Real Backpack

[nability]

Hi peoples. I dropped a question over in the Mod Requests forums and was advised to come over here.

 

Basically I was wondering if a mod could be created to give backpacks their own inventory/container in which you can add things into it and then ware and drop it, pretty much now the backpacks functions in Outward.

 

As pointed out there are a ton of backpack mods for FO4 but all just add to your carry wright, but I thought if they had their own container space that would be pretty neat.

[Deleted67409046User]

There are a couple of "portable container" mods on Nexus that already do basically the same thing, like Portable Duffle Bag. The only real difference between that mod and what you are asking for is that you want it to be equippable, which doesn't impact how this works.

 

It's not hard to implement. You place a hidden container in a cell somewhere and make it a persistent reference. Then you have a backpack armor item which can be activated when it is out in the world. Activating the backpack runs a script fragment that opens the hidden container's inventory. You can make this happen by giving the player a perk with an "Add Activate" entry point so that the player can either [E] Take or [R] Open it, and the Open option runs the script fragment. Or you can put a script with an OnActivate event handler on the backpack, which pops up a menu letting the player choose whether to take the backpack, open it, and possibly other options.

Edited August 6, 2020 by Guest

[nability]

That is almost exactly what I'm talking about, only difference being it being a backpack (potentially from/working with existing mods) and when you pick it back up it auto equips

[BobFnord]

I hope I'm not sending you around in a circle, but the discussion in Accessible Backpacks (https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/35401) mentioned another forum that might have a solution for weight-limitation:

 

https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/6164878-container-weightitem-limit/

 

Theoretically, you could create an equippable item like Tri0xin suggests using the container mentioned in this other forum that has a limit, but *how* is beyond my very limited knowledge.