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Hey survivors 🧟‍♂️ — big week on Survivor Z: Arena. We locked the Inventory Drawer V2 spec on Monday and the row code landed by Friday. Here's what's new and why it matters.

The 4-row drawer

One tap on the backpack opens everything: your hands, your armor, your party, your gear — all visible, all at once. No nested menus, no "swipe up to see more." When seconds count, you shouldn't be hunting through tabs.

Top to bottom:

• Weapons row — 2 center hand slots + 4 side slots. The hands hold weapons. The side slots are your *"at the hip"*layer: weapons, items, even companions can ride here. Why? In the battle screen at close range, the top row is the only row you can reach. So your favorite blade AND your companion can both be one drag away.
• Armor row — 6 fixed body parts: feet, torso, head, eyes, mouth, hands. Hard-restricted by slot. Try to equip goggles to your boots and the game politely declines: "This item cannot be worn."
• Companions row — your full party, horizontally scrollable. Drag an NPC up to a hip slot to bring them into the action.
• Equipment row — general carry storage, scrollable, anything goes (food and water still live on your profile as counters).

The 2-handed-weapon shuffle

Drop a two-hander on your hands and both slots fill — but your previously-held weapons don't vanish, they auto-slide to the nearest open side slot. No "where did my pistol go?" moments. It just works.

The hidden weight system

This is the one I'm most excited about. Items now have a weight value. Your carry cap scales with your backpack and the size of your party. But you never see the number. No bar, no "23.4 / 30 lbs." readout.

You'll feel it when you try to loot one more thing and the world says: "You can't carry more — drop something first."

You'll feel it when John leaves your party and the game tells you: "Your friend John has left. You can't carry all this alone — lighten your load."

It's a survival pressure that lives in the fiction, not in the UI.

Drop-to-ground with a 24-hour personal stash

Need to ditch something? Tap an item, hit the trashcan button on the card. It drops at your feet. For the next 24 hours only you can see it — so other players can't farm your drops as a back-channel trade. Come back, pick it up, keep moving.

What's next

This week was the structural refactor (Phases A + B). Up next: Phase C — actual drag-and-drop, the gestures and type-restriction logic that make the rules above tactile. After that the weight system goes live with pickup blocking and the lighten-your-load prompt.

Artwork for the four drawer backdrops is in production now.

Questions, gripes, "wait but what if…" — drop them below. I read everything.

🧟 Stay sharp out there.

— Ed Survivor Z: Arena