Runic Display Stands

Display stands make equipment look at home in your base, but the moment you want to use that equipment you are back to opening chests and moving every piece by hand.

Runic Display Stands turns supported item and armor stands into functional storage. Store items through familiar inventory controls and use an armor stand as a ready-made loadout station.

Major features

• Open supported item and armor stands through Valheim's container interface.
• Store any item on item stands and valid equipment in armor-stand roles.
• Swap a complete supported armor and weapon loadout with your character.
• Use quick Take all, Take one, and Use/equip actions.
• Preserve quality, durability, crafter data, variants, and modded custom data.

How it feels in-game

The equipment displayed around your hall becomes part of how you play. Walk up to the stand prepared for sailing, mining, or battle, swap what you are wearing, and leave without assembling the loadout one inventory slot at a time.

Safety and compatibility

Invalid equipment is rejected and safely returned or dropped if necessary. Scripted stands such as Forsaken stones, offering holders, and quest props keep their original behavior. The host synchronizes the configured stand list through Valheim's routed networking, and the mod requires no Jotunn, ServerSync, or shared Runic library.

Support and community

Need help, found a bug, or have an idea?

Join the Chazman Mods Discord

• Report bugs and unexpected behavior.
• Ask installation, configuration, and compatibility questions.
• Request features and follow mod updates.
• When reporting a bug, include the mod version, Valheim version, reproduction steps, screenshots or errors, and your BepInEx LogOutput.log when available.
• Remove passwords, tokens, and other personal information before posting logs.

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 only accept one helmet, chest, legs, cape, shield, and compatible hand/back-mounted equipment in the attachment points supplied by Valheim.
• Utility items and duplicate equipment categories are rejected and safely returned.
• 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.
• Forsaken stones, boss-offering holders, quest props, and other location-scripted item stands retain their original interactions and never open as containers.

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.

Changelog

1.3.2 - 2026-09-05

• Reworked the Thunderstore description and README opening to lead with the player problem, the mod's core benefit, major features, in-game feel, and then safety and compatibility details.
• Description-only package update. The plugin DLL and gameplay behavior are byte-for-byte unchanged from 1.3.1.

1.3.1

• Added CHANGELOG.md to the Thunderstore package so release history is available directly from the mod listing.

1.3.0

• Excluded the Forsaken altars at Spawn from container-style interactions, preserving Valheim's normal boss-trophy placement behavior.
• Excluded boss-offering holders, quest props, and other location-scripted item stands that reuse vanilla item-stand components but should retain their original interactions.
• Restricted armor stands to their intended loadout categories: one helmet, one chest, one pair of legs, one cape, one shield, and compatible hand/back-mounted equipment.
• Added safe rejection of incompatible items and duplicate equipment categories; rejected items are returned to the player or dropped safely when the inventory is full.
• Added Discord support, update, and bug-report information to the package documentation.
• Updated the package support link to the Chazman Mods Discord server.

1.2.4

• Added bounds protection for compact stand inventory grids, preventing out-of-range hover errors with inventory utility mods such as AzuAutoStore.

1.2.3

• Initial Thunderstore release.
• Added compact container-style interfaces for configured item stands and armor stands.
• Added single-item removal and armor-loadout swapping.
• Preserved item quality, durability, variants, crafter data, and modded custom item data.
• Added host synchronization for the managed stand-prefab configuration.