Inventory

Inventory
The Backpack Inventory is accessible by pressing the  key. Another way to open the backpack is by pressing  and selecting the backpack icon from the menu wheel.

When inspecting your body, you can access the backpack inventory by selecting the icon from the menu to of the right of the screen.

The backpack consists of five compartments. Each section will store different items.
 * 1) Weapons and Tools - This section of the backpack holds up to four weapons and/or tools and one blade. The hand icon will be shown on the weapon or tool that the player currently has equipped.
 * 2) Rope and Sticks - This section of the backpack holds up to ten sticks, ten small sticks and ten rope.
 * 3) Materials - Stores items such as, small stones, feathers, tinder, bones, bandages, plant leaves, ash, charcoal. Items are stacked in various numbers.
 * 4) Food - Food items are stored in this section, such as, raw/cooked meat, fruits, maggots/larvae, full/half coconuts, coconut bidon, mushrooms. Items are stacked in various numbers.
 * 5) Fire Tools - This section of the backpack holds up to four fire starting tools and planks. Birds nest and fibers are stored in the slots below and holds up to three items.

Backpack Inventory Maintenance
The backpack has a limited weight of 50.0

Once the player has reached or exceeded the weight limit, player movement will be considerably slower. Some actions such as jumping and melee attacks may become to impossible to perform.

Regardless of weight you can swim and dive like normal.

Organizing the Backpack
As the player collects items in the backpack, they will be randomly placed in its relevant section which can sometimes cause other items to be unable to be stored.The player may need to re-organize the placement of items to make more space. Only items in the materials and food sections of the backpack can be organized.

To manually sort item placement in the backpack, pick up an item by using the, while holding the item press the   to rotate the item and move the item in a more suitable position. To pick up multiple stacked items hold down the, then use the   to move stack.

The backpack can also be automatically sorted by pressing and holding down  key. Doing this will move the items to the top of the backpack providing space on the lower half of the pack. The auto sort is a quick way to free up some space, however it is usually more efficient to manually sort to avoid small items being hidden behind larger item.

Trivia
During the update V.0.2.1 the weapons and tools section of the backpack was adjusted to include an additional slot for blades, which are required for harvesting animals.

In update V.2.0.5 the fire tools section holding slots was increased to hold four items instead of two. The plank was also moved and is now stored in the fire tool section instead of the materials tab.