AdventureBackpacks

🎒 Adventure Backpacks

A progression-based adventuring backpack mod for Valheim.

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!

🧭 How to Use Adventure Backpacks

• 🔨 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 Catalogue

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.

Cinderward Pack — 🔥 Ashlands — Forged with flametal ribs and charred bone; grants Heat Resistance against lava heat and boiling water.

Frostbound Haversack — 🧊 Deep North — Moose hide over a frost core; grants Frost Resistance and Second Wind.

Legacy Packs — ⚔️ Legacy — Original Iron and Silver backpacks preserved for existing world saves.

🎨 Modern & Classic Model Styles

Each backpack (Meadows through Mistlands) can be configured independently to use either modern or classic visuals:

Style — Description

Modern (Default) — Reworked 3D models with higher detail and updated texturing.

Classic — Original mod models preserved for players who prefer the classic look.

💡 Game Restart Required: Model style is an unsynced client setting configured per backpack under each bag's section in vapok.mods.adventurebackpacks.cfg (or via the in-game Configuration Manager). Because AssetBundles are loaded at startup, changing Model Style requires a game restart for the selected model assets to load.

🖌️ Custom Texture Pack Support

Adventure Backpacks includes built-in support for selectable texture and visual packs. Community texture creators and mod developers can create standalone companion mods that supply custom visual models and textures for any or all backpacks without modifying the base mod.

• Per-Backpack Configuration: Players can select their active texture pack independently for each backpack tier under Backpack: -> Texture Pack in vapok.mods.adventurebackpacks.cfg or via the in-game Configuration Manager.
• Modern & Classic Compatibility: Visual packs can provide overrides for Modern models, Classic models, or both.
• Official HD Reference Mod: We provide Adventure Backpacks HD, an official standalone texture pack companion mod that delivers 2K upscaled textures and serves as the open-source reference implementation:
• 📦 Adventure Backpacks HD on Thunderstore
• 📦 Adventure Backpacks HD on Nexus Mods (Optional Files)
• 💻 **[Source Code & Ref