After ~450 hours in the game, I realized something that I’d been wanting was in the game the whole time, just not explicitly: a way to put your items into “folders”.
I often wondered what the purpose was of placing empty backpacks and pouches throughout the game and making them show up in the alt-view. I figured they had items in them at different difficulties or previous versions, or they were simply there for aesthetics (I think most likely option). It only just occurred to me that I could pick them up and store items in them to sort out my stupid long inventory lists.
Gale has a backpack with all his little scrolls. Lae’zel has a backpack that somehow holds 20 daggers, 12 javelins and a spear. And astarion has a pouch with with enough magical arrows to make the Fat Man look like a firecracker. Now the stuff I actually plan on using is much easier to find.
I just wish we could rename them
Yeah, there are mods that at least will give you special pouches and backpacks and things with like an icon on it (sword, armor, etc)
Would have been nice to have a vanilla solution tho for sure
I pick up every tiny pouch I see because they don’t take up space and they force me to not bring the entire kitchen sink with me everywhere. to make space for important drops or other things.
You can do like one for pots, one for explosives and arrows, etc.
I also take it a step further and use a goody bag system when it comes to gear for members I’m not using right now, but I will later. I store all their upgraded gear in a pouch along with anything else I think they might need.
If I’m taking someone out and it’s been a while, I have them go grab their little goody bag 😊 then they got everything all neat and organized and ready to go.
it saves me going “wait… were these for Gale? or Wyll. I can’t remember…” pain in the ass. Just make a little goody bag for them. Then you can organize now and save future you a headache!
Oh, that’s brilliant. Why am I not doing that. I should probably start doing that. Really, I probably need to make myself a “souvenirs” pouch, too, for all the things that hold some sentimental importance.
I’ve just been picking carefully around everything every time I grab stuff to sell, and now I feel like a caveman whose friend has just demonstrated Hit Thing With Rock
That’s actually brilliant, I feel so behind everyone else with their nested pouches and item-forwarding systems.
it’s really just to save me the hassle of having to remember the next day. like “… wait who was this for?” and having to try and figure out who I’d decided to give it to the night before.
grab all the pouches! I probably have tons in my camp chest right now just waiting to be used. lol
small pouches are also a handy way of packing explosives into one small concentrated area 😉
As a long-time escape from tarkov player, storing containers in containers is something I do automatically now and I started in BG3 the second I found my second container lol
Pro pro tip: Bags bags bags and Better Containers (and his whole suite of “better” mods)
Be careful putting quest items in though. I had one of the nether stones in one, and an update glitched the mod causing the bag with the stone to disappear and soft locking my game (until I downloaded the cheat engine to flip the game state, but it was a very close thing).
Moving shit around is awful on the PS5. I’ll just keep my 25 rows of garbage on Tav. Unless I’m playing a Str character, then it’s more like 50 rows. Finding shit you know you have is also awful.
I’ve yet to ever turn in Dribbles because by the time I find all his pieces, I’ve lost one. Hope the reward is garbage.
Lost the plans to the crossbow, but there’s a good chance I sold them because they look like every other scrap of paper I grab to sell. Which reminds me I’m probably still carrying around the other parts. It’s honestly a minor miracle I can complete the gauntlet of Shar.
Edit: I checked. Reward for Dribbles is indeed garbage.
I pick up every piece of junk I can find.
To keep order in my invetory i drag everything I don’t wanna keep into backpacks.
When reaching a trader I just have to sell the full backpack instead of dragging and dropping every single item into the trading panel.much faster.
Why not just use “send to wares” and sell your wares with one click at the trader?
Wait. You can do that?!?!?! Wares isn’t just a marker for making merch easy to spot in the chest?
It gives you an option to auto-add your wares to trades 😉
Thanks. Will try that.
I thought, “wares” was just a marker but the junk will stay in your inventory as before.It will stay in your inventory with a marker and when you reach a trader there is a “add wares to offer” button. Just found this a couple weeks ago myself
I’ve seen the option too. Mybe I even tried it. I’m not sure.
But if they stay in inventory they will still clog it. If there was an option to hide items marked as wares, this would help.
