Preferences

Bake Wrangler’s preferences are found at Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Add-ons ▸ Bake Wrangler (expand the add-on entry). They’re organized into four groups.

Interface

Setting	Description
Show BW Icon in Status Bar	Shows the status icon described in Interface.
Messages in Editor	Draws bake progress/log messages as an overlay directly over the node editor while baking (see Interface). Also enables the option below.
Clear Old Messages	When Messages in Editor is on, clears the BakeWrangler text block before each new bake so it only ever shows the most recent run.

Options

Setting	Description
Recipe Lib	The .blend file used to store and load saved recipes (see Recipes & Presets). Defaults to a library.blend bundled with the add-on.
Device	Default render device (CPU or GPU) newly created Pass nodes will be set to.
Format	Default image format newly created Output nodes will be set to.
Create Paths	If an output path doesn’t already exist on disk, Bake Wrangler will try to create it rather than failing validation.
Auto open bakes	Automatically opens baked images in Blender’s Image Editor after a successful bake, if they aren’t already open.
Save packed images	Before baking, saves any packed images that have unsaved changes so those changes are reflected in the bake.
Save unpacked images	Before baking, saves any unpacked (external) images that have unsaved changes, for the same reason.
Retry	On a bake failure, automatically retries from the last point measurable progress was made, rather than stopping immediately.
Non-Color	Only shown if your Blender build doesn’t already provide a built-in “Non-Color” color space option. Lets you pick which of your available color spaces should be treated as non-color data internally.

Performance

Setting	Description
Disable Add-ons	Runs the background bake process with --factory-startup, disabling other add-ons in that instance. This speeds up background process start-up and avoids some third-party add-ons that can crash a background instance. Bake Wrangler itself is always active regardless of this setting.
Skip Conversion to Mesh	Skips converting evaluated geometry to a mesh before baking, which can improve performance but may cause problems with objects using Geometry Nodes modifiers (and possibly others). Only enable this if you need the extra speed and have verified it works correctly with your objects.

Developer

Setting	Description
Debug Output	Adds more detailed messages to the bake log, useful when reporting a problem or diagnosing an unexpected result.

Note

Two further preferences exist in the add-on’s data — Objects Always Visible (ignores an object’s viewport visibility so it’s always included in a bake; on by default) and Invert Selected in Bake Modifiers (flips which modifiers the Bake Mods to Unmodded mesh setting treats as included; off by default) — but at the time of writing they aren’t exposed as buttons on the preferences panel shown above, so they’re only adjustable at their defaults unless changed via the Python API.