DvergerAutomation

Build a Dverger Autosorter and the chests around it become one shared material pool. Craft at any workbench it links, build with the Hammer anywhere in its range, and the ingredients come straight out of your storage instead of your backpack.

It works in both directions: dump a haul into the sorter's deposit box and it files each stack into the chest that already holds that item.

No more hauling stacks of wood and iron out of chests before every build session, and no more hand-sorting them back in afterwards.

Features

Craft and build from nearby storage

The Autosorter periodically scans its surroundings and links two things:

• Crafting stations in range. Standing at a linked station, recipes count the linked chests as if their contents were in your inventory - both the ingredient counts shown in the panel and whether the recipe is craftable at all.
• Storage chests in range. Building with the Hammer anywhere inside the Autosorter's radius pulls materials from those same chests.

Your own inventory is always spent first; only the shortfall is drawn from storage.

Auto-store: dump a haul, walk away

The Autosorter has a deposit box on its front face. Open it, drop in whatever you came home with, and close it - each stack is filed into the chests in range that already hold that item.

• One stack splits across chests: 40 wood will top up a nearly-full wood chest and put the rest in the next one.
• A chest only qualifies if it already contains that exact item, so nothing ever lands somewhere you did not already decide it belongs. Empty chests are never filled.
• Anything with no home comes straight back to you - into your inventory, or onto the ground at the sorter if your pack is full. The box is a chute, not storage: it always ends up empty.
• Only public chests receive items. A Private chest is never filled, not even one you placed yourself - locking a chest is a decision about what goes in it.
• Chests another player currently has open are skipped.
• The box is the size of your own inventory by default, so a full backpack fits in one trip. Admins can resize it; items already inside are never lost to a smaller size - the box keeps room for them until they are sorted out.

Items sitting in the deposit box are deliberately not counted as crafting stock - they are on their way out, and counting them would show materials that vanish a second later.

Surtling Core slots

The Autosorter has four Surtling Core slots. Interact with a slot to insert a core, or to take one back out. Cores are stored on the piece itself, replicate to other players, survive reloads, and drop on the ground if the Autosorter is destroyed or deconstructed - they are never lost.

By default the Autosorter stays dormant until at least one core is inserted, and each core extends the link radius (+25m by default, on top of the 20m base). Four cores reach 120m. Both the requirement and the per-core bonus are configurable.

Respects locks and wards

A chest is only linked if you could open it yourself. A chest set to Private is linked only for the player who placed it, a chest set to Group is skipped entirely, and any chest inside a ward you are not permitted in is skipped. Your own ward is fine.

Auto-store is stricter still: it only ever files items into public chests, so your own Private chests can feed crafting but never receive sorted goods.

Epic Loot support (optional)

If Epic Loot is installed, DvergerAutomation registers itself with it properly rather than patching around it:

• The enchanting table draws from linked chests. Runestones, shards and dust stay in storage instead of your inventory.
• Enchanted gear is protected. Vanilla ingredient consumption matches items by name, and an enchanted item shares its name with the ordinary version - so without this, a recipe could quietly consume a legendary sitting in one of your chests. DvergerAutomation refuses to spend magic items as plain crafting material, and does not count them as such either.
• Auto-store leaves magic items alone by default, for the same reason: a legendary would otherwise be filed into whatever chest holds the ordinary version. It comes back to you instead. Turn on Sort Magic Items if you would rather have them stored.

Epic Loot is a soft dependency: not having it installed changes nothing.

Installation (manual)

1. Install BepInEx and Jotunn.
2. Drop DvergerAutomation.dll into <Valheim>/BepInEx/plugins/.

Multiplayer: every player on the server needs the mod, and versions must match on major and minor. The Autosorter's settings are server-authoritative and only admins can change them.

Building the Autosorter

Built with the Hammer, in the Crafting category, near a Forge:

Material	Amount
Stone	20
Bronze	8
Greydwarf eye	20
Ectoplasm	4

All costs are refunded on deconstruction.

Configuration

Settings live under BepInEx/config/MidngightsFX.DvergerAutomation.cfg.

Setting	Default	Range	What it does
Enabled	true		Master switch for the Autosorter.
Scan Radius	20	1-64	Base radius (meters) in which stations and chests are linked.
Range Per Core	25	0-100	Extra radius added per inserted Surtling Core.
Require Cores	true		When on, the Autosorter links nothing until a core is inserted.
Auto Store	true		Closing the deposit box files its contents into chests that already hold the same item.
Sort Magic Items	false		When on, enchanted (Epic Loot) items are filed away too instead of being handed back.
Deposit Box Width	8	2-8	Columns in the deposit box. 8 is the most the container panel can show.
Deposit Box Height	4	2-8	Rows in the deposit box. Extra rows scroll.
Scan Interval	30	5-300	Seconds between scans. Lower reacts to new chests sooner and costs more.
EnableDebugMode	false		Verbose logging. Client-side, and hidden behind Advanced.

Inserting or removing a core relinks immediately rather than waiting for the next scan.

Known issues

• New chests placed inside the radius are not picked up by the crafting pool until the next scan (up to Scan Interval seconds). Reinserting a core forces an immediate rescan. Auto-store is not affected: closing the deposit box always relinks first.
• Auto-store runs when you close the deposit box. If you log out or the area unloads with items still inside, they stay there until you open and close it again. They are safe either way - destroying the Autosorter drops them on the ground along with the cores.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.