Vanilla Inventory Plus

Vanilla Inventory Plus — is a configurable UI mod for Valheim that improves inventory and storage management while keeping the game’s visual style. It adds Nearby Stash, allowing you to move matching items into nearby chests using an in-game button or hotkey, as well as sorting buttons for both the player inventory and storage containers. Button positions, sizes, visibility, and other features can be customized through Configuration Manager.

Customize the position and size of the inventory sorting buttons through Configuration Manager.

Features

Nearby Stash

• Quickly moves matching items from your inventory into nearby containers that already hold those items.
• Set the search radius and choose whether to use only player-built containers.
• Protect the first inventory row (hotbar) from being moved.
• Use the button in the player inventory or the configurable hotkey.
• Respects container access and ward restrictions.
• Skips unsupported transport storage such as carts and ships.

Player inventory and storage sorting

• Sort the player inventory or the open storage by Name, Weight, or Type.
• Click a sort button again to reverse the order.
• Player inventory sorting leaves the hotbar untouched.
• Matching partial stacks are combined where space is available.

Additional storage buttons

• Stack All combines matching items into available stacks.
• Take All moves items from the open container to your inventory.
• Choose whether the custom Take All button uses an icon or vanilla-style text.
• Choose which custom buttons to show and whether to hide the original vanilla Stack All and Take All buttons.

Toolbars and stat panels

• Compact buttons are available in the player inventory and storage windows.
• Choose a toolbar position and adjust its width, height, spacing, and X/Y offsets.
• Extend either window background downward by 30 UI pixels.
• Show compact weight and armor stat panels in the extended background area. These panels require the matching background extension to be enabled.
• Tint custom button icons with the configurable icon color.

Compatibility

Extra Slots is optional. When it is installed, Vanilla Inventory Plus uses its API to identify the normal player inventory area. Player sorting and Nearby Stash ignore Extra Slots' special or hidden storage slots.

If Extra Slots is detected but its inventory-area API cannot be read safely, the affected player-inventory operation is skipped rather than using unknown slots.

Some features have not been fully tested in combination with every other inventory, storage, or UI mod. Compatibility issues, visual glitches, or unexpected behavior may occur when using multiple mods that modify the same game interfaces.

Mods that fully replace Valheim's inventory UI may require separate compatibility work.

Installation

Thunderstore / r2modman

Install Vanilla Inventory Plus from Thunderstore using r2modman or another compatible mod manager. BepInExPack for Valheim is required.

Manual installation

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Copy VanillaInventoryPlus.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/VanillaInventoryPlus/.
3. Launch the game.

Localization

Localization: available in 24 languages — English, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Ukrainian, German, French, Chinese (Simplified), Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Dutch, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Czech.

Configuration

Vanilla Inventory Plus uses the standard BepInEx configuration system. The configuration file is created after the first game launch:

BepInEx/config/dellarion.valheim.vanillainventoryplus.cfg

Boolean defaults below are written as Enabled or Disabled. UI pixel values are interface units and may scale with the game's UI. Radius is measured in meters. Defaults apply when a setting has not already been saved in the config file.

General appearance

Player Inventory Window Appearance

Player Inventory Window Buttons

Storage Inventory Window Appearance

Storage Inventory Window Buttons

Nearby Stash

An in-game BepInEx Configuration Manager can also be used if you already have one installed.

Credits and authorship

Concept, feature design, UX/UI design, visual identity/assets, testing, and project direction: Dellarion.

Code and gameplay/UI mechanics implementation: developed with ChatGPT by OpenAI, under the author's direction, iteration, testing, and final approval.

Valheim is developed by Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Publishing. This project is an unofficial fan-made mod and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Iron Gate Studio, Coffee Stain Publishing, or OpenAI.

Changelog

1.3.2 - 2026-11-11

Improved

• Smoother movement for compact armor and weight displays, with an accurate preview of where each display will be placed.
• Reduced the gap between the inventory and Extra Slots windows when joined.

Added

• The Take All button can now be moved inside the storage window.

1.3.1 - 2026-11-08

Fixed

• Fixed Armor and Weight errors when opening or closing inventory and storage windows, including while dragging a stat panel.

1.3.0 - 2026-11-06

Added

• Hold Left Alt and drag the sorting buttons to a new position in your inventory or a storage window.
• Move armor and weight displays along the window edges, or use compact versions in the expanded area. Drag compact displays to change their order.
• Bring Extra Slots next to your inventory to join the windows, with room for compact stats between them. Pull Extra Slots away to separate them again.
• Added support for RecyclePlus and EconomyInfo, plus some other mods that add small panels beside the inventory.

Improved

• Improved adaptation to window resizing, background extension, and reopening inventory and storage windows.

1.2.1 — 2026-10-31

Added

• Added armor and weight tooltips to the original stat modules as well as their mirrors. Armor tooltips show total armor, each equipped armor piece, its upgrade level, and its armor contribution; weight tooltips use the same whole-number rounding as the inventory display.
• Nearby Stash tooltips now show the number of eligible containers in range, the estimated number of items to deposit, and the expected weight change. Preview values are highlighted in yellow; the preview does not move any items.

Improved

• Reworked Type sorting to group resources into recognizable families, including wood, stone, ores, metals, and animal materials, followed by food and equipment categories.
• Refined the Player Inventory and Storage settings windows with centered section headings and a single row for Inside, OnBorder, and Outside. These placement options appear only for the two bottom toolbar positions.
• Button visibility is now toggled by clicking the button icon itself. Icons use the default toolbar button dimensions and remain visible at 50% opacity when their toolbar action is hidden.

Fixed

• Fixed stat mirrors disappearing after reopening an inventory or storage window with an extended background.
• Fixed hidden original stat modules leaving active tooltip areas behind, including after UI size changes.
• Reduced stat-module flicker during UI refreshes and inventory-slot animations.
• Corrected the original Take All button's position relative to the storage background, matching the original Stack All button's top inset.

1.2.0 — 2026-10-20

Added

• Added hover-activated arrow controls at the lower-left of the Player Inventory and Storage windows to expand or collapse their additional background area.
• Added compact, vanilla-style in-game settings windows for Player Inventory and Storage. Configure toolbar placement, button visibility, background extension, and stat display from the corresponding window; button icons include tooltips. Storage visibility controls cover its four toolbar actions and omit Take All.
• Hovering the armor stat mirror now shows each equipped armor piece and its armor value.

Improved

• Optimized Nearby Stash transfers; sorting and depositing matching items is about 50% faster.
• Nearby Stash leaves the item currently held by the cursor untouched; equipped items and protected hotbar slots remain protected.
• Settings changes now refresh the open menu in place without rebuilding the window.
• Stack matching now checks item quality, variant, world level, and custom data, avoiding merges between unlike items.
• Nearby Stash checks for compatible stack space or an empty slot before requesting Stack All, waits for the container response, and rechecks access, range, and network ownership before moving items. Full or denied containers are skipped safely while the search continues.
• Long Nearby Stash searches yield between batches of containers to keep the game responsive.

Fixed

• Fixed the mirror scanner picking up labels and values from unrelated UI windows, including crafting and skills, into the extended inventory area.

1.1.0 — 2026-10-17

Added

• Added localization for 15 additional languages, bringing the total to 24.
• Added optional extended backgrounds for the Player Inventory and Storage Inventory windows, with weight stats shown in both windows and armor stats shown in the player window.
• Added four vertical corner placements for the Player Inventory toolbar, matching the Storage Inventory toolbar.
• Added independent width and height scaling for the Player Inventory and Storage Inventory toolbars, from 75% to 150%.

Improved

• Slightly increased the default size of toolbar buttons.
• Reordered Player Inventory and Storage Inventory appearance settings.

1.0.1 — 2026-10-07

• Added Ukrainian localization
• Added German localization
• Added French localization
• Added Spanish localization
• Added Chinese localization
• Added Swedish localization

1.0.0 — 2026-10-03

Initial public release.

Added

• Container sorting by name, weight, and type
• Player inventory sorting by name, weight, and type
• Stack consolidation during sorting
• Improved custom Stack All behavior
• Custom Take All button
• Configurable Container Tools toolbar
• Optional compact horizontal container buttons
• Configurable Player Inventory Tools toolbar
• Nearby Stash for depositing matching items into nearby chests
• Configurable Nearby Stash radius, hotkey, hotbar protection, and player-built-only mode
• Container access and ward checks for Nearby Stash
• Extra Slots compatibility for player sorting and Nearby Stash
• English, Russian, and Serbian Latin localization
• Configurable icon tint and button visibility