Whether you are freezing, dying from starvation, or thirst, or need to grab an item quickly in a pinch, then quick inventory management is key. Thanks to the bag management system, that was a hard feat for the first few days of the Sons of the Forest. However, you can now hotkey your favorite items in the second hotfix of Sons of the Forest. Here is a look at how to hotkeys Sons of the Forest items.

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Here is how to hotkey Sons of the Forest items.

How to Hotkey Sons of the Forest items¶

To hotkey Sons of the Forest items, you must do the following.

1. Open your Inventory
2. Hover your mouse over the item in your backpack you want to hotkey
3. Press any of your numerical keys - 0 through 9
4. Close your inventory, then press the number you assigned to an item.

You will know you have successfully hotkey’d an item by a number appearing in a white box when you hover over an item in your inventory. See the image above as an example, as the axe has a ‘1’ in the white box.

In total, you can have ten hotkey items in the Sons of the Forest. If you assign any weapons or tools to h hotkeys, then you character will switch to them. If you assign any food, medicine, or drinks, pressing them immediately consumes them from your inventory. It is something to remember, as it can be easy to consume a limited stock of meds or food accidentally.

If you wish to rebind a hotkey to anther item, then simply hover over an item in your backpack, and then press the number on that item. Any item with that hotkey previously will no longer be bound. Instead, replaced with the newly bound item.

You can also still use the quick access backpack as well, too quickly gather items. Keep hold if I, and then select the item you want on the bag as another way to get quick access to items. This could be your niche tools, or it can be your food and drink supply.