About CraftingCategories
From ThunderstoreCrafting menu sidebar that groups recipes by the mod that added them (vanilla + any mod), with mod icons, counts, NEW badges for freshly unlocked recipes, a 'craftable only' filter and search. Client-side.
Crafting Categories
Adds a sidebar to every crafting station (and hand crafting) that sorts recipes by the mod that added them. Vanilla recipes go to Valheim, every installed content mod gets its own category, automatically, with no configuration.
Features
- Categories by mod. All · Valheim · one button per mod (alphabetical) · Other mods.
Works with Jötunn mods and with mods that don't use Jötunn (ItemManager-based mods such as Therzie's, Southsil's, blacks7ar's and others), because the source mod is detected with Jötunn's ModQuery.
- Mod icons and counts. Each button shows the mod's Thunderstore icon and how many of its recipes are available at the current station.
- NEW recipes. Recipes you unlock get a green NEW badge until you select them, and category buttons show +N, so you can see which mod just gave you something new.
Right-click a category to mark all of its recipes as seen. Stored per character.
- Craftable only. One click hides everything you can't craft right now.
- Search (Ctrl+F), with optional search in ingredients. Game hotkeys are blocked while typing.
Turned off automatically when Workstation Search is installed, since that mod already adds one.
- Mod tags. In All, modded recipes get a small
· ModNametag. - Remembers the selected category per crafting station.
- Vanilla crafting logic is untouched: the mod only filters the list the game builds, so upgrades, gamepad navigation and other crafting mods keep working.
Multiplayer
Client-side only. It works on any server, including servers that don't have it, and other players don't need it. Installing it on a dedicated server is harmless; it detects the headless server and does nothing.
Configuration
BepInEx/config/com.kuzuk.valheim.craftingcategories.cfg (or the in-game Configuration Manager):
| Section | Setting | Default | | |---|---|---|---| | General | Enabled | true | Show the sidebar | | General | RememberCategoryPerStation | true | | | General | ShowModTagInAllCategory | true | · ModName after modded recipes in All | | Layout | PanelSide | Auto | Auto / Left / Right of the crafting panel | | Layout | PanelWidth, ButtonHeight, OffsetX, OffsetY | 230, 32, 0, 0 | | | Layout | ShowModIcons, ShowCounts | true | | | Search | SearchField | Auto | Auto = off when Workstation Search is installed | | Search | SearchInIngredients | false | | | Search | ResetSearchOnClose | true | | | New recipes | HighlightNewRecipes | true | NEW badges and +N counters | | New recipes | SortNewFirst | false | New recipes on top | | Debug | LogRecipeOwners | false | Log which mod every recipe was attributed to |
Compatibility
- Requires BepInExPack and Jötunn.
- Recipes that no loaded mod can be attributed to (for example, created at runtime by a config-sync mod) go to Other mods.
Enable LogRecipeOwners to see how each recipe was attributed.
Українською
Бічна панель у меню верстаків, яка групує рецепти за модом, що їх додав (Valheim, кожен мод окремо, «Інші моди»). Також має іконки модів і кількість рецептів, позначку НОВЕ для щойно відкритих рецептів (ПКМ по категорії позначає всі її рецепти як переглянуті), фільтр «Лише доступні» та пошук. Мод працює лише на клієнті й підходить для будь-якого сервера.
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 30d ago.
CraftingCategories on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
- Server type needed
- BepInEx
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.0.1, released 2026-10-05
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 2 recorded builds of CraftingCategories.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.1 | 2026-10-05 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.0 | 2026-10-05 | n/a | BepInEx |
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
- Required: Jotunn
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run CraftingCategories on a Valheim 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.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-06Open ↗
- ✓AuthorLaplas, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree






