Inventory & Storage
Inventory in Wanderfolk uses a weight-based carry system. Every item has weight, your character has a maximum carry capacity, and exceeding thresholds affects movement speed. Storage chests in villages provide long-term item storage with up to 144 slots across four upgrade tiers.
Weight System
Every item has a weight value. Your character can carry up to a hard maximum defined by their carry capacity.
| Threshold | Effect |
|---|---|
| 0–74% capacity | Normal movement speed |
| 75–99% capacity | Movement speed penalty (yellow warning) |
| 100% capacity | Cannot pick up new items (red warning) |
A dynamic weight bar in the inventory UI shows your current carry load with color-coded thresholds — green for safe, yellow at 75%, red approaching the cap.
Inventory Slots
Your personal inventory has 54 slots. Items of the same type stack. The inventory is accessible via the I key.
Transfer Controls
| Action | Effect |
|---|---|
| Click item | Transfer to/from chest |
| Shift + Click | Split stack in half |
Storage Chests
Storage chests are placed in villages and provide persistent item storage. They start with 36 slots and can be upgraded four times.
Upgrade Tiers
| Level | Slots | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 | Base |
| 2 | 72 | Silver |
| 3 | 108 | More silver |
| 4 | 144 | Max upgrade cost |
The chest interface is a split-pane design: your 54-slot inventory on the left, the chest’s slots on the right. Click an item to transfer it between panes.
Strategic Considerations
Dungeon Runs
Entering a dungeon with a full inventory means you can’t carry loot. Consider stashing crafting materials in a village chest before diving in. Bring only potions, your best weapon, and leave room for drops.
Cross-Biome Trading
Heavy materials like ore are worth more in biomes that don’t produce them. Hauling iron from mountains to a coastal village earns premium prices — but the weight slows you down, making the journey more dangerous at night.
Caravan Offloading
Caravan traders buy surplus goods at competitive prices. If you’re overweight and far from your storage chest, selling to a passing caravan is often smarter than slowly walking home.
Farming Surplus
Farming produces large quantities of relatively light goods. Store harvested crops in a chest near the farm and sell in batches rather than carrying everything to market immediately.
Chest Improvements
Recent updates substantially improved the storage chest interface with several quality-of-life features.
Search Filters
The chest now has a filter bar at the top of the chest pane. Click a filter category to show only matching items:
| Filter | Shows |
|---|---|
| All | Every item (default) |
| Materials | Crafting ingredients, ores, hides, reagents |
| Food & Consumables | Crops, cooked food, potions, bandages |
| Equipment | Weapons, armor, tools |
| Quest Items | Items tied to active or completed quests |
| Valuables | Rare drops and high-value trade goods |
Filters apply instantly without closing the chest. Use the Materials filter when stocking up for a crafting session, or the Quest Items filter to quickly find what a quest NPC is asking for.
Wider Layout
The chest pane is now wider, displaying more slots without scrolling. The redesigned layout shows up to 36 slots per visible screen on all upgrade tiers, reducing the need to scroll through a large chest to find items.
Item Tooltips
Hovering over any item in the chest or inventory now shows a rich tooltip with:
- Item name and rarity
- Weight value
- Stats and properties (for equipment: damage, defense, speed modifier)
- Crafting use hint (if the item is a recipe ingredient)
- Current sell value at the nearest merchant
Tooltips appear after a short hover delay and dismiss when you move the cursor away. They work in both inventory and chest panes.
Quest Auto-Draw from Chest
When you complete a quest that requires delivering items, the game now automatically draws matching items from your storage chest if your personal inventory doesn’t have enough. You don’t need to manually pull items out of storage before talking to the quest NPC.
The auto-draw pulls from the chest closest to the NPC’s village. Items are deducted in the same order as manual transfers — one slot at a time, stacks first.
Split-Stack Transfers
Shift + Click on a stacked item opens a quantity picker, letting you transfer a specific number of items between your inventory and the chest rather than the entire stack.
This applies in both directions — you can push a partial stack into storage or pull a specific count out. The split-stack UI also works when transferring between two chest slots.
Related Articles
- Trading — buying and selling with weight considerations
- Caravans — mobile merchants for offloading heavy goods
- Crafting Recipes — materials that take up inventory space
- Weapons & Equipment — gear weight and loadout planning