Reliable Crafting 0.1.6 — Food loading is your choice

Craft and upgrade using materials from nearby permitted chests. This beta adds reliable local input handling for Frost Foundry casts and Liquid Frost, plus Frigid Kiln Ice, while retaining normal workstation and cauldron crafting assistance.

Food from chests is OFF by default Cooking.FoodFromChests = false keeps stored meat, Seal Blubber and other food ingredients out of cooking stations and ovens. Carry the prepared food you want to bake, then load it normally. When your backpack runs out, more clicks do not pull food from a chest.

To opt into chest food loading, set FoodFromChests = true in the [Cooking] section of BepInEx/config/au.tyvalheim.reliablecrafting.cfg. This is separate from oven fuel, Frost Foundry casts/Liquid Frost, Frigid Kiln Ice, and recipe-based cauldron/workbench crafting. Those features remain available. Food you already carry still follows Valheim’s normal selection; the switch does not control another mod’s independent loader.

Crafting from storage The default chest range is 30 metres in 3D. Loaded player-built wooden, reinforced, black-metal and permitted personal chests are supported. Busy, protected, inaccessible and unsupported storage is excluded. Carried materials are used first; missing ingredients need real empty backpack cells.

Workstation crafts can continue automatically after the needed chest approvals arrive. Cancellation, recipe changes, menu closure and changed access cancel the pending action. Manual cooking/fuelling actions require a deliberate retry if chest access is pending.

What changed for the Frost Foundry and other processors Supported fuel and cast actions now require the station to be owned by your client before any materials are pulled or consumed. Remote-owned stations refuse; let their owner operate them or wait for normal ownership transfer. The mod does not force ownership.

A locally owned station accepts the native input before inventory callbacks run. Failed uncommitted inputs are restored; an already accepted input is never automatically refunded or replayed. If several different casts are available in chests, carry the one you want instead of letting the mod choose.

Use Reliable Smelting 0.3.0 for automatic refuelling and optional free refills. This version respects a fuel click already handled by Smelting, leaving chest/carried supplies untouched. Reliable Cooking 0.1.0 supplies cooking conveniences and preserves the foundry's native slot and switches.

Install Requires BepInExPack_Valheim. Exit Valheim and install the ZIP, keeping one ReliableCrafting.dll. Preserve your existing BepInEx/config/au.tyvalheim.reliablecrafting.cfg. General.CookingEnabled controls manual cooking/fuel assistance; General.RangeMeters defaults to 30. Restart after edits. Friends/server need not install this client assistance mod.

Do not combine multiple crafting-from-storage implementations without testing. Normal permissions remain in force. The mod uses existing native chest access, not a custom peer protocol.

Validation and limits Warnings-as-errors build, 104 executable policy/transaction assertions, 77 API/binary assertions and a shared isolated Unity suite pass against Valheim 1.0.17. Native chest staging, actual fuel/cast handlers, busy/full inventory refusals, material conservation on injected failures and the three Reliable releases together are checked. The author reports successful gameplay compatibility for the previous three-mod test set. The new food-input default has additional automated native coverage; this does not certify every multiplayer handoff, disconnect or save/reload scenario.

This beta fixes unsafe input ordering and a conflict between the two mods' fuel-click handlers. It cannot restore previously lost materials.

Coded with the assistance of ChatGPT 6.0. Promotional title/header images are AI-generated illustrations, not in-game screenshots.

Credits

Concept, direction and testing: Gomisan. Thanks to BepInEx contributors, Harmony and Andreas Pardeike, and Iron Gate AB. Related crafting-from-storage projects reviewed for reference include aedenthorn's CraftFromContainers, friendly_neighbor's CraftFromContainers, Nearby Chests, and AzuCraftyBoxes; their implementations are not bundled.

Thunderstore installation

Install with your mod manager, or close Valheim and copy this package's BepInEx folder into the game folder. Keep only one copy of the mod DLL. No configuration file is bundled; your existing preferences are preserved. These are client-side mods; the dedicated server does not need them.

AI disclosure

Coded with the assistance of ChatGPT 6.0. Packaging and documentation were prepared with OpenAI Codex. Store icons and promotional illustrations use OpenAI image generation and are not gameplay screenshots. The assembly includes AI attribution metadata.

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