BottomlessChest

Bottomless Chest

A buildable chest that holds as much as you want, with a search box you type into to find things again.

What it does

• Unlimited storage. One chest replaces a wall of them. Tested with 100,000 stacks. A

million still works, but makes a server close to unusable.

• Type to find. A search box sits at the top of the chest window and filters as you

type. Matching items are grouped by name so like things sit together.

• Category search. @food, @weapon, @armor, @material, @ammo, @tool,

@trophy, @misc. Combine them with text: @food ber finds Blueberries. Several categories widen the search; several words narrow it.

• Take All and Stack respect the search. With a filter active they act on what matches,

not on the whole chest.

• Works on dedicated servers. The server holds the contents and sends only what is on

screen, so a huge chest costs no more to browse than a small one.

• Works with craft-from-chest mods. Count, craft, build and deposit from the chest with mods

like NearbyCrafting, and with ValheimPlus - which also lets kilns, smelters, fermenters, cooking stations and fires pull from it and put their output back. On a dedicated server as well as in single-player.

Building one

Hammer, under Furniture, at a workbench. The cost is configurable.

Using it

• Type to filter. Escape clears the search; pressing it again closes the chest.
• The mouse wheel or the scrollbar moves through a large chest.
• The green slot at the end of the page is always free, so there is somewhere to drop into

a full chest.

Notes

• A chest that still holds something cannot be dismantled. Emptying an unlimited chest

onto the ground would spawn an item for every stack, which is not something a world recovers from.

• Contents are stored beside the world save in <world>.bottomless.dat, not inside the

world file. Back it up along with the world. If a chest is ever destroyed anyway, its contents survive there and bottomless list will show them as orphaned, ready to be reattached to a new chest with bottomless rebind <id>.

Configuration

com.myrridin.bottomlesschest.cfg:

| Setting | Default | | |---|---|---| | Crafting.Requirements | Wood:10 | Build cost, as prefab names | | Appearance.ModelScale | 1.0 | Size of the chest model | | Appearance.BodyTint | #C9B79A | Colour over the chest body | | Appearance.LidTint | #3A2E22 | Colour over the lid | | Appearance.GlowColour | #FFC489 | Colour of the lid glow | | Appearance.GlowStrength | 0.25 | Glow intensity; above 1 blooms |

Commands

bottomless list - every chest store in this world, and whether it is in use or orphaned. bottomless here - which store the nearest chest uses. bottomless rebind <id> - point the nearest chest at a different store, to recover one.