The Shack Pack
Vanilla+ quality-of-life pack for The Viking Shack: inventory, building, farming, map and UI improvements. Combat, mobs and difficulty stay vanilla. Valheim 1.0 (Deep North).
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The Shack Pack
A vanilla+ quality-of-life pack for The Viking Shack server, built for Valheim 1.0 (Deep North).
It's less tedium, the same Valheim: inventory, building, farming, map and UI conveniences. Combat, mobs and difficulty are left vanilla, and the pack adds no new items, creatures or biomes.
Install
- Install r2modman, pick Valheim, and create a new profile.
- Online tab → search The Shack Pack → Download. Every mod installs at the exact version the server uses.
- Click Start modded.
- Linux (native Valheim): the first time, r2modman shows a Steam launch option. Copy it into Steam → Valheim → Properties → Launch Options. A normal Steam launch stays vanilla.
- Join IP with the address and password your server admin gave you.
Updating
- When the pack updates, select The Shack Pack in your installed mods and click its Update button.
- Never use "Update all": it moves mods past the versions the server runs, and the server will refuse the connection.
- The pack ships some settings files, which are listed below. Updating the pack resets those files to the pack's values.
What's included
Inventory & storage
- Quick Stack - Store - Sort - Trash - Restock: stack to nearby chests, sort, restock, trash.
- MultiUserChest: several players can use one chest at once.
- CraftFromContainers: craft and build using materials in nearby chests.
- SmartPickup: smarter auto-pickup modes.
- Equipment and Quick Slots: separate armor slots plus 3 quick slots.
- QSS EAQS Bridge: stops sort from touching your armor and quick slots.
Building
- ComfyGizmo: precise 3-axis rotation.
- Extra Snap Points Made Easy: more snap points and manual snapping.
- Venture Area Repair: repair everything nearby at once, at the same cost.
- Cartur's Build Camera: a free build camera within workbench range.
- SearsCatalog: a resizable build menu.
Farming & production
- PlantEasily: grid planting and bulk harvest, with the same seed and stamina cost.
- OttoFuel: smelters, kilns, fires and torches take fuel and ore from nearby chests.
- AutoFeedRedux: tames eat from nearby chests.
- No Lossy Cooking Stations: lag no longer eats your food or ore.
- ZenBeehive: open hives like a chest.
Map & travel
- XPortalNetworks: pick a portal destination from a list.
- Better Cartography Table: private and public pins.
- Pinnacle: pin search, edit and filter.
- Dude, Where's My Portal: auto-pins your portals.
- AutoRemoveDeathPin: clears the death pin when you loot your tombstone.
- HUDCompass: a compass bar, plus ship, cart and portal markers on the map.
UI & stability
- My Little UI: clock, timers, durability and more.
- Configuration Manager: the in-game settings menu (F1).
- ValheimCommunityPatch: bug fixes only.
- OdinSaves: saves your character more often.
- Detailed Levels: exact skill progress.
- Chatter: a better chat window.
- StopChoppyAudio: fixes audio stutter.
- AchievementEnabler: Steam achievements while modded.
Libraries: BepInExPack, Jotunn, Conditional Config Sync, YamlDotNet, JsonDotNET, Zen.ModLib.
Keys
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| F1 | Mod settings menu |
| Z / B / N | Quick slots 1–3 |
| O / P / L / Delete | Sort / quick stack / restock / trash |
| Y | Build camera (near a workbench) |
| Shift + scroll / Alt + scroll | Gizmo: rotate on the red / blue axis |
| K / J | Gizmo: reset rotation / select target piece |
| F7, [ and ] | Snap mode, cycle snap points |
| F3 / F4 | Grid snap / grid precision |
| F8, arrow keys | PlantEasily on/off, grid size (cultivator) |
| Left Shift + interact | Bulk harvest |
| Tab (map open) | Pin list |
| F9 | Skill levels |
| Alt + U | Toggle compass |
The pack's keys were chosen so mods don't clash with each other or with vanilla Valheim. You can change any of them in F1.
Settings changed from the mods' defaults
These keep the game vanilla:
- OttoFuel: blast furnace only takes its normal ores; ballistas don't auto-reload.
- CraftFromContainers: doesn't pull fuel or ore into stations; OttoFuel handles that.
- Build
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: