Nearby Chests

Nearby Chests

Craft, build and fuel stations from the chests around you, and put everything away with one button.

Client-side only: nobody else on the server needs it.

What it does

• Craft and build from nearby chests. Recipes, upgrades and hammer builds count materials in

chests within 30 m. What you carry is spent first, then the closest chests.

• Feed stations from chests. Coal and ore into smelters and kilns, wood into fires, fuel into

cooking stations. One press adds one item, the same as vanilla. Food and mead stay manual.

• Stack puts everything away. Press Stack with a chest open, or hold E on a chest, and

each item goes to every nearby chest that already holds it. New items join a chest of similar

things (metals with metals, hides with hides, same biome), or take an empty chest. Chests that

received items get merged and sorted.

• Tidy a messy chest. The three-bar icon left of Place stacks sends anything that doesn't

belong in the open chest to the right one, and pulls in strays that do belong.

• Ignore a slot. Middle-click a slot in your inventory and Stack leaves it alone. A small pin

marks it. Middle-click again to clear. Marks are saved with your character.

• Pull build materials. With a piece selected on your hammer, Ctrl + left click pulls its

materials from nearby chests into your inventory, so you can build out of range. Each press adds

one more piece's worth.

Your food, meads, ammo, equipment, hotbar and anything equipped stay with you. The Obliterator,

gravestones, dungeon chests, chests another player has open and chests you can't open are never

touched.

Settings

Settings are in BepInEx\config\NearbyChests.cfg after the first launch. The ones most people

change:

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---|---|---|

| CraftingRange | 30 | How far a chest can be for crafting, building and pulling materials (3–60 m). |

| StackingRange | 15 | How far a chest can be for Stack and Tidy (3–60 m). |

| IncludeCartsAndShips | false | Also use cart and ship storage. |

| ExcludeFood, ExcludeAmmo, ExcludeEquipment | true | Keep food, ammo and gear in your inventory when stacking. |

| KeepHotbar | true | Never stack items from the top row. |

| PullBuildMaterialsKey | Ctrl + left click | The key that pulls build materials. |

Which items count as "similar" is a plain text file, BepInEx\config\NearbyChests.groups.txt, one

line per group. Edits apply the next time you stack. Delete it to get the defaults back.

Links

• Full guide
• Source and issues on GitHub
• Changelog