Chest List
Shows a clean overlay of chest contents when looking at player-placed chests (optional for world loot chests).
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Chest_List
Look at a chest and see what's inside — without opening it.
When you hover a player-placed chest, Chest_List shows a clean overlay listing item names and stack counts. The panel reuses Valheim inventory background art when available, and respects your configured position and transparency.
- Player-built chests: always on
- World / dungeon loot chests: optional (off by default)
- Optional item icons (on by default; image left, text right)
- Combined stacks on by default (one row per unique item with total count)
- Client-side only — no server install required
Install with r2modman (recommended)
- Install r2modman.
- Select Valheim and open your profile.
- Make sure BepInExPack Valheim is installed.
- Download this mod and click Install with Mod Manager,
or go to Settings → Import local mod and select the downloaded zip.
- Click Start modded.
Manual install (BepInEx)
- Install BepInExPack Valheim if you do not already have it.
- Extract the zip.
- Copy files into:
Valheim\BepInEx\plugins\ModdedWolf-Chest_List\
The folder should contain Chest_List.dll, manifest.json, icon.png, and README.md.
Prefer the r2modman package folder name (ModdedWolf-Chest_List) so enable/disable in the mod manager controls the install. A bare plugins\Chest_List\ folder is invisible to r2modman and will always load.
- Launch Valheim.
Configuration
After first launch, settings are saved here:
BepInEx\config\ModdedWolf.Chest_List.cfg
| Section | Key | Default | Description |
|---------|-----|---------|-------------|
| General | EnableWorldGeneratedChests | false | Also preview world/dungeon loot chests |
| General | CombineStacks | true | Merge identical items into one row with total count |
| UI | PositionX | 0.72 | Horizontal position (0–1) |
| UI | PositionY | 0.55 | Vertical position (0–1) |
| UI | Alpha | 0.92 | Overlay opacity (0–1) |
| UI | ShowItemImages | true | Show icons left of names |
| UI | MinPanelWidth | 300 | Minimum panel width (grows with longest row) |
| UI | MaxPanelWidth | 470 | Maximum panel width before names clip |
Compatible with BepInEx ConfigurationManager.
Notes
Player-placed vs world chests uses Valheim's Piece.IsPlacedByPlayer() (creator id). Containers without a player creator are treated as world-generated. The overlay hides while inventory, menus, console, chat input, or similar UI are open.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: