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Collection Storage
April 14, 2026 at 05:16 PM
Initial article covering the Collection Storage feature from the April to June 2026 Developer Roadmap
Collection Storage is one of four specialized storage containers announced in the Developer Roadmap April-June 2026 published by Pearl Abyss on April 9, 2026. It is a dedicated repository for quest items, recipes, and other collectible objects that accumulate throughout the game.
Collection Storage is the container that catches everything which is not a consumable, not a piece of equipment, and not a raw material. Quest keys, mission letters, recipe scrolls, lore documents, trophies, and one-off collectibles often pile up throughout the main storyline and side content, with no natural place to live. The Private Storage system handles them today, but it lumps them in with gear, materials, and consumables. Collection Storage separates these out so they stop crowding the shared inventory.
Because many of these items cannot be sold, traded, or destroyed, they are the most durable form of clutter a player accumulates over a long campaign. Giving them their own container is a long-requested quality-of-life change.
Quest items: keys, letters, memory fragments, sealed boxes, and any object attached to an active or completed quest.
Recipes: cookbook entries, alchemy formulas, and crafting schematics learned from NPCs, loot, or exploration.
Collectibles: memory items, lore documents, trophies, diaries, and environmental readables.
Unique items: one-of-a-kind rewards tied to specific chapters, faction quests, or event lines.
Crimson Desert's main story spans twelve chapters plus an epilogue, with hundreds of side quests, faction quests, and challenges on top. Each generates quest items and unique collectibles. Some are consumed during their quest; others remain in the inventory permanently as trophies or lore artifacts. Collection Storage gives these items their own dedicated home, preventing them from crowding out actively used equipment and materials.
For lore hunters and completionists, this container also acts as a personal archive. Reading through the collected letters and documents in one place becomes a viable activity, rather than an awkward scroll through a mixed-category inventory.
Players have reported accidentally selling quest items or missing recipes buried in cluttered inventories. A dedicated Collection Storage category reduces this risk by keeping all quest-critical items in a protected container. Items here are generally not candidates for sale or donation, so grouping them makes the distinction clear and harder to confuse with regular loot.
The separation also helps when revisiting old questlines. An item that looked useless at the time of pickup might be the trigger for a later chapter; keeping every quest object in one place makes those connections easier to notice.
Pearl Abyss framed Collection Storage as part of the same quality-of-life theme as Food Storage, Wardrobe, and Gatherable Storage. Each container takes one high-volume or high-value item category out of the general inventory so that the remaining slots can be devoted to the gear, consumables, and active loot the player is actively using.
Whether Collection Storage will also expose a dedicated browsing UI (for reading lore documents, sorting recipes, or filtering by faction) has not been confirmed. At minimum it will function as a storage tab; any richer presentation would be a bonus.
Between April and June 2026, as part of the gradual Developer Roadmap rollout. No specific patch has been confirmed by Pearl Abyss. The four specialized storage types were announced together, so Collection Storage is likely to ship in close proximity to the other three.
Pearl Abyss stated that names and details may change before release. The exact list of item types that will automatically route into Collection Storage could expand or contract during development, and the UI may be revised before it reaches a public build.
