New Game, Cant Wear Weapons / Tools / Use Bedroll

[Letrobe]

Hello, I am new to this game, and when I go to my inventory and hit "A" to select weapons, bedroll, tools, etc., nothing happens. It's like there is no functionality at all to these items/button. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

[Seishisha]

The inventory on the right hand side of your character? If so that is the crafting list, those recipes will not do anything unless you have the materials needed to build them.

The box on the left side of the inventory window shows what you have on your person. Normally if wearing no armour, crafting one will auto equip it to your character. Weapons and tools auto equip to the hot bar.

I'm not as familiar with the controller interface but i believe there is an item selection wheel you can bring up, you'll have to look up the controls for it though, weapons and tools should be choose able from there, but once again you will need to craft them first.

[Letrobe]

I've crafted armor and bed rolls and pickaxe and axe, and picked up a weapon from a person I killed. I can wear the armor that I crafted, but when I go to pickaxe or bed roll or weapon and click "A" (Xbox controller on PC), nothing happens, just clicks clicks clicks. On the left (had to find out how to "place" it in inventory from the wheel selection).

[Seishisha]

I think tools and weapons are designed to be used from the wheel selection not the inventory, once again though i am not very familiar with the controller ui, on keyboard there is a button to draw your weapons or tool but they must be on the hotbar, if the controller has an equivalent button that might be what you need.

As an example, pressing attack on keyboard will just swing your characters fists, unless you directly select a tool or weapon from the hotbar (in your case the selection wheel), or alternatively unsheathe the last thing you used.

[Letrobe]

Hmm, okay, I'll look more into it.

I don't even see a spot in my equipment section for "weapon", I see head, chest, feet, hands, etc., but no "main weapon" "offhand weapon" etc. I am at the very beginning of the game, does this matter? Do I have to complete some sort of task/quest first to be able to access those equipment slots? Thanks.

[Letrobe]

Playing with a keyboard and putting things on the 'hotbar' fixed it. The hotbar was hidden while playing with xbox controller, only appeared after I moved using the keyboard. I would prefer to use the controller but I guess it's a keyboard game after all.

Thanks again for help.

[Seishisha]

There is no equipment slot for weapons or tools, the hotbar / selection wheel is THE thing you use weapons or tools from.

As for off hand, they can be used at the same time as a one handed, so sword and shield for example each will be placed in the hotbar / selection wheel and chosen as needed. So you can have just sword, just shield or both, or alternatively a tool and shield and so on.

[Seishisha]

It should work with controller as well, the hotbar and selection wheel are basically the same thing, either way what ever method you choose to play with going forward, glad i could help a little bit.

[fodder]

whole thing seems kinda stupidly cumbersome. to make the wheel show you have to hit lb, but the wheel has only so many slots. if you put one for each tool, a shield (maybe can remove that after 1st use), a torch, a 1h weapon and maybe bandages... there's maybe 1 slot left.

why on earth do i need to put a shield in a hotbar/wheel to equip it or ditto a piece of furniture in 2 steps just to plonk it down somewhere?

the problem isn't the wheel itself, but a lack of options to do same thing from the inventory directory.

similarly.. seems stupid if you skin something.. there's no meat left. i can understand 2 tools for different things... or to make things grindy for sake of gameplay.. but i can't understand why tools can't be auto switched by simply using interact on target if you have the right tool in your inventory somewhere.

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meh. loaded it up again and can't get the wheel to show up outside of inventory screen... inside inv screen all i can do is add/remove stuff)

[Rokalm]

Originally posted by fodder:

whole thing seems kinda stupidly cumbersome. to make the wheel show you have to hit lb, but the wheel has only so many slots. if you put one for each tool, a shield (maybe can remove that after 1st use), a torch, a 1h weapon and maybe bandages... there's maybe 1 slot left.

why on earth do i need to put a shield in a hotbar/wheel to equip it or ditto a piece of furniture in 2 steps just to plonk it down somewhere?

the problem isn't the wheel itself, but a lack of options to do same thing from the inventory directory.

unreal engine, most survival games made with unreal engine has this type of thing for some reason.

Originally posted by fodder:

similarly.. seems stupid if you skin something.. there's no meat left. i can understand 2 tools for different things... or to make things grindy for sake of gameplay.. but i can't understand why tools can't be auto switched by simply using interact on target if you have the right tool in your inventory somewhere.

the game expects you to choose what you want, decide if you want to farm hide, meat or bones. you cannot auto gather because the game does not know what you wish to get out of the corpse.