The Shack Pack

The Shack Pack

A vanilla+ quality-of-life pack for The Viking Shack server, built for Valheim 1.0 (Deep North).

It's less tedium, the same Valheim: inventory, building, farming, map and UI conveniences. Combat, mobs and difficulty are left vanilla, and the pack adds no new items, creatures or biomes.

Install

1. Install r2modman, pick Valheim, and create a new profile.
2. Online tab → search The Shack Pack → Download. Every mod installs at the exact version the server uses.
3. Click Start modded.

• Linux (native Valheim): the first time, r2modman shows a Steam launch option. Copy it into Steam → Valheim → Properties → Launch Options. A normal Steam launch stays vanilla.

1. In Valheim: Join Game → Community tab → search The Viking Shack and connect, or use Join IP with the address your server admin gave you. Same password either way.

• To keep it in Favorites, add the server by its public address. Valheim never checks the status of favorites with a home-network address (192.168.x.x), so those always show a red X even when the server is up.

Updating

• When the pack updates, select The Shack Pack in your installed mods and click its Update button.
• Never use "Update all": it moves mods past the versions the server runs, and the server will refuse the connection.
• Update when the server does. Most updates need the same pack version as the server: since 1.0.5, an older pack can't join (the game lists the mismatched mods).
• The pack ships some settings files, which are listed below. Updating the pack resets those files to the pack's values.

What's included

Inventory & storage

• Quick Stack - Store - Sort - Trash - Restock: stack to nearby chests, sort, restock, trash.
• MultiUserChest: several players can use one chest at once.
• CraftFromContainers: craft and build using materials in chests within 20 m.
• SmartPickup: smarter auto-pickup modes.
• Extra Slots: separate slots for your armor, 3 quick slots (they open as the server beats the Elder and Bonemass), 3 ammo slots and a misc slot. Taking your tombstone puts your gear straight back on.
• Workbench Pack Extra Slots Bridge: gives the workbench backpack its own Backpack slot, so wearing it leaves your belt on.
• Pull Toggle: switch automatic pulling off for a single chest or machine (press I, or use the button in the chest window).

Building

• ComfyGizmo: precise 3-axis rotation.
• Extra Snap Points Made Easy: more snap points and manual snapping.
• Classic Snap: switch back to the game's own snap points, with Q/E picking Top/Bottom/Edge.
• Venture Area Repair: repair everything nearby at once, at the same cost.
• Shack Magic Cam: a free build camera within workbench range (Y). Our replacement for Cartur's Build Camera, which was pulled from Thunderstore; it works the same.
• Shack Better Paths: the hoe's Pathen grades an even slope from your feet to where you aim: flat across, edges blended into the ground, no steps between clicks. Paved road then paints stone over your paths without changing their shape, only where there's already path (1 stone per 2 m). In the build camera, each click connects to your last one. Shift: vanilla Pathen, or a round patch of paving.
• Shack Dig Deeper: no 8 m limit on changing the ground. Dig as deep and raise ground as high as you want with the pickaxe and the hoe (still the game's ground: no tunnels or caves). Pathen still grades within 8 m.
• SearsCatalog: a resizable build menu with multi-word search.
• Shack Comfort Ascended: your whole house shares its comfort. Comfort objects under a roof within 10 m of each other link into a chain, and anywhere under the roof within 10 m of the chain you get the whole chain's comfort (still the best of each kind, so never above the game's maximum). Look at a comfort object to see the links as moving dots (hammer out for rugs and banners). The build menu marks pieces that give comfort with a gold +N.

Crafting

• Shack Recycler: a Recycle tab at the workbench, forge and stonecutter turns gear, tools, arrows, bolts, bombs, nails and bronze back into their materials: everything they cost, upgrades included. Each station recycles what it crafts. Gear asks Yes / No first. It never gives back more than an item cost to make. Only things you know how to craft can be recycled.
• A Research tab at the workbench uses up something you can't craft yet; research it 5 times to learn its recipe. Food and meads count too.
• Shack Workbench Pack: a workbench you carry. Craft it at a workbench (10 Wood + 2 Deer hide) and upgrade it there like gear, up to level 5 (each upgrade costs what the matching workbench upgrade does). It weighs 30 and slows you 15% while it's in your inventory. Wear it (its own Backpack slot) and press Tab to craft from your back, or set it down anywhere as a small workbench (its hotbar key, or U while worn). Shift + E packs it back up.
• A Forge backpack (crafted and upgraded at a forge, up to level 7) rides in your bag (30, another 15% slower) and goes down beside the bench as a small forge of its level. Shift + E on either packs up both.
• It has durability (100, +50 per level): each craft, upgrade or repair at it uses 1. Repair it at another workbench of at least its level.
• A real stonecutter's Craft tab has Backpack stonecutter: it packs a stonecutter into the backpack (10 heavier) so you can build stone around it. Recycling the backpack gives the stonecutter back as materials.