Quads Gear Slots

Equipment slots and quick slots: extra inventory slots for what you wear, eat and use (armor, cape, ammo, shield, food, quickslots), in a Gear panel next to your inventory.

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

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🛡️ Quad's Gear Slots

Equipment slots and quick slots: extra inventory slots for what you wear, eat and use (armor, cape, ammo, shield, food, quickslots), in a Gear panel next to your inventory.

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✨ Features

What is in it

Head, Chest, Legs, Cape, Belt, Trinket, Ammo and Shield slots: drop a matching piece in and you put it on. Armor and arrows no longer take room in your bag, and gear you are already wearing moves into its slot by itself.
The shield follows your weapon: switch to a one-handed weapon and the shield from the Shield slot comes out with it (two-handed weapons and bows put it away).
Three Food slots: keep your best meals in their own place (right-click to eat). Optional auto-eat is in the settings.
Five Quick slots (Z, X, C, V by default; the fifth is unbound) for a weapon, tool, potion or anything else: press the key to equip or use it. With the inventory closed they show in a row under your hotbar, with their keys.
Slots only accept the right kind of item, and Sort and Stack to Chests (QualityOfLife) leave them alone.
Nothing is stored in a new place: the slots are extra rows of your real inventory, so saving, weight, crafting and dragging work as normal. Before removing the mod, move your gear-slot items into your bag: without it the game drops anything in those rows at your feet the next time you spawn.

Every key and option is in the settings (the manager's Mod settings tab).

📸 Screenshots

The Gear panel beside your inventory: armour, cape, belt, trinket, ammo and shield slots

🎮 How to use

Key	What it does
Z / X / C / V	Use what is in Quick slot 1 to 4 (equip a weapon or tool, drink a potion); the fifth slot has no key until you set one

🧩 Other mods

Known clashes

ValheimPlus (extra inventory rows): works. You keep all of its rows and the gear rows sit below them.
ExtraSlots, Equipment and Quick Slots, AzuExtendedPlayerInventory, Extended Player Inventory, ComfyQuickSlots: they keep their own slots in the same inventory cells, so the gear slots switch off while one is installed. What was in them moves into your bag, and you're told in chat.
BetterArchery: the gear slots switch off while its quiver is on.

Works with our mods

Quad's Quality of Life: Sort and Stack to chests leave the gear slots alone.
Quad's Ledger Chest: items you take go into your ordinary rows.
Quad's Companion: what's in your gear slots isn't offered to your companion.

Removing it: take everything out of the gear slots first, or the game drops it at your feet the next time you spawn.

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

👥 Multiplayer

Who needs it: Only the players who want it.

Nothing is shared: the slots are rows of your own inventory.

🌍 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.gearslots/ 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.gearslots.cfg, made the first time the game runs with the mod. r2modman and Thunderstore Mod Manager edit it under Config editor.

Food

Setting	Default	What it does
`AutoEat`	`false`	Eat from your Food slots by yourself: when a food you have in a slot is not active (and you have a free food slot), or its effect has dropped below half. Off by default.
`EatBelowPercent`	`20`	Auto-eat a food you are already under only once its time left drops below this percent (the game allows it from 50). Lower saves food: a meal then lasts 80% of its time instead of 50%, and its effect weakens a little towards the end.

General

Setting	Default	What it does
`ShowPanel`	`true`	Show the Gear panel next to your inventory. (Turn off and your gear slots hide; the items stay where they are.)
`ShowMessages`	`true`	Short messages when something happens (auto-eat, a quick slot is empty).
`ShieldFollowsWeapon`	`true`	When you switch to a one-handed weapon, put on the shield from your Shield slot too. (Two-handed weapons and bows take the shield off, as in the game.)
`AutoFill`	`true`	When you put on a piece of gear (or the game loads with it on), move it into its matching gear slot if that slot is empty.

Layout

Setting	Default	What it does
`Gap`	`6`	Space between the Gear panel and the inventory (UI pixels).
`OffsetX`	`0`	Move the Gear panel right (negative = left).
`OffsetY`	`0`	Move the Gear panel up (negative = down).

Quick slots

Setting	Default	What it does
`ShowUnderHotbar`	`true`	Show what is in your Quick slots, with their keys, in a row under the hotbar (the 1-8 on screen) while the inventory is closed.
`Key1`	`Z`	Press to use what is in quick slot 1: equips or unequips a weapon, tool or shield, or drinks a potion. Set to None to turn it off. If the game uses the same key for something (V: auto-pickup, X: sit, C: walk), the game's key is unbound once, so only this one works; bind it again in the game's Settings, Controls.
`Key2`	`X`	Press to use what is in quick slot 2: equips or unequips a weapon, tool or shield, or drinks a potion. Set to None to turn it off. If the game uses the same key for something (V: auto-pickup, X: sit, C: walk), the game's key is unbound once, so only this one works; bind it again in the game's Settings, Controls.
`Key3`	`C`	Press to use what is in quick slot 3: equips or unequips a weapon, tool or shield, or drinks a potion. Set to None to turn it off. If the game uses the same key for something (V: auto-pickup, X: sit, C: walk), the game's key is unbound once, so only this one works; bind it again in the game's Settings, Controls.
`Key4`	`V`	Press to use what is in quick slot 4: equips or unequips a weapon, tool or shield, or drinks a potion. Set to None to turn it off. If the game uses the same key for something (V: auto-pickup, X: sit, C: walk), the game's key is unbound once, so only this one works; bind it again in the game's Settings, Controls.
`Key5`	`None`	Press to use what is in quick slot 5: equips or unequips a weapon, tool or shield, or drinks a potion. Set to None to turn it off. If the game uses the same key for something (V: auto-pickup, X: sit, C: walk), the game's key is unbound once, so only this one works; bind it again in the game's Settings, Controls.

🤖 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

1.3.0 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.gearslots/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from translations/English.json on GitHub. Its notes about the game's keys name them as the game's Controls settings do.
1.2.2 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.
1.2.1 A new id, com.quad.gearslots (it was com.dhack.gearslots): your settings move over by themselves the first time it starts, and the old settings file is kept as a backup. Restart the game after this update. If an old copy is still installed beside it, this one stands down and says which file to delete, so the two never both run. The DLL now says it was made with AI, as Thunderstore asks.

Every change is on the Changelog tab.

Last updated	4 hours ago
Total downloads	225
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Categories	Mods Tweaks Gear Client-side Utility AI Generated Deep North Update
Dependency string	Quads_Lab-Quads_Gear_Slots-1.3.0
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