Backpacks/Piggybacks/Krampus Sacks

[Deacon_Blue]

I've never actually worn any of these items for general playing. I have a pile of backpacks  on the ground I fill with rabbits for nightmare fuel farming, but never to just store items whilst travelling. 

 

Do other people use them all the time? If so, what do you specifically use them for? What do you keep in there as opposed to your hotbar?

[Rosten]

Backpacks are very handy for the 6 or so extra inventory slots, harvesting your traps for a prestihatitator? take a backpack, gathering tons of materials? take a backpack, Carrying optional stuff you dont need with you all the time? take a backpack,

Alot of people say its bad because you cant equip armor and amulets beneath it, all you have to do is keep a helmet and a logsuit in your inventory, thats a loss of 1-2 spaces (depending if your wearing sanity/heat restoring gear) for 6 spaces of backpack, with a netgain of +4 inv. slots, just right click the logsuit and youll drop the backpack on the ground with all your stuff in it, fight whatevers in your way, and pick up the backpack again and keep on truckin'

[jbeetle]

I used backpacks all the time.

[Cynical Cynicist]

You shouldn't really bother with the Krampus Sack. Kevin even said himself that its 1% drop rate was sort of a sadistic joke.

[aredshroom]

That's quite incredible to have someone who's never used the backpack for general playing. I could live with that since I always try my best to compact materials, but anything that provides extra space is a huge benefit in this game.

[Rosten]

That's quite incredible to have someone who's never used the backpack for general playing. I could live with that since I always try my best to compact materials, but anything that provides extra space is a huge benefit in this game.

Yeah, thats why those mods that add inventory slots almost completely break the game

[aredshroom]

Yeah, thats why those mods that add inventory slots almost completely break the game

I wasn't thinking of mods though. I don't use them, but if people want huge amounts of inventory space it's their play. The way I see it, mods make DS suitable for both casual and the hardcore players, even if some do break the vanilla game experience.

[TeoSS69]

Later Early on when you need to carry logs, flint, twigs and grass every where you go, backpacks are invaluable.

Get ruins items instead and Krampus Sack stays in the base, used to collect rabbits from traps.

Edit : meant early

[ARamblingSpider]

Krampus sack, I'm not even sorry I spent over 200+ in game hours getting it.

[gnarlytreeman]

i gave up on the krampus sack, i now have a huge area around my base that all cobblestone terrain, and the walking stick, making world access tons easier even with the piggyback.

[Deacon_Blue]

Nobody has really answered the question of what they keep in their backpacks except Teo. What do you guys feel okay with being able to toss on the ground when you get in a combat situation and need the logsuit?

[psyk90913]

I don't even craft the backpack.

Chester are enough, even If I haven't found its eyebone I still leave the 2 wearing slot for armor and sanity gain.

[hotflungwok]

I use a backpack almost all the time.  I use it to carry basic building stuff like logs, grass, sticks & gold so I can make what I need when I need it.  If I need to fight then I pop on some armor and go get the backpack later.  I do tend to spend more time without the backpack on underground.

[the truthseeker]

Backpacks are very handy for the 6 or so extra inventory slots, harvesting your traps for a prestihatitator? take a backpack, gathering tons of materials? take a backpack, Carrying optional stuff you dont need with you all the time? take a backpack,

Alot of people say its bad because you cant equip armor and amulets beneath it, all you have to do is keep a helmet and a logsuit in your inventory, thats a loss of 1-2 spaces (depending if your wearing sanity/heat restoring gear) for 6 spaces of backpack, with a netgain of +4 inv. slots, just right click the logsuit and youll drop the backpack on the ground with all your stuff in it, fight whatevers in your way, and pick up the backpack again and keep on truckin'

 

 

Later on when you need to carry logs, flint, twigs and grass every where you go, backpacks are invaluable.

Get ruins items instead and Krampus Sack stays in the base, used to collect rabbits from traps.

 

 

i gave up on the krampus sack, i now have a huge area around my base that all cobblestone terrain, and the walking stick, making world access tons easier even with the piggyback.

 

 

Nobody has really answered the question of what they keep in their backpacks except Teo. What do you guys feel okay with being able to toss on the ground when you get in a combat situation and need the logsuit?

 

 

I use the backpack as soon as I can craft it and follow Blazingice26's method. They also can substitute as "hobo chests" for things like rabbit storage (but most people like to make chests or if lucky as Teo said, use the Krampus sack.)

 

While in the mid game-especially just after I set up an alchemy engine fire pit and chest, (I like to pre-build the structures, hammer the science machine, then find a suitable place to make my first permanent base,) I carry my rocks and gold and stone, while twigs grass food and logs I like to have on my belt if away from/not built my permanent base. Of course I carry my armor and spear, but not in my backpack if I accidentally switch to my armor first so my spear is ready to be swapped. 

 

 

Regarding the Piggyback: It's just to darn slow even with the extra slots. However, if I'm not at a minimalist carrying phase (which a backpack or even  a belt slot is fine) in the game by the time II have the walking cane, the cane and piggyback can cancel each other out and it can help me "Speed up" the mid/advanced level multiple structures building that are the last I'll need and I MIGHT build a piggyback. 

 

Again, they also double as hobo chests and rabbit storage (especially if I'm going for that 2% (^&*$ Krampus Sack drop.)

[Rosten]

Nobody has really answered the question of what they keep in their backpacks except Teo and Blazingice26. What do you guys feel okay with being able to toss on the ground when you get in a combat situation and need the logsuit?

Well lets see, usually ill keep things like extra food (ill always keep 1-3 bacon and eggs in my inventory, just in case though) for when i decide to go on a unplanned longish journey, stone and flint and gold and such incase i need to make some tools if mine break, dapper-gear whenever im not wearing it, walking cane (thats probably way over the like, 6 slots you get, but its sort of a generalization

 

Also, fixed that for you

 

Protip - Always keep twigs and grass handy in-case you get stuck in the dark

[the truthseeker]

Well lets see, usually ill keep things like extra food (ill always keep 1-3 bacon and eggs in my inventory, just in case though) for when i decide to go on a unplanned longish journey, stone and flint and gold and such incase i need to make some tools if mine break, dapper-gear whenever im not wearing it, walking cane (thats probably way over the like, 6 slots you get, but its sort of a generalization

 

Also, fixed that for you

 

Protip - Always keep twigs and grass handy in-case you get stuck in the dark

 

Oh come on, who would do something so n00b as be caught in the dark with an armor suit while your backpack with logs/twigs/grass is too far away to stop your Night Monster death?

 

*runs away and cries thinking about that time...*

[Rosten]

Oh come on, who would do something so n00b as be caught in the dark with an armor suit while your backpack with logs/twigs/grass is too far away to stop your Night Monster death?

 

*runs away and cries thinking about that time...*

*raises hand*

[hotflungwok]

*raises hand*

Yeah, me too.

 

Now I prebuild fires.

[gnarlytreeman]

i use a backpack almost all the time, unless playing adventure mode, i mostly keep grass twigs logs flint and other necessary craftable, and the logsuit in it cause last thing you want to ditch during a fight is any kind of food heals weapons or tools(never know when you might want to light something on fire or break a spear)

[Boar Head]

I use the backpack all the time, I don't find it difficult to manage between defense and extra slots at the right times. I always on every playthrough farm for the Krampus Sack after either the first or second winter (depending on if I have a steady amount of supplies and all that) because I really find the extra slots comfortable. Things I always carry in a backpack are:
Logs, grass, twigs, flint and umbrella.

[Norman1346]

I don't use them usually.

 

However I find it useful to prototype one backpack. That way if Chester dies somewhere far from home I can make one on the spot in order to not have to leave things behind or to wait for Chester to re-spawn.

[HoneyHam]

You shouldn't really bother with the Krampus Sack. Kevin even said himself that its 1% drop rate was sort of a sadistic joke.

OH it's worth it. It's worth it.

(Then again I have terrible inventory management maybe someone with good inventory management won't need a big bad@$$ sack)

[HoneyHam]

Nobody has really answered the question of what they keep in their backpacks except Teo. What do you guys feel okay with being able to toss on the ground when you get in a combat situation and need the logsuit?

I use it to carry stuff that doesn't fit in my hotbar.

As in I stuff random stuff into it.

[Cynical Cynicist]

OH it's worth it. It's worth it.

(Then again I have terrible inventory management maybe someone with good inventory management won't need a big bad@$$ sack)

 

No alt+f4ing.

[the truthseeker]

Caught myself using them as a makeshift bunny storage again (Beefalo were in heat ATM so didn't take the time to craft a chest in a pre-Beefalo hat situation.)