Inventory & Equipment

Ordinary material — Ferrite Shale, Refined Ferrite, Slag, Power Cells — stacks together in a single Inventory tile up to that item's stack limit. Gear like your Salvage Cutter is a unique item: it gets its own tile and remembers its own state, such as how much charge it has left. Selecting a piece of gear shows what it does — the slots a container adds, or the Mining level a Cutter needs and how it changes Mining.

You start with one container, a beat-up MYKEA SCHLEPPRAUM-8 with eight slots, and a starting weight limit for everything you're carrying. Equipped gear — including containers — counts toward that weight limit but doesn't take up an Inventory slot itself.

You have two container attachments. A Scrap Box you fabricate yourself fits either one and adds three more slots, at a heavy 5 kg. A Freight Harness, made at Fabrication 8, fits either one too and adds six slots — but it weighs 9 kg, and that weight counts toward your limit like any other gear.

Open Inventory or Equipment to equip an item, such as your Salvage Cutter, into its matching slot. Equipped items disappear from the Inventory grid while they're worn — they're not gone, just equipped.

There is one Mining tool slot, which takes either the Salvage Cutter or the Loadsteel Cutter. The Loadsteel Cutter needs Mining 5; below that, Equipment lists it but will not equip it, and says why.

Dropping a stack asks you to confirm the exact quantity first. In the current build, dropped items are permanently destroyed — there's no ground pickup yet, so only drop what you're sure you don't need.

Materials set aside for a piece on the Fabrication Station can't be dropped until that piece is finished.