CheckMyStuff

Current release: 1.0.3

Label your chests by item type, then let the CheckMyStuff Barrel put your bag items away into the matching chests nearby.

How it works

1. Build a CheckMyStuff Barrel with the Hammer (Misc tab). Cost: 20 Silver, 20 Iron, 20 Black Metal, 60 Wood, 20 Deer Hide.
2. Open a player-built chest within 50 metres of the barrel. A label panel appears next to the chest inventory: pick a category, optionally drill down to a more specific type, and switch Enabled on.
3. Tap the barrel's Use key to open the sorter. Choose a category, or Store All (it asks "Are you sure you want to store N items?" first).
4. Hold the Use key on the barrel to store everything straight away, without opening the sorter.
5. Eligible items in your bag move into matching, enabled, labeled chests within 50 metres.

Labels

Seven categories: Consumables, Equipment, Garden, Ingredients, Materials, Misc, Trophies.

Every level has an All Types choice, so a chest can take a whole category, one branch of it, or one exact item type. Some groups are a single choice that covers every item in them, for example Equipment › Helm or Equipment › Arms › Shields. For example:

• Materials (everything in Materials)
• Materials › Crafting › Blacksmith › Ingots
• Materials › Crafting › Blacksmith › Scrap / Ore › Iron (Iron Ore and Scrap Iron)
• Equipment › Arms › Tools (hammer, hoe, pickaxes, torches and other tools)

Each choice has a small checkbox, so one chest can take several entries on the same level, for example Chest and Capes, or Iron Ingot and Silver Ingot. Clear All removes every tick and resets the chest to All Types.

Item tooltips show where the barrel will put the item, for example Materials -> Crafting -> Blacksmith -> Ingots.

Looking at a chest with an enabled label shows that label under the Open prompt, for example Iron or Prepared Food.

More specific chests are filled first, then broader ones; within the same level the nearest chest is used first. When a chest is full, the next matching chest is used. Anything that does not fit stays in your bag.

What is never moved

• Hotbar items
• Equipped items
• Quest items
• Items from other inventories (only your normal bag is sorted)

Chests that are in use by someone else, disabled, out of range, or protected by a ward you cannot access are skipped. Items are moved with Valheim's own inventory transfer, so stacks, quality, durability and crafter names are kept. Nothing is ever dropped on the ground.

Modded items

Items added by other mods are placed into the label tree using their in-game item type and recipe/station relationships.

About

I use AI to review code, assist with optimization and integrity; I manually test and review every mod, and all decisions and code remain my own.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jotunn
• Multiplayer: every player and the server need CheckMyStuff (same version). Before storing into a chest that another player's game controls, the barrel asks that game first, so two players can never write the same chest at once.

Changelog

1.0.4

• New mod icon. No gameplay changes.

1.0.3

• Rebuilt and checked against the Valheim client update of 2026-10-15. No gameplay changes.

1.0.2

• Multiplayer: fixed possible item loss or duplication when you stored items into a chest another player was opening at the same moment. The barrel now asks the other player's game before using a chest it controls, and stores into it as soon as it is handed over. Every player and the server now need CheckMyStuff.
• "All Types" labels and plain category labels are now treated the same, so the nearest of them is filled first.
• The chest label panel and hover text no longer re-read the label every frame.
• README: build the barrel first; the label panel only appears within 50 metres of a barrel.
• Fixed the package layout: the DLL is stored under a normal plugins/ folder path in the zip, so it installs correctly on Linux and in every mod manager.

1.0.1

• Moved the AI note from the short description to the detail page (About section).

1.0.0

• Hold the Use key on the barrel to store everything at once; tap still opens the sorter.
• Store All in the sorter asks for confirmation (Yes/No), showing how many items will be stored.
• Item tooltips show the label path the barrel uses for that item.
• Looking at an enabled labelled chest shows its label (for example "Iron" or "Prepared Food") under the Open prompt.
• Chest labels: each choice has a small checkbox, so a chest can take several entries on the same level.
• Clear All button next to All Types removes every tick and resets the chest to All Types.
• Clicking an item sets the chest label straight away; no empty pages.
• Equipment reorganized: Helm, Chest, Legs, Capes, Trinkets, Misc, and Arms with Weapons, Tools, Items (bombs) and Shields. Each group is one choice.
• Misc groups (Idols, Ammo, Keys, Gold, Gems, Other Items) are one choice each; 16 Forge of Potential idols added under Idols.
• New: Materials › Crafting › Moulds; fireworks, Soft Tissue and Liquid Frost in Crafting Items; boss drops (Dragon Tear, Torn Spirit, Majestic Carapace, Kindled Ribs, Sacrificial Blood) in Trophies; eggs with Cooking Ingredients.
• Added White Deer Trophy, Asksvin Egg, Midsummer Crown, Pointy Hat, Iron Shield, Stone Pickaxe; both Raw Fish share one choice.
• Hildir's quest chests are never sorted.
• Fixed the barrel prompt showing $KEY_Use instead of the key.
• Older chest labels keep working and move to the new groups.

0.1.0

• First release.
• Chest labels with seven categories and a detailed item type tree, each level selectable with All Types.
• CheckMyStuff Barrel sorts eligible bag items into matching labeled chests within 50 metres, most specific labels first, then nearest.
• Item catalog built from the game's own item, recipe, build piece and station data.
• Scrap / Ore shows one button per metal: Black Metal, Bronze, Copper, Flametal, Gold, Iron, Silver, Tin. Iron covers Iron Ore and Scrap Iron; Copper covers Copper Ore and Copper Scrap; Gold is Petrified Tissue.
• Hotbar, equipped, quest and non-bag items are never moved.