🔨 Quad's Build From Chests

Build from chests: building with the hammer uses materials from nearby chests and containers, not just your inventory.

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✨ Features

• Pieces you place take materials from your inventory first, then from chests within range (default 20 m).
• The build menu shows how many of each material you have in total, so you can see what is possible before you place anything.
• Works together with CraftFromChests; each can be turned off on its own.

📸 Screenshots

Building with the hammer: what each piece needs counts what is in the chests around you

🧩 Other mods

Known clashes

• Adventure Backpacks ("Craft From Backpack"): handled. The backpack pays its part first and the chests pay only what is still missing. The backpack is never used as a chest.
• Other craft-from-chests mods (AzuCraftyBoxes, CraftFromContainers (aedenthorn, and its forks), Craft From Chests (Toxo), CraftFromChestsPlus, Teflon Ted's Craft From Chests, StoreAndCraft, SmartCraft-Storage, and ValheimPlus while its CraftFromChest section is on): they also take from chests, and two such mods count every chest twice. When one is installed this mod stands down and leaves it to them; the log says so once.
• Any mod that refuses a payment or already paid: respected. It runs after other mods and does nothing if they cancelled.

Works with our mods

• Quad's Craft From Chests and Quad's Feed From Chests: fine together. Each works only in its own moment and pays only what the others left.
• Quad's Build Orders: building planned ghosts with E is paid from nearby chests, and its fetch key takes one piece's worth out of them. Your Radius applies there too.
• Quad's Recycler and companions' chests (Quad's Companion) are never used.

Found a clash with another mod? Tell us which one and what happened.

👥 Multiplayer

Who needs it: Only the players who want it.

It only takes from chests you could open yourself: never one someone else has open, one behind a ward that keeps you out, or a private chest.

The host decides: how far it reaches (Radius). While you play on their world their values replace yours (your file isn't changed); a host without the mod leaves everyone their own.

🌍 Languages

English, Русский (Russian), Deutsch (German), 简体中文 (Chinese), Português do Brasil (Portuguese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Polski (Polish), Türkçe (Turkish). It follows the game's own language setting.

The translations were made with AI, so a few words may be off. To correct one, or to add your language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.buildfromchests/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json, Italian.json, Japanese.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from English.json (it wins over the built-in one). Or tell us the better words and we'll put them in for everyone.

⚙️ Settings

In BepInEx/config/com.quad.buildfromchests.cfg, made the first time the game runs with the mod. r2modman and Thunderstore Mod Manager edit it under Config editor.

Display

Setting	Default	What it does
ShowHaveCounts	true	In the build menu, show how many of each material you HAVE (inventory + chests) next to how many you need.

General

Setting	Default	What it does
Enabled	true	Turn the mod on or off.
Radius	20	How far (in meters) from YOU a chest can be and still be used while building (also for BuildOrders: building its ghosts, hold E to build all, and its fetch key). Raise it to build far from your storehouse: 60 reaches across a big base. Chests only count while their area is loaded around you (about 100 m and more). Takes effect at once. In multiplayer the server's value applies.

🤖 Made with AI

Made with the help of Claude (Anthropic), with Claude Code: designed, written and checked together, and tried in the game.

💬 Join us on Discord

Come hang out with the people who make and play these mods. In the Quads Lab Discord you can:

• 🛠️ Get help and report bugs straight to us
• 👀 See new mods first, and help test them before they're released
• 🗳️ Suggest ideas and vote on what we make next
• 🏰 Share your builds, bases and arena runs
• 🤖 Talk AI coding and vibe coding with people building things with AI, the way these mods are made

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🧪 About Quads Lab

Quads Lab is where Quad H (HardHeadHackerHead) builds software with AI, of every kind: these Valheim mods are one of its projects. Each mod is designed by a player, written with Claude Code and tested in our own world, with bobisme as our tester.

• 🌐 quadslab.io
• 🧰 All Quads Lab mods on Thunderstore
• 💻 Source code on GitHub
• 💬 Discord
• 🐞 Found a bug? Open an issue on GitHub

📜 Recent changes

• 1.5.2 Fix: after leaving a world for the main menu and joining one again, the chests claimed just before could no longer be looked up, and building from chests could stop working until a restart (the game renumbers its object ids on each join).
• 1.5.1 Fixed in multiplayer: two players building from the same chest at the same moment could both be paid for with the same materials (a free piece). A chest another player's game was looking after is now taken over as soon as you need what is in it and counts a moment later, and a piece is only paid from chests that are yours by then. Smoother: with the hammer out, the chests in range are looked up once a second (sooner when you have moved a few metres) instead of almost every frame while you move, which mattered with a large Radius.
• 1.5.0 Now in your language: English, Russian, German, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, French, Polish and Turkish, following the game's own Language setting. The game's own names are used for its things (items, creatures, lands, stations). The translations were made with AI: to correct a line, or add a language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.buildfromchests/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from translations/English.json on GitHub.

Every change is on the Changelog tab.