Caves (Roguelike) Inventory Tips

Caves (Roguelike) Tips: Inventory

Here are Caves (Roguelike) tips on how to manage your inventory space so as not to hoard unimportant items nor waste ones you might need down the line.

Inventory Size Extension

There are certain items that will enable you to increase the max capacity of your inventory, thereby giving you more room to work with.

They include:

Quiver

Tactical Belt

Large Inventory

  - the Large Inventory from the Installer in the home base,
  - the Tactical Belt from the Crating Table, and occasionally
  - Quivers and like which you can find in the caves.

Item Collection Guide

Once you teleport to the cave for the first time, its fine to grab every single item you come across.

As time goes on, and your inventory space begins to diminish, you'll have to be picky about what you collect, and drop items at strategic locations.

Keep in mind that the only items you'll have the liberty to do this with are mostly weapons and occasionally artifacts.

To Pick Or Not To Pick

My personal criteria for determining if a weapon is worth picking is if it has special attribute I can recycle out.

That is:
  - elemental damaging weapons,
  - phase guns,
  - warp weapons, etc.
Basically any weapon that will give me anything other than Simple Component.

Strategic Dropping

Despite sorting, you'll still have to drop some if your items to make more room.

These items being your weapons, artifacts and any other item that has reached max capacity.

There's what to drop and where.

As for where; outside the doors of buildings locatable on your radar
  - ancient ruins,
  - merchant,
  - portal,
  - home portal,
  - vending machine,
 are the best with the building containing the Ancient Ruins being the priority.

As for what; all weapons and artifacts you won't be equipping, as well as other items that have maxed out their quantity are to be dropped at these locations.

The first reason I made Ancient Ruins top priority is so that you will have plenty of room after dropping non vital items to clean out the ruins and leave nothing behind.

The second reason I made Ancient Ruins top priority is so that in case you are defeated in the ruins and sent back to the room containing the stairs to the surface, you can
  - climb the stairs,
  - walk over to your stash,
  - pick up the best gear there, and
  - return to the ruins to finish business and retrieve what's left of your original gear.

Its a safer approach than resuming you exploration with barely anything on you.

The Final Sorting

Now that you've exited the Ancient Ruins with lots of loot in your inventory and are standing in front of the building where all your dropped items are, its time to decide what to take with you to the portal, and what to leave behind.

Heart wrenching, I know.

Here's my personal rule: weapons first, rings last.

The weapons are more valuable to me because of the raw materials they'll give back when you put them through the Recycler and use to craft neat items.

Next Cave

We've gone through the portal and arrived at the next cave. What now?

What I do is head straight to the home portal if its in the cave.

If not, I'll head to the nearest building on my radar. I don't open chests or be destructed along the way.

If the home portal is there, I
  - go through it,
  - put my weapons through the Recycler,
  - restock on Teleporters,
  - handle any other business, and
  - return to the cave.

But if the home portal isn't there and I've arrived at my destination (Ancient Ruins Building),
  - dump all non vital items there,
  - backtrack,
  - pick all the pickables,
  - open all chests ignored, then
  - go about my business kicking butt and taking names.