HoardFinder

Press Ctrl + F, type part of an item name, and HoardFinder lists every stack of it stored around you: chests, carts, ships, tombstones and BetrValheim drawers. Pick a result and every place that holds it lights up with a beam and an on-screen marker you can see through walls.

It only runs on your client and never touches your items. Formerly published as BetrDrawerFinder.

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Features

• Searches built chests (vanilla and modded), carts, ships and tombstones. Dungeon loot chests are optional.
• Searches BetrValheim drawers when that mod is installed. Without it, everything else still works.
• Matches localized names and ignores case, spaces and accents, so black metal, blackmetal and BLACK METAL all find Black metal, and pina finds Piña.
• Each result shows the item icon, how many places hold it, the total amount and the distance to the nearest one.
• Sort by relevance, name, amount, distance, item type or source mod. Filter by item type, by kind of storage and by mod.
• Highlight one item, or every listed item at once with Shift + Enter. Each item gets its own color.
• The window is drawn with Valheim's own wood panel, text field and buttons, and uses the game's font.
• Follows the game's language setting. Translated into 36 languages, every one the game offers except Abenaki, which falls back to English.
• Only lists storage you could open yourself: wards and private chests are respected, like in vanilla.

Controls

While the window is open your character stands still and the camera does not move. Chat, the inventory and the Escape menu stay closed until you close the window.

Changing the shortcut

Click the Shortcut: Ctrl + F [change] line at the bottom of the window and press the new combination. It is saved right away. Esc cancels, Backspace goes back to Ctrl + F. You can also edit OpenSearchHotkey in the config file.

Sorting and filtering

The four buttons under the search field cycle through their options: left click moves forward, right click moves back. A button that is not on its default value is drawn highlighted.

Relevance puts exact matches first, then names that start with what you typed, then names that contain it. Sort, type and source are remembered between sessions. The Mod button needs Jotunn, which most modpacks already include; items from mods also show the mod name in small text next to the item.

Highlight

For 10 seconds (configurable) every matching place gets a pulsing glow, a light beam and a screen marker with the item, the amount stored there and the distance. Markers stay visible through walls and stick to the screen edge when the storage is behind you. In a big base only the 8 nearest markers show text, so the screen stays readable.

Installation

Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app. To install by hand, put HoardFinder.dll in BepInEx/plugins/HoardFinder/.

Updating from BetrDrawerFinder: remove the old BetrDrawerFinder folder from BepInEx/plugins. Your settings are copied over automatically the first time HoardFinder starts. If both are installed, HoardFinder does not load and the BepInEx log says why.

Requirements and compatibility

• BepInExPack for Valheim.
• Optional: BetrValheim (tested with 5.1.5) for drawer support.
• Optional: Jotunn for the mod sort and filter.

HoardFinder is client-side. The server does not need it, other players do not need it, and it does not take part in Jotunn's version check. Valheim already sends chest contents to every nearby player, which is how the mod reads them without opening anything. It never moves items, opens containers or writes world data.

Configuration

The config file is BepInEx/config/heido.valheim.hoardfinder.cfg.

Console commands

Open the console with F5:

• hoard_search iron prints the results for "iron".
• hoard_dump lists every stored stack within range.
• hoard_clear removes the current highlight.

Known limits

• Only storage in loaded areas can be found. 50 m is well inside what the game keeps loaded around you.
• When another player moves items, the list catches up within a second or two, the normal sync delay.
• Ctrl is also crouch, so Ctrl + F makes you crouch for an instant. Change the shortcut if that bothers you.
• The glow depends on the storage's material. Beams and markers always work.
• The window has no gamepad support yet.
• Cyrillic, Greek, Asian, Thai and Hindi text uses Unity's default font instead of Valheim's, because the game font only covers Western European letters.

Bugs and suggestions

Open an issue on the project page, and attach BepInEx/LogOutput.log if something went wrong.