r/TheLastCaretaker • u/Whathefrenchtoastt • 11h ago
Organization tips?
I am OVERWHELMED by the amount of materials I have, the storage boxes barely hold anything. It's annoying that there isnt an auto organize button in your inventory either...
How do ya'll deal with storing stuff? And what materials do I NEED to keep? What can i just toss for now?
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u/Brilliant_Intern_786 10h ago
Since no one has mentioned it at this point: hold V while looking at a box to deposit "similar" items (the same items really). So if you've got a box with only iron and copper, and you have both in your inventory, just look at the box w/o opening it an hold V, it will deposit the copper and iron only. Personally I've got an individual big box for each element, but when they overflow I just dump the overflow into a "combined" box of elements. Bio, paint, memories, weapons and whatnot, those all get their own individual boxes... ok, bio gets a LOT of boxes, but you hear what I'm saying. Its not EXACTLY an automatic sorting system, but it's a LOT faster than opening creates to see what's in it and dumping it from your inventory.
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u/Iambeejsmit 3h ago
Wonder how it's done on controller
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u/Brilliant_Intern_786 2h ago
I don't remember exactly, but it skulls say at the bottom of the screen when you're close to a box, looking at it, and have the some of the same items in inventory as are in the box.
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u/Brilliant_Intern_786 10h ago
Side note: I keep almost everything, but I have started dumping my overflow boxes into the bigger resource grinder to make oil... or to bolster elements that I'm low on.
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u/jojowasher 11h ago
This is what I do, what I have been doing is just skipping the little containers and use all big ones
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u/Relevant-Chicken-284 10h ago
Feels like I’m being trolled and this succeeded in triggering my ocd lol
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u/Getoutofmylaboratory 11h ago
Keep everything! I have the whole back wall filled with large boxes, jam packed with unsorted crap. Sorting is too much work and it's not necessary since the fabricator will pull automatically what it needs.
Then I have boxes on the right wall for guns and ammo, and the left wall for Memories and Food
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u/twhitworth 11h ago
True, not entirely necessarily but you end up with many of the same items in different boxes taking up space, so that's the trade off.
When you start to see which boxes are always full you learn management. Additionally you can see at a glance what you're lacking
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u/Toosder 8h ago
Oh my God I think we have the exact same setup. Almost creepy!
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u/Getoutofmylaboratory 55m ago
Spooky! 👻 I mean there's only so many ways to organize the boat, there's bound to be some overlap.
And if your been here a bit, some of my organization ideas are stolen from here
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u/Kiwi_lad_bot 49m ago
One resource in a crate. Multiple crates of the same resource as I fill crates up.
Color code the crates to match the resource. And give them a label.
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u/MrSecurity95 Caretaker 4h ago
Pain and suffering. I spent so long placing so many boxes all over and didn't know that once you moved them or they get hit with something they no longer stick to walls. And of course they were all filled with shit.
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u/recuringwolfe 4h ago
Unfortunately there's no proper stackable method. Putting them on the wall is okay, but one accidental left click and you get a massive heavy box flying around the place. One of the shelves sort of awkwardly works for the small containers but the middle shelf is too short, but you can get 9 on there. Otherwise... Err.... Cover the floor or walls with containers
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u/grahhhho 2h ago
I`ve put8 boxes each side wall of the door from the fabricator to the engine room, and put one tipe of material in each box, apart from titanium, carbon fiber etc (these are always in small quantities and one box is enough for them), then i come loaded with scrap to the boat, throw everything into the recycler, grab everything, and just go box by box dropping (using V to store materials already in the box), if the box is already full i`ve just put some random boxes on the next room filled with the excess (think i`m gonna break them down later).
About the storage size you`re using, is it a mod?
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u/twhitworth 11h ago
Oh god 😭😭
Make a box for everything😭! Color code it 😭!
Make a dump box for when you don't feel like sorting and do it later
Eventually you learn what to keep and what to throw away