ChestPreview
Look at a chest to see a list of everything inside it: item icons, names and combined stack counts, without opening it.
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🎯 ChestPreview
Look at a chest to see a list of everything inside it: item icons, names and combined stack counts, without opening it.
💶 Donations:
If you enjoy using this Valheim mod, please consider making a small donation to help support its development and future updates.
Even £1 or $1 would be greatly appreciated and would help more than you might think!
Thank you for your support, and happy gaming! ⚔️...... (A Paypal account is NOT required!)
⭐ Features:
- A panel lists the contents of the chest you are looking at: item icon, name, stack count and quality level.
- Shows how full the chest is (slots used / total slots) next to its name.
- Identical items are combined into a single row with a total count (can be turned off).
- Sort rows by value, weight or name, ascending or descending, and optionally limit how many rows are shown.
- The panel resizes to fit its contents, and large chests spill into up to 3 columns.
- Clean, semi-transparent black panel using Valheim's own font.
- Only works on chests you are allowed to open, so private chests stay private.
- Hidden while the inventory, menus, console, chat or other text windows are open.
- Only shows player-built chests; world/dungeon loot chests stay a surprise.
🎚️ Configuration:
Settings are in BepInEx/config/MagicMike.ChestPreview.cfg (or edit them in r2modman/Gale/Configuration Manager).
| Section | Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | MaxEntries | -1 | Maximum number of rows to show. -1 = unlimited. Extra rows are summarised as "+N more". |
| General | SortType | Value | Sort rows by Name, Value (total value of the row) or Weight (total weight of the row). Ties are sorted by name. |
| General | SortAscending | false | Sort lowest-to-highest (A-Z for Name) instead of highest-to-lowest. |
| General | CombineStacks | true | Merge identical items into one row with a total count. |
| UI | CapacityFormat | {0}/{1} | Capacity text next to the chest name. {0} = slots used, {1} = total slots. Leave empty to hide. |
| UI | PositionX | 0.72 | Horizontal position of the panel center (0 = left, 1 = right). |
| UI | PositionY | 0.55 | Vertical position of the panel center (0 = bottom, 1 = top). |
| UI | Alpha | 0.92 | Panel opacity (0 = invisible, 1 = fully opaque). |
| UI | BackgroundAlpha | 0.66 | Opacity of the black background behind the text (0 = none, 1 = solid black). |
| UI | ShowItemImages | true | Show item icons next to each row. |
| UI | MinPanelWidth | 300 | Minimum panel width. |
| UI | MaxPanelWidth | 470 | Maximum panel width; longer names are clipped. |
💻 Installation:
Automatic Install
Plugin is created to be installed with r2modman or Gale. downloads you will need to install manually.
Manual Install
- Un-zip and drag the ChestPreview folder in your BepInEx/plugins/ folder.
💥 Plugins Created by Magic Mike:
- CorewoodExtras
- MyDirtyHoe
💬 Comments/Suggestions/Help:.
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: