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Shack Workbench Pack

by TheShackDev · for Valheim

A workbench (and forge) you carry: upgrade them like gear, wear the workbench and press Tab to craft from your back, or set them down side by side as a small workbench and forge. The server and every player need it.

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About Shack Workbench Pack

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A workbench (and forge) you carry: upgrade them like gear, wear the workbench and press Tab to craft from your back, or set them down side by side as a small workbench and forge. The server and every player need it.

Shack Workbench Pack

A workbench you carry on your back. Craft it at the workbench, upgrade it there like gear, then take it with you: wear it and press Tab to craft, upgrade and repair right from your back, or set it down anywhere as a small workbench you can work at.

Getting one

  • Craft the Workbench backpack at a workbench: 10 Wood + 2 Deer hide.
  • Upgrade it at a workbench, in the Upgrade tab, from level 1 to 5. Each upgrade costs exactly what the matching workbench upgrade costs to build:

| Level | Packs | Upgrade costs | |---|---|---| | 2 | Chopping block | 10 Wood, 10 Flint | | 3 | Tanning rack | 10 Wood, 15 Flint, 20 Leather scraps, 5 Deer hide | | 4 | Adze | 10 Fine wood, 3 Bronze | | 5 | Tool shelf | 4 Iron, 10 Fine wood, 4 Obsidian |

  • Like any gear, upgrading to level N needs a workbench of level N, so you can only pack an upgrade after your real bench has it.
  • The costs are read from the game's own workbench upgrades, so they always match.
  • Upgrading gives you a fully repaired backpack, and keeps its stonecutter if it has one.

Wearing it

  • It goes in the utility slot (where Megingjord or the Wishbone go): right-click it in your inventory.
  • It weighs 30, and while it's anywhere in your inventory (worn or in your bag) you walk, run and swim 15% slower. In a cart or a chest it doesn't slow you. A Forge backpack adds its own 15% (30% with both).
  • A small workbench shows on your back, for everyone to see.
  • Tab opens the workbench menu at the backpack's level, next to your inventory: craft, upgrade and repair on the go.
  • The hammer can build around you, like near a real workbench (20 m at level 1, +4 m per level).

Setting it down

  • In your hotbar or a quick slot: press its key. While you wear it: press U (you can change the key in F1; Alt+U is left to other mods).
  • A ghost of the bench shows where you aim. Left-click sets it down, scroll turns it, right-click cancels.
  • The set-down bench is a half-width, three-quarter-height workbench. It works like a workbench of the backpack's level: crafting, upgrades, repairs, and building around it.
  • Shift + E packs it back up. Like equipping gear it takes a moment (the equipping animation and its progress bar); walking away or attacking stops it. It comes back at the same level and durability, with its stonecutter, straight onto your back if your utility slot is free.
  • Removing it with the hammer, or it getting destroyed, drops the backpack (at its level) instead of losing it.
  • Only the player who set it down (or an admin) can pack it up or remove it. Wards and no-build areas apply as usual.

Durability

  • The backpack has durability, more at each level: 100 at level 1, +50 per level (300 at level 5).
  • Every craft, upgrade or repair done at it (worn or set down) uses 1. A set-down bench keeps its durability and shows it when you look at it.
  • Broken (0), it does nothing: it falls off your back, can't be worn or set down, and a set-down one won't open. You can still pack a set-down one up.
  • Repair it at another workbench of at least its level: a real workbench, or another backpack bench. It can't repair itself.

Stonecutter

  • At a real stonecutter, the Craft tab has Backpack stonecutter. With a Workbench backpack in your inventory, it costs what building a stonecutter costs (10 Wood, 2 Iron, 4 Stone) and packs a stonecutter into the backpack (the one you wear first).
  • The backpack gets 10 heavier (60), and stone pieces can be built around it, worn or set down (20 m, like a real stonecutter).
  • Working at it, the crafting panel shows Workbench + Stonecutter with both icons, and a small stonecutter stands beside the set-down bench.
  • A full inventory doesn't stop it: the stonecutter goes into the backpack, not your bag.
  • With Shack Recycler, recycling the backpack gives the stonecutter's materials back too.

Forge backpack

  • A forge you carry, in its own bag slot (it isn't worn). Craft the Forge backpack at a real forge for what building a forge costs (4 Stone, 4 Coal, 10 Wood, 6 Copper).
  • Upgrade it at a real forge, in the Upgrade tab, up to level 7: each level costs what the matching forge upgrade costs to build, and upgrading to level N needs a level N forge.
  • It weighs 30 and slows you 15% while it's in your inventory, on top of the workbench backpack's (30% with both).
  • Setting it down: set down your Workbench backpack (U or its hotbar key) and the forge comes along, standing at the bench's left. The ghost shows it, and its spot has to be fine too (ground at about the bench's height, no wall in between, nobody standing there). The forge's own hotbar key does the same.
  • Using it: set down, it's a forge of its level: craft, upgrade and repair metal gear at it (E). It only works set down.
  • Packing up: Shift + E on the bench or the forge packs both back into your bag.
  • Durability like the workbench backpack: 100, +50 per level (400 at level 7), 1 per craft, upgrade or repair at it. Repair it at a real forge (or another forge backpack) of at least its level.
  • With Shack Recycler, recycling it at a forge gives back what it cost, upgrades included.

Works with

  • Equipment & Quick Slots: worn gear lives in its own slots there, not the hotbar, which is why the U key exists.
  • Craft From Containers: crafting from your back uses chests (and a cart you're pulling) within range, like at any workbench.

Settings

Set by the server admin in F1 (Shack Workbench Pack). The server's values apply to everyone.

Read the full description on Thunderstore →

Highlights

From source data

Loaders

Runs on BepInEx.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 9d ago.

Shack Workbench Pack 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
Optional 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
1.2.0, released 2026-10-26

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
BepInEx

From 4 recorded builds of Shack Workbench Pack.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.2.02026-10-26n/aBepInEx
1.1.12026-10-25n/aBepInEx
1.1.02026-10-18n/aBepInEx
1.0.02026-10-14n/aBepInEx

Dependencies

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run Shack Workbench Pack 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 catalog
Listed on Thunderstore as “Building”

Building & decoration

Blocks, furniture, decorations and building tools.

Works on a server

From source side support

Thunderstore lists server-side support for Shack Workbench Pack as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.

Compatibility

Game
Valheim
Loaders
BepInEx
Runs on
Serveroptional on the server
Requires
One-click install needs a BepInEx server.

Verified at the source

  • ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-26Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorTheShackDev, as published on Thunderstore
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

Shack Workbench Pack, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Shack Workbench Pack?

Thunderstore lists server-side support for Shack Workbench Pack as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.

Which loaders does it support?

BepInEx.

Is it free?

Yes. Shack Workbench Pack is free to download from Thunderstore.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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Run Shack Workbench Pack on a Valheim server.

Deploy in about a minute from $9.99 a month, then add Shack Workbench Pack in one click.