Inventory/Backpack

[Milt]

Why is the inventory?backpack so small and why can't you eat all your food to fill the health bar? Am I missing something?

[Keycha1n10]

inventory can be upgraded and food is mostly for buffs not healing

[Sgt.JESUS]

The food has a timer, so eat more after it expires, as for the backpack when you get the hunter she has a upgrade for it, and there should be more as you progress.

[Blue Hasia]

yes you are missing something. if you play the game more you will be able to upgrade you backpack more.

[TheLuckyAce]

There are backpack upgrades craftable later on.
Not all food is for health regeneration, every type gives different buffs. For example the blue berry's can be eaten for a HPregen buff, but eating "more" does not help, you need to eat them one after the other or find cooking recepies to get better food.

[Beorn]

I only wish, the largest BP would give more slots. Always full because i can't resist gathering nearly everything :D

[QuiteACynic]

Just play and you will unlock backpack upgrade. Heck as soon as you get Hunter you can already upgrade your backpack.

[Scout104]

Play the game and you will have your answers

[Milt]

Ok next Question Can you build or get Storage chests like in Valhiem and Terarria?

[GobboKirk]

Originally posted by Milt:

Ok next Question Can you build or get Storage chests like in Valhiem and Terarria?

Yup

[PlagueBrain]

Originally posted by Milt:

Ok next Question Can you build or get Storage chests like in Valhiem and Terarria?

Yeah, and you can craft from the magic chests you craft later on, rather than going back/forth from the chest to the craft station.

In re the first question - food for buffs, potions for healing at the early game. Midgame, that changes a little bit - you'll get more buff potions and better heal over time food.

Early game is just getting you used to the food mechanics - because in most games you eat to heal. Here, you don't. It's more like Valheim's eat to buff. Each kind of food (liquid, meat, produce, sweets) gets a diff food slot, and you can only have one of each active because otherwise the effects would stack too much.

Unlocking the Hunter gets you access to the backpack upgrade, and the Carpenter to better chests.

[Milt]

Thank you everyone for your help its appreciated.

[finalfantasy]

Originally posted by Milt:

and why can't you eat all your food to fill the health bar? Am I missing something?

Food doesn't fill your healthbar at all. (*)

Enshrouded is not that kind of survival game where you need to eat and drink to stay alive/not starve.
Instead food gives you buffs for a limited time. What buff it gives can be read in the items description.
E.g. meat increases your constitution which leads to higher max HP, but it does not heal you, if you currently have 50 out of 100 HP, it will increase the maximum HP to maybe 150, but your current HP stay at 50.
Drinking water increases your stamina and stamina regeneration.
Berries... and that's where we come to (*)... give you HP regeneration buff. So these will indeed fill up your health bar over time.

Each food has a buff type shown by it's symbol. Meat, drink, sugar cane, ... You can't combine buffs of the same type while active. E.g. purple berries and (later) strawberries both give the "berry"-buff (HP regen), so if you eat a pruple berry you can't eat a strawberry unless the buff of the purple berry timed out.

[Sultryhag]

You need to make her drying rack for it to appear I think . Then you will see it in the recipes. Her recipes.

[MaddogDino]

Originally posted by Catastrophology:

Originally posted by QuiteACynic:

Just play and you will unlock backpack upgrade. Heck as soon as you get Hunter you can already upgrade your backpack.

I don't think we are playing the same game. I unlocked the hunter and already did the first quest and no backpack

Placing the Drying Rack and Producing some Dried Fur should unlock the Small backpack Upgrade recipe.

[Catastrophology]

Originally posted by MaddogDino:

Originally posted by Catastrophology:

I don't think we are playing the same game. I unlocked the hunter and already did the first quest and no backpack

Placing the Drying Rack and Producing some Dried Fur should unlock the Small backpack Upgrade recipe.

Yea, it's been siting there for a while