Any tips for inventory management?

[Kalvix]

Hi, my major issue I'm having right now is while I have plenty of carry limit to carry everything, my inventory is a complete mess! I started trying to put things in back but remebering what each bag contained was a pain and eventually I ended up with the bags being to full.

Is there a better way than bags to manage things? and is there set things you should always take and others you shouldn't, right now I'm worried about leaving anything incase somebody asks for it for a quest as I don't want to have to go back to the ship constantly to pick stuff up.

[Recjawjind]

Im quite bad at inventory management myself, and by the end of the game, it looked like an other mess, like a hoarders home. I however maanged to get by with the many sort options the game gives you, and the different categories.

[Sgáthach]

How many members do you have in your party? Full party of 4 or 2 Lone Wolves?

The reason I am asking is because I wanted to show you the screenshot of my inventory and just give an advise of organizing it, but it depends on the amount of party members :)

[Recjawjind]

Originally posted by Annelia:

How many members do you have in your party? Full party of 4 or 2 Lone Wolves?

The reason I am asking is because I wanted to show you the screenshot of my inventory and just give an advise of organizing it, but it depends on the amount of party members :)

I mainly run 4 people parties because lone wolf scales absurdly well and youll be way too strong by the end of act 2, making it quite boring even on tactician. In adition to that, having more charakters means you get to experience and do more of their personal quest lines, which are quite good (some more than others, the best is lohses in my opinion).

[Cooperal]

I generally categorised types of items for people to carry with a little attention to who also had the most carry capacity. I would keep one of each equipment type and weapons that none of my party could use were given to the party member that may respec for it later. Occasionally I would purge all but the best of that equipment type.
Certain types of crafting mats would also go to one party member too. For example everything that was sort of 'metalcraft' would go to my knight. Cooking ingredients on Lohse. Remnants of creatures such as hair, eye balls, insect legs would go to Sebille. Woodworking stuff would go to Red Prince (my guy who I was thinking of respeccing into an archer but never did).

I also tried to switch to my saleswoman whenever I picked up anything that was blatant vendor trash but it takes very little time to drag and drop everything over on the wares page as long as you've sent it to that page first.

Try sending to wares BEFORE doing a clean out in town because it's self punishment trying to find the junk again when it's hidden among all of your good stuff. It's not bad outside of the equipment page because you can generally see what is what without needing the tooltips.

[Nibbie]

While I played the game with a friend so I could split the duties, we did devote each character to carry certain things. It might be easier for you to remember where stuff is if you can associate it with certain characters instead of just bags. As the strength character I was carrying the most, and so I also made sure to use different bag styles when possible, and that helped a lot. The backpack with the sticks was my skillbook bag, the bloody pouch was my body part bag, velvety pouch was consumables, the backpack that weighed 200 was my crafting materials bag, etc.

[Chaoslink]

I suggest simply learning how the game auto-sorts and using the autosort button in the inventory UI.

[Kalvix]

4 for this run-through, I have tried to keep things on set characters but as finding shops to sell the run-off has led to it being a bit difficult to keep up with so things

[Sgáthach]

Ahoy, stranger!

As promised: https://imgur.com/a/O9w0HXV

I also suggest to go through your inventory and sort it every once in a while, maybe after big encounter or so. When you are in a new location - just take a deep breath, relax, take your time to sort everything out.

Good luck!

[Hobocop]

I usually have a Strength character in my party and just have them loot and carry everything, only transferring over what consumables I want the other characters to use. Much easier since they made Lucky Charm a partywide ability.

[volx757]

Yeah it's far easier to have 1 item slave that you dump everything on (should be your bartering char), that way the only item movements you ever have to do is moving consumables from the item slave to the char who's going to use it, and you only have 1 messy inventory to deal with and 3 clean ones.

[nadeau38]

Originally posted by Kalvix:

Hi, my major issue I'm having right now is while I have plenty of carry limit to carry everything, my inventory is a complete mess! I started trying to put things in back but remebering what each bag contained was a pain and eventually I ended up with the bags being to full.

Is there a better way than bags to manage things? and is there set things you should always take and others you shouldn't, right now I'm worried about leaving anything incase somebody asks for it for a quest as I don't want to have to go back to the ship constantly to pick stuff up.

So idk if anyone still cares or reads this thread but what I do (I’m on PS4) is I made 7 backpacks. (You can also save bags that you find like pouches and stuff) and I put the backpacks at the top row. Under each bag I put a sample item as a label. For example I put an apple under one backpack so I know that the backpack above it has nothing but food inside. Another bag I had a smoke grenade underneath it to indicate all my “throwables” (grenades, scrolls, Bombs etc.) now whenever I get any items I multi select, then put in hand, and stash everything in the bag and I don’t have to open them to find out anymore. You can’t use auto sort obviously because it’ll mess up all your “labels” but you won’t need to! My strength character stores everything. Just remember if you have runes or any armor they won’t pop up in the rune crafting unless you take them out of the bag. Super annoying so you could just leave runes out.

My 7 bags are for:
1. Runes (Labeled with small air rune)
2. Crafting (labeled with leather scraps)
3. Throwable's (labeled with smoke grenade)
4. Potions (labeled with small armor potion)
5. Food (labeled with apple)
6. Keys and Books/notes/papers misc (labeled with small key)
7. Skill books (labeled with blank skill book).

Having these 7 backpacks with the indicated items underneath it’s saved me a TON of hassle. Also when picking up things you KNOW you don’t want like certain gear make sure you hit square (or whatever it is on pc) and select “pick up and add to wares” so you can just be ready to go and sell it. Hope this helps! (If anyone even cares anymore) There is a mod that has bags pre labeled and sorts items for you but activating mods disables trophies so do this first then try the mod on a future play through!

[LinkZeppeloyd]

Auto sort button
Sell everything non essential

That’s... it.

[Patch]

If you're running 4 characters you could try to break up basic stuff between characters like grenades, scrolls, sellables ect so you can know where to find general stuff but you might have an issue if like the person carrying all your grenades gets charmed because you wont be able to access them

[rasmasyean]

Inventory Management Lesson 1:
Peace of Mind scrolls go across all characters. :)

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by rasmasyean:

Inventory Management Lesson 1:
Peace of Mind scrolls go across all characters. :)

Somehow that made me think of something... Grenades explode when placed on the ground and attacked right? Like, you could craft 50 firestorm bottles and just put them next to someone and blow them the F up? Makes me wonder... Maybe even oil and poison flasks in there too...

Though maybe they're counted as level 1 at that rate because you're not throwing them and it isn't scaling... Still...