Baldur’s Gate 3presents players with a rich world filled to the brim withpowerful weapons,enchanted armor sets,game-breaking boots,tomes of forbidden knowledge, and everything in between. Players will want to carry every single thing they find in case it’s useful down the road or to sell it if it’s not.
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But inventory management in the game can be a chore if you’re not using the tools the game provides you with to make it easier. It’s easy to miss the tooltips when you’re busy figuring out a way toromance every single companionat the same time.
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15Press TAB For Party View
Manage All Items From One Screen
A tooltip often missed by new players, pressing TAB brings up the party view if you have your key binds set to defaults. Party View allows you to shift around items and scrolls and get a comprehensive view of your entire party’s inventory instead of just one person.
Drag and drop items from one inventory to the other.
You might have a party member who is always carryinghelmets,gloves, shields, and armor sets, and that member is not always going to be the character picking things up. By using Party View, you may easily correct any mistakes in sorting on one screen.
14Sort In One Click
Latest, Value, Weight, Type
At the top left of your inventory screen, you’ll find a small, easily overlooked button with three horizontal lines in front of a vertical one. Click on this button, and you’ll see the sorting menu. Here, you may Sort by Type, Weight, Latest, and Price.
Sorting by Type allows you to group items of the same type together. Books, Scrolls, Armor sets, and Weapons all sort themselves in neat little boxes one after the other. Sorting by weight allows you to know what’s weighing you down. A single Heavy Crossbow can weigh as much as 40 kilos, and you wouldn’t know it unless you sorted by weight.
13Have A Mule
Strength-Based Characters
More Strength equals more carry weight in Baldur’s Gate 3.ClasseslikeFightersandBarbarianswho naturally pump their points into Strength are going to be able to carry much more than yourWizardwith 8 in STR.
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Having abalanced partywill always be a good call for multiple reasons. One of which is that not having a Strength focused character in your party means you’ll find yourself encumbered much more often than you would like.Lae’zelandKarlachboth make for excellent mules.
12Use Scrolls
You’ll Get More, We Promise
Scrolls in Baldur’s Gate 3 are an abundant resource, but only if you’re thorough in your exploration. The loot goblins among us will find themselves swimming in Scrolls by the time they need to decide whether tohead into the Underdark or take the Mountain Pass.
Scrolls don’t stack, making up for ninety percent of the clutter in any hoarder’s inventory.
These scrolls make for ninety percent of the clutter in any hoarder’s inventory, and they beg to be used. If you find your spellcaster out of spell slots, which is going to be quite often, don’t be hesitant to use Scrolls to turn the tides in your favor. Another use for scrolls is to use them to have your resident Wizard learn new spells, although that’s going to cost you some gold.
11Send To Camp
Inside The Traveler’s Chest
If you’re ever feeling overburdened and can’t find the time to unload your inventory on a merchant, you might appreciate knowing about the Send To Camp button. In the context menu—opened by Right-Clicking on an item—you will find the option to “Send To Camp.”
Clicking this button instantly transports the item you had selected to the “Traveler’s Chest” in your camp. To find this chest, head back to camp and look for a wooden chest with silver highlights. This chest has infinite capacity and can be used to store anything you don’t want to carry indefinitely.
10Drag & Drop Items To Party Members
Lae’zel Has Plenty Of Bag Space
A nifty feature to know about, you can select any item in your inventory and, while holding Left-Click, drag it over to the portrait of any party member to transfer it to them. This is afree action, meaning you can do it mid-combat if you need to.
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The same drag-and-drop method also works with items that are not in your inventory. If you find a legendary mace that’s perfect for yourPaladin, you can drag it from the overworld to the Paladin’s portrait, and it will be deposited in his inventory.
9Use The Throw Action
Goblins, Potions, And Junk
A good habit to get into in Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting familiar with the Throw action. Not only is it useful for throwing around goblins if you’re playing as aBarbarian, but it can come in extremely clutch during hard fights.
Clicking on the Throw action will shift the Hotbar to only show items that can be thrown. Healing potions, smoke bombs, greatswords, or even chairs. Anything that can be thrown is another thing not clogging up your inventory.
8Add To Wares
Sell To Traders With One Click
Baldur’s Gate 3 is filled with useless items that don’t have a purpose beyond a little bit of flavor text and filling up the world with interactable items. By right-clicking on these items to bring up the context menu, you may select the option “Add To Wares.”
Anything you’re not planning to use should be marked as Wares and sold to the next vendor you see.
This will mark these items with a silver tag that’s quite visible in your inventory. When next you find a merchant, you’re able to sell all these items in one go by simply clicking the button “Sell Wares.” Do note that if the merchant doesn’t have enough gold to buy every single item you’ve marked with “Add To Wares,” the button doesn’t work.
7Shift-Click To Bulk Select
Rows Of Items In One Go
Left-clicking on an item and then Shift + left-clicking on another item will select every item between the two items. Use this as an easy way to select multiple items in one go.
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You can use this feature to bulk transfer items anywhere you want. Bulk select the useless items in your inventory and add them to wares from the context menu, transfer multiple items to your party mule, or drag and drop them to the selling menu when talking to a merchant. It’s one of the most useful keybinds to know in BG3.
6Ctrl-Click To Multi-select
Selective Selection For Multiple Items
While Shift + Left Click is incredibly useful for selecting multitudes of items that are next to each other, sometimes you only want to select a few items that are not adjacent to each other.
Pressing Ctrl + Left Click on an item, then doing it again on another item, selects both items at the same time. you may repeat the process as many times as you want to select multiple items all at once.
