Pro Tip: Use A "Backpack" To Increase Your Inventory

WildAttorney · Apr 21, 2014

For those who might now know, the last substantive update brought with it the ability to bring a "backpack" with you to substantially increase the amount of items you can carry along on your adventures. The "backpack" here is the enderchest. When you venture
into the dark, deep below, bring an enderchest with you along with a pickaxe with the silk touch enchantment. This will take up two of your inventory slots, but they will give you so much more. To use your "backpack", place your enderchest on the ground,
fill it (or remove items from it) and then break it with your silk touch-enchanted pickaxe and pick it up again. No matter how full the enderchest is, it will only take up one inventory spot. Bringing an enderchest with you almost doubles your inventory
capacity.

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BlackBoxRapture · Apr 21, 2014

Most frustrating part of the game so far for you? * spoilers *

[quote user="Taldarin"]You can sell it to the Librarian at the College.

[/quote]Thanks for that tip. I'd rather not have it in my inventory anymore now that I have absolutely no use for it anymore.

JoeTanker67 · Apr 21, 2014

Stoopid questions about B'lands

I have also seen the situation where a weapon shows a different level when equipped versus the leve it shows while in inventory.

The maximum number of Underdome bank slots is 42 (level 10). This is available once your character reaches level 48. See the Borderlands wiki for details,
Bank.

On the second play-through of the main game, you only have a chance to get the backpack SDU reward on the first 5 clap-trap rescue missions. See
Storage Deck Upgrade.

Tip 1: Get each mission and the toolkit but do not turn in. Next complete one or more other missions that give a reward item but do not turn in. Now, fill you inventory to the maximum (so you can carry no more). Next turn in some other mission to get
a reward - your backpack is now overloaded (like 43 of 42) and be sure to get a game save at this point. Now turn in the claptrap mission.
Do not exit the mission turn-in screen. If the reward is the backpack, you are good. If not, hit the XBox button to get to the XBox menu then exit to dashboard. Any other action, such as exiting the mission turn-in screen, will complete the mission.
Assuming you exit to dashboard cleanly, you can try again (mission turn-in). Repeat until backpack is rewarded.

Tip 2: Being more overloaded may increase your chance. One way to handle this is to start the first five clap-trap rescue mission (and getting the toolkit) but deferring. Then later, use the first tip to get the first SDU (order does not matter). Do
not apply the SDU. You backpack will now be +2 overloaded. Do the next turn-in the same way; now at +3. Once you have all five, you can now apply them.

Tip 3: Be prepare for may attempts at each turn-in. I just did a run where it took an average of 7 attempts per clap-trap. On an earlier character, the Sledge Safehouse mission took 20-30 attempts to get the backpack.

In regards to artifacts, the highest level is 6 (level 44 skill requirement). If you are seeing level 5 or 6, you are using your highest/last applied artifact. See
Artifact.

SnidePompano9 · Apr 21, 2014

good tip but do you have to have a silk touch pickaxe

WildAttorney · Nov 1, 2018

If you don't have a silk touch pickaxe, you will not be able to recover your "backpack" after you place it. Instead, when you destroy an enderchest with a normal pickaxe, you will simply get Obsidian (without the Eye of Ender). You need a pick axe with
silk touch in order to obtain the enderchest itself. If you are only interested in transporting items from one fixed place to another, that is not a big deal (provided you have a second ender chest or have the resources to create one)--you don't lose the
items if you destroy the enderchest, they are still there in every enderchest you've made or will make--but without a silk touch pickaxe, you can't access an enderchest on the go.

WildAttorney

If you don't have a silk touch pickaxe, you will not be able to recover your "backpack" after you place it. Instead, when you destroy an enderchest with a normal pickaxe, you will simply get Obsidian (without the Eye of Ender). You need a pick axe with
silk touch in order to obtain the enderchest itself. If you are only interested in transporting items from one fixed place to another, that is not a big deal (provided you have a second ender chest or have the resources to create one)--you don't lose the
items if you destroy the enderchest, they are still there in every enderchest you've made or will make--but without a silk touch pickaxe, you can't access an enderchest on the go.

SnidePompano9

good tip but do you have to have a silk touch pickaxe

JoeTanker67

I have also seen the situation where a weapon shows a different level when equipped versus the leve it shows while in inventory.

The maximum number of Underdome bank slots is 42 (level 10). This is available once your character reaches level 48. See the Borderlands wiki for details,
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Bank.

On the second play-through of the main game, you only have a chance to get the backpack SDU reward on the first 5 clap-trap rescue missions. See
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Backpack.

Tip 1: Get each mission and the toolkit but do not turn in. Next complete one or more other missions that give a reward item but do not turn in. Now, fill you inventory to the maximum (so you can carry no more). Next turn in some other mission to get
a reward - your backpack is now overloaded (like 43 of 42) and be sure to get a game save at this point. Now turn in the claptrap mission.
Do not exit the mission turn-in screen. If the reward is the backpack, you are good. If not, hit the XBox button to get to the XBox menu then exit to dashboard. Any other action, such as exiting the mission turn-in screen, will complete the mission.
Assuming you exit to dashboard cleanly, you can try again (mission turn-in). Repeat until backpack is rewarded.

Tip 2: Being more overloaded may increase your chance. One way to handle this is to start the first five clap-trap rescue mission (and getting the toolkit) but deferring. Then later, use the first tip to get the first SDU (order does not matter). Do
not apply the SDU. You backpack will now be +2 overloaded. Do the next turn-in the same way; now at +3. Once you have all five, you can now apply them.

Tip 3: Be prepare for may attempts at each turn-in. I just did a run where it took an average of 7 attempts per clap-trap. On an earlier character, the Sledge Safehouse mission took 20-30 attempts to get the backpack.

In regards to artifacts, the highest level is 6 (level 44 skill requirement). If you are seeing level 5 or 6, you are using your highest/last applied artifact. See
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Artifact.

dj LIVE

You need to post this issue on the ubisoft and the division forums. This is a known glitch due to crafting a high end backpack that causes your items to disappear then reappear causing your inventory to exceed the items your backpack can handle.

You account with ubisoft has been locked thats why you can not signin. There is a patch coming out next week that will fix this issue.

Toxxity

If you own the Mad Moxxi expansion pack you have access to the bank within its arena lobby. You start off with 12 open slots for storage, but as you level up and earn more cash you can buy extra slots and max your bank storage to 42 slots. However, if you
don't have this DLC content, you'll have to manage your inventory carefully until you are able to increase the size of you backpack with Backpack SDUs. Your only other option would be to create a "mule" character, which is a low level character designed for
carrying loot, this will require a second controller for logging it in and may be pretty extreme for trying to save guns. If your just starting the game you shouldn't be too concerned about trying to hold on to all the weapons you find, you're bound to find
much better weapons as you increase in level.

Pro Tip: Use A "Backpack" To Increase Your Inventory