Inventory Management:

Drop Pod Locations:

Your inventory is your best friend and maybe your worst enemy at the same time, the reason i say this is that it can be a little bit difficult to get used to the rules and UI at first, but after a little bit of learning it becomes a lot easier to manage and deal with.The inventory is split into different sections that can be selected at the top of the screen:1) General slots (This is where all the things you pick up will generally go as well as the area that carries you basic tech at the start of the early game).You start with 12 slots and can have up to 48 slots, these can be bought from drop pod locations (see below).They hold up to 1 crafted item or 250 of any resource.2) Tech slots (This is where you 'should' put all that lovely tech that will help your adventures, however be warned that this is new as of the 1.3 update and may have a few little bugs, from what i have seen it works as intended 99% of the time)You start with 4 slots and can upgrade to have 10 slots at drop pods locations (see below)They hold only tech based upgrades (which are gained either as rewards or from buying them at local space stations using collected nanite clusters).3) Cargo/High capacity slots (The idea behind this is that you can have an extra area in your inventory for those goods that you always need large amounts of but don’t want to store in several slots in your general inventory, personally i use this to store things like nanite clusters, so basically its my wallet).You start with none, you can buy up to 4 from drop pod locations (see below).They can carry 5 crafted items or 500 of any resource.The multi-tool only has one inventory section, this is used to upgrade the multi-tools functionality and performance through blueprints (Again can be rewards from missions or be bought from space stations).1) General slots (Much like the suit inventory this is where the things you pick up are stored when in space, all things can also be sent to and from each inventory to the next).These slots can be used for ship based tech as well as to store items, the basic ship starts with 15/16 slots and new ships can be found upgrading the number of slots all the way up to 48. (Note that the ships class also has an effect on the number of slots they can have, for example fighter class ships will most likely never have a full 48 slot inventory, where as a hauler class will be more likely).Each slot can hold one tech, 10 crafted items or 500 of any resource.2) Tech slots (again like the exosuit this is designed to be a good place to put those new tech additions to your ship, however again keep in mind some people have reported that some techs are not very good/do not work when put into these slots, warp drive addons seem to not be recognised in these slots)Your starting ship can have between 2-4 and the max I have seen so far is 10. (TBC - I will update this as I find out more information on working techs and max slot numbers).While there are three different exocrafts all with their own inventory only one can be active at a time (however the materials stored in an inventory are not lost when switching, to switch the active one simply get into it and it will switch on the UI automatically).The freighter is a massive ship that can be called into orbit, it is expensive and useful for several reasons, this is why it is very very expensive.The first freighter (or cheapest) will have between 10-13 slots.It starts with between 2-4 tech slots for warp drives.The slots hold 20 crafted items or 1000 of any resource.The most expensive freighter has a full 48 slot capacity.There is also an ability to build on the freighter (at the rear) that allows you to add in storage containers (see base building) but these can only be viewed and used by physically being on the freighter.Drop pods can be found by using a signal beacon, this can be found in the construction menu when stood on any planet.Simply build one and then select the drop pod option, if you can not see it that means the planet has none.Also keep in mind the are only an certian amount per planet so if you are revisiting ones you have already been to then try to either fly to the other side of the planet or to another planet all together.You can also find a number of other things this way, like habital bases, ruins and monoliths and resource deposits.This is a drop pod, at current you have three options apon finding one, upgrade your general slots, tech slots or cargo slots: