Starting as a wee Viking rummaging through the tranquil fields of the Meadows, you'll gather materials that lead to your destiny. From Deer Hide and Leather Scraps to mystical Wisp-infused fabrics, you'll learn how to craft, upgrade, and customize your very own Adventure Backpacks! Go forth and wander, ye wanderer of the wanders!
- 🔨 Discover & Craft: As you explore biomes, defeat creatures, and collect new materials, you will unlock recipes for Adventuring Backpacks.
- 🎒 Open Your Backpack: The default hotkey is I to open your equipped backpack. Fully customizable for Keyboard, Mouse, and Gamepad / Controller inputs.
- 🛠️ Craft From Backpack: Build with the hammer or craft at stations using supplies stored in your equipped backpack without needing to manually move materials.
- 📥 Auto Store & Overflow: Route gathered loot into matching backpack stacks or overflow new items into your backpack when your main inventory is full.
- 📈 Progression & Upgrades: Each backpack features unique inventory sizing, carry weight bonuses, movement speed modifiers, and environmental perks. Upgrading your backpack at a workbench or forge expands capacity and strengthens bonuses.
- ⚙️ Full Customization: Almost every aspect of these backpacks (sizes, recipes, drop chances, effects, and weight multipliers) can be tailored via configuration files or the in-game Configuration Manager.
| Backpack | Biome / Tier | Description & Key Traits |
|---|---|---|
| Satchel | 🌸 Meadows | A small, lightweight starter pack crafted from early Meadow materials. |
| Rugged Backpack | 🌲 Black Forest | A sturdy leather pack complete with brass buckles and fine strapping. |
| Bloodbag Wetpack | 🐸 Swamp | A durable Swamp pack sealed with bloodbags; grants the Waterproof perk. |
| Arctic Sherpa Pack | ❄️ Mountain | An insulated Mountain pack fit for freezing treks; grants Frost & Cold Resistance. |
| Lox Hide Knappsack | 🌾 Plains | A massive Plains pack made from thick, durable lox hide with high carry capacity. |
| Explorers Wisppack | 🌫️ Mistlands | A mystical backpack with a Box of Holding, built-in Demister / Wisplight, and Slow Fall. |
| Ashlands Pack | 🔥 Ashlands | 🔥 Coming Soon — Forged for the volcanic fires and molten depths. |
| Deep North Pack | 🧊 Deep North | 🧊 Coming Soon — Prepared for the sub-zero permafrost. |
| Legacy Packs | ⚔️ Legacy | Original Iron and Silver backpacks preserved for existing world saves. |
💡 Coming Soon: Ashlands & Deep North Backpacks
New biome-specific backpacks for the Ashlands and Deep North are actively in development, featuring custom models, materials, and unique biome status effects!
| Control Mode | Input / Keybind | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Toggle Backpack | I (Default) | Opens or closes your equipped backpack inventory. |
| Hover Interaction | Hover + Hotkey | Hover over an equipped backpack in your main inventory and press the hotkey to open it directly. |
| Open with Inventory | Configurable | Automatically opens your backpack inventory whenever you open your player inventory. |
| Outward Quick Drop | Y (Default) | Press while moving to immediately detach and drop your backpack behind you to escape danger. |
| Gamepad / Controller | 🎮 Native | Full controller navigation support for opening, closing, and managing backpack inventories. |
- 🛠️ Craft From Backpack:
- Hammer Building & Stations: Available resources for building placeables and crafting station recipes take into account both your Player inventory and your currently equipped backpack.
- Tiered Consumption: Materials are consumed from the Player inventory first (skipping equipped items), only drawing from the backpack for any remaining unmet quantities.
- Craft Output to Backpack: When enabled and your player inventory is full, newly crafted items are placed directly into your equipped backpack if space is available (strictly excluding backpacks).
- 📥 Auto Store to Backpack & Inventory Overflow:
- Auto Store Existing Items: When picking up or looting items that already exist in your equipped backpack, they automatically route directly into the backpack if space is available.
- Inventory Overflow: If your main player inventory is completely full, newly acquired items continue to enter your equipped backpack without triggering "Inventory Full" errors.
- Partial Stack Support: If a backpack only has room for a partial stack, it absorbs what fits and routes the remainder to player inventory.
- 🌐 Server-Enforced Configuration (
Server Config):- Craft from backpack, craft output overflow, auto-storing, and inventory overflow are server-authoritative. When playing on a dedicated server, the server dictates these settings globally for all connected clients.
- ⚡ Thor's Inventory Guard (Inception Prevention):
- Backpack-in-backpack nesting is strictly prevented across all crafting, auto-storing, and inventory interactions to safeguard against data corruption and infinite loops.
- 🏷️ Yard Sale Overflow Safeguard:
- If a backpack is resized or upgraded in a way that reduces slots below the stored item count, excess items are cleanly dropped at the player's feet rather than lost.
- 🔀 Right-Click Quick Transfer (Fast Item Transfer):
- Move single items or entire stacks between your inventory and any open backpack or container with a single right-click.
- 🌀 Portal & Teleportation Compatibility:
- Fully respects Valheim's
Inventory.IsTeleportable()checks. Non-teleportable ores/items inside backpacks will properly restrict portal usage across all portal mods.
- Fully respects Valheim's
- 🗝️ Key & Quest Item Recognition:
- Keys (such as Swamp Crypt Keys) and quest items in your equipped backpack are recognized by locked doors and crypt entrances without moving them to player inventory.
- 🖼️ Armor Stand & Item Stand Mounting:
- Safely mount backpacks on Item Stands and Armor Stands for base decoration without item loss or duplication.
- 💪 Carry Weight Modification: Increases base carrying capacity per upgrade level.
- ⚖️ Weight Reduction Multiplier: Configures how much weight items inside the backpack contribute (0% = weightless contents; 100% = normal weight).
- 🏃 Speed Modifiers: Configurable movement speed adjustments per tier that improve as packs are upgraded.
- ❄️ Frost & Cold Resistance: Keeps you warm in freezing Mountain biomes.
- 🌧️ Waterproof: Prevents the "Wet" debuff in rain and swamp water.
- 🦹 Troll Armor Set Synergy: Integrates into the Sneak set bonus when wearing Troll Leather gear.
- 🪶 Slow Fall / Feather Fall: Eliminates fatal fall damage when leaping from mountain peaks.
- 💡 Demister (Wisplight):
- Clears mist in the Mistlands.
- Configurable toggle keybind (default L).
- Includes smart biome logic to automatically stow the light outside the Mistlands.
Mod developers can easily build custom backpacks and register effects using our dedicated API assembly:
- 🎒 Register custom 3D backpack prefabs, textures, and recipes.
- 🪄 Register and attach custom status effects.
- 🔍 Query backpack state, equipped equipment, and inspect backpack contents.
| Mod | Compatibility Status |
|---|---|
| AzuCraftyBoxes & AzuAutoStore | 🟢 Fully Supported (External chest crafting & auto-storing; AdventureBackpacks also includes native Craft From Backpack and Store To Backpack) |
| Valheim Plus (CraftFromChest) | 🟢 Fully Supported (Crafting calculation stack-interception) |
| Epic Loot | 🟢 Fully Supported (Loot tables, enchanting, and weightless modifiers) |
| Cheb's Necromancy | 🟢 Fully Supported (Includes Spectral Shroud of Holding) |
| ContentsWithin | 🟢 Fully Supported (Backpack contents obfuscation) |
| ZenUI / ZenDragon ModLib | 🟢 Fully Supported (Defensive UI transpiler hooks) |
| Quick Stack Store / Auto Split Stack | 🟢 Fully Supported |
| Multi-User-Chests (MUC) | 🟢 Fully Supported |
| Extra Slots / Equipment & Quick Slots | 🟢 Fully Supported |
| Jewelcrafting | 🟢 Fully Supported |
| Smoothbrain's Mods (Blacksmithing, etc.) | 🟢 Fully Supported |
⚠️ NOTE — JotunnBackpacks Incompatibility: Adventure Backpacks is incompatible with JotunnBackpacks. However, Adventure Backpacks will automatically convert existing JotunnBackpacks saves into new Adventure Backpacks upon loading your character.
Adventure Backpacks includes community translations for:
🇨🇳 Chinese (Simplified & Traditional) • 🇨🇿 Czech • 🇺🇸 English • 🇫🇷 French • 🇩🇪 German
🇯🇵 Japanese • 🇰🇷 Korean • 🇳🇴 Norwegian • 🇵🇱 Polish • 🇧🇷 Portuguese (BR)
🇷🇺 Russian • 🇪🇸 Spanish • 🇸🇪 Swedish • 🇹🇷 Turkish • 🇺🇦 Ukrainian
Don't see your language? We welcome community translations! Please submit a PR on GitHub or stop by our Discord.
- Install via R2ModMan or Thunderstore Mod Manager.
- Dependencies are automatically installed:
BepInExPack,Jotunn (JVL), andYamlDotNet.
- Required on Both Client & Server: Adventure Backpacks must be present on both the server and all connecting clients.
- Network Compatibility: Built-in version checking ensures game-state and inventory consistency across clients.
- ServerSync: Server configuration files automatically lock and sync settings down to non-admin players in real-time.
Adventure Backpacks includes lightweight, privacy-first telemetry and error reporting to help monitor mod stability, diagnose unhandled bugs, and track active version adoption across game updates.
- 100% Anonymous: We never collect personal data, Steam IDs, IP addresses, character/world names, or file system paths. Stack traces from errors are automatically sanitized to strip local user directories.
- Granular Player Control:
- Anonymous Telemetry (Opt-In): Tracks version adoption and session launches. Defaults to unchecked / disabled when first loaded (
Enable Anonymous Telemetry = false). - Error Reporting (Opt-Out): Captures sanitized mod crash diagnostics to rapidly identify and fix bugs. Defaults to enabled (
Send Error Reports = true) with one-click opt-out. - Data Disclaimers: Hover over any toggle in the startup modal for interactive tooltip disclaimers detailing exactly what data is transmitted.
- Anonymous Telemetry (Opt-In): Tracks version adoption and session launches. Defaults to unchecked / disabled when first loaded (
- In-Game & Online Privacy Policy: The full privacy policy can be viewed directly in-game by clicking
[ PRIVACY POLICY ]on the startup splash modal, or online at vapok.io/privacy-policy. - Configuration Files: Settings can be managed in-game via the startup modal, through the BepInEx Configuration Manager, or under
[Local Config]inBepInEx/config/vapok.mods.adventurebackpacks.cfg.
Author: Vapok
Source Code: GitHub Repository
Community & Support: Discord Server
Changelog: Release Notes