Robotic Inbox

Stop sorting your loot by hand. Build a Robotic Inbox next to your chests, dump everything into it, close it, and each item flies into the nearby chest that already holds that kind of item.

It's a Valheim version of the Robotic Inbox mod for 7 Days to Die, created by Jonathan Robertson (Kanaverum). All credit for the idea goes to them. Valheim port by DarthJML.

How to build it

1. Equip your Hammer.
2. Open the Misc tab of the build menu.
3. Pick Robotic Inbox. It costs 10 Wood + 10 Stone and doesn't need a workbench.
4. Place it near your storage chests.

It looks like a Viking Cybercrate: an old timber-and-stone crate with iron fittings and glowing cyan runes.

How sorting works

• Put items in the inbox, then close it. Nothing moves while someone has it open.
• Every second the inbox checks the chests around it (20 meters by default, about 10 floor tiles).
• An item goes to the closest chest that already has at least one of that item, as long as there's room. Got a chest with Wood in it? All your Wood goes there.
• Items no chest has yet stay in the inbox. To make a new "home" for an item, put one of it in a chest yourself.
• It never moves items into other inboxes, graves (tombstones), chests that are open, or private chests you can't open.
• A full chest is skipped and the next closest matching chest is tried.

Settings (optional)

You can change these in r2modman under Config editor, file com.darthjml.roboticinbox.cfg (or BepInEx/config/com.darthjml.roboticinbox.cfg).

Setting	Default	What it does
General.Enabled	true	Turns sorting on or off.
General.ScanRadius	20	How far (in meters) the inbox looks for chests. 1 floor tile = 2 m. Max 64.
Inbox.Columns / Inbox.Rows	8 / 4	Size of the inbox (8 x 4 = 32 slots). Takes effect the next time you load the world.
Visual.GlowIntensity	3	Brightness of the glowing runes (0 = off, max 10). Only changes how it looks for you.
Server.RequireMod	true	Server only: kick players who don't have Robotic Inbox or have a different version.
General.Debug	false	Writes extra lines to the log for troubleshooting.

On a multiplayer server, the server's ScanRadius, Columns and Rows are used for everyone.

Multiplayer

Everyone needs it: the server and every player, all on the same version.

• If you join a server with Robotic Inbox but you don't have the mod, you'll be disconnected with "Incompatible version". Install the mod (easiest: import the server's r2modman profile code) and join again.
• If you have a different version than the server, you'll get a message that tells you both versions.
• The server owner can turn this check off with Server.RequireMod = false (not recommended: players without the mod won't be able to see or use inboxes).
• Joining a server that doesn't have the mod is safe. Nothing breaks; you just play normally.

How to install with r2modman

From Thunderstore (easiest):

1. Open r2modman, pick Valheim, and select your profile.
2. Go to Online, search for RoboticInbox, and click Download. BepInEx is installed for you.
3. Click Start modded.

From a zip file someone sent you:

1. Open r2modman, pick Valheim, and select your profile.
2. Go to Settings → Import local mod, choose the DarthJML-RoboticInbox-1.2.0.zip file, and confirm.
3. If you don't have BepInExPack_Valheim yet, install it from Online too.
4. Click Start modded.

From a profile code (best for a group):

1. The server owner exports their profile: Settings → Export profile as code, and shares the code.
2. Everyone else: on the profile screen click Import / Update → Import new profile → From code, paste it, and give it a name.
3. Select that profile and click Start modded. You now have exactly the same mods and versions as the server.
4. If Robotic Inbox is missing from the imported profile (the code only carries mods published on Thunderstore), add it with Import local mod as described above.

Credits

• Original idea and 7 Days to Die mod: Jonathan Robertson (Kanaverum), MIT license.
• Valheim port and Viking Cybercrate model: DarthJML.