EN / CH / CN / DE / ES / ES_MX / FR / JP / KO / RU

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Multiplayer Notes

In multiplayer, search states for wild containers are shared through container and item modData within the range that the game itself can synchronize.

In other words, the state is not stored on a single player. It is bound to world objects, container items, and items inside containers. As long as the server and game synchronize these objects correctly, other players arriving at the same location will see the same search progress.

Even after leaving the area, the search state will still be remembered the next time you return. This helps you tell which of the countless zombie corpses along a fence have already been searched.

For containers that have been fully searched, anyone opening them will see the revealed state instead of Unknown.

If a container has only been partially searched, other players should theoretically see the same partial reveal state: revealed items display normally, while unrevealed items still appear as Unknown.

Safehouse containers use a looser handling method to avoid turning base storage into a repetitive daily chore.

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Compatibility Notes

This mod changes container and looting UI behavior, so it may conflict with the following types of mods:

• Mods that replace the Loot Window
• Mods that modify container buttons or Loot All behavior
• Mods that change world object double-click interactions
• Other UI/interaction mods that modify inventory, containers, or the looting process
• Compatibility support is included for CleanUI and Better Containers. Better Containers' proximity inventory preserves per-source search and reveal state.

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Author Notes

Essentially, this is a mod made for myself, my friends, and private servers. I will not actively reply to every comment, but if there is a bug caused by this mod itself, rather than a compatibility issue, I will maintain and fix it.

You can leave feature suggestions, but I most likely will not reply and may not implement them. If there is an interesting idea, I may shamelessly take it for myself. That said, I am very willing to hear UI/UX feedback.

I do not mind anyone using the source code, modifying it, integrating it into their own mods, creating and publishing derivative versions, or adding other languages. I give full permission here, and you do not need to ask beforehand.

But if you are willing to leave a comment and let me know, I would be very happy, because I simply want to know whether this mod has actually helped someone.

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Support the Author

If you enjoy this mod and would like to support its continued development and maintenance, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/supbot

Support is completely optional. It will not affect access to the mod, future updates, or any features.

Workshop ID: 3778403732 Mod ID: ImmersiveLootingB42