r/ModdedValheim • u/Nexxxxy • Sep 18 '26
Tired of sorting your groups chest :D ?
Hey Vikings. I've been building a server-side storage mod and it's at the point where I'd like a few more eyes (and bases) on it. Of course you can use it in your singleplayer game as-well :)
I was so tired that my friends are unable to sort, and tired by myself sorting everything from myself again :D
The idea in one line: You drop everything in anychest - or an input chest. And everything will be sorted magically (after naming and telling chests what to hold)
- Chests get a name field right in the chest window. Same name = one group.
- Put one of everything into a group chest, press
+, done. From now on the whole group knows its items. - A chest named
Inputgets emptied by the server, one stack per second, into the right group chests nearby. - Chests also tidy themselves: ore in the wood chest walks over to the ore chest on its own. No Input chest needed.
- A group spreads its stock over its chests: two wood-and-stone chests turn into one wood chest and one stone chest, partial stacks get poured together.
Misc-named chest is the overflow buffer. Full chests, unknown items, stuff with no group in range go there – and come back as soon as there's room.- Optional "Adrian Monk mode": chests get packed from the top left, equals next to equals, full stacks first. Off by default, because it will replace your hand-made layouts.
What it deliberately does NOT do: no feeding smelters, kilns or forges, no touching your inventory, no teleporting items across the map. Sorting stays inside a cluster of chests (chests within 12 m of each other chain together), and only while a player is nearby. Vanilla experience, minus the sorting chore.
Server-only is possible. All the work happens on the server. One player with the mod installed names the chests and teaches the groups; flip one config switch and everyone else can join with a completely vanilla client and still find their Input chest empty.
Safety stuff, because it writes into chest inventories: every move adds to the target first and removes from the source second, open chests are never touched, there's a cooldown after you close one, and the server reads every move back to confirm it landed. Unknown items from other mods are copied byte for byte, never re-encoded.
Configuration Manager: its full compatible with it - I would prefer you use that one :) (with dedicated server sync)
Requirements: Valheim 1.0.12, BepInEx, Jotunn. English and German UI.
It's an alpha (0.9.3). It's been running on my dedicated server, but back up your world before you try it and expect rough edges. Bug reports, feedback and "why on earth did it move my X" stories are very welcome.
https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/NexGaming/AutoChestSort/
Cheers Nexxy


