Auto-Organize Combines Stacks in Inventory

85 votes

When auto-organizing your inventory, the function should also combine stacks of items if there is space to do so. For example, if you have two stacks of 5 strawberries each, current behavior when you use the organize button is to place those two stacks next to each other. Ideal behavior would be to combine them into one stack of 10.

Extra bonus nice would be to sort/fill stacks in reverse order, so that partial stacks are the first thing in the inventory (which is nice for crafting), but I understand that might make this a much more difficult request, depending on your data structure.

For the following inventory (using generic items that stack to 100):
|B100|C094|A004|B009|C016|A052|

Current organize produces:
|A004|A052|B100|B009|C094|C016|

Basic suggestion produces:
|A056|B100|B009|C100|C006|

Advanced suggestion produces:
|A056|B009|B100|C006|C100|

Done Suggested by: Tree Bucket (26 Sep, '22) • Upvoted: 19 Jul, '23 • Comments: 3

Comments: 3

27 Sep, '22
Mandy
Yes, this is really annoying to me as well, especially when I find that a single strawberry or apple is the reason I can't get my new toilet.
10 Nov, '22
Marko Griffin
Yes! I have OCD where everything has its place.. I have once spent several minutes.. organizing and shifting all the items in my inventory to be this way! It would be marvelous to have an auto sort button
14 Dec, '22
Brittany
This is driving me crazy too

Not to compare it to other games, but the sorting system in Stardew is so nice... Auto stacking, grouping like items, quick move.

The rest of the UI is a mess too, but this is the part that makes it almost unplayable for me.