Nearby Chests

Craft, build and fuel stations from the chests around you, and put everything away with one button. Client-side only: nobody else on the server needs it.

What it does

• Craft and build from your chests. Anything within 30 m counts as if you were carrying it.
• Feed smelters, kilns and fires from your chests. One press, one item, same as vanilla.
• Stack puts everything away. Press Stack on any chest and each item goes to the chest it already lives in. New items join similar things, or take an empty chest.
• Tidy a messy chest. The three-bar icon next to Place stacks sends what doesn't belong to the right chest, and pulls in what does.
• Ignore a slot. Middle-click a slot in your inventory and Stack leaves it alone.
• Pull build materials. Ctrl + left click with a piece selected on your hammer grabs its materials from nearby chests.

Your food, ammo, gear and hotbar stay with you. The Obliterator, gravestones, dungeon chests and other players' open chests are never touched.

Optional, off by default

Turn these on in BepInEx\config\NearbyChests.cfg:

• StackAndTidyKey: one key stacks your inventory and tidies every chest in range.
• OnlyUseMarkedChests: tick Include in NearbyChests in a chest window and only ticked chests are used.
• DontFillEmptyChests: Stack never starts a new chest on its own.
• FallbackToAnyChest: items with no matching chest go into any chest with room.

Every setting, and the item groups file that decides what counts as "similar", is explained in the full guide.

Links

• Full guide
• Source and issues on GitHub
• Changelog