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Metal Hammer equipped inside a Frostrail train carriage

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Tools, supplies & equipment

Items & Equipment

Frostrail's inventory spans weapons, tools, ammunition, food, clothing, fuel, Relics, and crafting materials. Four tools are named in current material, while an archived 2025 pre-alpha screen also reveals the early inventory layout and carrying capacity.

Named tools

4

Inventory management

Yes

Resource management

Yes

Archived carry capacity

100 kg — 2025 pre-alpha

Known Items & Equipment Entries

7 currently documented
Ammunition spent in shotgun combat

Ammunition

Combat supply

Official messaging calls ammunition a luxury, but named calibers and stack sizes have not been published.

Calibers
Not published
Crafting
Not published
Stack size
Not published
Frostrail pre-alpha inventory and Metal Container interface

Inventory & storage — pre-alpha

Archived 2025 interface

The official reveal trailer shows five quick-access slots, a 25-slot personal storage grid, and a 100 kg carrying limit. These figures belong to the visibly labeled pre-alpha build and may not match the 2026 Closed Beta.

Build
2025 pre-alpha reveal
Quick access
5 slots
Personal storage
25 slots — 5 × 5
Displayed load
3.2 / 100 kg
Metal Container
20 slots — 5 × 4
Metal Hammer equipped inside the train

Metal Hammer

Official screenshot tool

Shown equipped inside the train and in the locomotive cab. Its construction and repair interactions are not fully documented.

Category
Tool
Visible use context
Train interior / cab
Stats / recipe
Not published
Metal Wrench equipped beside POWER/HEAT machinery

Metal Wrench

Official screenshot tool

Shown equipped beside powered train machinery in the official Steam gallery.

Category
Tool
Visible use context
Onboard machinery
Stats / recipe
Not published
Torch equipped during The Trial Below

Torch

Official screenshot tool

Shown equipped during the dungeon objective “The Trial Below.”

Category
Light source
Visible use context
Dungeon exploration
Fuel / duration / recipe
Not published
Crowbar in the train hotbar

Crowbar

Named tool

Used on salvageable objects at points of interest to recover better materials.

Category
Salvage tool
Use
Break down salvageable objects
Recipe / durability
Not published
Repair components at the onboard workbench

Repair components

Workstation input

A reworked item-repair system uses dedicated repair workstations; component details are not public.

Station
Repair workstation
Materials
Not published
Repair values
Not published

Items & Equipment Quick Comparison published details only

EntryCategoryKey detailAdditional detail
AmmunitionCombat supplyCalibers: Not publishedCrafting: Not published
Inventory & storage — pre-alphaArchived 2025 interfaceBuild: 2025 pre-alpha revealQuick access: 5 slots
Metal HammerOfficial screenshot toolCategory: ToolVisible use context: Train interior / cab
Metal WrenchOfficial screenshot toolCategory: ToolVisible use context: Onboard machinery
TorchOfficial screenshot toolCategory: Light sourceVisible use context: Dungeon exploration
CrowbarNamed toolCategory: Salvage toolUse: Break down salvageable objects
Repair componentsWorkstation inputStation: Repair workstationMaterials: Not published

How Items & Equipment Works

Updated October 8, 2026
Train interior with equipped Metal Hammer
Official screenshot of onboard tools and hotbar.

Inventory & resource management

Steam categorizes Frostrail around inventory and resource management. Recovered supplies must support both away-team equipment and the train's continuing operation.

The 2025 reveal trailer's pre-alpha interface shows five quick-access slots, a 5 × 5 personal storage grid, a displayed load of 3.2 / 100 kg, and a Metal Container with a 5 × 4 grid. It also shows example stacks of 14, 5, 4, 8, and 36, but the item icons are not labeled clearly enough to assign canonical names.

These are archived interface figures, not current balance promises. Current item weights, stack limits, rarity rules, vendor prices, and final slot counts still need a playable 2026 build.

  • Start with the item categories that affect a run
  • Keep every numeric value tied to the build that displayed it
  • Do not turn unlabeled icons into invented item names
Metal Wrench equipped beside Frostrail train machinery
Official Steam screenshot naming the Metal Wrench.

Closed Beta coverage

The April playtest included a tutorial, two exploration areas, weapon and essential-item crafting, and wildlife hunting for food. The currently live Closed Beta may show more than that early test, but its public announcement does not publish item cards, stack limits, recipes, or drop tables. Those fields remain open until they can be read from the game itself.

April test scope
Tutorial + 2 exploration areas
known activities
Crafting and hunting
Closed Beta recordings
Permitted — no NDA
Current item database
No official full list
Official Assembly Station evidence screen
Official screenshot used as pre-release evidence.

What still needs checking

A complete official item list is not available yet. The 2025 inventory values describe an archived build, not the completed August–September Beta or the upcoming October demo. Check the inventory layout and carrying limit in the demo before planning how much your crew can bring back.

Complete official item list
Not published
Public Early Access build
Not yet released
Archived inventory capacity
100 kg — 2025 pre-alpha
Next playable build to check
October 19–26 demo
Metal Hammer equipped inside the Frostrail train
Official Steam screenshot naming the Metal Hammer.

Bandages in community Beta records

The community Beta database now has named records beyond the official screenshots. The entries below are reported values, not independently checked balance data: the pages do not identify a build ID or provide a screenshot for every field. Check your in-game card before spending materials, and do not combine them with older official screenshot values.

Reported recipe
Cloth ×1
Reported weight
0.125 — unit not independently checked
Reported maximum stack
12
Reported crafting time
2 seconds
Pre-release data note

Frostrail is still in development. Names and values shown here are tied to published game material, while unfinished recipes, drop rates, costs, and balance numbers stay marked as unpublished until players can verify them in a live build.