Thor's Kist

One chest. Every viking. Anywhere in the world.

Your iron is in a barrel nine thousand metres away. Your friend is in the Plains with forty black metal scrap and nowhere to put it.

Alt-click. It's in the Kist. Everyone has it. Get back to work.

One shared vault for your whole hird. Deposit from anywhere, take from anywhere, and every workbench, forge and hammer quietly reaches into it while you build.

One window, one search box. Take 1, 10 or All off any row.

Who's in, who's out, and who is 116 metres too far away for you to move the vault today.

What it does

Sorting

• A-Z — the boring one. It works.
• Amount — biggest hoards first, counted across the whole vault, so 300 wood doesn't scatter down the list in 50s.
• Progress — Meadows → Black Forest → Swamp → Mountain → Plains → Mistlands → Ashlands → Deep North. Your vault in the order you earned it.
• Type — wood with wood, ore with ore, hides with hides.

Progress and Type print what they sorted on at the end of each row, so if something looks misfiled you can see it and say so.

Hirds

A Kist belongs to a hird, never to one person — and needs two members before it opens at all. The founder can rename, invite, remove and disband. Anyone online who isn't already in a hird shows up in the invite list; no typing names, no player IDs. There's no limit on hird size.

🧍 Playing alone?

Set minHirdSize = 1 in the config, or your Kist will never unlock — you'll found a hird of one and it'll stay shut. On a single-player world that's your own config file; you're the host. It also frees you to move the Kist by yourself.

Moving the Kist is meant to hurt

Founding a hird is free. Moving it costs 25 surtling cores from the founder's pack, with every online member standing within 100m. The button greys out and tells you who's too far away or how many cores you're short.

Then it lands — a blue mass falls out of the sky and hits the ground with a slam every member hears.

Installing

Needs BepInEx. Drop ThorsKist.dll into BepInEx/plugins/.

On the server too, not just the clients. The server owns the vault. A client with the mod talking to a server without it is simply told there's no hird.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/posixone_ThorsKist.cfg

Settings marked server-side are read from the host's config only; everything else is yours alone. Every radius is measured from the Kist itself.

Every prefab name above is real — all 43,346 the game ships are in notes/prefab-names.txt if you fancy a different sound. No rebuild needed.

Where your loot actually lives

One file per world, in the server's save directory:

<savedir>/ThorsKist/kist_<worldUID>.dat

Deliberately not BepInEx/config, which server managers wipe on every mod sync — a vault kept there would be one update away from gone. Older builds are migrated automatically.

It sits outside the world save, so rolling the world back doesn't roll the Kist back with it, and Valheim's backups don't cover it. Back up <savedir>/ThorsKist/ alongside your worlds.

Building

The Valheim and Unity reference assemblies are not in this repository — they belong to Iron Gate and Unity, and you already own a copy. This collects them from your own install:

dotnet tool install -g Krafs.AssemblyPublicizer.Tool
./scripts/setup-refs.sh /path/to/steamapps/common/Valheim

(It finds the usual Steam locations on its own if you don't pass a path, and needs BepInEx installed into the game for BepInEx.dll and 0Harmony.dll.)

Then:

dotnet build ThorsKist.csproj -c Release
dotnet run --project tools/VerifyPatches -c Release -- bin/Release/net472/ThorsKist.dll lib .refs/assembly_valheim.dll
dotnet run --project tools/CategoryCheck -c Release -- .refs

A green build proves almost nothing about a Valheim mod, so CI doesn't stop there. VerifyPatches resolves every Harmony target against the real game assembly and checks every reference is public at runtime — mods compile against a publicized copy where everything is, so calling something private compiles fine and throws on the first frame. CategoryCheck runs the real sort-by-type rules against known traps, because keyword matching fails silently: leatherscraps contains "scrap", barleyflour contains "bar".

Licence and credits

Source code is MIT — see LICENSE. Do what you like with it.

Built on BepInEx (LGPL-2.1) and HarmonyX (MIT). Neither is redistributed here. The deposit sound and effects were learned from reading SmarterContainers.

An unofficial mod, not affiliated with or endorsed by Iron Gate Studio. Valheim and its assets are theirs.

Built for people who play together. Skål. 🍺