Inventory managment Tips?

[GamesbyChris]

So I know you can stack Bins on top of racks on the wall, and put backpacks and such inside cases.. to maximize storage spaces...
But how do people keep track of inventory? Is there a way to rename storage?
Or does everyone just remember, the third backpack in the second case is where the walls are stored? Ugh. I forget where I put things all the time!
I feel I spend so much time looking though inventories to find things LOL


Any suggestions?

[tritton82]

Personally, and I mean truly personally as I believe this isn't common... I just don't store a bunch of stuff. I use in-situ resources for repairs, sometimes dismantling cheaper equipment or walls to get the stuff to repair more worthwhile items. I build up my ship while docked to a donor derelict so I don't have to store walls/floors.

I'll use a few bulkhead bins in engineering to hold a couple of spare parts so I'm covered during interplanetary travel, but if I use orders to make repairs I don't even have to remember where things are as my crew will automatically retrieve the items.

One thing I've seen suggested is that you can rotate backpacks to at least give a basic organizational system.

[sir Evans]

There is no real way to organize inventory, there wasn't even before inventory system was changed from typical game-ish to space hobo cart simulator.

Me, I just edit game files, and change fridges into 8x14 universal storages. I then just place these fridges where I need them. Parts in sledge area. Clothes near the bed, cleaning stuff and medicals in the toilet. Weapons and suits at the bridge. Vendor junk near the airlock.


Managing inventory is ridiculous in this game and since this seem to be beloved feature of dev team, is not going to change. Luckily we can mod that out.

[Azhukar]

I like to place related items next to their container. So a bag filled with cables will have a cable sitting next to it, if the bag is inside a bin then I will put a cable next to it inside of the bin. It sacrifices a slot for clarity.

Recently I stopped using bins to store things though, it's just too much effort and adding extra floors doesn't really increase ship weight much. Extra floor is like 7kg extra mass, a single N2 tank for RCS is 100kg empty, a fusion fuel/cryo tank is 1500kg.

It's not like floor tiles are rare or hard to get.

[sir Evans]

^ or that.

Now when the floor tiles are mentioned, maybe we could use tiles with letters or glyphs at them to mark certain points.