Rusty Heathens QoL

A standalone Valheim quality-of-life mod built for the Rusty Heathens community. It combines everyday base-management helpers with an expanded player inventory, dedicated equipment slots, and a full-body character preview.

What's new in 0.5.4

Six-row normal inventory

The visible player inventory now uses the previously empty space and grows from 4 rows / 32 normal slots to 6 rows / 48 normal slots.

The Rusty dedicated slots remain separate:

• Head
• Chest
• Legs
• Back
• Utility x2
• Trinket
• Ammo x1
• Food x3

Characters coming from the previous Rusty four-row layout are migrated once so items in the old dedicated backing rows are moved into the new hidden backing rows before rows 5-6 become normal storage.

Carry-weight display clearance

The dedicated-slot / character-preview panel now leaves room for Valheim's carry-weight display instead of covering it.

Features

Tiered Proximity Auto Repair

Walk close enough to a usable repair station and damaged gear is repaired automatically. You do not need to press E or open the crafting station.

Repair stations inherit the repair capability of the tiers below them:

• Workbench repairs Workbench gear.
• Forge repairs Forge and Workbench gear.
• Black Forge repairs Black Forge, Forge, and Workbench gear.
• Galdr Table repairs all recipe-backed repairable gear covered by the repair hierarchy.

Normal station requirements still matter, including whether the station is usable and whether the item's required station level is available.

Safe Quick Stack

Press P near your base to move matching storage resources into nearby chests that already contain that item.

• Default range: 20 meters
• Only safe storage types are quick-stacked
• Weapons, armor, equipped items, food, ammo, and dedicated-slot items are protected
• Chests are network-ownership checked before changes are committed

Craft From Nearby Chests

Crafting, upgrading, and building can use materials from accessible nearby containers.

• Default range: 20 meters
• Requirement UI includes eligible nearby materials
• Player inventory is consumed first, then nearby containers

Food Slots and Hotkeys

Three dedicated food slots sit beside the character preview.

• Alt + Z - top food slot
• Alt + X - middle food slot
• Alt + C - bottom food slot
• Alt+X suppresses Valheim's normal Sit action for that keypress

When a vanilla food icon enters its flashing window, the mod displays EAT OR DIE! by default.

Standalone Equipment Inventory

RustyHeathensQoL includes its own equipment-slot system and does not depend on AzuEPI or ExtraSlots.

The six visible rows provide 48 normal inventory slots. Dedicated gear/food/ammo slots are backed by hidden rows inside the player's real Valheim inventory so normal save/load, weight, crafting, and tombstone systems can still see the items.

Valid armor, utility items, and trinkets auto-equip when their matching dedicated slot is empty. Spare gear stays in the normal inventory. Equipped gear can still be dragged back out and unequipped normally.

The inventory also includes a full-body character preview beside the dedicated slots.

Gear Grave Marker

If a tombstone contains real adventuring gear, a red GEAR death marker identifies the important grave. The special marker disappears when that tombstone is emptied.

Server-Controlled Gameplay Settings

In multiplayer, the server is authoritative for feature toggles, ranges, and the food warning text. The Quick Stack hotkey itself is client-configurable.

Installation

Thunderstore / r2modman

Install RustyHeathensQoL and launch Valheim modded. The BepInEx dependency is installed automatically.

Multiplayer

Install the same RustyHeathensQoL version on:

• the dedicated server
• every player client

For the inventory UI and server-authoritative QoL behavior, server and clients should stay on the same version.

Manual

Place RustyHeathensQoL.dll in:

Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/RustyHeathensQoL/

Updating from an older RustyHeathensQoL version

Version 0.5.4 changes the player inventory layout from four visible normal rows to six. The mod contains a one-time migration for the previous Rusty layout.

Before updating, make a backup of important characters. Then update both the server and clients to the same version before playing multiplayer.

Compatibility and Migration

Do not run RustyHeathensQoL alongside another mod that rewrites the player inventory grid, including AzuExtendedPlayerInventory, ExtraSlots, or ExtraSlotsCustomSlots.

Before switching from another inventory mod:

1. Move everything out of that mod's extra/equipment/food/ammo slots into normal inventory or chests.
2. Log out so the character saves.
3. Disable/remove the other inventory mod.
4. Install RustyHeathensQoL.
5. Log back in and re-equip.

Before uninstalling RustyHeathensQoL, move items out of its dedicated slots first and save the character.

If another mod provides overlapping auto-store/quick-stack behavior, disable one of the overlapping features to avoid conflicting transfers.

Default Controls

Action	Default
Safe Quick Stack	P
Food slot 1	Alt + Z
Food slot 2	Alt + X
Food slot 3	Alt + C

Default Server Settings

Feature	Default
Auto Repair	On
Safe Quick Stack	On
Quick Stack Range	20 m
Craft From Nearby Chests	On
Craft Range	20 m
Food Warning	On
Food Warning Text	EAT OR DIE!
Gear Grave Marker	On

Tested

Version 0.5.4 uses the R29 build tested in-game before this Thunderstore package was prepared. The six-row inventory layout and carry-weight display clearance were visually verified in the local Thunderstore test profile. The tiered proximity auto-repair work from the previously tested R27 build is preserved.

Credits

Inventory layout and interaction behavior were inspired by the excellent AzuExtendedPlayerInventory project by Azumatt. RustyHeathensQoL is a standalone implementation and has no runtime dependency on AzuEPI.

Support

When reporting a problem, include:

• RustyHeathensQoL version
• Valheim version
• BepInEx/LogOutput.log
• what action triggered the issue