Inventory

The inventory contains all items currently held on the Homesteader's person.

## Inventory Basics

The inventory can be accessed from the pause menu. On Xbox, the player can use the menu button (the "hamburger" button with three horizontal lines) to access the inventory directly, or use the View button (button to the left of the Menu button with the two windows icon) to access the pause menu and then navigate to the Inventory tab (far left of the pause menu).

The player begins with an inventory holding 10x7 cells. Items found or crafted in the game range from taking up 1x1 spaces (one square cell) up to 3x4 inventory spaces. If the player's inventory is full or has insufficient inventory space, they will not be able to pick up any new items.

### Using Inventory Space

Certain special items, such as the Filter Mask and clothes crafted at the Wardrobe, do not take up inventory space.

Most items take up inventory space until consumed. This includes any Food or Beverages crafted at the Grill, Tools (crafted at either the Cauldron or the Workbench), placeable items crafted at the Workbench (including Decorations, Tools, Homestead Improvements, and other Crafting Stations), potions and tinctures crafted at the Cauldron, and Upgrades.

There are unique items known as Charms, which only function while carried in inventory and enhance the effects of specific potions (each potion has an assigned Charm). These cannot be consumed in the traditional sense, meaning they are never lost or depleted. Charms are the largest items in the game, taking up 3x4 inventory slots each. If the player is running out of space and is not planning to traverse the Miasma, Charms can be placed in Storage Chests for safekeeping like any other inventory item.

Items can be dropped using the "Drop" button (Y on Xbox). This function is only used when placing Waymarkers or when the player needs to discard items to free up space. Dropped items will remain in the location they were dropped.

### Sorting

The game includes an auto-sort function for both the player's inventory and any other storage, including Storage Chests, Magic Chests, crafting station result windows (where crafted items appear until moved to the inventory). On Xbox, items can be auto-sorted by pressing the left stick.

It is also possible to manually sort items by pressing the "Move" button (X on Xbox) to select the item, moving the item across cells using the movement button (left stick on Xbox), and pressing the "Move" button again to drop the item in its new location.

Items can be rotated in all sortable inventories by first selecting the item, then pressing the "Move" button (left stick on Xbox) to rotate, and pressing the "Move" button again to finalize the item's placement.

## Inventory Expansion

The inventory can be expanded up to 10x20 slots by purchasing Tinctures of Strength (labeled Mk. I, II, and III for each respective upgrade tier) from Abraham, which become available one at a time after clearing each Miasma-covered area. Until the upgrades become available, the player can make use of craftable Storage Chests to store items not immediately needed.

* Mk. I: 10x10 spaces
* Mk. II: 10x14 spaces
* Mk. III: 10x20 spaces

## Notes

* Sometimes, auto-sort works *against* the player because it uses an internal sorting system that can create odd configurations of available spaces, leading to a seemingly full inventory. This can be fixed by manually rotating items and moving them around to create different configurations of available cells and create the space needed.
* The player can craft a special item on the Workbench, the Magic Chest, which works in a pair with another Magic Chest (so two need to be crafted and placed) and will share the items with the second Magic Chest. When interacting with a crafting station, the player will have access to the items stored in the Magic Chest in addition to the inventory and be able to use them in crafting.