New Packs

[senorted 0]

I'm sure it's due to my noobness, but whenever I try to switch out my pack I can never get it to work. I drop my old pack, but all my gear in still on me when I press G, as though I never dropped it. Either that or I can never quite get the gear in my pack to transfer properly to the new pack on the ground. Is there a certain order I should be doing things in? The guide on the DayZ wiki doesn't work for me, btw.

[rabidgerbil 80]

go to the pack on the ground and open it, then open your pack and transfer the items from your backpack straight into the new pack. move away and drop your current backpack then go back to the new one and click on take pack

[Celestia 16]

You have two inventories essentially. A active one and your backpack an inactive one.

If you go up to something and say take you pick it up in your main inventory. If you want to put it into your backpack you have to press G click on your backpack icon and then a new option will appear below that saying open bag. From there you can click to move items into your second inventory the bag or from the bag to your main inventory.

Switching bags will take the items from the second inventory, your bag,and put them on the ground, then take the new bag. If its a fresh bag its empty if its off a player it will have whatever they had in it. And now you will have that bag, if you want your old items you must look at the old bag and say open (X) pack. (coyote, alice, czech, ect)

You can move things directly into a bag most of the time if you look at the (Gear) on the ground press G, left click bag, -open bag-, then it should be possible to move things from the nearby loot pile directly to the bag, if the item allows for it.

Tents work much the same way only are a stationary thing and make sure to hit save tent plenty of times whenever you place one or make item changes, or you could face a tent rollback whenever the server restarts.

Can't move stuff from one bag on the ground to another bag on the ground though. You have to actually pick items up to put them anywhere else. Hope this helped somehow, when i started i was really confused by bags too.

Edited July 29, 2012 by Celestia

[Remus (DayZ) 8]

I just grab the new pack I'm trying to obtain. Then once I have it, i start to loot my other pack for my items.

Though I've always had the problem of not being able to pick up a pack if its there and items are around it.

Solution was to pick all the items up around the pack (Including empty tin cans) then pick the pack up, and drop the garbage.

Edited July 29, 2012 by Remus

[senorted 0]

Thanks guys I think I understand the whole thing now. I'll try it out.