Atomfall Inventory Guide: How to Optimize & Increase Capacity
Inventory plays a key role in Atomfall, and effective management of it is crucial for success. To properly manage your inventory, several important aspects must be considered. In Atomfall, the inventory is quite limited, so you'll need to constantly monitor the state of your backpack, occasionally discarding unnecessary junk into a special storage container. In this guide, we will share useful tips and discuss whether it's possible to increase the inventory.
How Inventory Works in Atomfall
Players start the game with a limited inventory: only 12 small slots and four slots for large weapons, such as rifles and shotguns, are available. Thus, you can carry only 16 items, four of which can be placed in double slots.
Features:
- Special tools (flashlight, metal detector) are displayed in a separate section and do not take up the main inventory.
- Ability to assign 4 items to hotkeys for instant use (PC: 1-4, Xbox: Y, PS: triangle).
- Assigned weapons retain the current ammo, while those drawn from the inventory require reloading.
- Crafting materials and ammunition do not appear in separate inventory slots and are considered separate items.
Ammo Management
The first thing we recommend focusing on is ammunition. In the early stages, players will have enough ammo for pistols and SMGs, but they might face difficulties finding ammo for shotguns and rifles. Therefore, it's important to use the most readily available ammunition, for example, shoot more often with submachine guns, as enemies often carry weapons of this type.
Optimal Inventory
To create an optimal inventory, you will need to acquire melee weapons, a pistol, a shotgun, and a rifle, for example, a rusty Lee–Enfield. In addition to this, you should have a bandage and a medkit, as well as at least one grenade. This is an optimal template for any player's inventory.
Exploration and Crafting
While exploring the game, you will find many items and crafting materials. However, it's important to remember the inventory volume limitations, for example, you cannot carry more than 30 units of fabric.
In the field, it's important to manage resources efficiently, especially if you have an excess of materials like alcohol and fabric. In such cases, it's worth creating resources that you really need. For example, bandages will always come in handy, as the main character will often take damage. Creating three bandages will help reduce your alcohol and fabric supplies, freeing up space for collecting new resources. If you have a maximum amount of glass, you can make a Molotov cocktail using it. However, it's worth remembering that such throwable weapons require a lot of alcohol and fabric, so creating them will also help reduce their supplies.
When managing your inventory, it's important to keep track of what's truly useful. If some items are useless, get rid of them. For example, if you've accumulated enough food, after the next shootout, it makes sense to use them instead of bandages and medkits.
For crafting, try to keep materials below the maximum to always have the opportunity to collect new resources. Healing items and grenades should be a priority, but also consider other resources such as painkillers, iodine, water, and herbs, which can be useful for trading.
In the end, it's important to have healing items, grenades, and useful items for trading. Manage your inventory so that there is always space for new finds, and you are not overloaded with unnecessary things.
Inventory Management Tips
- Keep three pistols, one or two healing items, and Molotov cocktails. Bandages can be created as needed, so they don't have to be carried around.
- Regular grenades and Molotov cocktails are more effective against enemies, especially robots. Explosive lures and burn ointment can be traded.
- Clear your inventory to take items for trade. This may include unnecessary weapons, tonics, and other items. Use pneumatic tubes in bunkers for storage. We will discuss this mechanic in the final section of the guide.
- Excess crafting recipes can be sold profitably.
- Try to use excess types of ammunition to avoid wasting inventory space.
- If crafting materials are at their limit, use them to free up space. This will help you be ready for new finds.
- The "Deep Pockets" skill is very useful as it increases the number of items you can carry by 50%. We will discuss this skill in more detail in the next section.
- Find and collect mastery books and recipes, as they sell for a lot of money.
How to Increase Inventory Capacity
In fact, you cannot expand the number of individual slots in the inventory, but there is a way to increase the capacity of specialized compartments for ammunition and crafting materials. To do this, you will need to unlock the "Deep Pockets" skill, which becomes available after finding a special manual.
It is hidden in the Delta Data Vault bunker. Once inside, you can restore power using a nuclear battery, make your way over the electrified water to the opposite bridge to look around and pick up the key. Use it to open a nearby door and take the manual.
The first nuclear battery can be found with the trader Molly in the starting location. However, she will ask for quite a few items in return, so if you don't need this trader, you can simply get rid of her and take the item.
Studying the skill costs five points, and after unlocking it, you will be able to collect more crafting resources and ammunition in your inventory. We recommend all players unlock it.
Where to Store Items
In various bunkers, players will be able to find a system of pneumatic tubes connecting all government facilities. These portals are your secret weapon in the fight against limited inventory. Each tube is an entrance to a unified storage space. For example, you can place a weapon in the Junction bunker and easily retrieve it from the tube in the Abandoned Laboratory. This gives you access to 100 slots from any point in the network. They can be found in large bunkers and underground complexes.
