Like many other Bethesda titles, Fallout 76 has a hard limit to how many items your character can carry, with no real option to increase your stash space. As you play for longer and longer, the amount of items you collect throughout your journey will pile up and inevitably encumber your character. Thankfully, some organizational tricks can help you lighten the load and open up more room for storage.

Every individual item you obtain has a Weight that is added to your character when you pick it up. The Stash is an alternate storage space kept at your C.A.M.P., acting as an extra inventory. Even with the changes from the Skyline Valley update, you only have 1200 lbs of items in your Stash at a time, limiting how much junk from your travels you can put away.

How To Raise Stash Space In Fallout 76

Lower Item Weights And Scrap Useless Junk

Although you cannot increase the max Weight limit of your Stash, you can sell items you no longer need and reduce the Weight of various objects in the game. Little items, such as gunpowder or unsmelted ore, can add up quickly if you aren't paying attention to how it builds up in your Stash. Scrap whatever you don't need or sell useless items if they don't contribute to something useful around your base anymore.

Some of the most common items that can add up in your Stash are the parts from creatures, like the eggs of Radtoads in Fallout 76. While some junk items have small uses, don't hesitate to get rid of them if they are no more than clutter.

Once you build up your base, you can throw away many of the extra materials left over from building it as well. This will open up room in your Stash to store more items, especially extra weapons and armor your character collects. One trick is to craft throwing knives from the leftover Steel, then scrap them to earn more XP and around half the Steel used. You should also try to get rid of duplicate items whenever you can to conserve space.

Item Weight can also be reduced when you invest in certain perk cards for your character. For example, the Traveling Pharmacy perk you can get as early as Level 3 reduces the Weight of all chems and stimpacks you gather during your journey. Specific perk cards you unlock as your character levels up can be equipped as upgrades to artificially increase your Stash space in Fallout 76.

There are other Perks you can use that might help expand your inventory. However, many of them are unlocked at different levels.

How To Manage Your Inventory

Much like weapons in Fallout 4, some are not as useful and could take up too much weight. If you have any weapons that are replaceable, duplicate, or from the early hours of Fallout 76, it would be wise to scrap or sell these weapons. If there is a particular weapon you like, you can fully repair it and make better use of duplicates.

Similarly, since you will always be leveling up, if you come across a better version of the same weapon or ammo type, it will be beneficial to get rid of the older weapon to conserve weight and inventory space.

Taking the time to create a strong Power Armor build for your character will also reduce the total Weight of items gathered. Pocketed Armor adds 5 lbs to your inventory, giving you more room to store items personally than in your Stash.

Despite the limited options you have to increase Stash space there are plenty of strategies you can use to make sure it doesn't get too full. Finally, if you have the means, you can get a scrapbox where you can drop any junk in Fallout 76, but it will require you to subscribe to Bethesda's subscription service for the game, i.e., Fallout 1st.

An earlier version of this article mentioned that players could only have 400 lbs of items in their stash, which has been corrected to 1200 lbs.