QoL Options

QoL Options

Less clicking, same Valheim. A pack of quality-of-life features that cut the tedious parts of the game without changing its balance: fill stations in one go, use materials from nearby chests, sort and restock, a trash slot, equipment slots that free up inventory space, appearance slots, recipe search, a crafting queue, building undo, a stability preview, portal destinations chosen on the map, taming timers, a parry hint, and more.

Every feature can be switched on or off in-game, in Settings → QoL, and Steam achievements keep working.

Found a bug, have an idea or a question? Tell me right from the game: Settings → QoL → About → Contact opens a short form in your browser. It's anonymous, no account needed, and I read every message.

Screenshots: see the pictures on the Nexus Mods page.

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Features

Chests & Stations

• Fill stations in one go: hold Left Shift and press E on a smelter, kiln, fire, torch or cooking

station to fill it with everything it takes.

• Use items from nearby chests: fuel and building or crafting materials can come from chests around the

station or build spot, not only from your inventory (food for cooking stations still comes only from you). Locked chests and chests someone else has open are skipped.

• Quick Stack: sends your items into nearby chests that already hold them (your hotbar stays put).
• Quick Stack locks: hold Left Alt and click inventory slots or items to keep them with you; they show

a padlock, and Sort leaves them where they are. Or choose in the settings to send only the item under the mouse.

• Sort your inventory (the hotbar stays as it is) and the open chest: partial stacks are merged and items are

grouped by kind, then by name.

• Restock from nearby chests (the open one included): tops up the ammo, food and potion stacks you carry.
• Q / R / S: small buttons under the equipment panel, and hotkeys while the inventory is open, for quick stack,

restock and sort (the open chest, else your inventory). Hover a button to see what it does. A small S button above the chest's weight sorts the chest. The keys can be changed or turned off.

• Trash slot: drop an item on it and confirm to delete it (hold Shift to skip the question).
• Equipment slots: your worn helmet, chest, legs, cape, utility item and trinket get their own panel beside the

inventory, so they don't take inventory space. Rows bought from a trader don't move them. Turning it off moves your gear back into the inventory, still worn (with no room for it, it stays on); nothing is ever deleted. Turn it off before removing the mod, or the game drops the worn items at your feet on the next load.

• Appearance slots: an Appearance button at the top of the equipment panel switches it to a second set

of Head, Chest, Legs and Cape slots. Armor put there (dragged in, or right-clicked while they're shown) only changes how you look: your worn gear keeps its armor and effects, and an empty appearance slot shows it. Everyone sees your new look. Appearance items weigh nothing, unless you choose otherwise in the settings.

• Hide armor pieces: settings to hide your helmet, chest armor, leg armor or cape, whatever you wear; they

still protect you.

Crafting

• Recipe search: a search field above the recipe list of every crafting interface.
• Crafting queue: a Queue button next to Craft lines up several crafts or upgrades.
• Repair everything at once at a crafting station.

Building

• Stability preview: while placing a piece, its preview is tinted with the support it would get there, in the

hammer's colors (blue: full, green to red: weaker, red: it would fall).

• Undo (Ctrl+Z with the hammer out): reverses your last 3 placements and removals. Materials are refunded or

spent again, as if done by hand.

• Area repair: with the hammer's repair tool, hold Attack to repair every damaged piece around you (same stamina

and hammer wear per piece as by hand).

• Deconstruct to inventory: materials from removed pieces go straight into your inventory, even past the weight

limit.

• Remove carts and ships with the hammer (empty cargo, nobody aboard or pulling).
• Seasonal items all year: the Yule, Halloween and other seasonal pieces and recipes, any time of the year, with

their normal materials.