diff --git a/.idea/dictionaries/ericf.xml b/.idea/dictionaries/ericf.xml
index 6d580eac..ff67abad 100644
--- a/.idea/dictionaries/ericf.xml
+++ b/.idea/dictionaries/ericf.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
       <w>actorclass</w>
       <w>adbcfaca</w>
       <w>adbpath</w>
+      <w>addcall</w>
       <w>addgame</w>
       <w>addlevel</w>
       <w>addr</w>
@@ -2191,6 +2192,7 @@
       <w>trsock</w>
       <w>tscale</w>
       <w>tscl</w>
+      <w>tself</w>
       <w>tspc</w>
       <w>tstr</w>
       <w>turtledemo</w>
@@ -2275,6 +2277,7 @@
       <w>valnew</w>
       <w>vals</w>
       <w>valuedispatch</w>
+      <w>valuedispatchmethod</w>
       <w>valueerror</w>
       <w>valuetext</w>
       <w>valuetype</w>
diff --git a/ballisticacore-cmake/.idea/dictionaries/ericf.xml b/ballisticacore-cmake/.idea/dictionaries/ericf.xml
index 52f1a898..afc6fd4b 100644
--- a/ballisticacore-cmake/.idea/dictionaries/ericf.xml
+++ b/ballisticacore-cmake/.idea/dictionaries/ericf.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
       <w>aclass</w>
       <w>aclass's</w>
       <w>activityplayer</w>
+      <w>addcall</w>
       <w>addrs</w>
       <w>adjoint</w>
       <w>adminset</w>
@@ -905,6 +906,7 @@
       <w>trilinear</w>
       <w>trimesh</w>
       <w>trimeshes</w>
+      <w>tself</w>
       <w>tval</w>
       <w>tvos</w>
       <w>tweakage</w>
@@ -940,6 +942,7 @@
       <w>valobj</w>
       <w>vals</w>
       <w>valtab</w>
+      <w>valuedispatchmethod</w>
       <w>valuedouble</w>
       <w>valueint</w>
       <w>valuestring</w>
diff --git a/docs/ba_module.md b/docs/ba_module.md
index f45d0019..90db98a0 100644
--- a/docs/ba_module.md
+++ b/docs/ba_module.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!-- THIS FILE IS AUTO GENERATED; DO NOT EDIT BY HAND -->
-<h4><em>last updated on 2021-01-14 for Ballistica version 1.5.30 build 20267</em></h4>
+<h4><em>last updated on 2021-01-15 for Ballistica version 1.5.30 build 20267</em></h4>
 <p>This page documents the Python classes and functions in the 'ba' module,
  which are the ones most relevant to modding in Ballistica. If you come across something you feel should be included here or could be better explained, please <a href="mailto:support@froemling.net">let me know</a>. Happy modding!</p>
 <hr>
diff --git a/tools/efro/util.py b/tools/efro/util.py
index 1969130d..4c45db64 100644
--- a/tools/efro/util.py
+++ b/tools/efro/util.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 T = TypeVar('T')
 TVAL = TypeVar('TVAL')
 TARG = TypeVar('TARG')
+TSELF = TypeVar('TSELF')
 TRET = TypeVar('TRET')
 TENUM = TypeVar('TENUM', bound=Enum)
 
@@ -95,56 +96,6 @@ def data_size_str(bytecount: int) -> str:
     return f'{gbytecount:.0f} GB'
 
 
-class DispatchMethodWrapper(Generic[TARG, TRET]):
-    """Type-aware standin for the dispatch func returned by dispatchmethod."""
-
-    def __call__(self, arg: TARG) -> TRET:
-        pass
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def register(func: Callable[[Any, Any], TRET]) -> Callable:
-        """Register a new dispatch handler for this dispatch-method."""
-
-    registry: Dict[Any, Callable]
-
-
-# noinspection PyProtectedMember,PyTypeHints
-def dispatchmethod(
-        func: Callable[[Any, TARG],
-                       TRET]) -> DispatchMethodWrapper[TARG, TRET]:
-    """A variation of functools.singledispatch for methods."""
-    from functools import singledispatch, update_wrapper
-    origwrapper: Any = singledispatch(func)
-
-    # Pull this out so hopefully origwrapper can die,
-    # otherwise we reference origwrapper in our wrapper.
-    dispatch = origwrapper.dispatch
-
-    # All we do here is recreate the end of functools.singledispatch
-    # where it returns a wrapper except instead of the wrapper using the
-    # first arg to the function ours uses the second (to skip 'self').
-    # This was made against Python 3.7; we should probably check up on
-    # this in later versions in case anything has changed.
-    # (or hopefully they'll add this functionality to their version)
-    # NOTE: sounds like we can use functools singledispatchmethod in 3.8
-    def wrapper(*args: Any, **kw: Any) -> Any:
-        if not args or len(args) < 2:
-            raise TypeError(f'{funcname} requires at least '
-                            '2 positional arguments')
-
-        return dispatch(args[1].__class__)(*args, **kw)
-
-    funcname = getattr(func, '__name__', 'dispatchmethod method')
-    wrapper.register = origwrapper.register  # type: ignore
-    wrapper.dispatch = dispatch  # type: ignore
-    wrapper.registry = origwrapper.registry  # type: ignore
-    # pylint: disable=protected-access
-    wrapper._clear_cache = origwrapper._clear_cache  # type: ignore
-    update_wrapper(wrapper, func)
-    # pylint: enable=protected-access
-    return cast(DispatchMethodWrapper, wrapper)
-
-
 class DirtyBit:
     """Manages whether a thing is dirty and regulates attempts to clean it.
 
@@ -242,9 +193,66 @@ class DirtyBit:
         return False
 
 
+class DispatchMethodWrapper(Generic[TARG, TRET]):
+    """Type-aware standin for the dispatch func returned by dispatchmethod."""
+
+    def __call__(self, arg: TARG) -> TRET:
+        pass
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def register(func: Callable[[Any, Any], TRET]) -> Callable:
+        """Register a new dispatch handler for this dispatch-method."""
+
+    registry: Dict[Any, Callable]
+
+
+# noinspection PyProtectedMember,PyTypeHints
+def dispatchmethod(
+        func: Callable[[Any, TARG],
+                       TRET]) -> DispatchMethodWrapper[TARG, TRET]:
+    """A variation of functools.singledispatch for methods.
+
+    Note: as of Python 3.9 there is now functools.singledispatchmethod,
+    but it currently (as of Jan 2021) is not type-aware (at least in mypy),
+    which gives us a reason to keep this one around for now.
+    """
+    from functools import singledispatch, update_wrapper
+    origwrapper: Any = singledispatch(func)
+
+    # Pull this out so hopefully origwrapper can die,
+    # otherwise we reference origwrapper in our wrapper.
+    dispatch = origwrapper.dispatch
+
+    # All we do here is recreate the end of functools.singledispatch
+    # where it returns a wrapper except instead of the wrapper using the
+    # first arg to the function ours uses the second (to skip 'self').
+    # This was made against Python 3.7; we should probably check up on
+    # this in later versions in case anything has changed.
+    # (or hopefully they'll add this functionality to their version)
+    # NOTE: sounds like we can use functools singledispatchmethod in 3.8
+    def wrapper(*args: Any, **kw: Any) -> Any:
+        if not args or len(args) < 2:
+            raise TypeError(f'{funcname} requires at least '
+                            '2 positional arguments')
+
+        return dispatch(args[1].__class__)(*args, **kw)
+
+    funcname = getattr(func, '__name__', 'dispatchmethod method')
+    wrapper.register = origwrapper.register  # type: ignore
+    wrapper.dispatch = dispatch  # type: ignore
+    wrapper.registry = origwrapper.registry  # type: ignore
+    # pylint: disable=protected-access
+    wrapper._clear_cache = origwrapper._clear_cache  # type: ignore
+    update_wrapper(wrapper, func)
+    # pylint: enable=protected-access
+    return cast(DispatchMethodWrapper, wrapper)
+
+
 def valuedispatch(call: Callable[[TVAL], TRET]) -> ValueDispatcher[TVAL, TRET]:
     """Decorator for functions to allow dispatching based on a value.
 
+    This differs from functools.singledispatch in that it dispatches based
+    on the value of an argument, not based on its type.
     The 'register' method of a value-dispatch function can be used
     to assign new functions to handle particular values.
     Unhandled values wind up in the original dispatch function."""
@@ -307,6 +315,61 @@ class ValueDispatcher1Arg(Generic[TVAL, TARG, TRET]):
         return partial(self._add_handler, value)
 
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+
+    class ValueDispatcherMethod(Generic[TVAL, TRET]):
+        """Used by the valuedispatchmethod decorator."""
+
+        def __call__(self, value: TVAL) -> TRET:
+            ...
+
+        def register(self,
+                     value: TVAL) -> Callable[[Callable[[TSELF], TRET]], None]:
+            """Add a handler to the dispatcher."""
+            ...
+
+
+def valuedispatchmethod(
+        call: Callable[[TSELF, TVAL],
+                       TRET]) -> ValueDispatcherMethod[TVAL, TRET]:
+    """Like valuedispatch but works with methods instead of functions."""
+
+    # NOTE: It seems that to wrap a method with a decorator and have self
+    # dispatching do the right thing, we must return a function and not
+    # an executable object. So for this version we store our data here
+    # in the function call dict and simply return a call.
+
+    _base_call = call
+    _handlers: Dict[TVAL, Callable[[TSELF], TRET]] = {}
+
+    def _add_handler(value: TVAL, addcall: Callable[[TSELF], TRET]) -> None:
+        if value in _handlers:
+            raise RuntimeError(f'Duplicate handlers added for {value}')
+        _handlers[value] = addcall
+
+    def _register(value: TVAL) -> Callable[[Callable[[TSELF], TRET]], None]:
+        from functools import partial
+        return partial(_add_handler, value)
+
+    def _call_wrapper(self: TSELF, value: TVAL) -> TRET:
+        handler = _handlers.get(value)
+        if handler is not None:
+            return handler(self)
+        return _base_call(self, value)
+
+    # We still want to use our returned object to register handlers, but we're
+    # actually just returning a function. So manually stuff the call onto it.
+    setattr(_call_wrapper, 'register', _register)
+
+    # To the type checker's eyes we return a ValueDispatchMethod instance;
+    # this lets it know about our register func and type-check its usage.
+    # In reality we just return a raw function call (for reasons listed above).
+    if TYPE_CHECKING:  # pylint: disable=no-else-return
+        return ValueDispatcherMethod[TVAL, TRET]()
+    else:
+        return _call_wrapper
+
+
 def make_hash(obj: Any) -> int:
     """Makes a hash from a dictionary, list, tuple or set to any level,
     that contains only other hashable types (including any lists, tuples,