Windrose throws resources at you from the moment you wash ashore. Plant fibers, rope, animal hides, copper ore — it piles up fast, and the default inventory fills up before you've even thought about building a ship. The good news: expanding your carrying capacity is one of the first things you can do at your base, and the materials are easy to find on the starter island.
What do you need to increase your inventory in Windrose?
The whole system runs through the workbench, which is one of the earliest structures you can build at your base. According to both PCGamesN and Deltia's Gaming, the workbench is described as essential for crafting all the equipment you need to survive your first few hours. Once it's built, scroll through Plans and Recipes to find the bag options.
Inventory expansion in Windrose works through equippable bags. You slot them into the Accessories section of your character inventory, and the extra slots are active as long as the bag is equipped. Remove the bag and those slots disappear, so don't accidentally unequip it mid-haul.
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The bag must stay equipped in your Accessories slot at all times to benefit from the extra inventory space. Unequipping it removes those slots immediately.
Workbench: your first stop
How to craft the Torn Sailcloth Bag
The Torn Sailcloth Bag is your first upgrade and adds 4 extra inventory slots. It's cheap and the materials are available almost immediately.
Required materials:
- 2x Coarse Fabric (each requires 20 Plant Fibers to craft)
- 1x Rope (requires 5 Plant Fibers)
Both Coarse Fabric and Rope can be crafted directly at the workbench, so you don't need to find them pre-made in the world. Plant Fibers are scattered everywhere on the starter island, making this upgrade genuinely fast to unlock.
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Craft your Coarse Fabric and Rope at the workbench before attempting the bag recipe. Both are sub-components, so you'll need to make them first.
How to craft the Sailor Backpack
Once the Torn Sailcloth Bag feels tight, the Sailor Backpack is the next step. According to Destructoid's guide, equipping the Sailor Backpack gives you 8 extra inventory slots total, a meaningful jump over the starter bag.
Required materials:
- 1x Torn Sailcloth Bag (the bag you already crafted)
- 5x Rough Hide (dropped by boars)
- 2x Copper Ingot (mined on the starter island, smelted at the furnace)
The Copper Ingot requirement is introduced as part of the game's tutorial, so you'll likely have some on hand already. Rough Hide comes from hunting boars, which are common on the starter island. This upgrade brings your total inventory to 24 slots.
Equip the bag to gain slots
Where to get the materials faster
Plant Fibers are the foundation of early bag crafting, and you need a lot of them. The Coarse Fabric alone costs 20 Plant Fibers per piece, and you need two pieces for the Torn Sailcloth Bag. That's 40 Plant Fibers just for the fabric, plus 5 more for the Rope.
For the Sailor Backpack, hunting boars is the main task. They drop Rough Hide, and you need 5 of them. Copper is mined directly on the starter island and then processed at the furnace into Copper Ingots, a step the game walks you through as an early tutorial objective.
After sorting your inventory, the next logical step is working toward fast travel and your first ship, both of which depend on having enough space to carry the required materials. For more survival tips and crafting guides across a range of games, browse the latest guides at GAMES.GG.