Runic Display Stands

Turns configured Valheim item stands and armor stands into compact container-style storage without requiring Jotunn, ServerSync, or another shared mod library.

Features

• Open item and armor stands through Valheim's native container interface.
• Item stands accept any item.
• Hold the configured Take One key (Left Alt by default) while interacting to remove one item.
• Armor stands expose six fixed slots: helmet, chest, legs, cape, weapon, and shield.
• Interact with an armor stand switch to swap the stand's loadout with the player's equipped armor and the first matching weapon/shield in hotbar slots 1-8.
• Use the panel's Take all and Use/equip buttons for quick stand actions.
• Invalid armor-slot items are returned to the player, or dropped safely if inventory is full.
• Compact stand grids safely ignore out-of-range hover requests from inventory utility mods such as AzuAutoStore.
• Drag items between the player inventory and stand using the normal inventory controls.
• Preserves item quality, durability, crafter information, variants, and modded custom data such as enchantments while items are stored on either kind of stand.
• The host synchronizes the admin-controlled stand prefab list to modded clients using Valheim's built-in routed RPC system.

Installation

Copy RunicDisplayStands.dll into:

BepInEx/plugins/RunicDisplayStands/

All players who interact with these stands should install the mod. The only declared package dependency is BepInExPack Valheim.

Configuration

The generated config is:

BepInEx/config/chazman.RunicDisplayStands.cfg

• Admin / Stand Prefabs: comma-separated prefab names handled by the mod.
• General / Take One Item Key: modifier used for single-item take and armor container access.
• General / Gamepad Support: reserved controller-prompt preference.

Building

The project defaults to:

E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Valheim

Override VALHEIM_INSTALL when building elsewhere:

dotnet build -c Release -p:VALHEIM_INSTALL="C:\path\to\Valheim"

The project references the installed Valheim and BepInEx assemblies directly and has no NuGet package dependencies.

Compatibility

Built against the Valheim assemblies installed on July 16, 2026. Game updates that change ItemStand, ArmorStand, Container, or Switch internals may require a rebuild.