Inventory

Armor roles, Starwear and suit lockers are all in development and meant to arrive together, with decoration insurance expected to cover weapon racks and suit lockers, but no release timing is given.

They agree on the need to offload loot during Siege of Orison, are looking at item banks along the way possibly tied to local inventory, but the details are still undecided; it's something they'll look to add.

They want to fix players losing their persistent hangar, which they suspect is stowed in another inventory, and are working on login issues like 64008 errors caused by location resolution being handed to dead or rebooting servers.

Loot is organized by item category, rarity and size, with box types and locations assigned loot values by difficulty, legendary items reserved for specific locations, and old locations being updated with no date given.

Suit lockers and ship inventory storage are on different teams so may not arrive together, but ships have inventory now, more will gain physical panels in 4.0, and there will always be somewhere to store gear.

Backpacks will need to be stowed when flying, with dropship seats having their own inventory that automatically stores and restores backpack and weapon; other seats are being looked at, nothing confirmed.

The looting screen will be extended to armor and clothing in the PU version via a secondary view, but it needs rework for the persistent universe and they won't give a release timeframe.

Technically own ships can be shown, but for now only your current ship is tracked, ships in station storage stay in inventory menus, and floating objects are more likely than owned ships.

The developers recount odd bugs: room-system crashes caused by helmet previews, refueling docking making ships clip inside the Starfarer, a flashlight slowly damaging Arena Commander ships, and mining consumables detaching without inheriting speed.

Floating text wasn't meant to be permanent; they want to add a personal interaction system with a player-configurable default action for each item and a right-click wheel of other interactions, down the line.

A move-all option has been discussed but isn't promised; the answer mostly lists planned inventory improvements such as a search filter, visual tweaks and showing attachments on tooltips.

No, the tractor beam won't replace hand-carrying, since it is a limited-resource tool not always equipped, though it adds options such as lifting boxes up ladders or out of caves.

Yes, losing leg storage contents on death while keeping backpack and chest contents is a bug that should be treated the same for all storage, and the team is looking into it.

Storage is on the backpack armor only because it was the first implementation; the goal is for most armor and clothing, such as belts and pockets, to add capacity to one inventory.

Stealing worn backpacks hasn't been considered yet; it's an intriguing idea but opens a can of worms needing retaliation and consequences, so it's too early to call.

Cargo pods mounted outside a ship's interior can't be used for missions yet because mission items can't snap into such cargo grids; upcoming inventory work should help, with no timetable given.

Enhanced modularity is treated as one idea covering components and large modules alike, all of which are physical items you own, store in your hangar and swap on ships.

Physical inventory is the intended direction, with items carried on the player or stored in owned ships and locations, but it depends on global persistence and server streaming work, and fine details are still undecided.

Yes, opening cargo containers is part of the design, with each box holding a set of item slots, but only for loot and equipment, not commodities, and technical considerations remain.

Loose boxes carried elsewhere in the ship still count as cargo and can be sold but can be stolen; purchases now take at least one SCU slot, so mixed small quantities quickly exceed capacity.

No, in 3.0 all purchased cargo comes as stackable cubes; irregular loose items that can't be stacked on are expected to come later, at a cost in cargo space.

A new looting system with defined metrics for one- and two-handed pickups is replacing the earlier faked grab animation, and props will gain nodes so they can be picked up, inspected, equipped or dropped.

Dropping and trading FPS weapons and gadgets is planned for multi-crew and 1.3, but may or may not make the first FPS release depending on timing, and would otherwise come in the second.

The mobiGlas will probably be bound to your bio-signature so it can't be usefully stolen, and you'd lose its functions until a replacement syncs your data back from the cloud.

Chris Roberts confirms clothing and armor determine personal inventory slots, with backpacks adding more, and ships, hangars, locations and other game objects each having their own inventory defined by item count and size.

The tablet app is envisioned as a personal-management tool for inventory, jobs, missions and friends, not for flying; second-screen support is only discussed as something for later, and no release date is given.

Yes, small ships like Hornets will be able to be stored in an Idris hangar by moving them between inventories, and the Idris is meant for friends or hired NPCs to crew.