Baldur's Gate 3: 15 Tips For Inventory Management (2024)

Key Takeaways

  • Press TAB for Party View: Easily manage and sort your entire party's inventory on one screen.
  • Sort In One Click: Use the sorting menu to organize items by type, weight, latest, or price.
  • Use Scrolls: Don't hesitate to use scrolls for extra spells or to sell them for gold.

Baldur's Gate 3 presents players with a rich world filled to the brim with powerful weapons, enchanted armor sets, game-breaking boots, tomes of forbidden knowledge, and everything in between. Players will want to carry every single thing they find in case it's useful down the road or to sell it if it's not.

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But inventory management in the game can be a chore if you're not using the tools the game provides you with to make it easier. It's easy to miss the tooltips when you're busy figuring out a way to romance every single companion at the same time.

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Baldur's Gate 3

Released
August 3, 2023
Developer(s)
Larian Studios

15 Press TAB For Party View

Manage All Items From One Screen

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A tooltip often missed by new players, pressing TAB brings up the party view if you have your key binds set to defaults. Party View allows you to shift around items and scrolls and get a comprehensive view of your entire party's inventory instead of just one person.

Drag and drop items from one inventory to the other.

You might have a party member who is always carrying helmets, gloves, shields, and armor sets, and that member is not always going to be the character picking things up. By using Party View, you can easily correct any mistakes in sorting on one screen.

14 Sort In One Click

Latest, Value, Weight, Type

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At the top left of your inventory screen, you'll find a small, easily overlooked button with three horizontal lines in front of a vertical one. Click on this button, and you'll see the sorting menu. Here, you can Sort by Type, Weight, Latest, and Price.

Sorting by Type allows you to group items of the same type together. Books, Scrolls, Armor sets, and Weapons all sort themselves in neat little boxes one after the other. Sorting by weight allows you to know what's weighing you down. A single Heavy Crossbow can weigh as much as 40 kilos, and you wouldn't know it unless you sorted by weight.

13 Have A Mule

Strength-Based Characters

More Strength equals more carry weight in Baldur's Gate 3. Classes like Fighters and Barbarians who naturally pump their points into Strength are going to be able to carry much more than your Wizard with 8 in STR.

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Having a balanced party will always be a good call for multiple reasons. One of which is that not having a Strength focused character in your party means you'll find yourself encumbered much more often than you would like. Lae'zel and Karlach both make for excellent mules.

You'll Get More, We Promise

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Scrolls in Baldur's Gate 3 are an abundant resource, but only if you're thorough in your exploration. The loot goblins among us will find themselves swimming in Scrolls by the time they need to decide whether to head into the Underdark or take the Mountain Pass.

Scrolls don't stack, making up for ninety percent of the clutter in any hoarder's inventory.

These scrolls make for ninety percent of the clutter in any hoarder's inventory, and they beg to be used. If you find your spellcaster out of spell slots, which is going to be quite often, don't be hesitant to use Scrolls to turn the tides in your favor. Another use for scrolls is to use them to have your resident Wizard learn new spells, although that's going to cost you some gold.

11 Send To Camp

Inside The Traveler's Chest

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If you're ever feeling overburdened and can't find the time to unload your inventory on a merchant, you might appreciate knowing about the Send To Camp button. In the context menu—opened by Right-Clicking on an item—you will find the option to "Send To Camp."

Clicking this button instantly transports the item you had selected to the "Traveler's Chest" in your camp. To find this chest, head back to camp and look for a wooden chest with silver highlights. This chest has infinite capacity and can be used to store anything you don't want to carry indefinitely.

10 Drag & Drop Items To Party Members

Lae’zel Has Plenty Of Bag Space

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A nifty feature to know about, you can select any item in your inventory and, while holding Left-Click, drag it over to the portrait of any party member to transfer it to them. This is a free action, meaning you can do it mid-combat if you need to.

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The same drag-and-drop method also works with items that are not in your inventory. If you find a legendary mace that's perfect for your Paladin, you can drag it from the overworld to the Paladin's portrait, and it will be deposited in his inventory.

9 Use The Throw Action

Goblins, Potions, And Junk

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A good habit to get into in Baldur's Gate 3 is getting familiar with the Throw action. Not only is it useful for throwing around goblins if you're playing as a Barbarian, but it can come in extremely clutch during hard fights.

Clicking on the Throw action will shift the Hotbar to only show items that can be thrown. Healing potions, smoke bombs, greatswords, or even chairs. Anything that can be thrown is another thing not clogging up your inventory.

8 Add To Wares

Sell To Traders With One Click

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Baldur's Gate 3 is filled with useless items that don't have a purpose beyond a little bit of flavor text and filling up the world with interactable items. By right-clicking on these items to bring up the context menu, you can select the option "Add To Wares."

Anything you're not planning to use should be marked as Wares and sold to the next vendor you see.

This will mark these items with a silver tag that's quite visible in your inventory. When next you find a merchant, you can sell all these items in one go by simply clicking the button "Sell Wares." Do note that if the merchant doesn't have enough gold to buy every single item you've marked with "Add To Wares," the button doesn't work.

7 Shift-Click To Bulk Select

Rows Of Items In One Go

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Left-clicking on an item and then Shift + left-clicking on another item will select every item between the two items. Use this as an easy way to select multiple items in one go.

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You can use this feature to bulk transfer items anywhere you want. Bulk select the useless items in your inventory and add them to wares from the context menu, transfer multiple items to your party mule, or drag and drop them to the selling menu when talking to a merchant. It's one of the most useful keybinds to know in BG3.

6 Ctrl-Click To Multi-select

Selective Selection For Multiple Items

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While Shift + Left Click is incredibly useful for selecting multitudes of items that are next to each other, sometimes you only want to select a few items that are not adjacent to each other.

Pressing Ctrl + Left Click on an item, then doing it again on another item, selects both items at the same time. You can repeat the process as many times as you want to select multiple items all at once.

5 Sell Outdated Equipment

Discard Heavy Armor Pieces First

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CRPG players are familiar with the hoarder instinct that strikes many a player when they're talking to a merchant, deciding on what to sell and what not to. Resist the urge and sell things that don't seem useful; we promise you'll find better gear later in the game.

If you're not using it now, you won't use it later.

No +1 Sword is going to hold up when your party has gathered more than a chest full of legendary weapons sitting at camp. Sell those lightning gloves you found at level 3; if you haven't found a use for them by level 5, it's never going to happen. All these items are doing is cluttering up your inventory and making it hard to find things you'll actually use.

4 Use The Hotbar For Consumables

Drinking Is A Bonus Action

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Players of Divinity Original Sin 2 will recognize the feeling of having too many single-use items all too quickly in Baldur's Gate 3. The game bombards the players with these items right from the get-go, and you'll find your inventory filled to the brim with scrolls, oils, and potions.

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It's more than enough to fill up multiple pages of inventory by the time you get to Act 2. An easy way to remedy the situation is to use the Hotbar as it was meant to be used, a source for consumables. Set up the Hotbar with anything you're likely to use before the fight and remember to glance at this list every now and again during the fight to get a flash of inspiration on how to use these items.

3 Clean House Regularly

Sell, Store, Or Drop

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Mark down merchants you encounter during your playthrough. Every time you feel your inventory getting cumbersome and unwieldy, return to your favorite vendor and unload everything you don't need on him. We promise he'll appreciate it.

If the Merchant you're selling to doesn't have enough gold to buy everything you're giving him, remember that they restock on supplies every time one of your party members levels up. And with the way BG3's experience system works, all members of your party will level up at the same time.

2 Use Item Bags

For A Clutter Free Inventory

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Many players are unaware, but you can actually pick up containers like Burlap Sacks, Pouches, and Chests and add them to your inventory. Right-Click on a container you want to add to your inventory and select the "Pick Up" option.

Use bags to transfer items in bulk from one party member to another.

All containers in BG3 have infinite bag space, meaning you can put as many items as you want in them. That doesn't mean that you won't feel their weight; however, these are not bags of holding. What they are, though, are incredibly useful tools to sort your inventory. Put all your Scrolls in one bag, all your arrows in another one, and so on. And, putting items in containers doesn't render them inaccessible; you can still interact with them just as easily.

1 Find The Chest Of the Mundane

(Near) Infinite Storage Space

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As you explore the Underdark at the tail end of Act 1, you'll come across an area called the Arcane Tower. You'll find a bunch of loot here and a strong boss fight at the end, but what you're interested in is the Chest of the Mundane. On one of the balconies on the main floor, you'll find a curious chest called the Chest of the Mundane.

Right-click on it and press "Pick up" to add this chest to your inventory. Any item put inside this chest will be converted into mundane, everyday items like spoons. Taking them back out of the chest returns these items to their original form. The Chest of the Mundane reduces the weight of any item put inside it to be the same as a spoon or a fork. You can carry a whole armory inside it without being encumbered. Incredibly useful.

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