Enshrouded: How to Add Items to Your Action Bar and Switch Action Bars (ALT)

In Enshrouded, ALT switches between your two action bars. To put an item on a bar, open the BACKPACK tab and CTRL + click the item. It lands on whichever bar is current.

Enshrouded action bar controls (PC)

There are two action bars, each with 8 slots, but only one is active at any moment. Number keys correspond to the active bar’s slots, while an ALT icon sits at the left end of the HUD bar along the screen’s bottom.

Key	What it does
ALT (in the world)	Switches the current action bar
B	Opens the BACKPACK tab
CTRL + click	Moves an item between action bar and backpack
1–8	Uses that slot on the current bar

Every other key is in our full Enshrouded controls and keybinds list. The same BACKPACK tab footer also has CTRL + mouse wheel Partial Move for splitting stacks of items, and getting a bigger backpack gives you more slots.

How to switch action bars and add an item in Enshrouded

While in the world, check the HUD’s bottom action bar to see which one is active. Its eight slots are numbered 1 through 8, and an ALT icon appears on the left. Ours showed tools and blocks, with the Pickaxe selected.

The main action bar with the Pickaxe selected and the ALT icon at its left end.

Tap ALT. The HUD bar swaps to your other set of eight slots. Ours switched to a bow, a staff, an empty slot 3, an axe, a sword, a hammer and two block stacks.

Enshrouded HUD showing the second bar after tapping ALT, with bow, staff, empty slot 3, axe, selected sword, hammer and block stacks — Tapping ALT swaps the HUD to the second bar, with the sword selected.

Press B to open the BACKPACK tab. The bar you switched to is labelled “CURRENT ACTION BAR”, and the other one is marked “ALT Switch”. The footer reads “CTRL + click Move: Action Bar <-> Backpack”.

Hold CTRL and click the item you want in the backpack grid. Our stack of 9 Berries moved into the empty slot 3 of the current bar.

Enshrouded BACKPACK tab showing Berries (9) moved into slot 3 of the CURRENT ACTION BAR after CTRL + click. — CTRL + click moves items between your backpack and the CURRENT ACTION BAR.

Close the backpack and check the HUD bar. Our Berries sat in slot 3, and slot 8 (Rough Stone Block) was still the selected slot.

Enshrouded HUD bar with berries in slot 3 and a Rough Stone Block selected in slot 8, showing Set and Remove prompts — Berries now sit in slot 3, with a Rough Stone Block selected in slot 8.

Tap the number key for that slot to use the item. We tapped 3 and one berry was eaten straight from the hotkey: the stack dropped from 9 to 8, the centre of the screen read “Health regeneration is active.”, and a buff icon appeared at the top left. Our selected slot stayed slot 8.

After using slot 3, a buff icon shows top left, the berry stack reads 8, and centre text reads Health regeneration is active. — Pressing 3 eats a berry: “Health regeneration is active.” appears and the stack reads 8.

Tap ALT again to bring your other bar back to the HUD. Our main bar was back.

When the current action bar is full

When the active bar has no empty slots, the BACKPACK footer displays a warning before you click: “Target Full!” appears before “Move: Action Bar <-> Backpack”.

To free a slot, hold CTRL and click an item on the action bar to move it down into the backpack. Then CTRL + click the item you want in the backpack, and it goes into the freed slot. A plain click or dragging the item won’t move it between the bar and the backpack.

Enshrouded backpack tab showing Staff and Wand on current action bar, 'ALT Switch' bar below — CTRL + click moves items between the action bar and the backpack in either direction.

Enshrouded action bar controls (PC)

How to switch action bars and add an item in Enshrouded

When the current action bar is full

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