but you can.
i'm not sure what is going on in your case, but i assume the issue is that you dont have an uninterupted line from your square to the loot
#Let us Area Loot squares around us when in combat
kind flower
river zealot
it doesn't look like you're in combat. the area-loot on distant tiles works for me when im not in combat, but when I am it only recognises the tile im stood on. its been like this for me for literal years.
kind flower
the boss just despawned
now i am.
i even closed the area loot before the spawn to try and open it
river zealot
found the fix. you have to tick a box that is by default greyed out (if using single item pickup) thats why it wasn't working. i'll post an image for anyone else that has encounted this.
https://gyazo.com/c9a3c5ef3fb7428df13e95dd278a9f5a
if you have it set up 'the old way' where you click on something on the ground and it picks up 1 item at a time, the boxes for area-loot are greyed out (though you can still keybind and use the feature, but you run into the issue i had)
https://gyazo.com/327487712e1371846c3b9ab0efa270c0
if you tick the 'multiple item' box on briefly, then tick the 'use area loot' box, then turn it back off (so you're on the single item pickup) that fixes the problem.
