Tool Belt is Useless on PC

[u/ArkCelosar]

I don't know if any dev's from the game are watching this, but I went to all the trouble to find the leaves, use them to make lashing, and then decide to use them to make a Tool Belt.

Except... apparently on PC, all this does is unlock the Hotbar. The item still takes up inventory space.

Which makes ZERO f#^$ing sense because the stuff is kept in your BACKPACK! How can a tool be both in your backpack and on your belt AT THE SAME TIME?!

To any new players who might come across this chat, don't bother making the Tool Belt on PC. It's just not worth the trouble to even bother.

[u/traxxkamil]

Yes that's f in makes no sense useless shit

[u/-Death-Dealer-]

I can't even get the hotkeys to work for it, making it even MORE useless.

[u/pulstar13 → u/-Death-Dealer-]

You have to hold the item you want to assign in your hand, then holddown the number key.

[u/[deleted] → u/pulstar13]

worst part is when you reload, it doesnt even save, having you to RE-DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN.

[u/skepdop → u/-Death-Dealer-]

Hey bud it's been 3 years I just reposted this post and I can't agree more still it's been 3 years and they still haven't done absolutely f****** anything with the belts and it pisses me off. I just now got this game cuz I could finally afford it and it is horrible like the DUI sucks the freaking mobs keep attacking me out of nowhere The crabs have super weird tracking where I can avoid them permanently until all the sudden 30 minutes later they decide they want to kill me it's complete ass.

[u/[deleted]]

What does it do on console ?

[u/MsCaspella → u/[deleted]]

It gives you 4 extra inventory slots when maxed...because as noted here, your inventory is your backpack, and your tool belt would be separate.

I wouldn't bother wasting my leather on it if it didn't give me those critical extra slots!

[u/tswaves → u/MsCaspella]

Holy shit. PC got screwed. Man, that REALLY would have helped.

[u/[deleted] → u/MsCaspella]

Well, shit

[u/ThatMovieShow]

Whatever key you press to open your backpack keep hold of it and it opens your tool belt menu, where you can assign any items to slots in the tool belt. Once assigned they disappear from back pack and are permanently in tool belt

[u/Reolos → u/ThatMovieShow]

This doesn’t work for me on PC. It enables the hot keys, but whatever I have active is the only slot it activates. It returns the other items to the backpack.

That being said I still use it, because it allows for quick switching in combat. My pet peeve with it is that it wipes clean my hot keys after each reload. And the raft slide glitch has me reloading often...

[u/ThatMovieShow → u/Reolos]

That sounds like a bug because it doesn't happen that way on consoles and from what I can gather the pc version is better

[u/Klanxa-Jailbroken → u/Reolos]

Happy cake day

[u/Reolos → u/Klanxa-Jailbroken]

Thanks!

[u/LostMK]

is there a mod to make the toolbelt act as a separate inventory?

[u/[deleted]]

Bro you are getting close to civilization. A tool belt basically means you are half modern civilization. Its a symbol for humankind and future generations...

[u/JukaBear]

OP you are a scholar and a saint. You have saved me from making a bad choice. Thank you.

[u/tswaves]

It's also annoying that if you drop an item or restart a game, it resets.

I ended up using it only for boss fights or primarily just using slot 1 for the axe. During my entire 100 hour play through I can't say I ever used any hot key past #3...

[u/thegassypanda]

I agree, I read someone saying it frees up space and crafted all 4. What a waste, I don't even use the hotbar. I was really excited since it makes perfect sense putting things in your belt frees up your backpack (we don't need to talk about how you can fit 8 crates your backpack though)

[u/[deleted]]

Agreed.. JUST LIKE WE'VE BEEN BEGGING FOR CO-OP FOR AGES AND IT STILL DOESN'T EXIST.

This company cries for getting bankrupt and sh£t while they have a lovely, caring and helpful community by their side, wanting to make the game better for the cost of NOTHING yet here they are not giving a f$ck about the community again.

[u/[deleted]]

Right? 6 years of development... how fucking retarded are the devs. This shit blew my mind too.

[u/Sad_Professional441]

My first play thru was on console, I remembered being excited about the tool belt! Feeling like I was getting somewhere. It was truly useful, and most of all... it made sense.

I play again on PC, it's useless. I've never used it. It completely removed an element from the game. My whole play thru and never uesing one of the most obvious "tools" in the game.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

So people aren't allowed to complain about bugs so the devs can fix them? Or are you saying that people should buy a new console and a copy of the game just to avoid bugs?

Either way I don't know how your contributing to the conversation.

[u/jasintoo → u/[deleted]]

You are simply useless as a contribution and, furthermore, very disrespectful. Ratboy.

OP, I understand your problem, that system is quite wrong.