AllfathersChest

Allfather's Chest

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One chest you throw everything into. Press the button and each thing goes to

the chest that already keeps that kind of thing.

English

Build the chest, put your ordinary chests around it, and drop one of a thing

into each of them. That is their label — there is no other setup. From then on

you empty your pockets into the one chest and walk away.

Several chests holding the same thing

The case this mod was built for. Three wood chests around the hub, and a stack

of wood arriving: it must not go into the first one it finds, or you end up with

five half stacks of wood in five chests — exactly the mess the chest is meant to

clear up.

So, in this order:

• Open stacks are filled first. A chest holding 40 of 50 gets the next 10.
• Then a free slot, but only in a chest that already keeps that thing.
• Nearest wins when several qualify. Whoever wonders where their wood went

looks beside the chest first.

A load that does not fit in one place is split across several.

What has no home stays put

If nothing around keeps that thing, it stays in the chest, in plain sight. That

is not a failure — it is the answer to the question of what still needs a chest

of its own. Put a chest up, drop one in, done.

The chest tells you what it has been doing. Look at it:

Allfather's Chest

14 sorted, 3 homeless

[E] Open

The button

Open the chest and there is a Sort button under the window. Press it and the

contents go where they belong.

The button is there for when you want it now, and for when you would rather the

chest did nothing at all without being asked — AutoSort off makes it the only

way anything moves. A container may only be written by the machine that owns it,

and in Valheim having a chest open is owning it — so the person pressing the

button is already the one machine allowed to write. Nothing has to be taken from

anybody, and nothing moves that nobody asked for.

An automatic version existed and was removed. It could only ever run on the

host, so the chest did nothing while he was away; and to write into a chest it

had to take ownership of it, which shuts the window of anyone looking inside.

Every fault this mod has had came out of that.

Multiplayer

It works for whoever presses the button — host or guest, and wherever the

others happen to be.

While somebody has a chest open, the mod leaves that chest alone. It can tell in

two ways: the other machine says so, and failing that it works the answer out

from who owns the chest and how close they are standing. The second way needs

nothing of them, which matters when somebody is a version behind.

Everyone playing needs the mod — without it the chest is not a piece they can

see or build.

Things on the ground

Switch on PickUpFromGround and the chest gathers up what is lying within

reach by itself, every few seconds, whoever dropped it. It then waits in the

chest until somebody presses the button.

It then hands those on to the proper chests in the same pass, so nothing piles

up in the hub. Turn AutoSort off and it waits for the button instead.

This one runs unattended, and it is built to a stricter rule than the sorting

was: it writes to the chest and to nothing else, and it only runs on the machine

that already owns the chest — never by taking it from anybody. Valheim passes

ownership to whoever is standing nearby of its own accord, so the sweeping

happens wherever somebody is at home. Host or guest makes no difference.

Off by default, because a chest that quietly empties the floor is a surprise the

first time it happens. Things that have only just been dropped are left alone

for a few seconds — somebody putting something down for somebody else should

have a moment to do it — and a thing standing as decoration is furniture, not

litter, so it stays.

A dropped thing belongs to whoever dropped it. The chest asks them for it,

over the wire, the way the game does; it never takes it. If the answer does not

come, the thing simply stays on the ground.

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