GorilaChestMod
Craft and build from nearby chests, oversized chest stacks, a quick stack hotkey, Alt click favorites, and a Deconstruct tab that gives a crafted item's materials back.
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GorilaChestMod
Chest quality of life for Valheim, in five parts:
- Craft from chests. Craft, upgrade and build using the items inside the
chests around you, without hauling anything into your inventory first.
- Oversized chest stacks. A chest slot holds far more than the vanilla
limit, 1000 by default, so a chest full of wood is one slot instead of twenty. Your own inventory keeps the vanilla limits.
- Quick stack. The J key pushes matching items from your inventory into
the chests in range. J is free in Valheim: V is auto
pickup and G opens the hotbar radial.
- Favorites. Mark a stack with Alt + left click and automatic moving
leaves it alone, both the quick stack above and the chest's own stack button.
- Deconstruct. A third tab beside Craft and Upgrade takes a crafted item
apart and gives its materials back, upgrades included.
Runs on the client and on a dedicated server.
The Deconstruct tab used to be a separate mod, GorilaDeconstruct. From 2.5.0 it
lives here, so remove GorilaDeconstruct before updating, otherwise the tab is
built twice.
Game version this was built against
| Item | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Game version | 1.0.15 |
| Steam build | 25390630 |
| Engine | Unity 6000.0.75f1, Mono backend |
| Game code | valheim_Data/Managed/assembly_valheim.dll |
Because the backend is Mono and not IL2CPP, the usual modding path still applies:
BepInEx 5 plus Harmony, patching in memory. No game file is modified.
Install
- Install BepInEx 5 for Valheim, the denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim package.
Launch the game once so it creates its folders.
- Copy GorilaChestMod.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/GorilaChestMod, or
extract the -.zip release over the game folder.
- Start the game. BepInEx/LogOutput.log should contain a line reading
GorilaChestMod 2.5.0 loaded.
With r2modman or Mod Manager, use Import local mod and pick the
-.zip release. Do not mix a mod manager with a manual BepInEx
install in the game root, that is the classic cause of a mod loading twice or
not loading at all.
On a dedicated server
Full step by step for whoever runs the server, Windows, Linux and rented panels:
docs/server-install.md.
The short version is the same as above, into the server's BepInEx/plugins, and
every player needs it as well. The server half exists for two reasons:
- A server that loads a chest into memory decides how large its stacks may be. A
vanilla server would clamp an oversized stack back to the vanilla limit and
destroy the excess the next time it wrote that chest out.
- The server hands its chest stack settings to every client as they connect, so
the whole session agrees on the limit.
Craft from chests and quick stack are decided entirely on the player's own
machine, so those two still work fine against a vanilla server.
Configuration
BepInEx/config/dev.trentini.gorilachestmod.cfg is written on first launch and
can be edited with the game closed.
| Section | Option | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Craft from chests | Enabled | true | Count nearby chests when crafting, upgrading and building. |
| Craft from chests | Range | 20 | Radius in meters. Quick stack uses the same radius. |
| Craft from chests | UseForBuilding | true | Also pay hammer, hoe and cultivator costs from chests. |
| Craft from chests | IncludeVehicleContainers | true | Include containers on carts and ships. |
| Chest stacks | Enabled | true | Allow oversized stacks inside chests. |
| Chest stacks | ChestStackSize | 1000 | How much one chest slot may hold, up to 10000. The server's value wins. |
| Chest stacks | ShrinkStackText | true | Keep a slot label readable when the numbers get long, 1000 reads as 1k. |
| Quick stack | Enabled | true | Enable the quick stack hotkey. |
| Quick stack | SkipHotbar | true | Leave the hotbar row alone. |
| Quick stack | Hotkey | J | Hotkey for quick stacking, inventory open or closed. |
| Quick stack | HotkeyNeedsInventory | false | Require the invent
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: