NeverDrop

A Road to Vostok mod. Inventory drop and world collision drop are blocked. Place (default G) still puts an item down, and display wall-mount still works.

Written against game version 0.1.1.3. Requires Metro Mod Loader 3.0 or newer.

Install

1. Install Metro if you have not already. Put modloader.gd and override.cfg next to RTV.exe.

2. Download NeverDrop.vmz from Releases. Do not use GitHub's "Source code" zip; Metro will reject it.

3. Copy NeverDrop.vmz into the game mods folder:

   <Steam library>/steamapps/common/Road to Vostok/mods/NeverDrop.vmz
   

4. Launch the game, enable NeverDrop on the Mods tab, then launch modded.

Disable it in that same tab to restore vanilla drop.

What it changes

Vanilla inventory drop all goes through Interface.Drop: Fast Drop, the context-menu Drop action, releasing a drag off a grid, closing the inventory while an item is dragged, and a few overflow paths. The mod replace-hooks that method and returns the item to inventory instead of spawning a pickup.

Vanilla world carry drops the held item on any collision (Placer.Collided). The mod skip_supers that branch so the item stays in hand until Place. If the collider is in group Display and the item is a Weapon, Attachment, Knife, or Grenade, vanilla Collided still runs so wall-mount keeps working.

Death does not drop loot in 0.1.1.3. This mod does not touch death.

Build

From the repo root:

python3 scripts/pack.py

That writes dist/NeverDrop.vmz. The archive root is mod.txt, then mods/NeverDrop/Main.gd. LICENSE is packed as NeverDrop_LICENSE so it does not mount over res://LICENSE.

Releases

Version lives in mod.txt. Merging a version bump to main is what publishes: GitHub Actions packs the .vmz, and if v<version> does not already exist it creates that tag and attaches the archive. Merging without a bump rebuilds the CI artifact and leaves the current release alone.

There is no need to create tags by hand.