inventory upgrade question

[Saverok Meilnolt]

Greetings, I have been watching videos of the game and I have noticed that many use an inventory where you can see more spaces for mods than I have been able to see in my own game, also each space has a symbol of a kind of wheel with a gear, is it a mod? Or do they give you an improvement in a mission that allows it?
thank you

[Krash Megiddo]

The content creator opened up more tech spaces than what you have by default. Are you talking about suit or ship tech?

[Jaggid Edje]

You can upgrade the number of technology slots on your exosuit at the same place that you upgrade the cargo inventory slots.

Every station has an "Exosuit upgrade station" which can be used to pay units to unlock a single slot on your exosuit, in either technology or general (Cargo) inventory.

When using one of these stations to unlock a slot, you can upgrade technology slots by clicking on an available tech slot instead of going with the slot in cargo inventory that it highlights by default. You may use each station terminal for a single upgrade to either tech or inventory.

The anomaly also has a "Exosuit upgrade station", and you can also use that as well, one time, per system.
(Both of the above cost units to unlock a slot).

Additionally, scattered all over the surface of planets are points of interest called "Drop Pods". If you repair these, you may choose either a free Cargo inventory OR Tech slot to unlock. You can do this once for each drop pod, and they are all over on planets.

You can use "Exosuit upgrade charts" to scan for them, which are available on space stations and from station mission rewards. Exocraft can also scan for drop pods, once you have exocraft unlocked and installed the basic radar and the Radar amplifier upgrade.

And lastly, there are items called "Exosuit Expansion Units" which can be used to unlock additional slots, in either cargo inventory or technology of your exosuit. They can be used at either the Exosuit Upgrade stations or at Drop pods. Some missions reward them, and they can also be received (though rarely) as loot.

As for the gear icon, I'm not sure what you mean? Do you mean the background image on an empty slot? If so, that just means clicking the slot will let you craft something (because the slot is empty).

If you meant ship inventory, the upgrade process is similar, but you do it at the ship station in a station, and you need starship upgrade tokens (or Units) to unlock additional slots. But the same principle applies; to u nlock tech rather than inventory slots, select a tech slot.

[luZk]

This is how you find expansion tokens for your suit. Take your Roamer exocraft scan for drop pods, jump in ship and goto drop pod, fill in the matrials, get expansion for free. Repeat.

Do not pay for expansion slots you can farm 10 new slots an hour if you use above method.

[Kuma]

You are probably watching videos of the old inventory that was in the game, and had a "general tab".

The game changed the inventory layout and how technology worked since then.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Originally posted by luZk:

This is how you find expansion tokens for your suit. Take your Roamer exocraft scan for drop pods, jump in ship and goto drop pod, fill in the matrials, get expansion for free. Repeat.

Do not pay for expansion slots you can farm 10 new slots an hour if you use above method.

Can also do quick little missions in star systems for free upgrades + charts to drop pods.

[Saverok Meilnolt]

I put the links because I can't handle uploading images to steam, here, so you can see what I mean, for example this link is how my inventory looks

https://itemlevel.net/no-mans-sky-how-to-get-maximum-suit-inventory-update-4-0/

and in this video at minute 3:27 he shows the inventory with the gear and the wheel that he mentioned..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igCnBOI28uE&t=206s


I have seen it in several videos and I don't know if it is an improvement or a mod.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Saverok Meilnolt:

I have seen it in several videos and I don't know if it is an improvement or a mod.

I already answered that, it's just the background image which indicates a slot is empty and you can click it to craft something. That image is from an older version of the game, the background image for blank slots is different now.

[Saverok Meilnolt]

Aaah thank you, I misread apparently.