Armory

Craft an Armory Rack to save, store, and instantly recall named equipment sets — armor, weapons, shield, cape, utility, and the eight hotbar slots — without rummaging through chests every time you switch between farming, mining, exploring, and fighting.

The rack is also a real storage container. Drop your alternate gear in, walk up, press [Use], and pick the loadout you want. Whatever you're currently wearing is swapped back into the exact slot the new gear came from.

Features

• Named loadout slots — save your current equipment as "Farming", "Mining", "Boss", etc. Rename by clicking the slot name. Up to 10 slots per rack.
• Combined armor + hotbar — captures helm, chest, legs, cape, utility, right-hand, left-hand, and quickbar items 1–8.
• Storage + loadouts in one — the rack is also a Container (6×4 grid). Load pulls items from the rack and your inventory; saved gear in the rack counts as "available".
• In-place swap — when Load equips a new item, whatever was in that slot gets stored back at the exact grid position the new item came from. Nothing ends up on the action bar unless that's where it was sitting.
• Live status — a green ● on the Load button means you're already wearing this loadout. Missing items show red in the summary text and red in the icon strip.
• Compare window — side-by-side view of your current gear vs. the saved set, with color-coded availability.
• Optional in-game pause — config flag pauses the game while the panel is open (singleplayer-friendly; in multiplayer this only pauses your local clock).

How to Use

1. Build an Armory Rack from the Hammer menu's Furniture tab. Requires a Workbench in range. See Recipe.
2. Press [Use] on the rack to open the panel — your inventory and the rack's storage appear alongside it.
3. Click Save (↓) on a slot to capture what you're currently wearing and the items in hotbar slots 1–8.
4. Click Load (↑) on a saved slot to equip that loadout. Items come from the rack first, then your inventory. Whatever you were wearing gets stored in the slot the loaded item came from.
5. Click the slot name to rename it. Click the red x to delete the slot (empty slots and duplicates delete without confirmation; non-empty unique slots prompt first).

Recipe

Buildable at the Workbench. Black Forest tier.

Configuration

The config file is created at BepInEx/config/GBahns.Armory.cfg on first run.

[General]

• Pause Game While Armory Open (default: false) — pauses the game while the rack panel is open. Intended for singleplayer; in multiplayer this only pauses your local clock, which can desync you from the server.

[UI]

• Show Summary Text (default: true) — show the textual list of items below each loadout's name (Helm:..., Chest:..., etc.).
• Show Icons (default: true) — show the row of item icons at the bottom of each loadout row.

[Window]

• Panel Position X / Panel Position Y — auto-updated when you close the rack so the panel reopens where you last left it. Persists across game sessions.

Requirements

• BepInEx 5
• Jotunn

Compatibility

• Multiplayer compatible — loadout data is stored in the rack's ZDO, so it persists through world saves and is visible to other players.
• AzuExtendedPlayerInventory — supported. Items sitting in Azu's extra equipment slots are detected and swapped correctly.
• Should be compatible with most other mods; no vanilla systems are permanently altered.

Notes

• Save/Load/Compare/Delete buttons disable themselves when not applicable (e.g. Load is disabled when the slot is empty or when you're already wearing the saved set).
• The rack's doors swing open while the panel is open — purely visual, no gameplay effect.
• Held items (weapons/tools you have equipped in your hands) are part of the loadout and get swapped on Load just like armor.

Changelog

1.0.0 — 2026-09-09

First public release, built for Valheim 1.0.7.

• Armory Rack build piece (Hammer > Furniture; needs a Workbench in range) that is both a storage container and a loadout station.
• Up to 10 named loadouts per rack, each capturing helm, chest, legs, cape, utility, right hand, left hand and hotbar slots 1-8.
• Load pulls gear from the rack first, then your inventory, and stores what you were wearing back into the exact slot the new item came from.
• Live status on each slot, a compare window for current gear versus the saved set, and an optional pause while the panel is open.
• Loadouts are stored in the rack's ZDO, so they survive saves and work in multiplayer.