The most basic thing to sustain oneself during an adventure is their inventory.
Here, sustainability refers to how long specific actions can be carried out without the need to go back to a town.
 
For example, in PvE, as the number of inventory slots in which you can put your items increases, you will be able to hunt for a longer time.
 
Black Desert initially offers 16 inventory slots for all created characters, and you can increase them up to 192 slots per character.
There are also 192 pearl inventory slots to store your pearl items separately.
 
Inventory slots are obtained as you complete certain quests. Many of them are main quests, while some are side quests found in towns.
If you are wondering what quests reward you with inventory slots, please open the Quest window (hotkey: O) and check the Suggested tab. There you will find the [ADV Support] Inventory Expansion! quests.

 

There is a storage warehouse facility available exclusively in all cities and some towns.
To use it, simply interact with the Storage Keeper NPC of the settlement.
At first, you will only be able to use 8 storage slots, but they can be increased by purchasing houses in every town and using them for storage.
 
Like with the inventory, you can have up to 192 storage slots per town.
 
The inventory of mounts such as donkeys, horses, elephants, wagons, and ships has a different number of slots available, depending on the type of mount.
Unlike a character's inventory or a town's storage, you cannot expand the number of mount inventory slots, but you can check in and store a mount with their inventory slots used in the different stables around the world. In this way, you can secure many inventory slots.

 

 

Each city, and some towns, offer a basic 8-slot storage facility.

 

 

You can also increase the number of storage slots by purchasing houses and changing their purposes to Storage.

 

 

 

If you have too many items in your inventory and find it is difficult to organize them, you can use the Auto Arrange function. If you tick this option, the inventory items will be sorted in a specific order, allowing you to better locate them.

 

If you instead want to keep items in a specific location of the inventory, turn off the Auto Arrange function. This way, you can change the position of items in the inventory as you desire.

 

 

 

If you have item pieces that can be converted to a new item by arranging several of them in a specific shape in your inventory, such as Ancient Relic Crystal Shards, you can only combine them with the Auto Arrange function turned off.
 
For these, in the inventory window you have to arrange a certain number of item parts in a predetermined shape, as only then the combination button will be made available to transform the item parts into a complete item.
The item tooltip description will explain what shape is required to combine the items.

 

If you cannot proceed with the combination although you have deactivated the Auto Arrange function and arranged the item parts in the correct order and shape, check if there are other item parts for combination in the inventory. If there are other item parts with the shape arrangement complete and the combination button activated in the inventory, the item parts must be first converted or disarranged to deactivate the combination button. Only after that the combination button for the item parts you originally wanted to transform will appear.

 

 

If you want to combine items by putting them together in a certain shape in the inventory, remember that you must first turn off the Auto Arrange function.

 

 

As seen above, if you turn off the Auto Arrange function and the combination button does not appear after you have placed the combination items in the correct shape, check to see if other item parts are ready to be combined in the inventory.

 

 

Additionally, be careful with the weight limit, as the heavier your character becomes, the slower its movement speed and attack speed will be, which will lead you to be exposed to danger without the ability to properly defend yourself.

 

 

 

Please note that if the weight exceeds 170%, no more items can be obtained.

 

 

◈ Item Deletion

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If you want to discard items to make the character lighter, hold click on them and drag them to the trash can icon. After confirming the deletion pop-up window, the item will disappear. Alternatively, you can also drag them out of the inventory, for the same effect.
Additionally, you can first press the trash can icon, aptly named Throw Item Away, and select various items all at once to delete them.
Although a confirmation window will appear before the item disappears, be cautious not to inadvertently discard the wrong item.

 

 

In the case you’ve deleted a valuable item by mistake, please press the Recover button located between the Discard and Throw Away Item buttons.

 

 

This function will allow you to restore certain valuable items within set parameters. The deleted item can only be restored within 30 days of its deletion, the service can be used 2 times per month per family, it resets on day 1 of every month, and the number of restorations to use does not carry over from one month to the next.

 

In the case the item you wish to restore is not identified by this function as being valuable enough, please contact customer support.

 

You can use all 192 slots of the pearl inventory from the time that a character is created, without additional expansion needed. Pearl items have no weight, so you don’t have to worry about that.
 
When you want to discard an item stored in a character’s pearl inventory, just like you do with the normal inventory, drag the item to the trash can icon at the bottom right of the window or drag the item out of the inventory.
 
In comparison to the normal inventory, the Throw Item Away trash can icon will not allow you to select various pearl items at the same time to delete them, and clicking it will instead open the Item Recover window to restore your deleted pearl items. It is the same system as with the normal inventory, and thus the same rules apply. 

 

 

 

You can obtain it by completing the [ADV Support] [Lv. 49] Tool Bag for Better Convenience! quests. You can read more about this in the [Gathering] page.

 

Please note that the Totem of the Sea upgrade window can be accessed from the main menu (hotkey: Esc) → Life → Totem. These totems serve to boost your ship’s statistics, such as their speed.