CraftIndex

Organizes Valheim's Hammer and crafting stations without changing recipes, costs, or progression.

Features

1 - Hammer and Crafting Stations

• Groups and searches unlocked Hammer pieces, with persistent favorites.
• Adds recipe views, search, favorites, and readable food stats to crafting stations.
• Gives PlantEverything plants their own organized section when installed.

Changelog

0.3.1 - 2026-08-10

• Resets the crafting-station recipe scrollbar to the top when switching between Craft and Upgrade, preventing the rebuilt list from opening midway down or appearing empty.

0.3.0 - 2026-08-09

• Renames the mod from CraftGuard to CraftIndex while retaining the existing plugin identifier and settings file.
• Adds cached search to every organized Hammer tab.
• Adds persistent middle-click favorites in a dedicated section pinned to the top of each organized Hammer tab.
• Adds a clear no-results message when a Hammer search has no unlocked matches.
• Adds persistent recipe favorites with an in-row star and a dedicated section pinned to the top of crafting-station lists.
• Widens crafting-station recipe lists, keeps names inside a fixed text area, wraps long names, and shows full names on hover.
• Centers the Craft and Upgrade tabs over the widened recipe list while leaving the view controls in place.
• Adds optional PlantEverything support with a dedicated Plant Everything section ordered as Misc., Bushes, and Trees.
• Organizes the Cultivator's vanilla actions and plants into Cultivate/Grass, crops, and trees while preserving its independent Default/Mod View setting.

0.2.6 - 2026-08-09

• Adds a dedicated Bait section at the bottom of food-station Stat views.

0.2.5 - 2026-08-09

• Removes the client-side/source footer from the Thunderstore Details page.

0.2.4 - 2026-08-09

• Keeps release-specific update notes in the changelog instead of the main mod description.

0.2.3 - 2026-08-09

• Filters crafting searches against cached recipe rows instead of rebuilding Valheim's entire crafting panel on every keystroke.
• Preserves the input field's native focus and caret handling so typed characters remain in the correct order.
• Caches Hammer classification and sorted category results per build tool, then refreshes only categories whose available pieces changed.
• Reuses Hammer category cards, dividers, tile tints, labels, and recipe-list headings instead of repeatedly creating and destroying UI objects.
• Precomputes each crafting-station view order once and reuses a single search-results buffer while typing.
• Avoids refreshing recipe details when the currently selected recipe remains visible after filtering.
• Initializes prepared-food conversion data only for confirmed food stations and caches resolved results per food item.
• Replaces repeated hierarchy checks in the global input guard with an event-maintained search-focus flag.
• Removes the dormant per-frame diagnostics poll and runs the optional data export from scene initialization events.

0.2.2 - 2026-08-09

• Adds a CraftGuard menu showcase to the top of the Thunderstore Details page.

0.2.1 - 2026-08-09

• Remembers Default or Mod View independently per build tool; Hammer starts in Mod View while Hoe and Cultivator start in Default View.
• Releases generated Hammer UI, crafting-station controls, listeners, and cached Unity references when their owning HUD, inventory, or scene objects are destroyed.
• Clears cached food-prefab references when Valheim tears down its network scene.
• Avoids Hammer UI work while the player is teleporting or the game is shutting down.
• Adds self-healing circuit breakers so a UI compatibility error cannot become a per-frame exception and log-writing loop; failed features clean up, pause briefly, and retry with rate-limited diagnostics.
• Removes the left category rail's separate fill so it displays the exact native wood beneath it, matching warm, blue, and green environments without another rendered background.
• Removes the experimental forced backdrop and fixes its solid brown box remaining after the Hammer menu closed.
• Gives the crafting search field exclusive keyboard control while focused, preserving focus through recipe-list refreshes so letters such as E cannot trigger Use, movement, guardian powers, or other gameplay actions.
• Changes the Default View and Mod View controls to 50%-transparent grey fills with true orange one-pixel borders, avoiding the orange fill caused by Unity's outline effect.
• Gives the static Repair control and left category cards neutral grey fills at 70% opacity with the same true orange borders.
• Styles custom category cards from the darkest visible inactive vanilla category header's rendered canvas color, matching the Misc, Crafting, and Building tab backgrounds while retaining orange borders.

0.2.0 - 2026-08-08

• Rebuilds the organized Hammer layout only when pieces, tabs, or relevant settings change, eliminating full-list scans and hierarchy reordering on idle frames.
• Computes names, identifiers, progression keys, and group metadata once per piece during a refresh instead of repeatedly inside sort comparisons.
• Reduces custom Hammer UI object count by replacing four-object borders with lightweight outlines.
• Removes redundant grid transpilers now that CraftGuard uses Valheim's native 15 by 6 Hammer grid.

0.1.2 - 2026-08-07

• Fixes the static Repair button so it enters repair mode from every Hammer tab without switching categories.

0.1.1 - 2026-08-07

• Publishes CraftGuard under the correct jg224 Thunderstore namespace.
• Places the native Q previous-category control in the open header space immediately left of Misc.
• Adds persistent Default View and Mod View buttons beneath Repair, rebuilding the live Hammer list when switching so visuals, hover, and selection stay aligned.
• Orders Misc Travel as Cart, Raft, Karve, Longship, Drakkar, and Portal; moves the Cartography Table to Utility and uses it as that section's icon; places Roundpole Fence first and Shield Generator last in Defense.

0.1.0 - 2026-08-07

Initial public release of CraftGuard, renamed from the private InventoryUX development builds.

Hammer menu

• Adds organized, progression-aware layouts to Misc., Crafting, Building, Heavy Build, and Furniture.
• Uses compact inset category cards, subtle dividers, native hover feedback, and corrected hit targets.
• Keeps Repair static and outside dynamic sorting.
• Adds optional outlined Hammer piece names, disabled by default.
• Caches menu decoration work to avoid frame loss while organized tabs are open.

Crafting stations

• Adds fixed Default, Type/Stat, and Biome view controls.
• Adds recipe search with a clear button.
• Groups equipment by type and biome.
• Groups meals by nutrition and shows readable HP, Stamina, and Eitr values.
• Resolves doughs, uncooked pies, feasts, and other prepared foods through their live final edible item.
• Groups Mead Ketill recipes as HP, Stamina, or Utility.
• Removes inappropriate station-upgrade copy from food and equipment recipe details.

Safety and compatibility

• Organizes only Hammer pieces and recipes already exposed by Valheim.
• Leaves recipes, costs, unlocks, saves, worlds, and multiplayer state unchanged.
• Preserves modded content through fallback groups.
• Retains the legacy com.inventoryux.valheim plugin identifier so existing settings migrate automatically.