About CraftFromDrawersAndChests
From ThunderstoreCraft and build from nearby chests and KG Item Drawers drawers. Every player and the server need it.
Craft From Drawers And Chests
Craft and build straight out of your storage. This mod lets Valheim's crafting stations, the build hammer and the crafting menu pull their materials from every chest — and every KG Item Drawers drawer — within one range of you, instead of only from your inventory.
In short: CraftFromContainers, but for drawers too.
Install from Thunderstore: <https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/NorCal_Nerds/CraftFromDrawersAndChests/>
Features
- Craft from storage. When you craft, the required materials are pulled from nearby
chests and drawers before the recipe is checked and consumed.
- Build from storage. The build hammer's "do I have the materials?" check and the
material consumption both draw from storage.
- Ctrl-click to pull. Hold the pull key and ctrl-click to move ingredients into your
inventory on demand. It brings the recipe's full materials every time — whatever you are already carrying — so you can click twice for the materials for two portals. There's no excuse for sailing to another continent without portal mats again!
- Station feeding. Fireplaces, smelters, cooking stations and shield generators pull fuel, ore and
cooking ingredients from storage. Hold the fill-all key (left shift by default) and use a station to fill it to capacity in one press.
- One range, both storage kinds. A single range setting (default 10 m, and
0or less
means unlimited, matching CraftFromContainers) applies to chests and drawers alike.
- Per-storage switch. Flip a chest or drawer off with a hotkey while hovering it, and
this mod never pulls from it. The switch lives on the object, so it is shared with everyone and saved with the world.
- Your backpack counts. With Adventure Backpacks, materials in your equipped backpack
count as held while crafting and building — under that mod's own rules, and without moving anything into your inventory to make it work. Only your own backpack is ever counted: another player's is never used, whether you are crafting, building or pulling.
- Server-authoritative config. Settings are registered with Jötunn, so the server's
values are pushed to clients and non-admins cannot change them.
Requirements
> **Every player and the server must install this mod.** Multiplayer compatibility is > enforced (EveryoneMustHaveMod): if a client is missing the mod — or is running a > different version — the connection is refused. The exact same CraftFromDrawersAndChests.dll > is used on the server and on every client.
- BepInEx 5.4.2351 (the current BepInExPack_Valheim).
5.4.2350works too: both packs ship the
same BepInEx 5.4.23.5 core and HarmonyX 2.9.0.
- Jötunn 2.30.2 — required.
- MultiUserChest 0.6.2 — required. All chest reads and removals go through it so two
players can use the same chest at once without desync.
- KG Item Drawers 1.4.0 — optional. With it absent the mod runs chest-only; with it
present, drawers are pulled from as well.
- Adventure Backpacks 2.3.x — optional. With it installed, materials in your equipped
backpack count as held when crafting and building, using Adventure Backpacks' own rules (including its Leave One Item In Backpack setting).
Remove these before installing
This mod does what they do, and replacements must not overlap. Uninstall them first or you will get conflicting patches and double pulls:
- CraftFromContainers
- AzuCraftyBoxes
This mod declares both as incompatible dependencies, so BepInEx will refuse to load while either is installed. Remove them from BepInEx\plugins (or your mod-manager profile) and restart before installing this mod.
Installation
From Thunderstore — recommended: <https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/NorCal_Nerds/CraftFromDrawersAndChests/>. Install it with your mod manager, or download the zip and extract it into BepInEx\plugins.
By hand:
- Install BepInExPack_Valheim (BepInEx 5.4.2351) into your Valheim folder.
- Drop
CraftFromDrawersAndChests.dllintoBepInEx\plugins. - Install MultiUserChest and, optionally, KG Item Drawers.
- Do the same on the server. Restart the server and each client.
Configuration
Settings are written to BepInEx\config\NorCal_Nerds.CraftFromDrawersAndChests.cfg on first launch and can be edited in-game with the BepInEx ConfigurationManager. The server's values win; clients receive them on connect.
See CHANGELOG.md for the release history.
Troubleshooting
A storage's contents are not being counted. Hover it. If the hover text ends with (pull: off), that storage is switched off — for everyone, permanently, on that object — and this mod will never pull from it. The switch is flipped by the Toggle storage key while the storage is under your crosshair, so do not bind that key to a movement key: the shipped default is x, and a key you press while walking (such as W or S) will silently toggle whatever you happen to be looking at.
Storage that is further away is ignored. Only storage within Maximum range of you — or of the station, for the fuel, ore and cooking features — is used at all. 0 or less means unlimited, but that also means every storage you own is scanned.
The available amount is one below what I am carrying. Materials in your equipped Adventure Backpacks backpack are counted as held, which means they follow that mod's rules too. With its Leave One Item In Backpack option enabled, one item of each type is deliberately left uncounted and unconsumed, so 25 carried legitimately reads as 24. Turn that option off in Adventure Backpacks if you want the whole stack usable.
An ingredient is in my backpack but the panel shows none. Check Adventure Backpacks' *Enable
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 12d ago.
CraftFromDrawersAndChests 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 side
- Required on 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
- 1.0.9, released 2026-10-23
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 6 recorded builds of CraftFromDrawersAndChests.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.9 | 2026-10-23 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.5 | 2026-10-23 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.4 | 2026-10-15 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.3 | 2026-10-13 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.2 | 2026-10-13 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.1 | 2026-10-12 | n/a | BepInEx |
Dependencies
- Required: MultiUserChest
- Required: Jotunn
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run CraftFromDrawersAndChests 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.
Runs on your server
From source side supportThunderstore lists CraftFromDrawersAndChests as required on the server. Check its Thunderstore page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-24Open ↗
- ✓AuthorNorCal_Nerds, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree






