Any way to lock inventory or something?

[genoforprez]

It seems like there is no real point in arranging my inventory nicely, because every time I open it up, everything is jumbled all around. Things I previously organized get moved and shimmied and jumbled every which way. Is there some way to lock certain things in place that I'm just not seeing? It's kinda driving me a little bonkers *eye twitch*

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Also, can someone explain to me how the inventory works IN GENERAL? I can't tell if it's buggy or I just don't know what's going on.

If I have a spear equipped, it doesn't show up in my carrying inventory, but if I equip something else or unequip it, it will show up. Sometimes when I unassign things from hotbar slots, the slot becomes just empty. Other times something else automatically slots into it. Other times some kind of symbol appears in there and I have to tap X again to make it go away, but I don't know what it means.

The inventory is kinda maddening tbh. Can anyone explain what some of these weird shenanigans are?

[Jaggid Edje]

Drives me crazy too, and no, there's no way to lock things in an inventory slot right now.

Hot bar slots, on the other hand, can be locked or assigned to a category. With inventory open, along the bottom it lists "Hotpouch". If you select a slot in the hotpouch there are new options, along the bottom to "assign slot" and "Unassign slot".

So you can choose to assign a specific slot to a specific item, and optionally you can assign them to categories like "light sources", "consumeable", "Any melee weapon", etc.

They start out with category assignments by default, which is why stuff is slotting into the hotbar automatically, but once you manually drag an item out of a slot it becomes unassigned, which is why some slots that isn't happening for anymore.

[genoforprez]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Drives me crazy too, and no, there's no way to lock things in an inventory slot right now.

Hot bar slots, on the other hand, can be locked or assigned to a category. With inventory open, along the bottom it lists "Hotpouch". If you select a slot in the hotpouch there are new options, along the bottom to "assign slot" and "Unassign slot".

So you can choose to assign a specific slot to a specific item, and optionally you can assign them to categories like "light sources", "consumeable", "Any melee weapon", etc.

They start out with category assignments by default, which is why stuff is slotting into the hotbar automatically, but once you manually drag an item out of a slot it becomes unassigned, which is why some slots that isn't happening for anymore.

Thanks!

1) What is the benefit of assigning a category? Is that just for stuff like torches? i.e. if your torch runs out another one automatically slots in? Or bandages maybe? Ammo doesn't seem like something you'd have in a hot slot.

2) Is just clicking and dragging items in/out of slots the same thing as using "assign slot" or is that different somehow?

[Jaggid Edje]

I"ve only every use the category assignment for torches. For, literally, everything else I want to decide specifically what is on the hotbar.
I can see a benefit for "any healing items" as well, so that if whatever your main healing item runs out then at least some other healing item auto-slots into it during combat, but I don't personally use that.

When you click and drag an item to move into a slot, the game takes that as a slot assignment for that specific item. You can tell it's done that when a yellow pin icon shows above the item in the hotbar. So it's the same as using "assign slot" and selecting a specific item.
The reason I said "usually" is because if you click and drag an item into a slot that already has a category assignment, if the item is the correct category it sometimes doesn't pin that specific item and just leaves it with the category assignment. usually it over-writes the category assignment though, and pins the specific item.

[genoforprez]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

I"ve only every use the category assignment for torches. For, literally, everything else I want to decide specifically what is on the hotbar.
I can see a benefit for "any healing items" as well, so that if whatever your main healing item runs out then at least some other healing item auto-slots into it during combat, but I don't personally use that..

Yeah, I think I'm the same. It seems like the category thing is a lot of strangeness for something that's not really that useful.

If I put a torch into a slot and it runs out, and I have other torches, then it should just slot in without me needing to set a "category". (I think it actually does do this, so that's good). I dont' see why it doesn't do simply that and leave it at that.

Maybe if you want to assign a slot like "food" and when you eat a food, any other food slots in? I don't know, that's cool, I guess, it just seems like such an edge case thing, I don't see why there is an entire feature about it.

I wish they would have done like a lot of other games (terraria, stardew, many others) and just made the top row of the inventory synonymous with the hotbar and have it be locked, then the rest of the inventory can do whatever it wants.

Thanks for answering the questions. Just started a couple days ago and some of the finer details like this are kinda baffling so far.

[Jaggid Edje]

Yah, if you have played some other survival/craft games, there's a few things about this one that might be a little befuddling. You quickly get past that though and get in a groove, imo.
I'm having a LOT of fun with this game, more than I have with any game in quite a while.

Inventory constantly re-arranging itself drives me crazy though; I'm pretty OCD about wanting specific things in specific places. I won't say it still doesn't bother me, but I've gotten used to it enough that I stop constantly rearranging it BACK to what I want every few minutes. LOL