DynamicStorage Ammunition Piles
Dynamic arrow, bolt and Ballista missile barrels with discovery unlocks, per-barrel appearance editing, selectable visual-fill logic and server-synced capacity.
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DynamicStorage Ammunition Piles
Functional ammunition storage that visibly fills as you stock it.
DynamicStorage Ammunition Piles adds dedicated Arrow, Bolt, and Missile Barrels to Valheim.
Instead of hiding all of your ammunition inside another chest, your arrows, crossbow bolts and Ballista missiles can be stored in visible barrels that physically fill as ammunition is added.
Storage capacity is server-controlled, while the appearance and visual fill behaviour of each placed barrel can be customised independently.
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Dynamic Visual Filling
The core idea is simple:
Your ammunition storage should visibly fill as you use it.
As ammunition is added to a barrel, additional copies of the actual projectile model appear inside it.
The visual filling system automatically scales with the server's selected 10 / 20 / 40 / 60 slot storage capacity.
By default, barrels use:
- Fill Based On: Occupied Slots
- Looks Full At: 50%
- Maximum Visible Ammunition: 20 models
With the default settings:
| Server Storage | Visually Full At |
| ---: | ---: |
| 10 slots | 5 occupied slots |
| 20 slots | 10 occupied slots |
| 40 slots | 20 occupied slots |
| 60 slots | 30 occupied slots |
This means a server can increase the actual storage capacity without requiring an enormous number of rendered projectiles.
The visual barrel can still look satisfyingly full while the underlying storage scales independently.
Both Fill Based On and Looks Full At can be customised separately for Arrow, Bolt and Missile Barrels.
Other DynamicStorage Mods
DynamicStorage Ammunition Piles is part of a growing collection of mods focused on turning stored resources into functional, visible parts of your base.
| | |
|:---: | --- |
| | DynamicStorage Piles — The original DynamicStorage mod, covering wood and stone piles. |
| | DynamicStorage Forge — Dynamic storage for ores, scraps, metals and forge materials. |
| | DynamicStorage Materials — Dynamic storage for common crafting materials and resources. |
| | DynamicStorage Mead Hall — Themed mead storage with dynamic labels and Quick Grab. |
| | DynamicStorage Butcher's Hall — Dynamic raw and cooked meat storage for your butcher area. |
| DynamicStorage Animals | Development in progress. |
| DynamicStorage Food Hall | Development in progress. |
Recommended: BepInEx ConfigDrawers
BepInEx ConfigDrawers by Vapok is not required, but is highly recommended if you want to dive into the customisation options in DynamicStorage Ammunition Piles.
The mod contains separate appearance controls for Arrow, Bolt and Missile Barrels, and ConfigDrawers provides a much cleaner in-game interface for browsing and adjusting them.
It is particularly useful for:
- Searching configuration options
- Collapsing sections you are not currently using
- Adjusting appearance values while in-game
- Quickly finding the settings for a particular barrel family
Main Features
- Three dedicated storage pieces:
- Arrow Barrel
- Bolt Barrel
- Missile Barrel
- Barrel recipes are discovered independently by ammunition family
- Discover any supported arrow to unlock the Arrow Barrel
- Discover any supported bolt to unlock the Bolt Barrel
- Discover any supported Ballista missile to unlock the Missile Barrel
- Each barrel accepts only its matching ammunition family
- Each barrel holds one exact ammunition type at a time
- Dynamic projectile models visibly fill the barrel
- Uses the actual Valheim ammunition models and materials
- Supports 23 currently player-facing vanilla ammunition types
- Server-synchronised storage capacity
- Choose between 10 / 20 / 40 / 60 slots
- Visual filling based on either:
- Occupied inventory slots
- Actual storage capacity
- Configurable Looks Full At thresholds
- Up to 20 visible ammunition models
- Separate appearance settings for each ammunition family
- Per-barrel saved appearance settings
- Built-in Barrel Appearance
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: