Survival Log limits how much your bags, storage and vehicles can hold, both in weight and in grid space. Pack Rat lets you set both, make items smaller or lighter, and choose how much a heavy load slows you down.
Out of the box Pack Rat changes nothing: every setting starts at the game's value. Set it up in Mod Manager (the easy way) or in the config file.
your backpack, the hiking pack, the warehouse bag, the shopping cart, the car and storage with a weight limit all get the new limit. 2 means twice the game's limit. Any value from 0.1 to 1000 works, and a value below 1 makes the game harder. It starts at 1, the game's.
the Inventories tab in Mod Manager makes everything bigger at once, sets the size of a whole category, or sets the columns, rows and weight limit of one bag or storage piece. A preview shows how a full bag looks at the new size.
Bags, Vehicles, Small storage, Medium storage, Large storage and Extra large storage. Set a category's columns and rows and every inventory in it gets that size. A size set for one inventory beats its category.
in a game, new sizes, weight limits, item sizes and item weights apply as soon as you change them.
the Items tab makes every item 1x1 or half its size, or sets a size or weight for a whole category, a food group or a single item.
one setting multiplies the weight of every item, from 0.1x to 3x.
your backpack, the hiking pack, the warehouse bag, the shopping cart, the car and storage with a weight limit all get the new limit. 2 means twice the game's limit. Any value from 0.1 to 1000 works, and a value below 1 makes the game harder. It starts at 1, the game's.
the Inventories tab in Mod Manager makes everything bigger at once, sets the size of a whole category, or sets the columns, rows and weight limit of one bag or storage piece. A preview shows how a full bag looks at the new size.
Bags, Vehicles, Small storage, Medium storage, Large storage and Extra large storage. Set a category's columns and rows and every inventory in it gets that size. A size set for one inventory beats its category.
in a game, new sizes, weight limits, item sizes and item weights apply as soon as you change them.
the Items tab makes every item 1x1 or half its size, or sets a size or weight for a whole category, a food group or a single item.
one setting multiplies the weight of every item, from 0.1x to 3x.
keep the game's slowdown, choose where it starts and how strong it is, or remove it and stop picking things up at the limit instead.
when a bag gets smaller or an item gets bigger, items that no longer fit move to a free spot in the same bag. If the bag is full, they go into the shopping bags in the living room, or onto the floor if those are full too. A message tells you how many moved.
a bag too tall or wide for the screen gets a scrollbar on the bag screen, so the rest of the screen keeps its size. Turn ScrollBars off to let the game shrink the whole screen to fit instead.
talents that raise your carry weight add on top of the new limit.
Pack Rat writes nothing into your save and does not edit game files. Before you remove it, turn on UninstallPrep and load your save: everything goes back to the game's sizes and weights, and a message says when it is safe to remove.
BepInEx\config\com.dev.survivallog.packrat.cfgChange them on the Mod Manager's Mods screen, or edit the file with the game closed.[Screens]With ScrollBars off, a very big bag can get too small to use, and on some screens the rest of the screen shrinks with it. It applies right away, even on a screen that is already open.
[Uninstall]With UninstallPrep on, items that no longer fit in a smaller bag go into the shopping bags in the living room, or onto the floor if those are full. A message then says Pack Rat is safe to remove. Save the game, quit, and delete the mod.
[Weight]CarryWeight at 1 is the game's carry weight. A value below 1 makes everything hold less. Places the game gives no weight limit keep no limit. Talents that raise your carry weight still add on top. A weight limit set for one bag on the Inventories tab replaces CarryWeight for that bag.
Very large CarryWeight values are capped so the game's numbers stay valid. At 1000x the backpack gets the full 1000x, but the hiking pack, warehouse bag, shopping cart and car stop at the cap (about 833x, 801x, 556x and 208x).
Overweight choices:
Default: the game's slowdown, starting at 80% of your limit.Custom: you set where the slowdown starts (SlowFrom) and how strong it is (SlowBy). On the Mods screen these two show only when Custom is picked, under advanced settings.Hard limit: no slowdown at all, but you can't pick up more once you reach the limit.Default, Custom or Hard limit.Overweight set to Custom: the slowdown starts at this percent of your weight limit. From 10 to 100.Overweight set to Custom: how much slower you move once the slowdown starts, in percent. From 0 to 90.With Mod Manager installed, Pack Rat adds two tabs to it. They save to their own files in BepInEx\config:
PackRat.Inventories.json: the size multiplier for all inventories, the multiplier, columns and rows of each category you changed, and the columns, rows and weight limit of each inventory you changed.PackRat.Items.json: the "All items 1x1" and "All items half size" switches, and the sizes and weights set for categories and single items.Every inventory is in one of six categories, by its size in the game:
| Category | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Bags | Every backpack you wear, at every level |
| Vehicles | The shopping cart, the car and the trunks and trailer of the other vehicles |
| Small storage | Storage up to 24 cells, such as small boxes, worktops and robot holds |
| Medium storage | Storage from 25 to 60 cells, such as most cupboards, fridges and racks |
| Large storage | Storage from 61 to 140 cells, such as big cupboards, freezers and large racks |
| Extra large storage | Storage over 140 cells, such as the biggest racks and display cabinets |
For each side of an inventory's grid, the first of these that is set wins: the inventory's own columns or rows, then its category's columns or rows, then its category's multiplier, then the multiplier for all inventories. Columns or rows left on auto follow the multiplier. Setting a category's size gives every inventory in it the same size, so a category with levels, like Bags, loses the difference between levels; a multiplier keeps it.
Each tab has a reset button that puts everything on it back to the default. Deleting a file does the same. If a file can't be read, Pack Rat uses the defaults for it and says why in BepInEx\LogOutput.log. Each save keeps the file it replaces next to it as .bak.
The Item weight field on the Items tab is the same setting as ItemWeight.
No setting matches that.
SurvivalLog.exe). The zip holds a BepInEx folder, so the DLL lands in the right place. When asked, merge the folders. The result should be:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Survival Log\BepInEx\plugins\PackRat.dllSurvival Log\
├─ SurvivalLog.exe
└─ BepInEx\
├─ plugins\
│ └─ PackRat.dll
└─ config\
└─ com.dev.survivallog.packrat.cfg (made on first start)
The same zip as on Nexus, from this site, with no account. Extract it into the game folder.
PackRat-0.5.0.zip (148 KB)
SHA-256 ffee7102835dd14ecf8b295bf9441ae270ecc5bbbb2aa9bd40591d6069db5d91
If you changed bag or item sizes, turn on UninstallPrep first and load your save. When the message says Pack Rat is safe to remove, save the game and quit. Then delete PackRat.dll from the BepInEx\plugins folder.
Bag and item sizes are set on the Inventories and Items tabs in Mod Manager. The other settings (CarryWeight, ItemWeight, Overweight, UninstallPrep) are on the Mods screen, or in BepInEx\config\com.dev.survivallog.packrat.cfg while the game is closed (see CONFIG.md for details). In a game, changes apply right away; otherwise they apply when you load a save.
ScrollBars setting, on by default. Turn it off and big bags no longer get a scrollbar: the game shrinks the whole screen until it fits, as it does without Pack Rat. A very big bag can then get too small to use. It applies right away, even on a screen that is already open.CarryWeight starts at 1, the game's weight limit, instead of 2. If you already play with the mod, your saved setting stays as it is.ItemWeight makes every item lighter or heavier, from 0.1x to 3x.Overweight changes the slowdown from a heavy load. Default keeps the game's slowdown, Custom lets you choose where it starts and how strong it is, and Hard limit removes the slowdown but stops you picking up more at the limit.UninstallPrep puts every size and weight back to the game's before you remove the mod, and tells you when it is safe to remove.UninstallPrep works when you load a save, not the moment you turn it on.Get Mod Manager to set up all your mods in game | Open the Survival Log wiki for items, recipes and maps
Found a bug or have an idea? Come say hi on the Core Directive Discord, or post in the Posts tab on Nexus. For bugs, please include BepInEx\LogOutput.log.
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