Storage Master

Sort your inventory, lock slots, quick stack into nearby chests, and open every chest around you in one window to move, find, gather and tidy up your stuff.

Everything looks and feels like Valheim's own UI, and the whole mod runs on your side only: it works on any server, and nobody else needs to install it.

Download: Thunderstore (r2modman) · Nexus Mods · GitHub releases

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Features

Inventory sorting

• The buttons are in a menu next to your inventory: click the box with three bars (above your weight) to open or close it. Ctrl + drag the box to move it, for example out of another mod's way (the key can be changed in Options).
• Sort tidies everything below the hotbar. Your hotbar row is never moved.
• Partial stacks of the same item are merged first, so three stacks of 30 wood become one stack of 90.
• By: … switches what Sort orders by:
  • Name A–Z and Name Z–A
  • Type: weapons, ammo, armor, tools, food, materials, trophies
  • Quality: best first
  • Weight: heaviest first
  • Amount: biggest stacks first
• Sort chest is in the menu next to any chest you open and sorts it the same way.
• Auto-sort (optional) sorts your inventory every time you pick something up.

Locked slots

• Alt + click a slot in your inventory to lock it. Locked slots are tinted orange and get a small lock badge.
• Sort, auto-sort and quick stack never touch locked slots, and neither does the game's own Place stacks button.
• Locks are saved with your character.

Quick stack

• One click (or a hotkey) puts your items into nearby chests that already hold the same kind of item.
• Your hotbar, equipped gear and locked slots always stay with you.
• A short summary shows how many items went into how many chests.

Storage window

Opens every chest around you at once, next to your inventory, using the game's own item grids.

• Move items freely between your inventory and all chests:
  • Click to pick up and put down
  • Shift + click to take half a stack
  • Ctrl + click to send an item straight to you, or from you to a chest that already has it
  • Esc puts a carried item back
• Find item: press F (as in the build menu) or click the field, type a name and every matching slot in every chest lights up; the rest fade out.

• Choose an item: right-click any item to see how many you have in total, how many chests it's spread over, and where every stack is.

• Gather here: pulls all of the chosen item into one chest. Whatever doesn't fit flows into the next chests. Optionally it also takes them from your inventory (never from your hotbar or locked slots).

Before	After Gather here

• Tidy up: every item that's split over several chests moves into the chest that already holds the most of it. Then all chests get sorted.

Before	After Tidy up

• Sort all, plus Sort and Take all on each chest.
• Quick stack into all the open chests at once.
• Name your chests: click a chest's title to name it. The name appears when you look at the chest in the world. The X button removes it.
• Skip a chest: tick Skip on a chest (for example your friend's) and Quick stack, Gather, Tidy up and Sort all will leave it alone. You can still move items by hand. Only you see this setting.
• Hide inventory: gives the chests the whole window, so many more fit side by side on large screens.
• Settings: choose how far away (5–50 m) and how many chests (4–60) the window opens. Up to 20 m and about 30 chests is recommended.

Name chests anywhere

The title of the normal chest window (opened with E) is a text field too. Click it, type a name and press Enter. While you type, your keys only type: E won't close the chest and WASD won't move you.

Info and Options

The Info button in the inventory menu explains every feature and lists your hotkeys.

Options (next to it, or Shift + F6) lets you change hotkeys (with warnings when Valheim already uses a key), adjust the main settings, and choose the drag key and the menu buttons' positions. Reset there puts a menu button back if you've moved it out of reach.

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Hotkeys

Action	Default
Open the Storage window	Shift + F1
Sort inventory	Shift + F4
Quick stack	Shift + F3
Options	Shift + F6
Auto-sort on / off	not set
Info window	not set
Lock / unlock a slot	Alt + click

Change them in Options. Click a key, then press the new one; Esc cancels and Backspace removes the key. You can also edit them in the config file.

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Multiplayer

• Client-side only. The server and other players don't need the mod.
• Safe with other players. Before touching a chest, Storage Master asks for it the same way the game's own Place stacks button does. The chest is handed over properly, and chests someone else has open are skipped ("In use by someone else").
• While the Storage window is open, the chests it shows count as in use, just like a normal open chest. Close the window and they're free again.
• Chest names are stored on the chest itself, so everyone with the mod sees them. Skip and locked slots are personal and saved with your character.
• Respects wards: you only see chests you're allowed to open. Tombstones are never touched.

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Installation

With Vortex: click Mod Manager Download on the Nexus page.

With r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager: install it from there; BepInEx is installed automatically.

Manually:

1. Install BepInExPack for Valheim.
2. Copy StorageMaster.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/StorageMaster/.
3. Start the game.

Configuration

All settings live in BepInEx/config/charmingbeaver.valheim.storagemaster.cfg. Most of them can also be changed in game from Options and the Storage window's Settings.

Section	Setting	Default
Sorting	SortMode	NameAsc	What Sort orders by
Sorting	AutoSort	false	Sort on every pickup
QuickStack	Range	10	Meters around you
QuickStack	SkipHotbar	true	Keep the hotbar out of quick stack
Storage	Range	15	Meters around you
Storage	MaxChests	24	Nearest chests first
Storage	ShowInventory	true	Show your inventory in the Storage window

Compatibility

• Made for keyboard and mouse. Controllers aren't supported in the mod's windows.
• Other mods that change the inventory screen or chest handling (sorting, auto-storing, quick stacking) may clash with this one. If something behaves oddly, try without them first.

Support

If Storage Master saves you some chest-digging, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi. It's completely optional and very appreciated.

Issues and source

Bug reports and ideas: GitHub issues. Source code: Charming-Beaver/valheim-mods, MIT licensed.