ValheimUtils

AI generated. This mod is written by an AI (Claude) under human direction and testing.

Quality-of-life tweaks for Valheim. Every feature has its own switch in BepInEx/config/mh.ValheimUtilsByAi.cfg (generated on first launch). Each feature states whether it runs on the client, the server, or both.

Features

Craft without roof ([Crafting] CraftWithoutRoof, default: on)

The vanilla game refuses to open a workbench, forge or any other crafting station that is not under a roof or is "too exposed". This removes that check. Everything else is untouched: a forge still needs fire, stations still need their extensions in range, build pieces still need a station nearby.

Side: Client. Other players do not need the mod. Works on vanilla servers.

Kiln wood filter ([Crafting] KilnWoodFilter, default: on)

The charcoal kiln only accepts the wood types listed in [Crafting] KilnAllowedWood (comma-separated item prefab names, default: Wood). Any other wood is refused with the vanilla "won't work" message, and pressing E with only unlisted wood in the inventory says there is nothing to process. Smelters and blast furnaces are untouched. Vanilla kiln wood: Wood, FineWood, RoundLog, Blackwood.

Side: Client. Only players running the mod are restricted; a player without it can still add any wood.

Auto storage ([Crafting] AutoStorage, default: on)

Adds two craftables:

• AutoStorage chest (Hammer > Misc, workbench): 10 Fine Wood, 2 Surtling Cores, 5 Greydwarf Eyes, 1 Bronze. 32 slots.
• AutoStorage Hammer (workbench): 3 Wood, 1 Surtling Core.

Hold the AutoStorage Hammer and left-click a processing piece, then left-click an AutoStorage chest to link them. Linked pieces take their inputs from that chest and put their products into it, with no pickup radius or area: you choose every connection. Click the same piece and chest again to unlink; click a chest with nothing selected to unlink every piece connected to it. While the hammer is held, green lines show existing links and a yellow line follows the selected piece. The hammer never builds or repairs.

Piece	Takes from chest	Puts into chest
Charcoal kiln	wood (respects the kiln wood filter)	coal
Smelter, blast furnace, eitr refinery	ore / scrap / soft tissue, coal or sap	bars, eitr
Spinning wheel, windmill	flax, barley	linen thread, barley flour
Beehive, sap extractor	-	honey, sap
Cooking station, iron cooking station, stone oven	raw food, wood for the oven	cooked (or burnt) food
Fermenter	base mead	mead

Vanilla rules stay: fire, fuel, roof, cover and biome requirements are untouched, the chest must have room or the product drops on the ground as usual, and nothing moves while a player has the chest open. [Crafting] AutoStorageMaxLinkDistance (default 100 m) caps the link length. Pieces are only simulated near a player, so a chest more than roughly 64 m from its piece may not be loaded and the piece then idles.

Side: Both. The mod (and Jötunn) must be installed on the server and on every client, otherwise the custom chest and hammer do not exist for them. Turning the feature off keeps both craftable but stops linking and automation.

Install

Drop ValheimUtilsByAi.dll into BepInEx/plugins or install with a mod manager. Requires Jötunn.