Mods / NoHands

Tags: #QoL
Author: Mass8326
Side: Client
Created: Jul 30th 2023 at 9:19 AM
Last modified: Jul 30th 2023 at 8:42 PM
Downloads: 3110
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Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.18.0 - 1.18.1, 1.18.2 - 1.18.5, 1.18.6 - 1.18.7, 1.18.8, 1.18.9 - 1.18.15, 1.19.0 - 1.19.3, 1.19.4, 1.19.5 - 1.19.8, 1.20.0 - 1.20.3, 1.20.4 and 1.20.5 - 1.20.7, outdated):
nohands-0.1.1.zip  1-click install


Many actions in the game require a free hand to perform. Now you can press a hotkey (R by default) in order to move your currently held item stack into a backpack slot! Especially useful when cooking a lot of meals, taking from pit kilns, or managing piles.

Use CarryOn and need both of your hands free? There's a hotkey (Shift + R by default) for that too.

Want more drastic changes to make your inventory management even better? Consider using my other mod: PickupArtist

Technical Info

Either hotkey can be changed in the settings menu once you are in a world. It will not show up in the main menu's settings option.

This is a purely client-side mod, so it should work on servers that don't have it installed.

Should work perfectly with any .net 7 build as well.

If you run into any bugs or issues, feel free to create an issue. All code is provided under the MIT-0 license.

Mod Version Mod IdentifierFor Game version Downloads Released Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
0.1.1 nohands
1.18.0 - 1.18.1 1.18.2 - 1.18.5 1.18.6 - 1.18.7 1.18.9 - 1.18.15 1.19.0 - 1.19.3 1.19.5 - 1.19.8 1.20.0 - 1.20.3 1.20.5 - 1.20.7
2850 Jul 30th 2023 at 8:42 PM nohands-0.1.1.zip 1-click install

Remove dependency on specific game version

Change behavior of "clear both hands" hotkey to work when main hand is empty

0.1.0 nohands 260 Jul 30th 2023 at 9:33 AM Empty nohands-0.1.0.zip 1-click install

16 Comments (oldest first | newest first)

Reverhaus, Dec 21st 2025 at 11:56 PM

This mod is incredible, and it should be a vanilla feature of the game, and I'm surprised how few people know about it

Ill_Magnus, Dec 16th 2025 at 10:18 AM (modified Dec 16th 2025 at 10:22 AM)

an idea: if the inventory is full send an info message in chat about it

Marquitos, Nov 27th 2025 at 10:19 PM

work in 1.21.5 :D

Kuboszka, Oct 21st 2025 at 7:46 PM

How to change keybinding to something else?

Moragor, Aug 27th 2025 at 12:11 PM

Seems to work fine in 1.21.0.

Reverhaus, Mar 7th 2025 at 10:18 PM

This mod still working on 1.20.x confirmed

Rabbie, Jan 17th 2025 at 10:41 PM

Guimoute For some reason now it is working! Thank you, perhaps you brought me luck

Guimoute, Jan 17th 2025 at 6:51 PM

Rabbie I have been using that mod for the whole 1.19 and never had a problem. Are you playing on a stable version?

Rabbie, Jan 15th 2025 at 4:24 AM

Hello I wonder if you know of any reason why this mod would just not work? It installs fine, but any time I set a keybind (including default R) nothing happens.  I have checked that there are no other keybind conflicts.  If you can help that would be super, this is such a must-have mod I can't beleive it's not in Vannila

DeviousDoge, Jan 11th 2024 at 11:31 AM

Not necessarily requesting this as I think it goes beyond what this mod set out to accomplish, but would it be feasible to just have an extra, blank slot that isn't visually displayed and cannot have any items enter into it, that allows you to press R to "holster all" (which is actually just switching you over to that empty hand slot that cannot be filled), and then pressing 1 - 0 will switch you back to an item? It's always bothered me that we can't swap to our hand slots conveniently, and while this mod helps immensely, it is a bit of a bummer that you still have to open your inventory to retrieve the stored item when you want it back.

Pixative, Nov 17th 2023 at 6:59 PM

bwoah

yeah there's so many cases where something will only work from an open hand, even in bizarre cases like removing pottery from a pit kiln with a stack of the same item in your hand, needed this badly

saxfone, Oct 13th 2023 at 1:27 PM

Perfect mod, no notes

Chumber, Sep 18th 2023 at 5:09 PM

I use this non-stop every play session. I rarely remember the Shift+R combo, but man, I can never play without this again. Please never stop making sure this works with new versions. Truly ought to be a vanilla feature.

Mackeroni, Aug 1st 2023 at 2:07 PM

Such a simple idea, yet an amazing addition.

CBob, Jul 30th 2023 at 3:28 PM

This is an awesome idea! 

SalieriC, Jul 30th 2023 at 1:45 PM

This is a godsend. Thank you very much. =)