📦 Quad's Craft From Chests

Craft from chests and containers: crafting stations and hand-crafting use materials from nearby chests (20 m, or your own range), with totals in the crafting menu and lines to the chests in use. Pairs with Build From Chests.

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✨ Features

Craft from chests: crafting stations, and hand-crafting from your inventory, use materials from nearby chests and containers.

How it works

• Anything you can reach within the range counts toward a recipe. The game takes the materials from your inventory first, then from the chests.
• The crafting menu shows how many of each material you have in total.
• A Chest lines button beside the crafting tabs draws lines from the station to every chest in use; a Range button cycles the distance (5 to 30 m).

📸 Screenshots

The workbench: Chest lines and Range beside the tabs, and the materials counted from the chests

Close up: the buttons and the counts

🤝 Goes well with

• Quad's Build From Chests: Build with materials from nearby chests
• Quad's Feed From Chests: Smelters, kilns and fires refill from chests
• Quad's Ledger Chest: See and search every chest around you
• Quad's Crafting Filters: Filter chips for every crafting station
• Quad's Quality of Life: Sorting, stacking and small conveniences

🧩 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 Build 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 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.craftfromchests/ 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.craftfromchests.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 crafting window, show how many of each material you HAVE (inventory + chests) next to how many you need.
ShowLines	false	Draw lines from the crafting station to every chest it can use.
ToggleOffsetX	0	Move the 'Chest lines' button horizontally from its default spot beside the Upgrade tab (UI pixels).
ToggleOffsetY	0	Move the 'Chest lines' button vertically (UI pixels). Negative = down.
ToggleScale	1	Size multiplier for the 'Chest lines' button.
ToggleWidth	2	'Chest lines' button width as a multiple of the Upgrade tab's width.
RangeButtonWidth	1.4	'Range' button width as a multiple of the Upgrade tab's width.

General

Setting	Default	What it does
Enabled	true	Turn the mod on or off.
Radius	20	How far (in meters) from the crafting station a chest can be and still be used. 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.

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📜 Recent changes

• 1.5.3 Settings: edits to the config file now apply while the game runs (a server owner no longer has to restart), and a server's admins can change the server's settings from their own game with Configuration Manager, where other players see them greyed out. Your config file always keeps your own values while you play on a server (saving it there could write the server's in). Players on an older version still get the server's settings.
• 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 crafting 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 crafting from the same chest at the same moment could both be paid for with the same materials (a free craft). A chest another player's game was looking after is now taken over when the crafting window opens and counts a moment later, and a craft is only paid from chests that are yours by then, so what the window shows is what will be paid.

Every change is on the Changelog tab.