SortHeim
One-click sorting for chests and your inventory: by name, weight, or rarity (biome tier). Keeps your hotbar and equipped gear in place.
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SortHeim
One-click sorting for chests and your inventory in Valheim — by name, weight, or rarity.
Usage
Open your inventory or a chest. Small buttons appear beside your inventory and under the chest (hover for a tooltip):
| Button | Sorts by |
| --- | --- |
| A-Z | Item name, alphabetically (in your game language) |
| Encumbered icon | Weight, heaviest first |
| Gem icon | Rarity: biome tier, latest biome first |
Partial stacks of the same item are merged first. When sorting your inventory, your hotbar row and equipped gear never move.
How rarity works
Valheim has no rarity stat, so SortHeim ranks items by the biome they come from:
0 Meadows → 1 Black Forest → 2 Swamp → 3 Mountain → 4 Plains → 5 Mistlands → 6 Ashlands → 7 Deep North
Raw materials and trophies come from a built-in table. Anything crafted, smelted, cooked or brewed takes the highest tier among its ingredients (via its cheapest recipe), so modded items with recipes are ranked automatically. Items with no known tier go last. To fix or add one, use TierOverrides, e.g. TrophyMoose=7, MyModdedOre=5 (prefab names).
Configuration
Edit in Gale's config editor, or BepInEx/config/mbaya.SortHeim.cfg:
| Section | Key | Default | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UI | ShowChestButtons / ShowInventoryButtons | true | Hide either set of buttons |
| UI | ChestButtonOffset / InventoryButtonOffset | (0, -6) / (6, 0) | Nudge the buttons if they overlap another mod's UI |
| UI | ButtonWidth | 0 | 0 = automatic compact width |
| Inventory | KeepHotbar | true | Never move hotbar items (slots 1-8) |
| Inventory | KeepEquipped | true | Never move equipped items |
| Sorting | MergeStacks | true | Combine partial stacks first |
| Sorting | UseStackTotals | true | Compare whole-stack weight instead of per-item |
| Sorting | NameDirection / WeightDirection / RarityDirection | Asc / Desc / Desc | |
| Sorting | TierOverrides | (empty) | PrefabName=Tier pairs |
| Hotkeys | SortByName / SortByWeight / SortByRarity | (none) | Sorts the open chest, or your inventory if none is open |
Multiplayer
Client-side only; other players don't need it. Chests are only sorted while you have them open (which makes you their owner), so it's safe on dedicated servers.
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: