Rusty Heathens QoL

A standalone Valheim quality-of-life mod built for the Rusty Heathens community. It combines everyday base-management helpers with a dedicated equipment inventory and full-body character preview.

Features

Auto Repair

Interact with the correct usable crafting station and all eligible damaged equipment is repaired at once.

Safe Quick Stack

Press P near your base to move matching storage resources into nearby chests that already contain that item.

• Default range: 20 meters
• Only safe storage types are quick-stacked
• Weapons, armor, equipped items, food, ammo, and dedicated-slot items are protected
• Chests are network-ownership checked before changes are committed

Craft From Nearby Chests

Crafting, upgrading, and building can use materials from accessible nearby containers.

• Default range: 20 meters
• Requirement UI includes eligible nearby materials
• Player inventory is consumed first, then nearby containers

Food Slots and Hotkeys

Three dedicated food slots sit beside the character preview.

• Alt + Z - top food slot
• Alt + X - middle food slot
• Alt + C - bottom food slot
• Alt+X suppresses Valheim's normal Sit action for that keypress

When a vanilla food icon enters its flashing window, the mod displays EAT OR DIE! by default.

Standalone Equipment Inventory

The mod includes its own equipment-slot system and does not depend on AzuEPI or ExtraSlots.

Dedicated slots:

• Head
• Chest
• Legs
• Back
• Utility x2
• Trinket
• Ammo x1
• Food x3

Valid armor, utility items, and trinkets auto-equip when their matching dedicated slot is empty. Spare gear stays in the normal backpack. Equipped gear can still be dragged back out and unequipped normally.

The inventory also includes a full-body character preview beside the dedicated slots.

Gear Grave Marker

If a tombstone contains real adventuring gear, a red GEAR death marker identifies the important grave. The special marker disappears when that tombstone is emptied.

Server-Controlled Gameplay Settings

In multiplayer, the server is authoritative for feature toggles, ranges, and the food warning text. The Quick Stack hotkey itself is client-configurable.

Installation

Thunderstore / r2modman

Install RustyHeathensQoL and launch Valheim modded. The BepInEx dependency is installed automatically.

Multiplayer

Install the same RustyHeathensQoL version on:

• the dedicated server
• every player client

For the inventory UI and server-authoritative QoL behavior, server and clients should stay on the same version.

Manual

Place RustyHeathensQoL.dll in:

Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/RustyHeathensQoL/

Compatibility and Migration

Do not run RustyHeathensQoL alongside another mod that rewrites the player inventory grid, including AzuExtendedPlayerInventory, ExtraSlots, or ExtraSlotsCustomSlots.

Before switching from another inventory mod:

1. Move everything out of that mod's extra/equipment/food/ammo slots into normal inventory or chests.
2. Log out so the character saves.
3. Disable/remove the other inventory mod.
4. Install RustyHeathensQoL.
5. Log back in and re-equip.

Before uninstalling RustyHeathensQoL, move items out of its dedicated slots first and save the character.

If another mod provides overlapping auto-store/quick-stack behavior, disable one of the overlapping features to avoid conflicting transfers.

Default Controls

Default Server Settings

Tested

Public release candidate tested with Valheim 1.0.16 and BepInEx 5.4.23.5.

Credits

Inventory layout and interaction behavior were inspired by the excellent AzuExtendedPlayerInventory project by Azumatt. RustyHeathensQoL is a standalone implementation and has no runtime dependency on AzuEPI.

Support

When reporting a problem, include:

• RustyHeathensQoL version
• Valheim version
• BepInEx/LogOutput.log
• what action triggered the issue

Changelog

1.0.1 - 2026-10-14

• Integrate achievement support into the existing QoL plugin: ignore only the modded flag during the achievement eligibility check.
• Preserve character, item, world, difficulty, and official bypass restrictions; no direct unlocks or saved cheat-state changes.
• Retain the global modded flag and all existing QoL gameplay features.
• Keep the existing plugin GUID and network/config formats. No new dependency or ModGuard entry.
• Package source separately from the Thunderstore install ZIP.

1.0.0 - 2026-10-07

• Promote the current Rusty Heathens QoL feature set to the stable 1.0 line.
• Preserve the 6x8 inventory, dedicated equipment/food/ammo slots, Rusty Backpack, nearby-chest crafting/building, auto repair, Quick Stack, food tools, grave markers, and owner-verified automation support.
• Preserve Craft Audit R1.2 inventory-snapshot detection and delayed verification for Valheim 1.0.17.
• Quiet routine client diagnostics by default; warnings/errors remain visible and detailed diagnostics remain available through Diagnostics.VerboseLogging.
• Keep existing player, world, grave, inventory, backpack, and configuration data formats unchanged.
• Refresh Thunderstore metadata for Valheim 1.0.17 / BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351.

0.5.24

• Craft Audit R1.2 inventory-snapshot detection and delayed verification for Valheim 1.0.17.