Quads Craft From Chests
Craft from chests and containers: crafting stations and hand-crafting use materials from nearby chests (20 m, or your own range), with totals in the crafting menu and lines to the chests in use. Pairs
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📦 CraftFromChests
Version 1.4.1 · all the mods · install it (r2modman, Mod Manager) or the in-game mod manager (F7)
Crafting stations (and hand-crafting) use materials from nearby chests. See lines to every chest in use and change the range from 5 to 30 m.
📸 Screenshots
The workbench: Chest lines and Range beside the tabs, and the materials counted from the chests
Close up: the buttons and the counts
⚠️ Known clashes
- Adventure Backpacks ("Craft From Backpack", on by default): handled. The backpack pays its part first and this mod only takes what is
still missing from the chests (before 1.4.0, crafting next to it could cost up to twice as much).
- AzuCraftyBoxes, CraftFromContainers (aedenthorn), and ValheimPlus with its CraftFromChest section on: they also craft from
chests, and two such mods count every chest twice (crafts pay half). When one of them is installed (ValheimPlus: while that section is on)
this mod stands down and leaves crafting from chests to it; the log says so once.
- BuildFromChests and FeedFromChests (ours): fine together. Each one only works in its own moment (crafting, building, feeding a
station), and each pays only what the others left.
- Only built chests are used: graves, carts, ships, a companion's bag and chest, and a backpack you carry are left alone.
🔍 How it works
Crafting stations, and hand-crafting from your inventory, use materials from nearby chests.
How it works
- Anything you can reach within the range counts toward a recipe. The game takes the materials from your inventory first, then from the chests.
- The crafting menu shows how many of each material you have in total.
- A Chest lines button beside the crafting tabs draws lines from the station to every chest in use; a Range button cycles the distance (5 to 30 m).
Settings: range (default 20 m), whether counts and lines show, and the position and size of the buttons.
⚙️ Settings
In BepInEx/config/com.quad.craftfromchests.cfg (made the first time the game runs with the mod).
Display
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| ShowHaveCounts | true | In the crafting window, show how many of each material you HAVE (inventory + chests) next to how many you need. |
| ShowLines | false | Draw lines from the crafting station to every chest it can use. |
| ToggleOffsetX | 0 | Move the 'Chest lines' button horizontally from its default spot beside the Upgrade tab (UI pixels). |
| ToggleOffsetY | 0 | Move the 'Chest lines' button vertically (UI pixels). Negative = down. |
| ToggleScale | 1 | Size multiplier for the 'Chest lines' button. |
| ToggleWidth | 2 | 'Chest lines' button width as a multiple of the Upgrade tab's width. |
| RangeButtonWidth | 1.4 | 'Range' button width as a multiple of the Upgrade tab's width. |
General
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Enabled | true | Turn the mod on or off. |
| Radius | 20 | How far (in meters) from the crafting station a chest can be and still be used. In multiplayer the server's value applies. |
👥 Playing together
See who needs which mod on the front page.
🤖 Made with AI
Made with the help of Claude (Anthropic), with Claude Code: designed, written and checked together, and tried in the game.
📜 Changes
- 1.4.1 A new id, com.quad.craftfromchests (it was com.dhack.craftfromchests): your settings move over by themselves the first time it starts, and the old settings file is kept as a backup. Restart the game after this update. If an old copy is still installed beside it, this one stands down and says which file to delete, so the two never both run. The DLL now says it was made with AI, as asks. It also stands down next to Toxo's Craft From Chests, CraftFromChestsPlus, Teflon Ted's Craft From Chests, StoreAndCraft and SmartCraft-Storage, as it already did next to AzuCraftyBoxes and CraftFromContainers: two such mods count every chest twice.
- Fix: next to Adventure Backpacks, crafting could cost up to twice as much
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: