MimirsWell
One window for every rune chest around it: search, filter and take from your whole storage at once.
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Mímir's Well
One window for your whole storage. Build the well, bind rune chests around it, and see, search
and take everything they hold from a single place — without the well ever storing a thing itself.
In the spirit of Applied Energistics 2 or Simple Storage for Minecraft, but kept inside Valheim's own logic and
its own interface.
What it does
- Mímir's Well shows the contents of every rune chest around it in one window.
- Stacks are merged: 143 wood is one slot, even though the stack limit is 50. The chests keep
ordinary stacks.
- Search by name, filter by category, sort by name, amount or weight.
- The window is the game's own container window, so drag and drop, stack splitting, transfer with
Ctrl and item tooltips all work as they do everywhere else.
- Only rune chests join. Personal chests, loot chests and other players' chests stay untouched.
- Everything stays local: no items cross the map, so the portal restriction on ores remains intact.
Building it
| Piece | Station | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
| Mímir's Well | Workbench | Stone 20, Fine wood 10, Greydwarf eye 10, Surtling core 2 |
| Rune chest | Workbench | Wood 10, Fine wood 4, Greydwarf eye 2 |
| Bound rune chest | Workbench | Fine wood 10, Iron 2, Ancient bark 4 |
| Blackmetal rune chest | Forge | Blackmetal 6, Fine wood 10, Tar 2, Surtling core 1 |
Rune chests hold exactly what the vanilla chest they are based on holds. The network is the
reward, not extra space.
The rune chisel
A tool made at the workbench from Fine wood 10, Bronze 3, Greydwarf eye 10 and a Surtling core.
Hold it and press use on a chest that already stands to carve it into the rune chest of its own
tier, contents included. That is all it does: it does not raise a chest to a higher tier, so the
iron and blackmetal those cost still have to be paid by building them.
Multiplayer
While the window is open, the well takes ownership of each bound chest and marks it as held, so no
one else can move items in it at the same time. Chests another player is using are skipped and
counted in the window. A hold carries a timestamp and expires by itself, so a disconnect cannot
leave a chest locked.
The mod is required on the server and on every client (EveryoneMustHaveMod, minor version
strictness). The network radius is server-synced and admin-only.
Configuration
BepInEx/config/benka.MimirsWell.cfg
- Network.Radius (default 20 m) — how far from the well chests are bound. Beyond the loaded area
a chest cannot be reached at all, which is what this limit reflects.
- Window.Columns (default 8) — slots per row in the well window.
- Window.MaxRows (default 10) — the smallest height the window keeps; it grows beyond this as
needed and the grid scrolls.
- Visuals.RuneGlow (default true) — bound chests glow faintly.
Compatibility
Built against Valheim 1.0.12, BepInEx 5.4.23 and Jötunn 2.30. Tested alongside AzuCraftyBoxes,
which can craft straight from rune chests since they are ordinary containers, and Mouse Tweaks,
whose bulk transfer works in the well window.
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: