StationPacks

Wear your workbench. Build anywhere.

Sling a workbench across your back and raise walls in the middle of nowhere — no bench to plant, no run home for stone, no breaking flow mid-build. Six packs, one for every build station, each worn as the real thing.

StationPacks doesn't delete the crafting-station rule — it lets you carry the station. That's the whole point: mobility you earn and pay for, not a cheat toggle you flip.

What you get

• Build, deconstruct and repair anywhere a station is needed — out in the field, mid-raid, up a mountain.
• Six packs, each worn as the station it replaces: Workbench, Stonecutter, Forge, Artisan, Black Forge, Galdr Table.
• A real cost. Packs are heavy, they slow you down, and they run down with every piece you place. Recharge at the very bench you were trying to avoid.
• They live in your utility slot — the one the Megingjord belt and Wishbone use. So you carry one station at a time, and it's a genuine choice: a bench, or that +150-carry belt. Your cape slot stays free, so you can still wear a wolf cape and build on the mountain without freezing.
• Not portable-everything. You can build in the field, but you can't craft or upgrade gear. On purpose — this is a building mod, not a bag of holding.

The packs

Each pack is earned at roughly the tier of the station it stands in for, upgrades to quality 3, and gains charge as it levels. Building next to a real station costs a pack nothing — you're only charged when the pack is what made the build possible.

Install

Every client and the dedicated server must run this mod, on the same version. The packs are custom items that travel across the network, so a server that doesn't know them can't store them — the mod refuses the connection rather than risk your world.

Compatibility

• AdventureBackpacks — coexist out of the box. A backpack rides your cape slot, a station pack rides your utility slot — wear both, no slot-extender needed.
• AzuCraftyBoxes — a great pairing: it pulls build materials from nearby chests, StationPacks supplies the station. Build a base out of your storage without a bench in sight.
• Plays nice with real stations. Your base forge keeps its extensions and its level — a pack is never registered as a real station, by design.

Heads up

⚠ Uninstalling deletes your packs. Remove or disable the mod and any packs you're carrying vanish — inventory, equipment slot, chests, all of it, silently. That's how Valheim treats items whose mod is gone; every custom-item mod does this. Dismantle your packs before uninstalling.

Config

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

Source & credits

Open source (MIT), 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.