Shack Recycler
Recycle tab at the workbench, forge and stonecutter: gear, tools, ammo, nails and bronze back into what they cost. Research tab: use up things you can't craft yet (food too) to learn their recipes. Ne
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Shack Recycler
A Recycle tab at the workbench, forge and stonecutter that turns things you crafted back into their materials: gear, tools, arrows, bolts, bombs, nails, bronze and more.
How it works
- Open a workbench, forge or stonecutter and click the Recycle tab next to Craft and Upgrade.
- The list shows what in your inventory that station crafts, plus things that need no station (hammer, torch, club...). Items another Recycle station makes are listed greyed out with its name, e.g. "Ironhead arrow (Forge)".
- Pick an item to see exactly what you'll get back, then click Recycle.
- Gear (tools, weapons, armour) asks Yes / No first, and the popup shows what you'll get back.
- Upgraded gear gives back its upgrade materials too (this can be switched off).
- Stacks are recycled by the craft. A click recycles what one craft makes (20 arrows); Shift + click recycles the whole stack. Less than a full craft gives back its share, rounded down.
- What doesn't fit in your inventory drops at your feet.
- Equipped items can't be recycled, and the station needs the level that crafting (or upgrading to) the item needs.
- Food, meads and potions are never recycled.
Returns
Set by the server admin in F1 (Shack Recycler). The server's values apply to everyone:
- Flat (default): a fixed share of what the item cost to make. 100% by default.
- Luck: each material rolls crumbled / poor / normal / good / jackpot (the same odds idea as Forge Reclaimer). The Recycling skill improves the odds as you use it.
- Include upgrades (on): upgraded items also give back what their upgrades cost.
- Durability affects return (off): worn items give back less.
- Stations: which stations get the tab. You can add $piece_artisanstation, $piece_blackforge or $piece_magetable.
- Excluded item types, Blocked items and Blocked materials.
Recycling can never give back more than the item cost to make. When an item has two recipes (Bronze and Bronze x5), it returns the cheaper of the two. Crafting and then recycling can't multiply materials.
Each player can choose in F1 (0 - This PC → Ask before recycling) when to be asked: Gear (default), Everything, or Never.
Notes
- Install it on the server and every client. The server sends its settings to everyone (admin-only settings, through Jotunn). Players without it can still join; they just have no Recycle tab.
- Works alongside My Little UI, Craft From Containers, Quick Stack - Store - Sort - Trash - Restock, Equipment and Quick Slots, and Zen.ModLib.
- Tested with Valheim 1.0.17, BepInExPack 5.4.2351 and Jotunn 2.30.2.
Credits
The idea of a Recycle tab with luck rolls comes from Forge Reclaimer by Helgi. Shack Recycler is a separate mod written from scratch; it shares no code.
This mod was written with the help of an AI assistant (Claude).
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: