Inventory Management

Inventory Management

So, you've slain the orphans, ground the crackheads into pulp, and search-ed to your heart's content. Look at all that sweet-ass loot! But what the hell do you do with it all, now that you have 400 items in your inventory and you can't pick up one more guitar pick or handful of brass rounds?

Basic Commands

First of all, let's make sure you know how to use your inventory. If you've made it this far, you probably already know how to use the inventory command, inv or I for the terminally lazy. When you do this, it should pull up your vast and impressive inventory of text items, like so:

Weapons

a taped garden weasel [1kg] a butcher knife [400g]

Clothing

a pair of cowboy boots (worn) [455g] a lotus mogami-do (worn) [400g]

a pair of lotus kote (worn) [300g] a hockey mask (worn) [175g]

a tin badge (worn) [400g] a pair of earplugs [5g]

a lotus kabuto (worn) [400g] a pair of lotus kogake tebukuro (worn) [400g]

a pair of kevlar pants (worn) [875g] a pair of disposable latex gloves [800g]

Medical

a medium trauma kit [650g] a single-use trauma kit [65g]

Consumables

lots of rocks of crank [17g]

Containers

a rigid-frame backpack [690g] a kidney cooler [2kg]

Misc

a wristpad [10g] an electric lantern [750g]

a canteen [1kg] two blue cocoon capsules [2kg]

a white lighter [100g]

[ Total Load: 14kg (max 54kg) ]

This will show you everything in your "top level" inventory, that is, things that aren't inside a container. It will also show you what pieces of Clothing you are wearing, with the (worn) tag, and which Weapons, if any, you have wielded, with a similar tag. You will see the weight of each item, and your total inventory weight. Your total weight scales with the Brawn stat, and can also be increased with the Mule mutation.

One important thing to note is that there are several sub-headings for the inventory, like Weapons, Clothing, etc. One that you'll be seeing a lot of is Artifacts.

Artifacts are basically loot. Lunchboxes, trading cards, starfish, and lengths of rusty razor ribbon are all artifacts. Chemicals count as Artifacts when you are doing things to all artifact, such as get all artifact or put all artifact in frame pack. This is something you may even want to set up an alias for, if your client allows it.

You can drastically cut down on the weight and bulk of items by keeping them in Containers, such as the omnipresent frame pack (available at Eschaton Outfitters) or even a lowly trash bag. Artifacts in particular should always be kept in a container both to cut down on clutter and weight, and to make selling easy. If you fill up a container, say, a duffle bag, full of Artifacts, then go to Salvage Unimited and sell duffle bag, Avram will take the bag, buy everything he can in one transaction, then hand back the bag with whatever he didn't want still in it. Nifty, huh?

Some key concepts to keep in mind are the use of X all Y, where X is a command such as get or drop or put, and Y is a class of item, like Weapons. This even works for items outside of your immediate inventory, such as a Donation bin. You could open bin then get all clothing from bin to get only the clothing from the bin, and nothing else.

Containers in your inventory work the same as containers in the world. You can open and close them, if applicable, you can peek them to see what's inside. If you're carrying multiple containers of the same type, such as two trash bags, you'll have to use the 2nd modifier to access the 2nd bag. For example, if you have

Containers

two kidney coolers [4kg]

And you want to keep penises in one, and meat in the other, you could do open cooler, put all penis in cooler, close cooler, open 2nd cooler, put all meat in 2nd cooler, close 2nd cooler.

One persistent problem with containers is that if you're wearing more than one of them, such as the aforementioned two cooler scenario, is that they won't show up as worn for some reason. Ultra-pros may also want to keep an eye out for a trail pack, much less common than, but also better than, the frame pack.

Convenient, eh?