As you explore the sprawling underground world ofCore Keeper, you’re going to come across all sorts of items. Weapons, armor, blocks, crops, seeds, different materials, bugs, fish, furniture, and plenty of others — enough to constantly keep your inventory full if you enjoy collecting things.

Sure, you’ll likely have a ton of chests to store things in, but even still, your inventory will inevitably get filled up, and you’ll need to make yet another trip back to your base. If you want to expand your inventory and keep it organized without requiring a new backpack, several Pouches can help you out plenty.

Player inventory showing four rows of Pouch inventory, each having different items in them, in Core Keeper.

What Are Pouches?

Pouches are special items thatadd additional slots to your inventorythat can only befilled by specific items​, withfour categorieshaving theirown set of Pouches:

They need to beQuick Stashed from your inventory or hotbarlike if you were equipping armor, and afterward, you’ll haveeither five, eight, or ten additional inventory slots, depending on thetier of Pouch.

Player character buying the Pouch Workbench from the Bearded Merchant in Core Keeper.

You aren’t limited to using one category of Pouch each; you canhave multiple of the same Pouch tier and category equipped, and the only limit is a maximum of four Pouches total.

Now, whenobtaining anything fitting into those four categories, those items will automaticallygo into the Pouch slots first, and stay separate from your main inventoryuntil the Pouch runs out of slots.

Player character at a Pouch Workbench preparing to make a Small Ore and Block Pouch in Core Keeper.

How To Craft Pouches

Low and Mid-Tier Pouches canonly be crafted at a Pouch Workbench, and to get one, you’ll need todefeat the first boss,Glurch the Abominous Mass. After it’s defeated, theBearded Merchant will be releasedfrom their prison, and becomeavailable to purchase items from.

You canhave NPCs such as the Bearded Merchant move into your home by placing their accompanying Furniture Item in a suitable roomwith at least a four-by-four-tile size and at least one bed.

Player character at a Pouch Workbench about to craft a Medium Seed and Crop Pouch in Core Keeper.

Open their Shop Inventory, and they’ll already beselling the Pouch Workbench for 100 Ancient Coins, which can be obtained byselling any item in the gameto them, except for blocks, breaking Wooden Crates, oropening Treasure Chests.

Place the Pouch Workbench anywhere, and you’llhave the recipesfor Small Pouches and Medium Pouches already unlocked.

Player obtaining a Large Valuable Pouch as a drop from Azeos The Sky Titan in Core Keeper.

Fiber x3

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Any Valuables.

Fiber can be obtained by harvesting Grub Kapok plants, Fishing in any type of water, defeating Cavelings, breaking Large Crates, opening regular or Larva Hive Chests, or salvaging any type of armor.

Small Block And Ore Pouch

Any Blocks or Ores.

Small Seed And Crop Pouch

Seeds and Grown Crops.

Copper Bars can be obtained bysmelting Copper Orein a Furnace. Copper Ore can be mined in The Underground, The Clay Caves, or The Forgotten Ruins.

Fiber x6

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Fiber can be obtained by harvesting Grub Kapok plants, defeating Cavelings, breaking Large Crates, opening regular or Larva Hive Chests, or salvaging any type of armor.

Iron Bars can be obtained by smelting Iron Ore in a Furnace. Iron Ore can be mined in The Forgotten Ruins, or by defeating Cavelings, breaking Ancient Crates, and a potential drop fromThe Hive Mother.

Medium Block And Ore Pouch

Medium Seed And Crop Pouch

Any Seeds or Crops.

Any Fish.

How To Obtain Large Pouches

Large Pouches are thefinal tier of Pouches, and provide thehighest number of slots at ten, but theycan’t be crafted. Instead, you’ll need tofind them while exploringout in the world, andeach typecan be found at adifferent location or method.

How To Obtain

Large Valuable Pouch

Breaking Large Metropolis Crates in the Forlorn Metropolis sub-biome in the Sunken Sea.

Possible drop from defeating eitherAzeos the Sky Titanor Awakened Azeos.

Opening Ancient Chests or Titan’s Chests in the Forlorn Metropolis sub-biome.

Large Block And Ore Pouch

Breaking Large Charred Crates in the Molten Quarry sub-biome in the Desert of Beginnings.

Large Seed And Crop Pouch

Breaking Large Flower Vessels in Azeos' Wilderness.

Possible drop from defeating Druidra the Wild Titan.

Possible drop from defeating the special Floracada enemy at a Cicada Burrow in Azeos' Wilderness.

Large Fish Pouch

Fishingin either normal water or seawater in the Sunken Sea.

Possible drop from defeating the Atlantean Worm in the Sunken Sea.