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Overview

Inventory management is one of the biggest early challenges in Crimson Desert. You start the game with just 50 inventory slots, which are shared across all three playable characters: Kliff, Damiane, and Oongka. Because the world is packed with crafting materials, weapons, armor, consumables, and loot of every kind, those 50 slots fill up fast. Without upgrades, you will find yourself making frequent trips back to vendors to sell excess items.

Fortunately, Crimson Desert provides several ways to expand your carrying capacity. The primary method is collecting inventory bags, which come in three sizes and are obtained through vendor purchases, quest rewards, and faction commissions. By the time you finish the main story and side content, you can accumulate well over 200 inventory slots.

This guide covers every method for increasing your inventory space, along with practical tips for keeping your pack organized.

Bag Types

Inventory expansion in Crimson Desert is handled through bags. There is no weight limit system; your carrying capacity is determined entirely by how many inventory slots you have unlocked. Each bag you obtain permanently increases your slot count. Bags come in three tiers:

Consumables and materials stack up to 50 items per slot, while weapons and armor each occupy one slot regardless of type. Because gear takes up so much space, expanding your slots early is essential if you want to keep exploring without constant inventory juggling.

Buying Small Bags from Vendors

The fastest way to gain extra inventory space is to purchase Small Bags from merchants. Nearly every vendor across Pywel sells at least one Small Bag for 50 Copper Coins each. This is extremely affordable, and you should buy every Small Bag you can find whenever you visit a new town or settlement.

Where to Buy

The earliest and most convenient place to start buying Small Bags is Hernand Town. Multiple vendors in Hernand stock Small Bags, including equipment shops and general merchants. The NPC Rhett, located in central Hernand, is one of the first vendors you will encounter. Dahlia is another merchant who carries Small Bags.

As you travel to other towns and regions, make it a habit to check every vendor you find. Each vendor has a limited supply of Small Bags, but across all the merchants in the game, the total adds up significantly.

Tips for Buying Bags

• Make purchasing Small Bags your first priority whenever you reach a new settlement.

• At 50 Copper Coins per bag, the cost is negligible. Even in the early game, you can afford several bags without any trouble.

• Vendor stock for bags is limited per merchant, so visit as many different vendors as possible.

• Check vendors again after progressing through major story beats, as their stock may refresh.

Greymane Commissions

The single largest source of inventory expansion is Greymane Commissions. These are a special category of Faction Quests that become available after you establish the Greymane Camp at Howling Hill during Chapter 3 of the main story. Commission quests involve helping your fellow Greymane members with various tasks, such as gathering materials, delivering messages, or clearing out enemies.

There are 27 Greymane Commissions in total, and each one rewards a Medium Bag (+3 slots). Completing all 27 commissions gives you an additional 81 inventory slots, making this the most efficient method for expanding your inventory by a large margin.

Key Greymane Commission NPCs

Some of the Greymane NPCs who offer commissions at camp include Carl, Ronnie, Ross, Tranan, Brice, Ronald, and Pierce. Each of their requests rewards a Medium Bag alongside additional items.

How to Access Commissions

• Open your Journal and navigate to Faction Quests.

• Select the Greymane faction, then look under Greymane Commissions.

• Hover over any quest to see its rewards on the right side of the screen. Quests that reward a Medium Bag are marked clearly.

Commission tasks range from simple item deliveries to combat challenges in the field. Prioritize commissions early. Many of the tasks can be completed alongside other activities like exploring or gathering, so they rarely require dedicated detours.

Hernand Commissions

In addition to Greymane Commissions, the City of Hernand offers its own set of Hernand Commissions from local townsfolk. These commissions are unlocked by reading NPC posters on the Notice Board in the City of Hernand. After reading a poster, you travel to the NPC to receive and complete their request.

Each Hernand Commission rewards a Medium Bag (+3 slots) along with bonus items. Several commissions also grant essential tools for life skills:

Additional standalone commissions from the Hernand board include Breaking in the Grindstone (Medium Bag, Iron Ore x2) and Lunchbox of Love (Medium Bag, Dried Fish x2). Prioritize Rhett's and Turnali's commissions first, as the Pickaxe and Logging Axe are required for mining and logging throughout the rest of the game.

Quest Rewards

Beyond commissions, many Main Quests and other Faction Quests throughout the game reward bags as completion bonuses. Medium Bags are the most common quest reward, but certain critical story quests award Large Bags worth +5 slots each.

To check whether a quest offers a bag reward before accepting it, open the Journal and hover over the quest entry. The reward panel on the right side shows all rewards, including bag type. When you have multiple quests available, prioritize those that offer Medium or Large Bag rewards over other reward types.

Key Quest Rewards

Notice board quests in towns and camps are another source of bag rewards. Check the boards frequently and accept multiple quests at once to increase your chances of earning inventory upgrades.

Automatic Slot Increases

In addition to bags, several inventory slot increases are granted automatically as you progress through the story:

These bonuses are awarded through normal story progression and do not require any extra effort. Together, they add 15 free slots on top of your starting 50.

The Supply Chest

After progressing through Greymane Camp quests and establishing the camp at Howling Hill, you gain access to a Supply Chest located behind Carl, the Base Camp Provisions Keeper. This chest serves as a passive loot collection point with a capacity of 230 slots. When you clear points of interest, liberate camps, or complete combat encounters where enemies despawn before you can loot them, any uncollected loot is automatically funneled into the Supply Chest.

The Supply Chest collects dropped letters, unexamined recipes, upgrade materials, food, weapons, and any other loot you left behind. This means you do not need to worry about losing items if a quest completes and enemies disappear mid-fight.

You can also speak with Carl and use the Recover Items tab to repurchase lost Kuku Pot items at premium prices.

Important Limitations

• You cannot manually store items in the Supply Chest. It only collects loot you missed during combat and events.

• There is no traditional storage or stash system in Crimson Desert at launch. You must carry all of your items on your person.

• The Supply Chest has a 230-slot capacity. Check it regularly to prevent overflow.

• Pearl Abyss has indicated that a proper storage system is planned for a future update.

Vendor Repurchase Workaround

Since Crimson Desert currently lacks a dedicated storage system, some players use vendor shops as makeshift storage. Here is how it works:

• Sell items you want to store temporarily to a vendor, such as Rhett in central Hernand Town.

• When you need those items back, return to the same vendor and use the Repurchase tab to buy them back.

Warning: Vendor repurchase inventories reset after approximately 7 in-game days. If you wait too long, the items you sold will disappear permanently. This method is best used as a short-term workaround rather than long-term storage.

Item Stacking and Grouping

Understanding how items stack is important for making the most of your available slots:

You can press the L button (on controller) to group or ungroup similar items in your inventory. Grouping consolidates scattered stacks of the same material into a single stack, freeing up slots that were only partially filled.

Recommended Progression

Here is a practical roadmap for expanding your inventory as you play through the game:

• Early Game (Chapters 1-2): Buy every Small Bag you can find from vendors in Hernand. Complete Hernand Commissions from the Notice Board for Medium Bags and essential tools. Even a handful of +1 and +3 upgrades adds up quickly and makes the early hours much more comfortable.

• Mid Game (Chapter 3): Once you establish the Greymane Camp at Howling Hill, start tackling Greymane Commissions immediately. Each commission awards a Medium Bag (+3 slots), and there are 27 available.

• Ongoing: Check notice boards and the Faction Quests tab in your Journal regularly. Prioritize quests that reward Medium or Large Bags over other rewards.

• Late Game: By the time you complete most side content and commissions, you should have well over 200 inventory slots. At that point, inventory space is rarely a concern.

Large Storage Expansion (Infinite Inventory Trick)

One of the most powerful inventory expansion methods in the game involves a special item called the Large Storage Expansion. This item grants +10 inventory slots when picked up, and unlike other bags, it respawns every in-game week. By combining this respawn mechanic with the game's bed rest system, you can repeatedly collect the item until you hit the maximum inventory cap.

Where to Find the Large Storage Expansion

The Large Storage Expansion (also known as the Extra Large Bag) is located in the Hills of No Return, northeast of Hernand Town. Specifically, look for a ruined wagon southwest of Arboria Craftshop. The item sits on the ground next to the wagon and can be picked up directly.

The quickest route to reach it is to fast travel to the Abyss Nexus near Karin Quarry, then head northeast past Hook Rapids into the Hills of No Return. From there, look for the Arboria Craftshop and check the area southwest of it for the ruined wagon.

How the Respawn Trick Works

The Large Storage Expansion item respawns at its location once every in-game week (seven in-game days). Since the game lets you skip time by resting in beds, you can advance time rapidly without needing to play through an entire week of real gameplay. Here is how the trick works step by step:

1. Pick up the Large Storage Expansion at the Hills of No Return location. You will gain +10 inventory slots immediately.

2. Find a bed in any settlement or camp. Hernand has multiple beds available. Interact with the bed and choose to rest for 12 hours.

3. Go adventuring until your Rested buff expires. The Rested buff lasts roughly 15 to 30 minutes of active play time (fighting, exploring, gathering).

4. Rest again once the buff wears off. Each rest session advances in-game time by up to 12 hours, and you need to accumulate seven in-game days for the item to respawn.

5. Return to the Hills of No Return once enough in-game time has passed (roughly seven in-game days total). The Large Storage Expansion will be back at the ruined wagon, ready to be collected again for another +10 slots.

6. Repeat the cycle as many times as needed until you reach the maximum inventory slot count.

Tips for Maximizing This Method

• Combine with other activities: Between rest sessions, complete Greymane Commissions or vendor runs to earn additional bags while you wait for the respawn timer.

• Track your rest cycles: You need to pass roughly seven in-game days. Since each bed rest can skip up to 12 hours, plan around 14 rest sessions (with gameplay in between) to trigger one respawn cycle.

• Use beds close to the pickup location: After picking up the item, rest at a nearby camp or settlement to start advancing time immediately rather than traveling long distances.

• Note the cooldown: The game has a cooldown between rest sessions. You cannot sleep multiple times in a row; you need to spend some time doing activities (around 8 to 10 in-game hours of active play) before you can rest again.

• Make sure your inventory is not full: If your inventory is completely full when you try to pick up the Large Storage Expansion, you may not be able to collect it. Free up at least one slot before heading to the pickup location.

Tips and Tricks

• Sell or dismantle gear you no longer need. Weapons and armor are the biggest space hogs since they do not stack.

• Cook raw ingredients into meals before storing them. Cooked food stacks just like raw ingredients but provides combat buffs when eaten.

• Visit every vendor in every new town. Even if you are not buying gear, check for Small Bags.

• Use the item grouping feature (L button) regularly to consolidate partial stacks and reclaim wasted slots.

• If your inventory is completely full and you are far from a vendor, prioritize keeping rare crafting materials and drop common items that are easy to re-acquire.

• Check the Supply Chest at your camp periodically. Loot from cleared encounters accumulates there automatically, and the chest only holds 230 slots.

• Complete Hernand Commissions early to unlock the Pickaxe, Logging Axe, and Fishing Rod alongside your Medium Bags.

See Also

• Hernand Commissions

• Supply Chest

• Greymane Camp Guide

• Beginners Guide

• Crafting

• Cooking Guide

• Faction Quests

• Hernand Town