Defeating large armies inMount & Blade 2: Bannerlordwill reward players with hundreds of items of loot. This will quickly lead to players having thousands of items in their inventory to choose from when upgrading the gear of their characteror companions.

While a lot of the player’s inventory will be loot, it’s also important to have enough food to feed your entire army, which will also take up slots in your inventory. With so many items coming into your inventory, it’s important to know when to get them out, and how to increase how much you can carry at a time.

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How To Increase Inventory Size In Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord

Aside from the player’s base carry capacity, there are three other major factors that can increase the party’s inventory size:

Both troops and spare mounts will give players an additional 20 inventory slots, withpack animals offering 100slots. Players will also be able to carry more as they recruit more troops as their party size increases. While it may be tempting to buy every pack animal possible to maximize your inventory, it’s important to know how that affectsyour party’s movement speed. There are two types of horses, pack animals and riding horses, with the distinction being the logo under the animal’s image. Riding horses have a clear image of a horse next to a plus sign on the left, while pack animals have an odd-looking logo with a plus sign on the right.

Riding horses are needed to upgrade a troop to a mounted unit, but extra can be purchased and kept in your party. Both mounted troops and spare mounts help increase the party’s movement speed.Pack animals help carry a lot of weight, they will slow down the party. It’s best to keep things to a two-to-one ratio between riding horses and pack animals to help make sure your party doesn’t slot down and can still catch enemies. There are also some perks to help players maximize their carry capacity:

What To Do With Loot In Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord

Players should always pick up all the loot possible from a battle. Should you goover your carry capacity, your party will receive a speed penalty, which will go away once you know what to do with any loot you picked up. First, you should always go through and make sure none of the loot is better than what you and your companions are using. After that, you may either sell or discard all other loot.

Selling will offerhuge sums of money, but you may need to travel between a few cities to find enough merchants to buy it all. While discarding loot initially sounds like a waste, theGiving Hands upgrade in theSteward skill treemakes discarded weapons turn into XP to helppromote your troopsmore easily.