Your starting inventory space in Hytale is likely all you need early on. You won’t have access to a huge amount of resources or gear yet, so your inventory is plenty for what you need until you build a chest for extra storage. However, as you go along, you’ll find more and more materials to pick up, which fills up your inventory quickly. While you might think you’ll always be left with the default inventory size, that’s not the case in Hytale.
How to unlock the backpack in Hytale
To increase the size of your inventory, you need to unlock and use the backpack in Hytale. The backpack is a separate item from the default inventory, but its sole goal is to give you more slots to put items.
Fortunately, the backpack is unlocked fairly early on in Hytale, as all you have to do is upgrade your workbench to tier two. You can read about all Hytale workbenches in our previous guide, but getting a workbench to tier two requires the following resources:

