After ~450 hours in the game, I realized something that I’d been wanting was in the game the whole time, just not explicitly: a way to put your items into “folders”.
I often wondered what the purpose was of placing empty backpacks and pouches throughout the game and making them show up in the alt-view. I figured they had items in them at different difficulties or previous versions, or they were simply there for aesthetics (I think most likely option). It only just occurred to me that I could pick them up and store items in them to sort out my stupid long inventory lists.
Gale has a backpack with all his little scrolls. Lae’zel has a backpack that somehow holds 20 daggers, 12 javelins and a spear. And astarion has a pouch with with enough magical arrows to make the Fat Man look like a firecracker. Now the stuff I actually plan on using is much easier to find.
Pro pro tip: Bags bags bags and Better Containers (and his whole suite of “better” mods)
Be careful putting quest items in though. I had one of the nether stones in one, and an update glitched the mod causing the bag with the stone to disappear and soft locking my game (until I downloaded the cheat engine to flip the game state, but it was a very close thing).
I pick up every tiny pouch I see because they don’t take up space and they force me to not bring the entire kitchen sink with me everywhere. to make space for important drops or other things.
You can do like one for pots, one for explosives and arrows, etc.
I also take it a step further and use a goody bag system when it comes to gear for members I’m not using right now, but I will later. I store all their upgraded gear in a pouch along with anything else I think they might need.
If I’m taking someone out and it’s been a while, I have them go grab their little goody bag 😊 then they got everything all neat and organized and ready to go.
it saves me going “wait… were these for Gale? or Wyll. I can’t remember…” pain in the ass. Just make a little goody bag for them. Then you can organize now and save future you a headache!
I just wish we could rename them
Yeah, there are mods that at least will give you special pouches and backpacks and things with like an icon on it (sword, armor, etc)
Would have been nice to have a vanilla solution tho for sure
“Bags Bags Bags” and “Better Containers” is what I personally use. First one gives special pouches with names, icons, and autostack; second one makes containers open on a bigger grit by default so you actually see whats inside them without scrolling endlessly.
