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Lazy Storage

Protect your inventory from the Storage Ledger, sorting and hotbar clutter. Lazy Storage adds protected slots, chest placeholders and smart pickups, with full solo and multiplayer support.
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Description

Lazy Storage

Lazy Storage fixes several inventory management annoyances.

The Storage Ledger can deposit items you wanted to keep on you, sorting can rearrange carefully organised inventories, and removing the last item from a chest can stop the Ledger recognising that item type. New pickups also tend to land in your hotbar when you'd rather keep that space reserved.

Lazy Storage solves those problems with:

  • Protected slots
  • Chest placeholders
  • Smart pickups
  • Multiplayer support
  • Per-player and server-controlled settings

All item movement uses the game's own inventory systems, so weight calculations, UI updates and multiplayer synchronisation continue to work normally.

This mod was created with Claude AI.

Which Version Do I Need?

Lazy Storage is split into two modules.

Lazy Storage - Solo

Runs locally in your game.

Features:

  • Protected slots
  • Placeholders
  • Smart pickups
  • Protected slot indicators
  • Personal settings if allowed by server owners

If you only play solo, this is the only version you need.

Lazy Storage - Multi

Runs on the server.

In multiplayer, inventories and containers are controlled by the server, so inventory corrections have to happen there.

Features:

  • Protected slots
  • Placeholders
  • Smart pickups
  • Server-wide controls
  • Per-feature enable/disable options

Players do not need to install anything to benefit from Multi.

Installation Guide

Situation Install Result
Playing solo Solo Full feature set with personal settings
Running a dedicated server Multi Applies to all players
Joining a server without Solo Nothing Uses server settings
Joining a server with Solo Solo Uses personal settings where allowed by the server
Hosting with Multi only Multi Everyone uses server settings
Hosting with Multi and Solo Multi + Solo Host uses personal settings, guests behave as normal multiplayer users

Mod Menu Pages

Lazy Storage - Solo contains your personal settings.

Lazy Storage - Multi contains server settings. These only apply when hosting or running a dedicated server.

Features

Protected Slots

Choose slots that the Storage Ledger, Fill Stacks (F) and sorting (V) should leave alone.

By default this includes:

  • Hotbar
  • First three inventory slots
  • Runes tab
  • Ammo tab
  • Quest item tab

If the only matching stack exists in a protected slot, the Ledger leaves it alone.

Placeholders

Removing the last item from a chest can leave a placeholder behind.

This allows the Storage Ledger to continue recognising that item type.

Works with:

  • Take All
  • CTRL-click
  • Dragging a complete stack

Supports linked chests, all chests, or all non-private chests.

Smart Pickups

Items gained from gathering, crafting, processing, looting or chest transfers are sent to the first available unprotected inventory slot.

Items never appear in the hotbar unless you place them there yourself.

Existing stacks in protected slots can optionally be topped up.

Recovering a gravestone restores your inventory layout correctly.

Protected Slot Indicators

Solo can display gold corner markers on protected slots.

Server Controls

Multi allows server owners to:

  • Enable or disable individual features
  • Choose behaviour for players without Solo
  • Force server or player protected slots

In-Game Configuration

All settings can be adjusted through Mod Menu.

Changes apply immediately.

Safe Item Handling

Each item move is validated.

Items are not duplicated, deleted or dropped on the ground.

How It Works

When the Ledger, Fill Stacks, Take All, sorting or a pickup occurs, the game performs its normal action first.

Lazy Storage records the inventory state and then uses the game's own transfer functions to move items back into the intended slots.

Because the game performs the actual moves:

  • UI updates correctly
  • Weight updates correctly
  • Multiplayer synchronisation remains intact

In multiplayer, all processing happens on the server.

Requirements

Installation

Solo

  1. Install UE4SS for RSDragonwilds
  2. Extract LazyStorageSolo into ue4ss\Mods\.
  3. Start the game.
  4. Verify UE4SS.log contains:
[LazyStorage-Solo] vX.X.X loaded.

Multi - Dedicated Server

  1. Back up your world.
  2. Stop the server.
  3. Install UE4SS into RSDragonwilds\Binaries\Win64\.
  4. Replace dwmapi.dll with version.dll from the UE4SS package.
  5. Extract LazyStorageMulti into ue4ss\Mods\.
  6. Start the server.
  7. Verify the log contains:
[LazyStorage-Multi] vX.X.X loaded.

Multi - Hosting

  1. Install UE4SS for RSDragonwilds
  2. Extract LazyStorageSolo into ue4ss\Mods\.
  3. Start the game.
  4. Verify UE4SS.log contains:
[LazyStorage-Multi] vX.X.X loaded.
  • Multi only: uses server settings.
  • Solo + Multi: host uses personal settings.

Joining a Server

Players do not need to install anything.

Install Solo if you want personal settings and gold corner indicators.

Known Issues

  • Sorting can occasionally place an item into a protected slot. This is due to recent  changes in how sorting works and the games failure to report these sorts occasionally.

Good To Know

  • Solo requires Multi on the server to function in multiplayer.
  • Solo needs one free inventory slot when sending settings to the server.
  • Avoid UE4SS "Restart All Mods". Restart instead.
  • Protected-slot item flicker during multiplayer sorting is normal.
  • A completely full inventory may prevent item repositioning.
  • Soul Fragment storage is never modified.

Other Lazy Mods

  • Lazy Miner - Reduces mining friction.
  • Lazy Count - Shows remaining node deposits.

Settings

Edit config.ini in the mod's folder and restart, or change them in game with Mod Menu (Esc > MODS). Both show the same settings in the same order. When a new version changes the layout, the mod rewrites config.ini in the new layout and keeps your values.

Solo – LazyStorageSolo\config.ini

1. Features

Setting Default What it does
enabled true Switch Solo on or off. Off in multiplayer = you get vanilla.
protect_ledger true The Ledger leaves protected slots alone.
protect_fill_button true So does Fill Stacks (F).
protect_sort true Sorting (V) keeps protected slots as they were.
placeholders true Emptying a chest leaves one behind.
smart_pickups true New items go to the first unprotected inventory slot, never the hotbar or a protected slot.

2. Protected slots

Setting Default What it does
protected_slots 0-10 Slots to protect. Numbers and ranges, e.g. 0-7, 8, 15, or none.
protect_runes true Protect the whole runes tab.
protect_ammo true Protect the whole ammo tab.
protect_questitems true Protect the whole quest items tab.
show_protected true Gold corners on protected slots.
show_protected_tabs false Gold corners on the runes, ammo and quest items tabs too.

3. Placeholders

Setting Default What it does
placeholder_mode per_item per_item: one of each item. per_slot: one in every emptied slot, so the chest keeps its layout.
placeholder_chests linked linked, not_private, or all.
placeholder_on_drag true Also leave a placeholder when dragging a whole stack out.

4. Pickups

Setting Default What it does
pickup_top_up true Pickups top up stacks of the same item you already have in the hotbar or protected slots.
smart_pickups_armour true Armour, rings and amulets taken off with right-click follow the smart pickups rule.

Other

Setting Default What it does
placeholder_containers crate, chest, storage, barrel Which things players build count as chests, by words in their name.
verbose false Log everything the mod does (for troubleshooting).

In multiplayer, the server owner decides which features you may use, and may set your protected slots, placeholders and pickups for you.

Multi – LazyStorageMulti\config.ini

1. What's allowed on this server – off: nobody gets it, with Solo or without.

Setting Default What it does
enabled true Switch Lazy Storage on or off for every player.
protect_ledger true The Ledger leaves protected slots alone.
protect_fill_button true So does Fill Stacks (F).
protect_sort true Sorting (V) keeps protected slots as they were.
placeholders true Emptying a chest leaves one behind.
smart_pickups true New items go to the first unprotected inventory slot, never the hotbar or a protected slot.

2. Players without Solo

Setting Default What it does
players_without_solo server_settings server_settings (the features allowed above, with the settings below) or vanilla.
protected_slots 0-10 The server's protected slots. Numbers and ranges, e.g. 0-7, 8, 15, or none.
protect_runes true Protect the whole runes tab.
protect_ammo true Protect the whole ammo tab.
protect_questitems true Protect the whole quest items tab.
placeholder_mode per_item per_item: one of each item. per_slot: one in every emptied slot, so the chest keeps its layout.
placeholder_chests linked linked, not_private, or all.
placeholder_on_drag true Also leave a placeholder when dragging a whole stack out.
pickup_top_up true Pickups top up stacks of the same item already in the hotbar or protected slots.
smart_pickups_armour true Armour, rings and amulets taken off with right-click follow the smart pickups rule.

3. Players with Solo – they use their own settings for the features allowed in section 1, or the server's, as chosen here.

Setting Default What it does
protected_slots_from player Whose protected slots they use: player (their own) or server (section 2's, for every feature and their gold corners).
settings_from player Whose placeholder and pickup settings they use: player (their own) or server (section 2's).

Other – for everyone.

Setting Default What it does
placeholder_containers crate, chest, storage, barrel Which things players build count as chests, by words in their name.
verbose false Log everything the mod does, with each player's name (for troubleshooting).

Slot numbers

Hotbar:          0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7

Inventory:       8   9  10  11  12  13  14  15
                16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23
                24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31
                32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39

Runes tab:      40 - 71
Ammo tab:       72 - 103
Quest items:   104 - 175

 

Changelog

1.0.3:

  • Added: placeholders can leave one in every emptied slot, so a chest keeps its layout (placeholder_mode = per_slot).
  • Added: server owners can make players with Solo use the server's placeholder and pickup settings (settings_from). (Multi)
  • Changed: both config files and Mod Menu pages are reorganised into clear sections, in the same order. Your config.ini is rewritten in the new layout on first start, with your values kept.
  • Changed: the default storage words are now crate, chest, storage, barrel (a config still on the old default list is updated).
  • Fixed: when hosting without Solo, Multi's settings now apply from the start, not only after a change in Mod Menu. (Multi)

1.0.2:

  • Multi: fixed smart pickups (and Ctrl-click / Take All landing outside protected slots) stopping for a player partway through a session, until they rejoined.
  • Solo: no changes; version number matches Multi.

1.0.1

  • Multi: Fixed smart pickups and protected slot restoration stopping for players after reconnecting.
  • Solo: No functional changes.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.
  • Protected slots.
  • Placeholders.
  • Smart pickups.
  • Gold corner indicators.
  • Multiplayer support.
  • Mod Menu integration.

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