Storage

There are several types of storage in Stellar Tactics: the inventory, the stash, the cargo hold of your **ship**, storage on bases or stations, and the inventory for item parts needed for **crafting**.

## Inventory

The inventory is the inventory of your ground crew. All crew members of the ground crew share the same inventory. The inventory screen can be accessed anytime by pressing the [I] button. There are 55 inventory slots. Medkits and grenades have to be placed in the inventory to use them.

From the inventory, **equipment** can be dragged to the equipment screen to the right. Alternatively, items from the inventory can be equipped by right-clicking them. Weapons can be unloaded by Shift-Rightclick. More detailed information on how to equip item can be found **here**.

Above the inventory, the ammunition can be seen. The upper number is the current ammunition of each type and the bottom number is the maximum amount of ammunition of that type, that can be stored. The ammunition is shared between all crew members, too. Therefore, it might become a problem, if all crew members are using the same ammunition type.

From the inventory, items can be marked for selling (alt-click the item) and **salvaging** (shift-click the item).

Items can be thrown away by dragging the item to the trash can symbol to the lower right of the inventory. Remember, that this is permanent.

The symbol to the right above the inventory with the three lines is an auto-sort button.

## Stash

The stash is like a second inventory. You can access it anytime from the inventory by clicking the stash icon above the inventory (see red circle in the image to the right).

The stash can hold up to 200 items and - like the inventory - is shared between all ground crew members.

The symbols at the left side of the stash inventory are categories, which help to find the items faster.

Medkits and grenades in the stash can't be used in combat. They have to be placed in the inventory to be usable.

However, items marked for selling and salvaging, which are placed in the stash, will be salvaged or sold, when the "salvage all" or "sell marked items" options in the salvaging screen or at the vendor, respectively, are chosen.

## Cargo Hold

The cargo hold is the inventory of your **ship** (see image to the right). It can be accessed anytime by pressing the [K] button.

The size of the cargo hold depends on the active **ship** and the installed **cargo extension**.

All items collected in space (loot from **space combat** and ore from **mining**), **trade goods** from the Trade-Net and **ship equipment** bought from vendors or **crafted** by yourself are transferred to the cargo hold of your active ship, if there's enough space left.

Above the inventory of the cargo hold, the used and total size of the cargo hold are shown (red circle in the image to the right).

## Storage on Bases or Stations

On each planetary base or station in a system that is at least **wary** towards you, you can buy storage space for 20,000 Credits. This can be done on the station/base at the computer terminal shown in the image. On the radar it is marked as a chest icon shown in the image. In this storage, only **ores**, **ship equipment** and **trade goods** can be stored. The storage has 200 slots. However, stacked items like **ores** only use one slot per stack, i.e. per ore type.

Unlike the inventory and the stash, this inventory is not shared between bases and stations. It is specific to the base or station. On the star map (press the [L] button), systems in which storage space has been bought is marked in the "Search System" panel by a green checkmark in the column "CRG" and there is the chest icon next to the system.

## Inventory for Item Parts

The inventory for item parts is needed for **crafting**. It can be accessed by clicking the salvage button above the inventory.

It is an unlimited, shared inventory and all parts from **salvaging** are automatically placed there.