Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity Original Sin - Beta Upgrade request: Better inventory sorting

I find the existing options for automatically organizing the inventory to be essentially useless, as I sort my inventory by item category. D:OS *does* let you view a subset by category (although this omits some things, e.g., quest items like the bloody knife). Since D:OS already knows about categories, could you add the option to sort ALL by item category? I'm spending half my game time trying to figure out what's where.

I second this. I waste a ton of time reorganizing inventory in ways that I feel the game should do for me (because hey, most do), and I find the current sorting options next to useless.

I would love to have a "sorting" function, that does not sort. I want to sort my items myself. And if i push the button it removes blank spaces in my inventory but don't reorganizes my items. That would be nice.

This has also really bugged me since the alpha. The biggest annoyance is that the order of your items in the inventory grid gets automatically (and apparently randomly) re-shuffled when you go to a trading screen, which makes selling items unnecessarily inconvenient. The best solution would be the addition of a "junk bag," where you could use a keystroke to stash new loot for later one-click resale. But since that would probably be a pretty big feature to implement at this late stage, at least the grid shouldn't be reorganized like this.

Anyway, I and others have been posting about this issue in the "Beta UI Wishlist" (and other threads) for a while now.

You can already do that. Place items you want to sell in a basket/crate, and then sell the container all at once for the value of the contents.

+1 to this, it makes the game 100% more enjoyable. You just need to get into the habit of stashing that useless loot into a barrel. I use barrels because they are the common and don't weigh too much.

I use backpacks to store important +skill gear and scrolls, baskets to store crafting reagents, and barrels to store vendor junk. That way I never accidentally sell a container full of important things to a vendor.

Fantastic hint. THANKS!

Is there then a way to buyback the container at sell price? Otherwise you'd have to get more and more containers each time, which can weigh quite a bit (especially for a mage).

Unless there's some cheap and easy way to craft containers which I'm not aware of.

I see what you're saying, but each container only has a 20-item limit (unless that's been removed in the most recent patch?), and you'd also have to open a container and manually drag each item into it every time you want to mark it as "junk."

What I'm talking about with a "junk bag" is something much more elegant (IMHO), as seen for example in the most recent Spiderweb games (e.g. Avernum:EFTP), where you can "CTRL-click" an item and send it automatically to a functionally infinite loot bag for later one-click sale. Of course, D:OS has an inventory weight limit for non-equipped items (unlike A:EFTP), so it probably wouldn't work with this game as Larian intended it, but I personally love that feature as another way to reduce time spent with tedious inventory management and allow more time to simply enjoy the game.




This I do, though - it's at least a good Plan B until/unless they implement proper inventory sorting (and prevent random inventory re-sorting in trading screens).

Wait what? You can carry a whole barrel and put stuff in it? I like that idea.

Can you actually mark items as 'junk'? If so is there a 'sell junk' option in the store?

Course my main problem in this game is I still have no idea what is junk and what can be used for something later on. Sea shells ... I mean really?

LeBurns - no, that's the issue; you can't really mark items as "junk" in D:OS. There is the semi-workaround Raze described where you can pick up a barrel (or a crate, chest, etc. - assuming you're strong enough!) and put up to 20 items into it manually. But there's no real "junk bag" feature. As others mentioned though, containers (especially the lighter ones) can at least be useful for sorting items you want to keep.

I think that the container idea would also work MUCH better if you could drag and drop items into containers. Currently you have to open a container and drag an item into it - it becomes tiresome.

Yeah, I thought there had been talk about them doing that a couple updates ago - would definitely be another nice basic feature.