Chest upgrade

27 Jan
tilight

“Indeed, I find the item storage in this game to be very inconvenient when I play. For example, the boxes are too small, or because there is no marker in the center of the screen, it’s hard for me to accurately select the box I want when multiple boxes are placed together.”

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27 Jan
Kizmar

I was just about to post about the same thing. The Small Magic Chest upgrade could be an item you craft and apply to an existing chest in place. It actually would make sense given that you are technically upgrading the chest anyway. Could have a cool little animation as you apply it to a chest that's sitting there.

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27 Jan
Wesir

It would also be great if we could just upgrade the ones we have to be magic since the magic version just requires adding some shroud cores to the existing ones

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29 Jan
Ken

To add to this.. Old chests and furnaces etc can't be salvaged. So they should either be deleted or stored or used elsewhere. It would be nice to salvage smaller chests, old furnaces and etc so it won't feel wasted.

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29 Jan
Andrew Chapman Merged

Once placed the storage unit should be upgradable, as each new storage size just adds one row to the equation. It should be an option to make it a magical storage unit if needed. Otherwise, you have to unpack the storage with the items all ready in it. Then pick up the old storage unit, place the new storage unit then repopulate it with the stuff you just took out. Seems a load of faff. So, just have the storage unit to be able to be upgraded as an option and you either have the items on you to do that or its pull from magical storage units.

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29 Jan
Tigerlilium Admin

"Storage Upgradable" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

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30 Jan
Keragi

That would be really good! It's a hassle to empty a full box and put a new one there, especially at the beginning when you're not using magical chest to Upgrade from normal boxes. Of course, it would also be convenient if full boxes could be moved to another location in the Camp, because you haven't found all the building materials at the beginning and you can't change the floor on which the chest is standing.
Perhaps the summoning staff could be used to upgrade a chest when a suitable item has been built.

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31 Jan
Alex

This would be amazing. Could have a little icon when the box is opened of the next tier of the box, if you have the upgrade in your inventory it would swap it out, similar to backpack swapping.

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31 Jan
1gamerdad

Man if I could upvote this a million times I would. It is so cumbersome to have to do this. It would be a fantastic QOL feature.

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02 Feb
Emrys

Would be neat if there was an "enchanting wand" that would upgrade the chest. Crafted by the Alchemist, basically works like a staff, using shroud cores as "ammunition" to target the chest and enchant it.

04 Feb
Thomas

Just yes, this is BIG quality of live. Also make full chests moovable when in build mode.

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06 Feb
caazego

Upgrade or let me destroy old ones for those materials used.

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07 Feb
Jos Vroon aka Grumpy-Granddad

Just like with the Magic chest it would be brilliant if all chests are upgradable that way.
FI, you start with the scrappy box and upgrade that to a standard box etc. For each action you need the previous box.

That way you dont end up with a enormous ammount of boxes you no longer need and are unable to reverse engineer.
Or build an option for reverse engineering that gives, say 50%, of used , materials back.
Or are we supposed to manualy destroy boxes just to get some back? That is what we do in the wild lands when we come agross stuff. Break it up for some materials. I prefer reverse engineering on things you have crafted. Even with a penalty on the used materials.

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08 Feb
Jashii

Being able to upgrade the chests would add the 'Progress Immersion' instead of deleting old chests.

08 Feb
Leaper

Having to empty, delete, replace every time is SUCH A PAIN!
Just let us invest the same mats we would for a new chest to upgrade an existing one please!!

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09 Feb
thehumangerm

There are many reasons why this is not practical. Size and shape differences to start. Please don't waist time and development resources on this. Further developing demolish mechanics would be a better use of resources and applies to more items.

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12 Feb
WinterXBeholder

It is realistic to have to take things out of a chest in order to upgrade the chest or move it. But it would also be realistic to drop all of its contents onto the floor (which we currently can't) or just be strong enough to move it while full (which we also currently can't). Since this game doesn't seem like a simulator, I would support either an upgrade-in-place feature, or dumping-items-out feature, or a move-while-full feature. It's clear that this process could be easier, but it doesn't have to be fixed with upgrade-in-place.

20 Feb
Martin

This, and maybe just have a option for a giant inventory thats expanded every time you build the same chest type, im not in it for the inventory management gameplay tbh

23 Feb
Jos Vroon aka Grumpy-Granddad

I would like to see that ALL chest are upgradable from the previous one. Not just the ones from the carpenter.
So you start with the basic scrap chest and move up using the old chest as a component.

Now we cannot take the old stuff apart other then deleting it. That is stupid.
If I swing an axe at it then at some point I get some materials back. It should be standard to be able to deconstruct or use the methode I suggested above.

26 Feb
GerBear

I like this. It would also be nice to add a way to pick up the chest if you are in the vicinity of your flame altar. Like Keragi said in a previous comment. Even if there is stuff in it. Makes it inconvenient to move stuff around. But it also makes sense that you can pick it up cause you're already in build mode at your base.

08 Mar
Deebs

It'd be nice to be able to move a full storage box without emptying it first. As your base expands its time consuming to empty boxes before moving them to their new location and then refilling it

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25 Mar
leftcoastfunk

Exactly! I don't mind the requirements of needing certain materials or NPC, but the process of "upgrading" your chests is suuuuuch a pain. I just spent a good long time "upgrading" my chests and I'm not even close to being done yet. I've done like 14 chests out of the 20-something I have. le sigh

13 Apr
Vennimous

Having this same upgrade system for walls, roofs, etc. would be amazing too!

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