Inventory Management and Item Stacking

Inventory management in Athanasia is built around the limited equipment Carmen scavenges from caches across the SAIR facility. The Neon Doctrine product page describes the loadout as "an arsenal of equipment" drawn from "caches of vital equipment throughout the facility." Items are finite consumables rather than freely replenished: when a cache is empty, the resources are gone until you find another cache or earn them back through gameplay.

The Steam tags "Inventory Management" and "Resource Management" are first-party signals that the inventory is meant to be a survival layer, not a flat storage grid. Every component you pick up is also a future healing item, distraction, trap, ammo box or door-opener, so the act of looting is an act of planning.

Concrete stacking rules have not been publicly described before the Early Access launch. The Steam store copy, Neon Doctrine page and PCGamesN preview all emphasize inventory management as a survival layer without detailing stack sizes, weight limits, or per-item caps. The closest public reference to inventory behaviour is the official inventory HUD screenshot, which lists each entry (9MM PISTOL, wrench, scissors, RAJA ammo box, bandages) as its own slot rather than as a stack.

Plan around three working assumptions:

• Items are finite consumables, not regenerating resources. A bandage you craft into a firebomb is gone.
• Similar items are likely to share a slot if they stack, but the exact stack-size cap per item type has not been publicly listed.
• Caches resupply rather than regenerate your inventory, so plan your route by what caches you have not yet looted.

Three habits cover most of the resource pressure in the SAIR facility:

• Reserve one bandage and one flask for firebomb assembly. Healing components and flask fuel are the two ingredients that burn through caches fastest.
• Do not over-collect. The Steam description treats "vital equipment" as the operative word; every slot you spend on a duplicate is a slot you cannot spend on a keycard or ammo box.
• Spend resources at the same pace. If you spend a bandage on healing, spend a flask on a firebomb; the cache economy expects both to drain together.

Quickbar slots and hotbar layouts have not been publicly described in any official Athanasia material. The Steam store copy, the Neon Doctrine product page and the PCGamesN preview all emphasize inventory management as a survival layer without describing quick-swap bindings, hotbar slots, or radial menus. If a quickbar exists in Early Access, it will be confirmed once the EA build is playable; until then, plan around the inventory screen.