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

Tiered Proximity Auto Repair

Walk close enough to a usable repair station and damaged gear is repaired automatically. You do not need to press E or open the crafting station.

Repair stations inherit the repair capability of the tiers below them:

• Workbench repairs Workbench gear.
• Forge repairs Forge and Workbench gear.
• Black Forge repairs Black Forge, Forge, and Workbench gear.
• Galdr Table repairs all recipe-backed repairable gear covered by the repair hierarchy.

Normal station requirements still matter, including whether the station is usable and whether the item's required station level is available.

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

Version 0.5.2 was live-tested with the R27 build on the Rusty Heathens setup. The tiered proximity repair behavior was verified in game before this Thunderstore package was prepared.

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

1.0.4 - 2026-10-15

• Add owner-side safe shrinking and withdrawal-only recovery for oversized legacy backpacks. Preserve all 1.0.3 interaction fixes and the 1.0.2 backpack layout.
• Requires the paired QoL 1.0.4 / ServerQoL 1.0.1 update.
• Offline validation passed; live game testing remains pending.

1.0.3 - 2026-10-15

• Fix the chest discovery RPC name mismatch found in Valheim 1.0.20.
• Add null/stale-reference guards to the hammer radial action.
• Correct quality-sensitive inventory capacity checks and cleanly refuse zero-capacity player additions.
• Preserve 1.0.2 backpack panel placement, existing saves/configuration, and achievement support.
• Rebuild against supplied Valheim 1.0.20 assemblies; correct the prior README game-version typo.
• Validate with offline logic, interaction, layout, achievement and metadata checks. Live game testing remains required.

1.0.2 - 2026-10-15

• Position the container window below the actual expanded player inventory.
• Include Take all, Place stacks, and the container title when calculating clearance.
• Recalculate after the UI updates so GUI scale, panel resizing, and repeated opening do not accumulate position drift.
• Apply the same spacing to normal chests using the shared container window.
• Preserve backpack capacity, scrolling, items, save formats, achievements and other existing features.

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.