QoL Options

Less clicking, same Valheim. A pack of quality-of-life features that cut the tedious parts of the game without changing its balance: fill stations in one go, use materials from nearby chests, sort and restock, a trash slot, equipment slots that free up inventory space, recipe search, a crafting queue, building undo, a stability preview, and more.

Every feature can be switched on or off in-game, in Settings → QoL, and Steam achievements keep working.

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Features

Chests & Stations

• Fill stations in one go: hold Left Shift and press E on a smelter, kiln, fire, torch or cooking station to fill it with everything it takes.
• Use items from nearby chests: fuel and building or crafting materials can come from chests around the station or build spot, not only from your inventory (food for cooking stations still comes only from you). Locked chests and chests someone else has open are skipped.
• Quick Stack: sends your items into nearby chests that already hold them (your hotbar stays put).
• Sort your inventory (the hotbar stays as it is) and the open chest: partial stacks are merged and items are grouped by kind, then by name.
• Restock from nearby chests (the open one included): tops up the ammo, food and potion stacks you carry.
• Q / R / S: small buttons under the equipment panel, and hotkeys while the inventory is open, for quick stack, restock and sort (the open chest, else your inventory). Hover a button to see what it does. A small S button above the chest's weight sorts the chest. The keys can be changed or turned off.
• Trash slot: drop an item on it and confirm to delete it (hold Shift to skip the question).
• Equipment slots: your worn helmet, chest, legs, cape, utility item and trinket get their own panel beside the inventory, so they don't take inventory space. Rows bought from a trader don't move them. Turning it off moves your gear back into the inventory, still worn (with no room for it, it stays on); nothing is ever deleted. Turn it off before removing the mod, or the game drops the worn items at your feet on the next load.

Crafting

• Recipe search: a search field above the recipe list of every crafting interface.
• Crafting queue: a Queue button next to Craft lines up several crafts or upgrades.
• Repair everything at once at a crafting station.

Building

• Stability preview: while placing a piece, its preview is tinted with the support it would get there, in the hammer's colors (blue: full, green to red: weaker, red: it would fall).
• Undo (Ctrl+Z with the hammer out): reverses your last 3 placements and removals. Materials are refunded or spent again, as if done by hand.
• Area repair: with the hammer's repair tool, hold Attack to repair every damaged piece around you (same stamina and hammer wear per piece as by hand).
• Deconstruct to inventory: materials from removed pieces go straight into your inventory, even past the weight limit.
• Remove carts and ships with the hammer (empty cargo, nobody aboard or pulling).
• Seasonal items all year: the Yule, Halloween and other seasonal pieces and recipes, any time of the year, with their normal materials.

Combat & Survival

• Sticky attack and block: hold Left Alt while clicking Attack or Block to keep it going without holding the button; click again to stop. Plain clicks stay as in the normal game. If your weapon breaks mid-attack, the same kind of weapon in the next slot is equipped and the attack goes on.
• Auto eat: when a food is about to run out, the same food is eaten again from your inventory.
• Equipment in water: weapons, tools, shields and torches stay in your hands while swimming, and you can use them. Swimming still drains stamina.

Interface

• Stats panel: a Stats button next to Skills shows kills, skill level-ups, time alive and more, per character.
• Network info: a small line under the minimap that tells whether lag comes from your connection, the server or another player (ping, server delay, packet loss, who runs the creatures around you).
• Camera zoom: zoom out farther, set separately for on foot, riding and steering a ship.

Time & Weather (off by default)

Always day or night, a longer or shorter share of daylight, a forced weather, no misty weather (the Mistlands keep their mist) and a fixed wind for sailing. Only what you see: on a server, others keep the normal sky.

Cheats (off by default)

For achievement hunting: almost no stamina or eitr use, up to 10x skill experience, never overweight, higher drop and trophy chances, and spawn rate, population and pack size multipliers (raids stay normal). Achievements still unlock.

Installing

• Mod manager (recommended): install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app; BepInEx is installed for you.
• Vortex: get it from the Nexus Mods page.
• By hand: install BepInExPack Valheim, then copy the contents of this package into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/QoL_Options/.

Settings are in-game under Settings → QoL, or in BepInEx/config/com.lorthan.valheimpureqolmodpack.cfg.

Removing the mod: first turn off Equipment slots in Settings → QoL, so your worn gear moves back into the inventory. Otherwise the game drops it at your feet the next time you load.

Multiplayer

Only you need the mod; it works alone, when hosting and on dedicated servers. Nobody else sees a difference, except where noted:

• Drop and trophy chances and the spawn multipliers only apply to creatures and areas your game runs: always when playing alone or hosting, on a server only around you when you're the first one there.
• Time & Weather only changes your own view; sleeping follows the server's clock.
• Nearby chests, Quick Stack, Restock and the building features respect wards and locked chests like the normal game.

Languages

English and Brazilian Portuguese. Translations are plain text files in the Translations folder (one key=text per line); copy Portuguese_Brazilian.txt, name it after Valheim's language (Spanish.txt, German.txt...) and translate. Contributions are welcome.

Compatibility

Other mods that do the same job (chest pulling, quick stack, sorting, trash, equipment slots or a bigger inventory, crafting from containers, camera zoom) may conflict with the matching feature here. If so, switch that feature off in Settings → QoL.

Support

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment on the mod's Nexus Mods page. If you enjoy the mod, a coffee is always appreciated ☕

Changelog

1.0.1

• Equipment slots: your worn helmet, chest, legs, cape, utility item and trinket get their own panel beside the inventory, so they no longer take inventory space. Rows bought from a trader don't move them. Turning it off moves your gear back into the inventory (with no room for it, it stays on); nothing is ever deleted. Turn it off before removing the mod, or the game drops the worn items at your feet on the next load.
• Sort: sorts your inventory (the hotbar stays as it is) or the open chest, merging partial stacks and grouping items by kind, then by name.
• Restock: fills up the ammo, food and potion stacks you carry from nearby chests.
• Trash slot: drop an item on it and confirm to delete it (hold Shift to skip the question).
• Inventory hotkeys while the inventory is open: Q quick stack, R restock, S sort. Small Q/R/S buttons under the equipment panel do the same, with tooltips; a small S button sorts the open chest. The keys can be changed or turned off.
• Equipment in water: weapons, tools, shields and torches stay in your hands while swimming, and you can use them.
• The recipe search field now shows as soon as a crafting station opens.
• The Quick Stack button position settings are gone: the buttons now sit next to the equipment panel.

1.0.0

• First public release.