About Rebalance Key Crafting
From mod.ioReduces the material cost of crafting keys. Defaults to the seven tier chest keys (Copper..Relucite) at 25% of vanilla cost; switchable to all craftable keys.
Rebalance Key Crafting
Chest keys in Core Keeper are single-use — one key per locked chest — so crafting them again and again quietly burns through your bars. This mod rebalances that cost down to something far more reasonable.
With Rebalance Key Crafting, every tier chest key costs just a quarter of its vanilla materials to craft (never less than 1 of each ingredient). The keys themselves are untouched: same keys, same chests, same loot — they are simply much cheaper to make, so opening that next vault doesn't mean another trip to the smelter.
What it does
- Crafting any tier chest key — Copper, Iron, Scarlet, Octarine, Galaxite, Solarite, Relucite — now costs ~25% of the vanilla materials (minimum 1 of each ingredient).
- The workbench shows the reduced cost, and that is exactly what gets consumed — no mismatch between what you see and what you pay.
- Purely a cost tweak: keys, chests, drop rates and everything else behave exactly like vanilla.
- Configurable in-game: open Options → Mod settings to choose the crafting cost (1 ingot, 1/4, 1/2 or vanilla), which keys are affected (tier keys or all craftable keys), and to toggle the mod. Changes apply on the next game restart — the menu offers to restart for you.
Requirements
Requires CoreLib and Mod Settings Menu — mod.io will prompt you to install both when you subscribe.
Install the mod on both the client and the server.
Built with the official Pugstorm Core Keeper Mod SDK. Personal-use, non-commercial (Core Keeper EULA). Not affiliated with or endorsed by Pugstorm.
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 37d ago.
Rebalance Key Crafting on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Core Keeper servers. We download it from mod.io, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Core Keeper — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.2.0, released 2026-09-28
Run Rebalance Key Crafting on a Core Keeper server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogWeapons, items & crafting
New weapons, gear, items and the recipes to make them.
Runs on your server
From source side supportmod.io lists Rebalance Key Crafting as required on the server. Check its mod.io page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Core Keeper
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
Verified at the source
- ✓mod.ioOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-04Open ↗
- ✓AuthorValgardT, as published on mod.io
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
