My Time at Portia

My Time at Portia

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Nova Jan 26, 2018 @ 4:49am
Storage/inventory is terrible
I am really enjoying this game and for the most part find little issue with the game but the storage/inventory is terrible.

Chests take up far too much room on your farm for their capacity. I can fit more in my pockets on day 1 then I can store in a chest which takes up 4 squares, either the footprint is too big or available storage too small. The sort button is really nice but I wish double clicking on an item would combine all of that item to my mouse location from both my inventory and the chest up to the limit of a stack.

Chests just laying all over the ground ruins the feel of making a functional workshop and sadly takes up half my total area, A shelving system would be an excelent addition. Targeting upper boxes would be impossible with the targeting system in the game so simply making all chests combine together into a super shelf or a secondary pop-up to select the chest you want would work nicely.

When collecting items the game will start a new stack in the hotbar even if I have a partial stack in my inventory slots. If there is a stack with available room the items should go there no matter where it is in my inventory.

I find dragging and dropping items into slots can be a little inaccurate at times when working in the character inventory. It would be nice if right clicking an item on my hotbar would move it to my bag if there were available space and vice-versa much how inventory to chest works.
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Ben Jan 26, 2018 @ 5:59am 
I want a button to quick deposit any item that exist in the currently open chest. Sorting inventory/chests is by far the most tedious part of the game, and ultimately why I burned out earlier today. Great game otherwise.

Stack size should be higher too. Just do what Stardew does and make it 999. Inventory management isn't fun!
Last edited by Ben; Jan 26, 2018 @ 6:01am
SQQisMommy Jan 26, 2018 @ 6:41am 
Agreed, storage and inventory always seems to be an issue in crafting games
doshha Jan 26, 2018 @ 7:28am 
yes, inventory management is getting very annoying for me too. Hope they at least allow us to stack chests on top of each other, and closer together also.
The_K00lDude Jan 26, 2018 @ 7:37am 
yeah I agree, but for now I just organize my stuff by colour coding the chests and sorting into; tech, farming, mining etc..

the area you get at the start isnt to bad of a space, im more upset about how much the paid exspansion give in terms of space. for the price its a pretty small exspasion.
Last edited by The_K00lDude; Jan 26, 2018 @ 7:37am
SouthernStar71 Jan 26, 2018 @ 7:42am 
There used to be a Metal Storage that was a 30 slot container that was available at Best Brother(Paulie's shop) on rainy days. It's not there anymore and I don't know if it's in the game anywhere anymore.
dilanli  [developer] Jan 26, 2018 @ 7:55am 
Thank you for the input, I will let our devs know about this and see what we can do.
Tatsukishi Jan 26, 2018 @ 11:36am 
Originally posted by Nova:
When collecting items the game will start a new stack in the hotbar even if I have a partial stack in my inventory slots. If there is a stack with available room the items should go there no matter where it is in my inventory.

This. So much this. It is one of the most annoying things in the game so far. And it doesn't help that at least with a controller you can't put the item from the hotbar into the stack in the inventory - when trying that it swaps the stacks of the same item. Only way to merge them is to sort the inventory.

Additionally there should be a button to quickly put things into the inventory or hotbar from the other similar to chest movement.
Skye Jan 26, 2018 @ 1:07pm 
Originally posted by SouthernStar71:
There used to be a Metal Storage that was a 30 slot container that was available at Best Brother(Paulie's shop) on rainy days. It's not there anymore and I don't know if it's in the game anywhere anymore.
Just like you I thought it´s not in the game anymore, but I just found the metal storage coincidentially in another shop.
You can now find it in the shop of the Mysterious Man .
AngryFairy Jan 26, 2018 @ 1:31pm 
Can we just not get a storage device to craft like a trunk or something, would be nice I do not need an auto sorter I have my boxed color coded and text bars on them for certain materials that I have crafted and gathered. Preferably crafting would be the route I would go for, because at this time close to get the 3rd tier land plot, but would rather consume my expanded variety of resources rather than waste currencies on them. Not to mention mysterious man comes in far too short of a time span and then if you dont have the tradables on you when i try and go get them he vanished.
Lauro Jan 26, 2018 @ 1:45pm 
Originally posted by AngryFairy:
Can we just not get a storage device to craft like a trunk or something, would be nice I do not need an auto sorter I have my boxed color coded and text bars on them for certain materials that I have crafted and gathered. Preferably crafting would be the route I would go for, because at this time close to get the 3rd tier land plot, but would rather consume my expanded variety of resources rather than waste currencies on them. Not to mention mysterious man comes in far too short of a time span and then if you dont have the tradables on you when i try and go get them he vanished.

They added new Metal Storage with 30 Slots.. though i do have al ot of storage on my house....
Zevras Jan 26, 2018 @ 3:16pm 
I just wish they'd get rid of the fiddlyness of assembly. Why do I have to waste clicks to drag the part to my hotbar? If the needed item is on my character it should just work.
Willow Rivers Jan 26, 2018 @ 3:24pm 
Originally posted by Zevras:
I just wish they'd get rid of the fiddlyness of assembly. Why do I have to waste clicks to drag the part to my hotbar? If the needed item is on my character it should just work.

Because they animate you actually building the item, you need the item in your hands to add it to what you are building.

I like the building where you see the item in your hand and havign to be in the right spot to add it.
Sojiro Jan 27, 2018 @ 1:52am 
Originally posted by Nova:
I am really enjoying this game and for the most part find little issue with the game but the storage/inventory is terrible.
That and the interface (especially keybindings) are my two big issues with the game right now. Well, that and balance/amount of content, but that's the current focus of development so of course it's not quite there yet. At this point, we really should have a sensible inventory system. Additionally, it's crucial to have the full range of control settings (like keybinding) available from the start of the open beta, because you need these things tested by a wide variety of people with a wide variety of habits ; playing the game forms habits based on how it controls, so if you add options later on, your most dedicated players will have already adapted to playing without them and you won't get as good a feedback as you need.



Originally posted by Nova:
Chests take up far too much room on your farm for their capacity. I can fit more in my pockets on day 1 then I can store in a chest which takes up 4 squares, either the footprint is too big or available storage too small.
I agree that chests take up too much room given how small they are. The limited storage space is fine for the lowest tier of storage furniture. However, maybe it's taking up so much space because it's low tier, and we could later get shelves that only take up 2 tiles ; in that case it's just a case of the cumbersome low tier wooden storage having too small a model.

Originally posted by Nova:
The sort button is really nice but I wish double clicking on an item would combine all of that item to my mouse location from both my inventory and the chest up to the limit of a stack.
That's an excellent suggestion to improve the interface.


Originally posted by Nova:
When collecting items the game will start a new stack in the hotbar even if I have a partial stack in my inventory slots. If there is a stack with available room the items should go there no matter where it is in my inventory.
That is one of my major gripes. It annoys me to no end that the game makes multiple stacks instead of putting everything together, then won't let me pick up items because my inventory is supposedly full. In fact it's worse than that: if you swap an item from your hotbar to your inventory, it makes a new stack instead of adding it to the existing one, so the shortcut for that is not useful to clean the inventory.

I should add that I hate the way the game puts items in the hotbar before the inventory when you pick them up. The hotbar is meant for the items you want to use, not all the random crap you pick up. It makes switching between tools and cosumable more annoying than it needs to be, and it can screw you over in battle. When you use the prev/next key (mostly mousewheel) to swap between weapon and recovery items, suddenly getting something in between them can lead you to equip the wrong thing and even consume something you should not have. Or lock you into a very slow attack animation with a tool and leave you open to punishing counters while forcing you to escape stun-lock before you can even try to swap to your weapon again.

I do not believe there is any reason whatsoever to make picked up items default to the hotbar rather than the inventory. At the very least, there should be an option to opt out of this mess.


Originally posted by Nova:
I find dragging and dropping items into slots can be a little inaccurate at times when working in the character inventory. It would be nice if right clicking an item on my hotbar would move it to my bag if there were available space and vice-versa much how inventory to chest works.
Originally posted by Tatsukishi:
Additionally there should be a button to quickly put things into the inventory or hotbar from the other similar to chest movement.
Actually, there is a key for that, it's R by default. I have to admit it took me a while to discover that because its name is really not intuitive at all. Left click on the item then press R and it'll be moved from your hotbar to your inventory or vice versa. Even when you are out of your inventory, pressing R will send the equipped item to your inventory. It won't combine stacks, though, so if you regularly put away apples to avoid eating them, you'll end up with a dozen stacks of them by the time you're done with your harvest.

However, I think that this key should work on items you are hovering over without requiring you to click them each and every time.



Originally posted by Tyrindor:
I want a button to quick deposit any item that exist in the currently open chest.
This. So much this. I cannot emphasize this too much. I had been playing for less than 30 minutes when I found myself wondering why this was not available. I have wasted way too much time hunting through my inventory to find what items belonged in that chest (and then clicking them all one by one). The fact that the auto-sort makes no sense doesn't help either.


Originally posted by Tyrindor:
Sorting inventory/chests is by far the most tedious part of the game, and ultimately why I burned out earlier today. Great game otherwise.

Stack size should be higher too. Just do what Stardew does and make it 999. Inventory management isn't fun!
I think that maybe stack size is part of the balance of the game. After all, storage is an important part of being a craftsman and a merchant, there's a reason storage facilities cost money. However, I agree that inventory management is not fun. Especially not in this game, because the very bad interface makes it much worse.

There are many issues I've been annoyed by, too much to just make a post about it (I am making a file to send to the dev team using the email provided), but take dividing stacks for example. Doing it in the chest doesn't send it to your inventory by default. Why? Why would you ever want to have multiple stacks in your chest? If you're trying to take 4 bronze plates out of your chest, it's because you need to use 4 of them, not because you think they need to take up more of your limited storage space. The options are +/-1 and min/max. You are at 1 by default so why would you need a button to get back there? If that's what you wanted you'd already have it, and at worst you can just press cancel and divide again; essentially there is already a "back to 1" shortcut available. Then "max" is (stack size -1), which divide your stack EXACTLY THE SAME WAY as just taking 1. It is not helpful! Having +/-10 instead of those would be vastly more useful. Alternatively, if you're going to keep 1/max to match the crafting interface, make the default value half of the stack size, that way these buttons will actually have some use.







Originally posted by AngryFairy:
I do not need an auto sorter I have my boxed color coded and text bars on them for certain materials that I have crafted and gathered.
I have that too, but that doesn't remove the need for an auto-sorter. Having to hunt through your inventory for every logging or quarrying item is annoying. It takes time and focus, you miss things, and it takes way more clicks than needed. It serves no purpose to force players to manually combine and rearrange stacks when they want to sort it, so there is a Sort button, and similarly it makes no sense to force players to manually combine stacks from their inventory to their chest, so there should be a button for that.

Originally posted by AngryFairy:
Preferably crafting would be the route I would go for, because at this time close to get the 3rd tier land plot, but would rather consume my expanded variety of resources rather than waste currencies on them. Not to mention mysterious man comes in far too short of a time span and then if you dont have the tradables on you when i try and go get them he vanished.
There will probably be a lot of new things to craft added to the game as it is developped, including better storage furniture. Also, if you have trouble finding him after you went to get your items for trade, the mysterious man is there all day, he just moves from one plazza to the other.
123 Jan 27, 2018 @ 2:05am 
Yea it can be tedious managing inventory and storage, imo machineries should have inventory slots too so if I want to refill the materials for production I can take them from there, not getting it from a storage then have to put them back in there because I want my inventory as empty as possible so I'm ready anytime to go into dungeons or farm other mats.

Or make it like the conductive flooring, but instead of a floor, it's a conveyor belt, and instead of a generator it's one giant storage for materials, so we can access another inventory tab that connects there, that'd be awesome.
Last edited by 123; Jan 27, 2018 @ 2:07am
Magistrella Jan 27, 2018 @ 2:19am 
Well, some things i can relate to, others i can't

I've got every machine that is available by now and all i need is 8 metal chests to store everything i have. The only annoying ones are wood and raw metal, due to the stack size... 999 on raw materials would really help, especially when mining for money you run out of space after ~500 stamina :/

Pro-Tip:

Use your recovery items after you opened the menu, time stands still and you don't need to swap away from your weapon, just smash that button ^.~
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Date Posted: Jan 26, 2018 @ 4:49am
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