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[Site Bot]

Increase Max Backpack Slots

This is a small tutorial that teaches you how to increase your backpack slots to surpass the 125 cap.

[Daug]

Thyats a great Idea everyone needs more invantory ...........to bad 90%of the ppl in this game cant get that garbage tool set working without breaking there game !

[andremot]

How big can we set it without breaking the game?

[XunAmarox]

The game breakage only happens on export (and it's easily remedied by simply deleting the extra files created).

This method should not harm your game in any way, since you're just directly editing a file, like any file on your computer. All you're doing is editing it and saving. There is no exporting to speak of. So, things should be fine.

Just make a backup save before you try just to be safe. All should go well! I've done it dozens of times.

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How big? I don't know. You could experiment via some trial and error. I know someone's done in the upwards of 999, so at least that much.

Edited by XunAmarox, 07 December 2009 - 10:14 PM.

[tenukkiut]

<3 minutes? The toolset takes more than 3 minutes to load up on my computer, haha.

Thanks for the info. I won't use it but thanks.

[shiholude]

I'm not downplaying the validity of this method, but I have found that the 125 max is plenty of room for me, even going through the entire deep roads (one of the longest sequences between camping points in the game).

That being said, this is a simple fix for those that could need it, and seems safe and straight forward. Well done on that!

-Shiholude

[TR Gez]

If you don't want to install the toolset, you can use a simple hex editor (there are plenty of good free ones, any will do, for example HxD or XVI32). Open the .das file in your save's folder with it. Go to offset 2658. You should see a hexadecimal value like 46 (70), 50 (80), 5A (90), 64 (100), 6E (110), 78 (120) or 7D (125). Replace the value there by something else. For example, FA is 250, twice as much as the normal maximum.


If you want a truly large inventory, you can edit not this value but the next. For technical reasons (you can look up endianness on wikipedia if you want to learn more), the larger values are put after the smaller. So let's say you have the normal maximum (125) and want more. You see 7D 00 in offsets 2658 and 2659. Replace that by 00 7D and you'll get an inventory size of 32000.

The next two offsets are also null bytes, so the value is probably stored as a four-byte word (aka DWORD). Theoretically, the maximal value you could then put would be FF FF FF 7F (if it's a signed number) or FF FF FF FF (an unsigned number). But I didn't try those because 32000 is already more than enough; nobody needs to have more than 2 billion inventory slots.

Edited by TR Gez, 08 December 2009 - 08:59 AM.

[buddah]

Moderator Note:

I put this in a zip file, so that it could be downloaded as a file.

You may also want to create an article about this as it may come in handy for those that look in the article section.

Buddah

[sunsi]

Thanks, for this mod/info it is very much needed!

[vampko]

Thank you, now my max is set at 400 and it was a simple and painless process. It also helped me to understand a little more about how the toolset worked. When I first opened it up, I was pretty lost.