Items rework

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Category:

• Item (weapon, armor, consumable, resource, crafting recipe, etc.)

Feature description
Many times players ask for more inventory slots. This is not an unreasonable request, but I don't think people will be satisfied until they can carry most items at once, so they would just keep asking for more and more slots in the future, and I think it gets away from the real problem; You often want to have options available to you for whatever you are doing, and it is kind of annoying to need to keep going to the bank to get access to what you want.

I think items and crafting can be improved by changing from a set 10 slot limit in the inventory bar, to a "bag" type system where you can store as many items as you want, but each item would have a weight, and you can only carry so much weight.

For example, with a carry weight limit of 100, and if an individual item, i.e. iron ore, weighs 2, then you can carry 50 iron ores at once. If one iron hammer weighs 20, you can carry 5 of them.

This would separate the kind of item from how many items you can carry, as currently you can only carry the same amount no matter what it is, i.e. carry 10 cotton, or 10 noctis armours, even though they have vastly different values.

This would make resource gathering less annoying, as currently you can only gather 10 resources per trip (also assuming you dropped/destroyed your pickaxe too).

The problem with being able to hold so many different kind of items at once (if each type of item has a weight of 1 with a max weight of 100, you could carry 100 different kinds of items), is that it hard to present that on the UI cleanly. So, this main "bag" where you can access all of your items, would be accompanied by a "hotbar" (which would be the current main inventory slots bar) for quick access to items in your inventory. You can add items from your bag to the hotbar and select/use them from there.

Notes
This would be similar to how the inventory and item carrying works in The Elder Scrolls games.

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Storage panel (i.e. bank) changes to accommodate this new item system.
The blue > button would be a quick "deposit all" button to unload all of your stuff easily.

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All individual tasks completed. Added to update 8.