🎒 Quad's Quality of Life

Small controls that make the game nicer to play, each with its own switch.

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✨ Features

What is in it

• Q: build a quick set from items you hover in your inventory; outside the inventory it swaps to the set and back.
• B: jump into construction mode with your hammer, and back to what you had.
• Sort: a button under your inventory joins split stacks and puts everything in order (hotbar and gear slots stay put).
• Stack to chests: a button under your inventory moves matching items into nearby chests, with Undo and sounds.
• K opens the chest assignment menu (choose what each chest receives); L locks items so they are never stacked.
• Boat push: tap or hold P next to a boat to shove it where you look (gentle, with a speed cap).
• Far zoom: scroll the camera out to 20 m on foot and 40 m on a boat (the game stops at 6); the steps grow as you zoom out.
• Planting: you cannot plant a seed, sapling or crop where it has no room to grow up (the ghost turns red and says so), instead of finding out after it never grows.

Keys are configurable. Q and B work while you are running.

📸 Screenshots

Choosing what a chest receives (K)

🎮 How to use

Key	What it does
Q	Build a quick set (inventory open) / swap to it and back
B	Jump into construction mode with your hammer, and back
K / L	Assign what a chest receives / lock an item
P	Tap or hold next to a boat (not in it) to push it where you look

🧩 Other mods

Known clashes

• ExtraSlots, Equipment and Quick Slots, AzuExtendedPlayerInventory, Extended Player Inventory, ComfyQuickSlots, BetterArchery (quiver on): the Sort button turns off while one is installed.
• ValheimPlus extra rows count as ordinary bag rows.

Works with our mods

• Its chest assignments (K) are used by Quad's Feed From Chests, Quad's Ledger Chest and Quad's Companion.
• Quad's Gear Slots: Sort and Stack to chests leave the gear slots alone.
• Quad's Recycler: items locked with L can't be recycled.

Removing it: a game key it freed (Q, auto-run) stays unbound; set it again in the game's controls.

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

👥 Multiplayer

Who needs it: Only the players who want it.

Chest assignments are saved on the chest, so everyone sees them. It skips chests others have open.

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

⚙️ Settings

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

BoatPush

Setting	Default	What it does
Enabled	true	Turn boat pushing on or off.
Key	P	Tap (or hold) this next to a boat, not in it, to push it the way you are looking.
Strength	3	How hard you push (metres per second, per second). Higher gets a heavy boat moving faster.
MaxSpeed	2.5	The fastest your pushing can move a boat (metres per second). Walking pace is about 5.
Seconds	3	One tap of the key keeps pushing for this long (holding it keeps pushing as long as you hold).
Range	3	How close you have to be to the boat's hull (metres).

Camera

Setting	Default	What it does
FarZoom	true	Let the scroll wheel zoom the camera out further than the game allows.
MaxDistance	20	How far out the camera can go on foot (metres). The game's own limit is 6.
MaxDistanceBoat	40	How far out the camera can go while steering a boat (metres).

General

Setting	Default	What it does
ShowMessages	true	Show a short message in the top-left when something happens.

Hammer

Setting	Default	What it does
Enabled	true	Turn the hammer shortcut on or off.
Key	B	Press to equip your hammer and start building. Press again to go back to what you had equipped.

Map

Setting	Default	What it does
ShowShips	true	Show every ship in the world on the minimap and the map, with a longship icon, wherever it is.
ShipPinType	Icon4	Which of the map's pin kinds the ship pins count as (their picture is the longship either way). Hiding that kind with the map's pin filters hides them too.

Planting

Setting	Default	What it does
NeedRoomToGrow	true	A seed, sapling or crop can only be planted where it has the room to grow up: the same check the game makes later (a plant with another plant, a rock, a tree or a building too close never grows), made before you plant, so the ghost turns red and you are told. Takes effect at once.

QuickSet

Setting	Default	What it does
Enabled	true	Turn the quick-set feature on or off.
Key	Q	Inventory open: hover an item and press to add/remove it from your quick set. Inventory closed: press to swap to the quick set, press again to go back to what you had.
ShowBadges	true	Mark quick-set items in your inventory with a small gold badge.

QuickStack

Setting	Default	What it does
Enabled	true	Turn the quick-stack buttons and item locking on or off.
Radius	20	How far (in metres) from you a chest can be and still be used by Stack to chests and Sort chests. Raise it to put things away into your storehouse from across a big base: 60 reaches a long way. Chests only count while their area is loaded around you (about 100 m and more). Takes effect at once.
LockKey	L	Inventory open: hover an item and press this to lock it (it will never be moved by the buttons) or unlock it.
StackKey	None	Optional key that does 'Stack to chests' while your inventory is open (useful with a controller). None = off.
ProtectHotbar	true	Never move items in your top inventory row (the hotbar).
ShowButtons	true	Show the buttons under your inventory when a chest is in range.
PlaySounds	true	Play the chests' own sounds when you stack (a thunk from each chest that takes items) and when you undo.
ShowChestLabels	true	Show what a chest is assigned to receive: under its Assign button when it's open, and in the hover text when you look at it.
AssignKey	K	Look at a chest (or have one open) and press this to choose what it should receive when you stack: whole categories or individual items.

Sort

Setting	Default	What it does
Enabled	true	Show a Sort button under your inventory: it joins split stacks and puts items in order. (Respects ProtectHotbar in the QuickStack settings.)

Stations

Setting	Default	What it does
BuildRange	0	How far (in metres) from a crafting station (workbench, stonecutter, forge, ...) you can build with it, when that is more than the station's own range (20 m, more with upgrades). 0 leaves the game's ranges. 60 reaches across a big base. 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.

🧪 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

• 1.11.2 A clearer page: what it does, who needs it in multiplayer, how it gets on with other mods, and where to report a bug. The game itself is unchanged.
• 1.11.1 A new id, com.quad.qualityoflife (it was com.dhack.qualityoflife): your settings move over by themselves the first time it starts, and the old settings file is kept as a backup. Restart the game after this update. If an old copy is still installed beside it, this one stands down and says which file to delete, so the two never both run. The DLL now says it was made with AI, as Thunderstore asks.
• Fix: Undo after Stack to chests could double an item or swap it for another: it took back the first item of that name in the chest (often an older one) and gave you a copy of the one you had put in, so an enchanted sword, a filled backpack or a worn tool could come back twice or come back as a different one. Undo now takes back the very item you put in; only plain stackable things (wood, stone, arrows) come back by name, and exactly as many as leave the chest. Stack to chests, Sort chests and Undo now also leave alone a chest another player is using or has just changed ("The chests in range are in use"), so your moves and theirs never undo each other. Sort is off (the button is hidden) next to a mod that keeps its own slots in your inventory's rows (ExtraSlots, Equipment and Quick Slots, AzuExtendedPlayerInventory, Extended Player Inventory, ComfyQuickSlots, BetterArchery with its quiver on): it pulled their items out of their slots. Stations/BuildRange is now decided by the server in multiplayer. If you change a key the mod freed from the game (Q: auto-run), the game gets its key back. The buttons under the inventory and the assign window now use the game's own lettering.

Every change is on the Changelog tab.