StationPacks

Wearable crafting stations. Craft a Workbench Pack, wear it, and build anywhere.

⚠ Read this before you uninstall

If you remove or disable this mod, your packs are permanently deleted — from your inventory, from your equipment slot, and from any chest they're sitting in. They vanish silently, with no warning and no error.

This isn't a bug and it isn't special to StationPacks; Valheim stores items by name, and any item whose mod is gone is simply dropped on load. Every custom-item mod behaves this way.

Before uninstalling, dismantle your packs or accept that the materials are gone. And back up your character if you care about it.

Building in Valheim is gated on standing near a crafting station. Every time a build creeps past a workbench's radius you stop, gather materials, plant another bench, and tear it down later. The stonecutter is worse. The friction lands exactly when you're most engaged — mid-build.

StationPacks is not a config toggle that deletes the restriction. It's a thing you craft, wear, and pay for.

What a pack does

While worn, a pack lets you place, deconstruct and repair pieces that need its station — with no station in sight.

That's all it does. You cannot craft or upgrade items in the field. Deliberately: this is a building mod, not a portable everything.

What it costs you

• Your cape slot. Packs are shoulder items. You wear a pack or you wear a cape.
• Weight and speed. 8–20 weight, and −3% to −8% movement.
• Charge. Every piece you place spends a point. When the pack runs dry it stays equipped but stops working — until you repair it at the very station it replaces. Go home to recharge.
• Progression. Each pack is gated behind the tier of the station it stands in for.

Building near a real station is free. A pack is only charged when it's the thing that actually made the build possible — so you never bleed charge inside your own base.

The packs

Packs upgrade to quality 3; each level adds charge. Every station that gates building gets a pack — even the black forge and galdr table, which turn out to gate a fair few Mistlands build pieces.

Install

Every client and the server must have this mod, at the same version. The packs are custom items that cross the network, so a server that doesn't know them can't store them. The mod will refuse the connection rather than corrupt anything.

Compatibility

• AdventureBackpacks — both use the vanilla shoulder slot, so you wear one or the other. Not a crash, just exclusivity. Install a slot-extender (ExtraSlots) and leave Slot mode on Auto and you can wear both.
• AzuCraftyBoxes — composes nicely. It supplies the materials from nearby chests; StationPacks supplies the station.
• Does not interfere with real crafting stations. Your base forge keeps its extensions and its level — a pack is never registered as a real station, by design.

Config

Edit the StationPacks config in BepInEx/config/ (created on first launch), or use a config manager in-game — slot mode, charge costs, max charge, build range, weight, and pack appearance.

Credits

Built with Jotunn.

Changelog

0.3.0

Packs moved to the utility slot — you can wear a cape again.

• Station packs are now utility items (the slot the Megingjord belt and Wishbone use) instead of cape items. Two things fall out of that:
  • Your cape slot is free. Wear a wolf cape for frost resistance and build on the mountain. No more choosing between not-freezing and building.
  • One bench at a time, for free. Vanilla has a single utility slot, so you carry one station — and it's a real choice against that +150-carry belt.
• AdventureBackpacks now coexists out of the box — backpack on your back, station pack on your belt, no slot-extender required.
• No new dependencies.

Your Slot mode config resets — the default is now Utility. Set it to Shoulder if you liked the old cape-slot behavior, or AnyInventory for no opportunity cost.

0.2.0

Packs now look like what they are, and the lineup is settled by what actually gates building.

• Each pack wears its station on your back. The Workbench Pack carries a mini workbench, the Forge Pack a little forge, the Black Forge Pack a glowing black forge, and so on — built from the real station meshes, riding your spine so they lean with you as you move. No cape underneath.
• Distinct inventory icons for every pack.
• Six packs, all of which gate building: Workbench, Stonecutter, Forge, Artisan, Black Forge, Galdr Table. (The black forge and galdr table turned out to gate a number of Mistlands build pieces, contrary to the wiki — so they're in.)
• The mod's internal ID changed to LosGoobers.StationPacks. Your old config resets to defaults the first time you run this version; delete the leftover donrh.stationpacks.cfg if you like.

0.1.1

Fixes a balance bug that made packs strictly better than they should be. Please update.

• Packs no longer inherit the perks of the cape they're built from. The Forge Pack was granting frost resistance (it's a reskinned wolf cape under the hood) and the Black Forge Pack was granting fall protection. That defeated the whole point: a pack is supposed to cost you your cape slot, not hand you a cape's best perk for free. A pack now carries exactly three stats — weight, a movement penalty, and charge.
• stationpacks give is disabled by default. It hands you all six packs for free, skipping every recipe, and it should never have shipped enabled. Turn it on in the config if you want it for testing. The read-only diagnostics (phantoms, invariant, stations) still work.
• Added an uninstall warning to the README. Removing the mod permanently deletes your packs — see the top of the readme.

0.1.0

Initial release. Six wearable crafting stations: Workbench, Stonecutter, Forge, Artisan, Black Forge and Galdr. Build and deconstruct anywhere; recharge at the station you left behind.