Supermans Auto Storage Craft
Client-side: deposit your inventory into nearby chests, lock items, craft/upgrade/cook and fill smelters from nearby chests, with an F1 settings window.Supermans Auto Storage/Craft (Valheim, client-side)
A client-only BepInEx mod. Nothing is needed on the server, and other players don't need it.
Controls
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Put your whole inventory into chests within range | . (Period) |
| Lock or unlock an item so it never gets deposited | Inventory open: hover over the item (or pick it up), hold Left Shift, press F |
| Fill a smelter, furnace, kiln, refinery, spinning wheel or windmill from chests | Look at it, hold Left Shift, scroll to pick the ore, then press E |
| Settings window (ranges and toggles) | F1 (Esc or F1 closes it) |
What it does
- Deposit: an item only goes into a nearby chest that already holds at least one of that item. That chest fills its existing stacks first, then uses its empty slots. If no chest in range has the item, or those chests have no room left, the item (or whatever didn't fit) stays in your inventory. It does this silently: no chest opens and no item names are shown. Equipped items and locked items stay with you.
- Locks: the lock is stored on the item itself, so it's saved with your character and stays on the item when you move it. Locked slots get an orange frame.
- Crafting, upgrading, cauldron cooking: while you're using a crafting station, recipes count materials in chests within range. When you craft, it takes from your inventory first and then from the chests. Again, nothing shows which chest was used. This also covers recipes that need only one of several ingredients. If your inventory has enough of one of them, that one is used, just as in the unmodded game. If not, an ingredient that your inventory and nearby chests have enough of together is used.
- Chests always keep 1: when crafting, cooking or smelting takes items from chests, it never takes the last 1 of an item. Each chest keeps at least one of every item it holds, so it keeps receiving that item when you deposit. The counts on the right side only include what can actually be spent.
- Cooking stations (spit, iron cooking station, oven): if you have no raw food on you, the station takes one piece from a nearby chest each time you press E.
- Right-side panel: with a recipe selected, the right side of the screen lists each needed item with have / need. "Have" counts your inventory plus the chests in range. When you look at a smelter, the panel shows the fuel and every ore it accepts, with the counts in range. The selected ore is marked.
- Smelter fill: fuel is topped up to the maximum and the queue is filled with the selected ore. It takes from chests first and then from your inventory.
Default ranges
15 m each for deposit, crafting/cooking and smelting. You can change them with the F1 window or in BepInEx/config/chestlink.valheim.cfg (allowed range 1–50 m). Key bindings can be changed in the same file.
Notes
- If another player has a chest open, that chest is skipped. Private chests that aren't yours, and chests inside a ward that doesn't permit you, are skipped as well. Tombstones are never used. Carts and ships are off by default.
- Don't run it alongside AzuCraftyBoxes, AzuAutoStore or another craft-from-chests mod. They patch the same game code.
- Official BepInEx ConfigurationManager also opens on F1. If you use both, change
ConfigMenuKey.
Building
dotnet build ChestLink.csproj -c Release
The build looks for Valheim in D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Valheim and for BepInEx in the Gale profile "Client Side Only". To use other locations, override them with -p:ValheimDir=... -p:BepInExCore=.... A Release build also writes Supermans_Auto_Storage_Craft-<version>.zip into the folder above this project. To install it, use Gale's Import → Import local mod and pick that zip.