CraftFromStorage

Craft and upgrade without the chest-to-workbench shuffle. Use materials straight from nearby storage and keep your inventory free.

Supported stations

• Workbench - craft and upgrade its equipment and other recipes.
• Forge - make and upgrade metal weapons, armor and tools.
• Stonecutter - craft its station recipes, such as sharpening stones.
• Artisan Table, Black Forge and Galdr Table - use nearby materials for their station recipes and eligible upgrades.
• Other non-food crafting stations, including compatible modded stations.

Available recipes and upgrades still depend on your progression and the station's normal requirements. Cauldron, Food Preparation Table and Mead Ketill recipes belong to CookFromStorage, not this mod.

By Hoose.

Behavior

• Searches a 20 meter sphere around the player by default, not around the station. Configurable from 1 to 100 meters.
• Uses your inventory first, then nearby accessible chests, carts and ship storage, nearest first.
• Includes non-food station recipes and equipment upgrades; ingredients may be split across several containers.
• Respects chest ownership, wards and normal recipe/station rules. Busy storage is skipped.
• Crafting requirement colors include available storage materials. Crafted output stays in your inventory.
• Storage owned by another player may add a short delay while ownership is requested. Missing, denied or unresponsive storage cancels crafting without spending ingredients.

Does not add hand crafting from storage, hammer building, auto-repair, fueling, automatic cooking/processing, sorting, or stashing. No hotkeys are needed.

Installation

Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager. Requires BepInExPack_Valheim, which the mod manager installs for you.

For manual installation, copy plugins/CraftFromStorage.dll and plugins/ValheimMods.Common.dll into BepInEx/plugins/CraftFromStorage/. Keep the shared library beside the plugin and only one installed copy of each DLL.

Install on each player's client; a server-only install does not enable it. Do not install another craft-from-storage mod alongside it.

Configuration

Settings are in BepInEx/config/hoose.valheim.craftfromstorage.cfg; each setting's description explains what it controls.

• Storage/Storage radius - how far around you storage is searched, from 1 to 100 meters. Default 20. Food-station recipes use CookFromStorage's own radius.

Stack with other mods

Works well with CookFromStorage (food recipes, cooking stations and Fermenters), SupplyFromStorage (fuel and machine inputs) and AutoRepair (repairs your gear when you use a station). CraftFromStorage and CookFromStorage share one recipe engine, so ingredients are never counted or consumed twice. Every storage mod uses the same 20 m default radius, and each can be set separately.

Project and support

Changelog

1.0.0

• Add focused station crafting and equipment upgrades from accessible storage within a configurable player-centered sphere (1-100m, default 20m).
• Keep inventory-first consumption, nearest storage ordering, normal access rules and vanilla station/recipe checks.
• Include storage in crafting requirement checks and coloring.
• Add exact ingredient planning, vanilla chest ownership requests, cancellation/timeout handling and signature/behavior validation.
• Cancel safely when storage is invalidated during an ownership wait; allow retries and validated manual opening after lost responses while suppressing unsolicited late replies.
• Exercise production Harmony patches and exception cleanup in independent, documented behavior and integration tests.
• Follow the shared mod build, deployment, icon and Thunderstore package structure.
• Complete local in-game testing; dedicated multiplayer and persistence validation remains outstanding.