Hi there,
after my suggestion about more cubes a couple of days ago and watching myself spending soo many time with inventory management instead of actually playing, I'd like to come up with a more radical approach for storing items.

Right now, it doesn't matter at all where, or in which container your rescources are physically stored. All that matters is, that you have enough collected to match the crafting requirements. There is no other interaction, or use for food and smithing items other then "having them" in the first place.

So the idea is, to remove them completely from the "normal" inventory!

Give them a "seperate" inventory only for crafting ingrediences like food, smithing crystals and demon blood (ink for the caligraph).
Loot and store them automatically into that "seperate" inventory when you walk over, or create them from dismantling (same functionality that the cube has for food atm).

That would not only drastically reduce the amount of time spend for tedious inventory sorting and freeing a lot of space in the normal inventory without adding new tabs, it would also free the cube (or multiple cubes) for other purposes.
The cube could then, for example, scope gems automatically, that actually need manual interaction to combine them, or it could be simply used to organize the inventory in general.

I hope you like the idea, which is honestly not new, a lot of ARPG's use that approach as it lift's a lot of unneccessary work from the player and give's more time for the fun part of the game.

cheers
Arb