Odin's Pantry

Odin has watched you eat raw mushrooms in the Plains. He has seen the chests full of honey you never touch. He has said nothing, until now.

Press P to open the pantry and see, at a glance:

• In your belly: your three foods, how long each has left, what it's giving you right now (food fades as it runs down), and which are ready for a top-up
• Ready to eat: food in your bag and in nearby chests, best first
• Ready to cook: meals you have every ingredient for, how many you could make, and whether the cauldron, oven or fire you need is close by
• One ingredient short: meals you could almost make, and exactly what's missing
• Odin's pick for your biome: the best three different foods within reach, leaning towards health, stamina or eitr as you prefer, with their total and a verdict on whether it's enough for where you're standing
• A one-line remark from Odin, because he has opinions. Lots of them.

The page stays up for 20 seconds, then fades away over another 5. Press P again to put it away sooner, or while it's fading to keep it a while longer.

What it is, and what it isn't

The pantry is a planner. It reads; it never touches. It doesn't eat for you, cook for you, or move a single turnip between chests. You still open the chest, fill the cauldron and eat the stew yourself. It just tells you what's worth doing before you walk over there.

If you want food eaten for you automatically or a better way to store it, other mods on Thunderstore do that, and they work alongside this one.

How the pantry is filled in

Everything comes from the game's own data, not from a built-in list:

• Foods are the consumables the game will actually let you eat. The numbers are read from the live item, so a Valheim patch or another mod that changes a food shows up here. Dough, raw meat and unbaked pies are ingredients. The game leaves old numbers on them and will not let you eat them; with the ingredient in reach, the pantry lists the cooked food and the stats eating that gives.
• Meals come from the game's recipe list, and cooking from every cooking station in the game (fire, oven, iron grill and so on).
• Your belly is read straight from your character, including how much each food has faded.

So food and recipes added by other mods show up like vanilla ones, and the numbers stay right after Valheim patches rebalance things.

The pantry counts your own inventory plus any chest within 20 metres that you'd be allowed to open. Other players' private chests and chests in someone else's ward are left out, and so are gravestones.

The page reuses the game's own tooltip, so it looks like it belongs.

Configuration

Settings live in BepInEx/config/hevyh2o.valheim.odinspantry.cfg. If you have a Configuration Manager mod installed, you can also change them in game (usually F1); this mod doesn't need one.

Setting	Default	Controls
ShowKey	P	Key that opens the pantry. Press again to close it early, or while it's fading to bring it back.
ShowSeconds	20	How long the pantry stays fully visible. It keeps updating while open.
FadeInSeconds	0.3	How quickly it fades in (and out, when you close it with the key).
FadeOutSeconds	5	How long it takes to fade away once ShowSeconds is up.
PositionX / PositionY	0.5 / 0.6	Where the pantry appears, as a fraction of the screen.
SearchRadius	20	How far, in metres, to look for chests. 0 counts your own inventory only.
Preference	Balanced	What Odin's pick leans towards: Balanced, Health, Stamina or Eitr.
OnlyKnownRecipes	true	Only list recipes you've discovered, so the pantry doesn't spoil what's to come.
MaxPerList	4	How many foods each section lists. When there are more, the heading shows the full count.
ShowBelly	true	Your three active foods.
ShowEatNow	true	Food you could eat right now.
ShowCookNow	true	Meals you have every ingredient for.
ShowOneShort	true	Meals one ingredient short.
ShowSuggestion	true	Odin's pick of the best three foods within reach, judged against your biome.
ShowFlavor	true	Odin's one-line remark.

Things to know

• Odin's pick only uses what you can reach. It picks from food you have and meals you could cook right now. If the best food in the game is three biomes away, he won't mention it.
• The biome verdict is a rule of thumb. Odin compares the pick's health against how much he'd want for each vanilla biome. Biomes added by mods get a pick but no verdict.
• "Ready to cook" counts ingredients, not fuel. You'll still need wood in the fire. A station shown in orange isn't close by, or isn't upgraded enough.
• Times are real minutes, the way the food bar counts them.
• Your eyes only. The pantry is drawn on your screen. Works in single-player and multiplayer, and nobody else needs the mod.
• Hidden when you're busy. No pantry while your inventory, map, menu or chat is open, or when the HUD is hidden.
• Found a bug or have an idea? Tell Odin in Odin's Tavern. The ravens read every note; your BepInEx\LogOutput.log helps them read faster.

Also from Odin's tavern

Odin's Stagger Home: too many meads to find the way? Press \ and Odin walks you home to your bed, round water and over logs. Full of mead and not much else? Odin walks you home to the cooking pot.

Odin's Long Drop: at a ledge or mid-fall, the drop and the damage the landing will do, beside your crosshair. More health means a longer drop you can walk away from. Long Drop does the sums.

Odin's Thread: a faint trail on your map and minimap of every step you took, fading with age, with your deaths and portal hops marked. The thread shows where you found the raspberries. Odin is not going back for them.

Odin's Nudge: alt-tabbed while something eats you? Odin flashes the taskbar and knocks when you're hurt, an enemy closes in, a raid starts or chat says your name. Eat before you tab out; Odin knocks if anything comes to eat you instead.

Odin's Latch: Odin shuts the doors you opened when it matters: an enemy close, nightfall or a raid at your base. A shut door keeps the trolls away from the cooking.

Odin's Second Hand: when an enemy gets close, Odin swaps your bow for your best melee weapon against it, and hands the bow back once it's gone. Eat well, aim well, and when the Greydwarf ignores both, Odin passes you the mace.

Odin's Free Refills: no stamina costs while the coast is clear. The pantry fills your stamina bar; the refills make sure you never have to look at it at home.

Odin's Wanted Posters: look at a creature and press E to see its health, weaknesses and drops. The posters tell you what drops the meat; the pantry tells you what to cook with it.

Odin's Almanac: press K for a forecast of the next weather changes in your biome. Check the sky, check the pantry, then go.

Odin's Saga: sleep or log out and Odin reads you the saga of your day; press J for a lifetime of deeds. Every meal you burn ends up in the saga. Odin keeps receipts.

Odin's Hearth: press N at home to see your comfort level, what's counting, and the cheapest piece to build next. Eat by the fire, sleep Rested, leave strong.

Odin's Raven Returns: after you die, a raven guards your grave; press H to see where it is, what killed you and what's still waiting there. For when the three-food pick wasn't quite enough.

Odin's Drunk Cam: drink a mead and the world sways; the more meads, the more it sways. Purely visual, with an intensity slider and an off key. Meads count as a proper meal, as far as Odin's concerned.

Odin's Weapon Memories: every weapon remembers what it has killed and earns a name from how it was used, like Storied Frost Greataxe of the Troll's Bane. Eat well: the Scourge of the Troll doesn't name itself.

Odin's Stone Whispers: Odin whispers when a Rock or Mysterious Rock is near; press 9 and he turns your gaze to it. Rock hunts are long walks. Eat first.

Odin's Dusk Horn: a low horn before nightfall, and press Home for the time to dark and the way to your bed. The walk home is worse on an empty stomach. Eat before dusk.

Odin's Knot: log out and Odin asks what you were doing; log back in and he reads it back. Press ' to retie it. Tie "cook the sausages" in your knot, and the pantry tells you whether you can.