ItemDrawers

A drawer that holds a large quantity of a single item and shows that item and its count on its front face. Built from the Hammer, Furniture tab, at a Workbench.

Valheim 1.0 broke every existing drawer mod and none of them are maintained. This is a clean-room rewrite, not a fork or a port of makail's original ItemDrawers or of KG's kg_itemdrawers: the code is new and the mod ships no art of its own (see "No shipped assets" below). It keeps the spirit of the original — one drawer, one item type, a big number on the front — but the interaction scheme differs from makail's in a way you should know about before you report it as a bug (see Controls).

Drawers from makail's or KG's mods are not converted by this mod. If you remove one of those mods from a world that used it, its drawers become unknown pieces, the same as removing any other mod would; this mod does not read or migrate their data.

Tiers

Tier	Capacity	Recipe (at Workbench)
Item Drawer (wood)	1,000	10 Fine Wood
Stone Item Drawer	2,000	5 Fine Wood + 10 Stone
Black Marble Item Drawer	10,000	5 Fine Wood + 10 Black Marble

Each drawer is a 0.66m cube — the same footprint as the drawers this mod draws inspiration from, measured from their shipped asset bundle, so a wall built to that spacing still lines up. Capacities above are the defaults; a server admin can change them per tier in the config file.

Controls

Input	Effect
Use item from hotbar	Assign that item to an empty drawer, or deposit a stack into a matching one
E (Interact)	Take one stack
Ctrl+E	Take one item
Ctrl+E on an empty (zero-count) drawer	Clear the drawer's assigned item type
Shift+E	Deposit every matching item in your inventory

This is not makail's original control scheme, and that's deliberate, not a bug. The original mod documented "Alt+Interact" for take-one, but Valheim 1.0 has no Alt key binding at all. What that scheme was actually reading is Valheim's internal "AltPlace" action ("alternative placement"), and on Valheim 1.0's default bindings that action shares a key with Run (both are LeftShift) — so "Alt+Interact" and "Shift+Interact" were never two different combinations to begin with. Take-one here is bound to Ctrl instead (Valheim's "Crouch" action), a key that is actually distinct from Run/Shift. If you rebind Crouch or Run in Valheim's own settings, this mod follows the rebind.

No shipped assets

This mod ships no meshes, textures, or icons of its own. Every drawer's geometry is generated at runtime from chamfered boxes, and its textures are generated procedurally and tile seamlessly — nothing is pulled from another mod's asset bundle. Materials use Valheim's own Custom/Piece shader (borrowed from vanilla building pieces, not modelled), so drawers pick up the game's wear, wetness and snow shading like any other piece in your build. There is nothing encumbered here to publish, and nothing converted from an earlier mod's art.

Compatibility

Drawers derive from Valheim's Container so that a GetComponent<Container>() from another mod finds this type. As of 1.0.0 that is as far as the bridge goes: this drawer does not run Container's own setup, so a mod that calls GetInventory() on it directly will not see its contents today. Treat container-aware automation (fuel-feeders, auto-crafters, and similar) as not yet supported rather than assumed compatible — a proper bridge for that is planned but not shipped in this release.

Everything else about a drawer — placing it, assigning it, taking from it, depositing into it, breaking it (its contents spill rather than vanish) — works the same in single-player and on a dedicated server.

Dependencies

• BepInEx 5.4.2350
• Jotunn 2.30.0

Dedicated servers

Install it on the server as well as on every client. Drawers are custom prefabs, and a peer that does not know a prefab discards the objects using it: a server without this mod will strip every drawer from the world the first time it loads those zones, and the items they held go with them. Client and server should run the same version.

On the server:

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim. It contains the server start scripts as well as the loader.
2. Copy Jotunn.dll, ItemDrawers.dll and ItemDrawers.Core.dll into the server's BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Start the server with start_server_bepinex.sh (Linux) or start_server_bepinex.bat (Windows). The stock start_server script does not load BepInEx, so the server comes up vanilla and strips the drawers exactly as if the mod were not installed.

Check BepInEx/LogOutput.log for ItemDrawers <version> loaded before letting anyone connect.

Capacity and pickup settings are marked admin-only, so Jotunn pushes the server's values to every client and a client editing its own config file changes nothing. Edit them in the server's BepInEx/config/com.rossdwest.itemdrawers.cfg.

Installing both DLLs

This mod ships as two assemblies: ItemDrawers.dll (the plugin) and ItemDrawers.Core.dll (pure logic the plugin depends on). If you are copying files by hand rather than using a mod manager, copy both — ItemDrawers.dll alone loads with no error in the log but registers zero drawers, because it throws FileNotFoundException looking for ItemDrawers.Core.dll the first time it needs it. A Thunderstore-managed install (r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager, or the mod manager's own download) always installs the whole package, so this only matters for a manual copy.