Carturs Waste Management

Cartur's Waste Management

A trash can and a sort button, in the inventory, where the mess is.

The can

Pick an item up and click the can. It comes apart into what it was made of and the

parts land in your bag.

The refund is the item's own recipe — the same one the bench used to build it —

and you get half of it back, rounded up. Scrapping should cost you something,

and rounding up means a single unit of an ingredient still returns one rather than

nothing. A leftover that doesn't make a full craft returns nothing.

Every upgrade you paid for is counted, not just the last one: a level 3 sword

was charged for the craft and then again for each step up, so the refund adds all

of that together and a level 3 always gives back more than a level 1.

Anything with no recipe — wood, stone, ore, a handful of raspberries — has nothing

to give back, so it is simply thrown away.

EpicLoot is paid too, when it's installed. An enchanted item was charged

materials at the enchanting table, so half of that bill comes back on top of the

recipe. Anything else EpicLoot would sacrifice — a trophy, a boss drop, an

unidentified item — never cost anything to make, so those pay EpicLoot's own

sacrifice table instead, unhalved: the same numbers its enchanting UI already

shows you. Reached by reflection, so nothing happens when EpicLoot is absent.

The can destroys things, and there is no undo. That is what it is for.

The sort buttons

One under the can for your own bag. Two under Place Stacks for the chests: Sort

for the open one, Sort All for every chest in range. The pair takes up the same

space the single button used to, so it doesn't grow into whatever is below it.

Sorting groups by item type, then by name, then puts the best quality first. It

also pours split stacks back together — half a stack of wood here and half

there come out as one pile.

Your hotbar row is never touched, and neither is anything in an equipment or

quick-slot row added by another mod.

Pulling from nearby chests

Sort doesn't only tidy what is already in the inventory. It also reaches out to

the chests around you and brings in what matches, so a chest of ore and an ore

chest next door end up as one chest of ore, and a nearly empty bag and a full ore

chest beside it are both dealt with on one press. How far it looks is

GatherRange in the settings, and 0 turns the reaching off.

A chest only collects the kinds of item it already holds — a chest of ores stays a

chest of ores, and gains the ore from around it, rather than becoming a bin for

everything in range. Your bag is the other way round: it fills with what it already

has room for.

Chests you have no permission for, chests inside someone else's ward, chests other

players have open, and containers carried by a player are all left alone. So are

boats and carts — a hold is not part of your base, and without that rule a moored

longship holding a lot of something could win it and pull your stores out onto the

water.

Sort All tidies every chest in range and consolidates them. For each kind of

thing it finds, one chest wins — the one already holding the most of it, and on a

tie the nearer — and every other copy is pulled into that chest. So two chests of

rubies end up as one chest of rubies. A chest only ever wins a kind of thing it

already holds, so a chest of ores still cannot swallow a chest of wood.

What will not fit in the winner is left in the chest it was in. Nothing is thrown

away, and a base that could not be finished in one press finishes on the next.

Settings

BepInEx/config/com.jekkle.valheim.carturwastemanagement.cfg.

| Setting | Default | What it does |

| --- | --- | --- |

| ShowTrashCan | true | Show the can in the player panel. |

| ShowBagSort | true | Show the Sort button for your own bag. |

| ShowChestSort | true | Show Sort for the open chest. |

| ShowChestSortAll | true | Show Sort All under it. |

| GatherRange | 20 | How far, in metres, sorting pulls matching items in from nearby chests, and how far Sort Al