RestlessCore

Less friction. Clearer information. Still Valheim.

RestlessCore brings the HUD, inventory, crafting and everyday quality-of-life systems together. It is the foundation for the Restless collection and works on its own.

(screenshot coming) — HUD at a finished base, with food/status effects and a populated hotbar.

Spend less time moving materials

Craft and build using eligible nearby chests when your bag runs short. Quick Stack deposits into matching storage; Restock tops up what you already carry. Hungry tames can eat from nearby chests, and supported station interactions can find their inputs and fuel there.

Hotbar, equipment/quick slots and locked bag cells stay protected. Empty chests are ignored by Quick Stack and ground-item routing. Material pulls leave one item behind by default, keeping the chest stack available as a destination.

A clearer view of your character

Dedicated equipment slots and Z / X / C quick slots sit beside the bag. Item tooltips show quality and separate set bonuses from individual item stats. Loadout totals let you inspect values and their sources.

The HUD, minimap, inventory/crafting, build information, map and menus share a restrained torn-paper treatment. Notifications stack, and repeated messages consolidate.

(screenshot coming) — Inventory/crafting with a readable set-piece tooltip.

Small jobs, fewer clicks

Repair an area, repair equipment at a valid station and seal wood against rain for resin. Keep a loaded crossbow loaded when swapping, keep tools equipped in water and clear death pins when recovery is complete.

Stacks default to 2×; single-item gear stays single. Persistent fires, terrain limits and other gameplay options are configurable. Tames do not hurt players or each other, and ballistae ignore them; players can still kill their own tames.

Start here

1. Install Core and its dependencies with a mod manager.
2. Launch modded and open F8, or Restless in the pause menu.
3. Review gameplay settings with the host and choose your personal HUD preferences.

Gameplay rules are host/server-controlled with locking enabled. Keybinds and visual preferences remain local. Core overlaps other storage-automation, equipment-slot and HUD mods; consult the guide before combining duplicate systems.

(screenshot coming) — F8 ecosystem overview and Core settings.

Cook, Plant, Piles, Drawers, Storage and Works are separate expansions that use this foundation. Core does not add a skill tree or rarity gameplay by itself.

Installation and help

Needs BepInExPack 5.4.2351 and Jötunn 2.30.2. Use matching released plugin versions on all clients and the server.

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Changelog

Changes are listed newest first. Unreleased describes current source changes that are not assigned to a new tagged release yet.

0.2.2

• Refreshed package information and player guides, with screenshot areas ready for new captures.
• Wood sealing now covers the build range of stations covering the piece, with the configured radius used outside station coverage.
• The Seal hint and Alt-click appear only while the hammer is out.
• Updated the Restless ecosystem icons in the F8 menu and package listing, with matching ring size, centred artwork and transparent backgrounds.

0.2.1

• Alt-click with the hammer seals wood while ordinary clicks still place or repair.
• Improved shared cooking-card frames so wider layouts retain their corner details.

0.2.0

• Added resin-based rain protection for wooden pieces, with a host-controlled toggle and radius.
• Deaths with nothing to recover no longer leave a recovery pin.
• Quick-slot hotkeys no longer activate while typing.
• Updated the F8 Storage page emblem.

0.1.18

• Added the shared storage browser for the Storekeeper's Table, with source-owned withdrawal and rollback for unanswered transfers.

0.1.17

• Fixed dedicated-server tame feeding from eligible player-owned chests.
• Fixed split-stack ground-item routing losing the original thrown amount.
• Improved compendium scrolling, live settings refresh and shared reader scrolling.
• Improved narrow tooltips, hover text sizing and scrolling crafting requirements.
• Updated achievement handling so modded/cheated marks do not block achievements when the host setting is enabled.
• Expanded the Character page with lifetime records, activity, streaks and building records.

0.1.16

• Reworked crafting into a coherent paper layout with a station header, recipe list, scrolling details and readable material counts.
• Station requirements now use the same presentation as materials, including level and unmet-state hints.
• Fixed station, category and preview information following the wrong selected recipe.
• Added shared scrolling for recipe and loadout readers.
• Preserved selected Craft/Upgrade colours and handcraft station information.
• Restored player attacks on owned tames, including the butcher knife; tame and ballista protection remains.
• Building from storage still requires the correct nearby station.
• Updated BepInExPack to 5.4.2351; Jötunn remains 2.30.2.

0.1.15

• Improved loadout totals with a paper panel, actual worn-armour sources, combined attack bonuses and scrollable explanations.
• Reduced unnecessary layout diagnostics outside the debug overlay.
• Expansion settings can hide dependent controls until their parent option is enabled.
• Maintained compatibility with the published Plant 0.1.5 and Piles 0.1.5 builds.

0.1.14

• Added Plant and Piles controls to their F8 pages; Cook and Drawers have no configurable settings in this release.
• Piles use Core's search range unless their separate range is enabled.
• Fixed nearby-chest tame feeding on dedicated hosts.

0.1.13

• Turning inventory styling off restores native graphics, text and visibility, including recipe and requirement rows.
• Crafting shortage colours refresh correctly, and inspect shares tooltip sections while retaining scroll position.
• Split-stack and variant dialogs use Restless styling with native input behaviour.
• Added an F8 ecosystem overview with installed module/version information.
• Added a loadout totals overlay with stat sources.
• Added optional day/time information and station timers.
• Jötunn is pinned to 2.30.2, with package/dependency versions managed centrally.

0.1.12

• Reduced unnecessary idle refreshes in the hammer menu and inventory while preserving live selection and material updates.

0.1.11

• Styled hammer, hoe and serving-tray menus with shared piece cards and native availability feedback.
• Added a compact selected-piece detail card with description, materials and station requirements.
• Improved fit and scrolling for larger build recipes.
• Kept native scrollbars, search caret, placeholder and selection behaviour.

0.1.10

• Fixed pause-menu labels disappearing from the Restless paper layout.

0.1.9

• Improved wind information placement around the minimap.
• Fixed crafting panels becoming too dark during refresh.
• Updated compendium, trophy and achievement screens, pause/confirmation menus and map controls to the shared interface style.

0.1.8

• Added a clearer hover health meter for placed pieces.

0.1.7

• Moved the wind arrow to a separate plate beside the minimap.

0.1.6

• Improved resource-meter fill colours.
• Building from storage no longer unlocks unknown pieces or feast boards.
• Fixed partial ground-item deposits, quality-aware restocking and unanswered storage requests.

0.1.5

• Aligned resource bars around the hotbar.
• Allowed Piles deposits to protect extra slots.

0.1.4

• Added host-controlled cheated-item mark clearing.
• Kept native crafting backgrounds when replacement art is unavailable.
• Improved minimap player markers.
• Crafting from storage respects station upgrade levels.
• Updated Jötunn to 2.30.1; BepInExPack remains 5.4.2350.

0.1.3

• Reduced repeated resizing of inventory, container and skills frames.
• Improved native layout restoration and reduced idle slot refreshes.

0.1.2

• Recipe quantities include nearby storage while respecting Leave one.
• Adjusted adrenaline/health and eitr/stamina layout.

0.1.1

• Updated the listing to describe Core itself.

0.1.0

• Initial nearby-storage crafting, building, station inputs, tame feeding and ground-item routing.
• Quick Stack, Restock, cell locks, worn slots and three quick slots.
• Area repair, wider station range, equipment repair, stack settings and host-controlled configuration.
• Swimming equipment, crossbow state, tame protection, axe combo and death-pin improvements.
• Persistent fires, extended terrain limits, floating drops and network settings.
• Initial Restless HUD, inventory and map presentation.