Nearby Crafting

Craft items using materials stored in nearby containers.

Built for Valheim 1.0+.

Features

• Craft directly from nearby player-built storage.
• Automatically detects required materials in nearby containers.
• Uses materials from your inventory first, then nearby storage.
• Crafting requirement indicators recognize materials stored in nearby containers.
• Uses the nearest eligible containers first.
• Configurable container range.
• Optimized container caching for minimal performance impact.
• World loot containers are ignored by default.
• Carts and ships are ignored by default.
• Optional debug logging for troubleshooting.

Installation

r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager

Install Nearby Crafting directly through your preferred Thunderstore-compatible mod manager.

BepInEx is required and will be installed as a dependency when using a supported mod manager.

Manual Installation

1. Install BepInEx for Valheim.

2. Download and extract Nearby Crafting.

3. Place NearbyCrafting.dll in:

   Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/NearbyCrafting/

4. Launch Valheim with BepInEx.

The configuration file will be generated automatically after the first launch.

Configuration

Configuration is located at:

BepInEx/config/com.mikeg.valheim.nearbycrafting.cfg

The default container range is 20 meters.

Available options include:

• Enable or disable Nearby Crafting.
• Change the container detection range.
• Include or exclude world/non-player-built containers.
• Include or exclude moving containers.
• Enable or disable the crafting requirement indicator fix.
• Enable diagnostic logging.

Debugging

If you encounter a problem, debug logging can be enabled in the configuration file:

DebugLogging = true

For detailed container detection information:

DebugContainerDetails = true

Debug information is written to the BepInEx log.

Detailed container logging can generate a large amount of output and should normally remain disabled.

Compatibility

Designed for Valheim 1.0+.

Nearby Crafting currently supports normal crafting recipes.

It does not currently pull materials for:

• Building
• Smelters
• Kilns
• Fires
• Carts
• Ships

Special recipes that require only one of multiple possible ingredients are not currently supported.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer support is currently considered experimental.

For the best experience, use Nearby Crafting in single-player or when hosting the world yourself.

Issues

If you encounter a problem, please include your BepInEx LogOutput.log when reporting it.

Changelog

1.2.1

• Corrected the internal BepInEx plugin version to 1.2.1.
• Added an in-game HUD confirmation showing how many items were deposited and how many chests received items.
• Added a nothing to deposit HUD message when the hotkey finds no transferable items.
• Reworked Mass Quick Deposit to avoid repeated Inventory.StackAll calls across nearby chests.
• Fixed Trying to add item to occupied slot -1, -1 errors seen during mass deposit.
• Uses explicit, valid inventory slots with Inventory.MoveItemToThis for every transfer.
• Preserves quick-deposit behavior: an item is deposited only into a chest that already contained a compatible stack when that chest is processed.
• Added conservative stack matching for item name, quality, variant, world level, and custom data.
• Explicit anti-duplication behavior: quantities are moved from the live player stack and the remaining amount is re-checked before every subsequent transfer.

1.2.0

• Added configurable Mass Quick Deposit hotkey.
• Added independent Quick Deposit > Enabled toggle.
• Default quick-deposit hotkey is F6.
• Mass quick-deposit processes all eligible nearby containers nearest-first using Valheim's native Inventory.StackAll transfer semantics.
• Uses the same container range, player-built-container filtering, moving-container filtering, and Balrond compatibility rules as Nearby Crafting.
• Designed to prevent duplication: items are moved directly out of the player's inventory, never copied or cloned. Later chests can only receive remaining quantities.

1.1.4

• Fixed Valheim 1.0 conditional/upgrader requirements blocking nearby resource consumption after a recipe successfully passed availability checks.
• Resource payment follows the exact requirement names Valheim queried for the current recipe and quality.
• Fixed recipes such as Bronze Pickaxe and Stone Axe when required materials are stored in nearby chests.

1.1.3

• Changed recipe availability checks to let Valheim run its native requirement logic while Nearby Crafting augments inventory counts with eligible nearby storage.

1.1.2

• Restored compatibility handling for custom storage prefab layouts where Container and Piece are siblings under the same prefab root.
• Added soft BalrondConstructions compatibility/order handling.