Quads Craft From Chests

Craft from chests: crafting stations, and hand-crafting from your inventory, use materials from nearby chests and containers.

This mod requires the following mods to function

denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim

BepInEx pack for Valheim. Preconfigured with the correct entry point for mods and preferred defaults for the community.

Preferred version: 5.4.2351

README

📦 Quad's Craft From Chests

Craft from chests: crafting stations, and hand-crafting from your inventory, use materials from nearby chests and containers.

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✨ Features

Anything you can reach within the range counts toward a recipe. The game takes the materials from your inventory first, then from the chests.
The crafting menu shows how many of each material you have in total.
A Chest lines button beside the crafting tabs draws lines from the station to every chest in use; a Range button cycles the distance (5 to 30 m).

📸 Screenshots

The workbench: Chest lines and Range beside the tabs, and the materials counted from the chests

Close up: the buttons and the counts

🧩 Other mods

Known clashes

Adventure Backpacks ("Craft From Backpack"): handled. The backpack pays its part first and the chests pay only what is still missing. The backpack is never used as a chest.
Other craft-from-chests mods (AzuCraftyBoxes, CraftFromContainers (aedenthorn, and its forks), Craft From Chests (Toxo), CraftFromChestsPlus, Teflon Ted's Craft From Chests, StoreAndCraft, SmartCraft-Storage, and ValheimPlus while its CraftFromChest section is on): they also take from chests, and two such mods count every chest twice. When one is installed this mod stands down and leaves it to them; the log says so once.
Any mod that refuses a payment or already paid: respected. It runs after other mods and does nothing if they cancelled.

Works with our mods

Quad's Build From Chests and Quad's Feed From Chests: fine together. Each works only in its own moment and pays only what the others left.
Quad's Recycler and companions' chests (Quad's Companion) are never used.

Found a clash with another mod? Tell us which one and what happened.

👥 Multiplayer

Who needs it: Only the players who want it.

It only takes from chests you could open yourself: never one someone else has open, one behind a ward that keeps you out, or a private chest.

The host decides: how far it reaches (Radius). While you play on their world their values replace yours (your file isn't changed); a host without the mod leaves everyone their own.

🌍 Languages

English, Русский (Russian), Deutsch (German), 简体中文 (Chinese), Português do Brasil (Portuguese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Polski (Polish), Türkçe (Turkish). It follows the game's own language setting.

The translations were made with AI, so a few words may be off. To correct one, or to add your language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.craftfromchests/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json, Italian.json, Japanese.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from English.json (it wins over the built-in one). Or tell us the better words and we'll put them in for everyone.

⚙️ Settings

In BepInEx/config/com.quad.craftfromchests.cfg, made the first time the game runs with the mod. r2modman and Thunderstore Mod Manager edit it under Config editor.

Display

Setting	Default	What it does
`ShowHaveCounts`	`true`	In the crafting window, show how many of each material you HAVE (inventory + chests) next to how many you need.
`ShowLines`	`false`	Draw lines from the crafting station to every chest it can use.
`ToggleOffsetX`	`0`	Move the 'Chest lines' button horizontally from its default spot beside the Upgrade tab (UI pixels).
`ToggleOffsetY`	`0`	Move the 'Chest lines' button vertically (UI pixels). Negative = down.
`ToggleScale`	`1`	Size multiplier for the 'Chest lines' button.
`ToggleWidth`	`2`	'Chest lines' button width as a multiple of the Upgrade tab's width.
`RangeButtonWidth`	`1.4`	'Range' button width as a multiple of the Upgrade tab's width.

General

Setting	Default	What it does
`Enabled`	`true`	Turn the mod on or off.
`Radius`	`20`	How far (in meters) from the crafting station a chest can be and still be used. In multiplayer the server's value applies.

🤖 Made with AI

Made with the help of Claude (Anthropic), with Claude Code: designed, written and checked together, and tried in the game.

🧪 About Quads Lab

Quads Lab is where Quad H (HardHeadHackerHead) builds software with AI, of every kind: these Valheim mods are one of its projects. Each mod is designed by a player, written with Claude Code and tested in our own world, with bobisme as our tester.

📜 Recent changes

1.5.0 Now in your language: English, Russian, German, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, French, Polish and Turkish, following the game's own Language setting. The game's own names are used for its things (items, creatures, lands, stations). The translations were made with AI: to correct a line, or add a language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.craftfromchests/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from translations/English.json on GitHub.
1.4.3 Fixed: it never takes from or puts into the game's Obliterator (what is in it burns when the lever is pulled), a Ledger Chest or the Arena's chests; only ordinary storage chests count.
1.4.2 A clearer page: what it does, who needs it in multiplayer, how it gets on with other mods, and where to report a bug. The game itself is unchanged.

Every change is on the Changelog tab.

Last updated	4 hours ago
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Categories	Mods Tweaks Crafting Client-side Utility AI Generated Deep North Update
Dependency string	Quads_Lab-Quads_Craft_From_Chests-1.5.0
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