Compact Crafting Upgrades
Place forge and other crafting upgrades closer together. Configurable 0.5m spacing by default; station ranges and bonuses unchanged. Initial release; in-game verification pending.Compact Crafting Upgrades
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Fit your forge upgrades into a smaller workshop. Compact Crafting Upgrades reduces the minimum spacing between crafting-station upgrades to 0.5 meters by default.
Works with forge, workbench, black forge, and other pieces that use Valheim's standard station-extension spacing check. Choose a spacing from 0 to 2 meters. Zero removes that spacing check; ordinary collision and placement restrictions still apply.
Crafting-station connection distances, build ranges, upgrade levels, recipes, and resource costs are unchanged. An upgrade still needs to be within its station's normal connection distance to provide a bonus.
Installation
Install through a Thunderstore-compatible mod manager with BepInEx, or copy the included plugins folder into your profile's BepInEx folder. Restart Valheim.
Disable CraftingStationTweakz before using this mod. The loader marks that combination incompatible to avoid conflicting spacing behavior. Other mods that change station-upgrade placement may also conflict.
Settings
After the first launch, edit BepInEx/config/OctoberJemini.CompactCraftingUpgrades.cfg with the game closed, then launch again. A compatible in-game configuration manager can also change the values during play.
| Section / setting | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| General / Enabled | true | Enable the custom spacing check |
| General / MinimumUpgradeSpacing | 0.5 | Minimum spacing in meters, from 0 to 2 |
Disabling or uninstalling the mod restores normal placement checks. This mod does not move existing pieces or add custom pieces to world saves.
Compatibility and validation
Initial release. Compiled against the installed Valheim assemblies and BepInEx 5. The current game's station-extension method and placement call were inspected. Package structure and icon dimensions were checked. Full in-game placement and multiplayer verification remain pending.
The change runs on the building player's client. Settings are local and are not synchronized or enforced by a server. Use server-approved settings in multiplayer.
Credits
An independent implementation by OctoberJemini. Code and icon created with AI assistance. No game binaries or third-party mod binaries are bundled. Source code is included in source/.