- Read Carriage Settings as an equipment-disposition rule: keep an upgrade candidate, sell a disposable rarity for gold, or salvage it for materials.
- AFK Meta and Wikily list Equipment Auto-Sell at 1,500 gold after Gold Find I; including Auto Recovery and Gold Find I, its route totals 1,700 gold.
- Source timing differs: ApolloTrail’s through-h guide places sales at town return, while the newer references describe sale at pickup without using carriage room. Legendary Reins have an official 1.0.0i pickup exception.
Start with the slot you are trying to improve
A filter is useful only after deciding what the build still needs. Compare your current weapon and weak equipment slots before marking a rarity disposable. If you are still wearing Common gear, automatically disposing of every Uncommon drop can hide the simplest replacement. ApolloTrail illustrates this with a Hunter stuck on a +6 Common weapon until Uncommon selling was disabled and a better bow was retained. The decision is about the item’s effect on your build, rather than color alone.
Evidence: Deskrawl Beginner Guide: First Hours, Loot Filter, Auto-Sell and Window Setup
| Equipment group | Initial decision | When to revisit |
|---|---|---|
| A rarity that still upgrades a weak slot | Pick Up and inspect | After replacing that slot or changing the build |
| Low-rarity gear that no longer helps | Auto-Sell for a gold goal | When starting a new character or finding a new stat need |
| Unwanted equipment that supplies needed materials | Auto-Salvage after its unlock | After finishing the material bill |
| Divine equipment or Rune Set items | Retain and inspect individually | Whenever a valuable object enters the bag |
Evidence: Inventory, Storage and Carriage · Deskrawl Beginner Guide: First Hours, Loot Filter, Auto-Sell and Window Setup
Gold Find, Item Find and a rarity filter are also different controls. Gold Find changes the gold bonus in the reference; Item Find changes item rarity quality; a disposal rule changes what happens to the resulting equipment. Spending on Item Find does not fix a rule that sells the improvements you wanted. Conversely, a mostly empty cart may simply show that Auto-Sell is working before the items occupy it.
Evidence: Deskrawl Life Skills: the Account Tree, Shared by Every Class | AFK Meta · Inventory, Storage and Carriage
Unlock Auto-Sell without confusing the total bill
| Purchase | Requirement | Node cost | Calculated running total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto Recovery | Root | 50 gold | 50 |
| Gold Find I | Auto Recovery | 150 gold | 200 |
| Equipment Auto-Sell | That Gold Find I | 1,500 gold | 1,700 |
Evidence: Gold Find branch · Deskrawl Life Skills: the Account Tree, Shared by Every Class | AFK Meta
The final node’s 1,500-gold price is not the empty-tree budget. Add the 50-gold root and 150-gold prerequisite to obtain 1,700 gold. If both are already learned, the remaining bill is the final node. Repeated names deeper in the tree should be located by their connections and costs; another Gold Find I is not necessarily the starting node shown here. This avoids buying a bonus branch when your immediate objective was a convenience feature.
Evidence: Gold Find branch
ApolloTrail describes buying Equipment Auto-Filter and Equipment Auto-Sell separately. AFK Meta’s newer list does not present that same standalone filter prerequisite and Wikily presents one carriage action per rarity. Do not invent a second current unlock cost from the older text. If your client exposes Auto-Filter, read its actual tooltip and route; if it exposes the newer actions directly, follow those labels. The article treats the source discrepancy as a version question to resolve in the interface.
Evidence: Deskrawl Beginner Guide: First Hours, Loot Filter, Auto-Sell and Window Setup · Deskrawl Life Skills: the Account Tree, Shared by Every Class | AFK Meta · Inventory, Storage and Carriage
Configure and verify one rarity at a time
Open the carriage controls
Inspect the equipment rarity actions and confirm which options the learned Life Skills have unlocked. Do not confuse chest, material or Rein toggles with equipment colors.
Preserve possible improvements
Keep the rarity supplying the current weapon or a weak slot. Lock reserve gear before manual bulk selling in town.
Set one disposable category
Choose Auto-Sell for that category if gold is the next goal. Start with Common only when Common items are no longer useful to the setup.
Watch an eligible drop
In the newer references, gold is produced at pickup and the item does not occupy carriage space. Observe a short run rather than waiting only for a town event.
Inspect the return
Review kept equipment, chest rewards, inventory space and gold. A return is still a useful cleanup checkpoint even if disposal happened earlier.
Review after a progression change
New classes, zones, weapon families and build goals can make a previously disposable rarity useful again. Reopen the policy before a long unattended session.
Evidence: Inventory, Storage and Carriage · Inventory, Storage and Carriage · Deskrawl Beginner Guide: First Hours, Loot Filter, Auto-Sell and Window Setup
Use one controlled change so that its result is interpretable. Turning on selling, salvage, skipping chests and skipping materials at once makes a quieter cart impossible to diagnose. Record the original settings first, then observe whether the intended resource changes. This is a practical test design, not evidence that the current client has been tested for this guide.
Keep equipment colors separate from chests, materials and Reins
| Control or category | Source-reported behavior | Important distinction |
|---|---|---|
| Common through Legendary equipment | One action per rarity: Pick Up, unlocked Auto-Sell or Auto-Salvage | The action is about equipment |
| Collect Chests | When off, dropped chests are left on the ground | A chest has its own pickup toggle |
| Collect Materials | When off, material nodes are skipped | This controls gathering rather than equipment sale |
| Reins Filter | Reference says it retains unowned/not-already-carried Reins when on | Older duplicate advice does not override the patch-i exception |
| Legendary Reins, official 1.0.0i | Always picked up regardless of filter settings | Pickup does not automatically unlock or sell the minion |
Evidence: Inventory, Storage and Carriage · Official patch 1.0.0i
Wikily also says Divine equipment and Rune Set items are always picked up and that each character keeps its own carriage settings. A well-configured character therefore does not establish the settings on another character. After switching, inspect the active policy rather than copying assumptions from an earlier session. Materials use a separate panel, so a gather stop and a full equipment bag are distinct constraints.
Evidence: Inventory, Storage and Carriage
A retained Steam suggestion says blue equipment from an opened chest was auto-sold under a blue filter. That is a player report, not a reproduced behavior or an official chest-processing specification. If a chest reward disappears, observe an opening with a conservative keep policy and available slots before changing every setting. The town chest guide separates documented rewards from unverified automation requests.
Evidence: Suggestion: Chests respect loot filter :: Deskrawl: Idle ARPG General Discussions
Resolve the town-return versus pickup description
The launch-era ApolloTrail table explicitly says selected equipment from carriage and inventory sells when you return to town. Its page scope is through patch 1.0.0h. The AFK Meta list says “the moment the carriage picks it up” during combat, and Wikily independently prints the same operational description. Those sources may reflect revised behavior or documentation, but they do not name a patch changing the timing. This review therefore does not assign a guessed version boundary.
Evidence: Deskrawl Beginner Guide: First Hours, Loot Filter, Auto-Sell and Window Setup · Deskrawl Life Skills: the Account Tree, Shared by Every Class | AFK Meta · Inventory, Storage and Carriage
| Check | Evidence to watch | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| Read the current skill tooltip | Pickup or town-return language | Use the installed build’s stated trigger |
| Watch an eligible equipment pickup | Gold and carriage occupancy immediately afterward | Immediate gold with no retained item supports pickup processing |
| Return to town after a retained item | Gold change and item removal during delivery | A later sale supports town processing for that item |
| Compare manual shop Sell | Shop toggles and inventory items | Manual bulk sale is a separate operation |
Evidence: Inventory, Storage and Carriage · Inventory, Storage and Carriage
Filter questions and failed setups
Q: Why is the carriage empty while gold increases?
AFK Meta and Wikily describe Auto-Sell at pickup, without occupying carriage space. An empty cart can be expected when most equipment is disposable.
Q: Why did auto-selling not improve my weapon?
It cannot improve the equipped item by itself. If the replacement rarity is disposed of, keep it for comparison and inspect the weapon’s actual damage and effects.
Q: Should I leave low rarities on the ground?
ApolloTrail recommends preserving gold income through selling rather than skipping low rarities before Auto-Sell. Follow the actual options in your build.
Q: Are locked inventory items equivalent to a carriage filter?
No. Locking is a manual item safeguard; the carriage policy applies to newly collected equipment. The reviewed text does not demonstrate every automatic-lock interaction.
Q: Can I switch the same rarity between sale and salvage?
The reference lists one action per equipment rarity. Choose the resource that is currently limiting the next purchase or recipe.
Q: Do I need to recheck another character?
Yes. Wikily describes carriage settings as character-specific, even where some account resources and Life Skills are shared.
Evidence: Deskrawl Beginner Guide: First Hours, Loot Filter, Auto-Sell and Window Setup · Inventory, Storage and Carriage · Inventory, Storage and Carriage · Deskrawl Life Skills: the Account Tree, Shared by Every Class | AFK Meta
If gold is sufficient and materials are the bottleneck, read Auto-Salvage or Sell.
Official interface reference
Sources and scope
Expanded editorial source review for Steam retail app 4623570, Deskrawl: Idle ARPG. Launch-era ApolloTrail advice, dated AFK Meta data, unofficial Wikily references and named official patch notes are separated in the article. New statements are traced in the claim ledger; derived planning examples are identified. Mechanics, source independence and online-server rules have not been verified in the current client.
- Review status
- verified
- Game version
- Source-specific scopes are stated in the body; no installed-client version is asserted.
- Checked
- Method
- Bounded first-release dossier review, including source roles, preserved conflicts and explicit limits. Recomputed retained source hashes, exact excerpts and line ranges and signed reader content. No installed-client or live-server verification.
- Deskrawl Beginner Guide: First Hours, Loot Filter, Auto-Sell and Window Setup secondary
Through-1.0.0h novice policy, missing-upgrade example and older Auto-Filter/town-return description. Source text was reviewed from the retained acquisition snapshot; this is not a current-client test.
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- Gold Find branch secondary
Connected 50/150/1,500-gold route to Auto-Sell. Source text was reviewed from the retained acquisition snapshot; this is not a current-client test.
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- Deskrawl Life Skills: the Account Tree, Shared by Every Class | AFK Meta secondary
Dated pickup-time skill wording and bonus-node distinctions. Source text was reviewed from the retained acquisition snapshot; this is not a current-client test.
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- Inventory, Storage and Carriage secondary
Equipment action scope, chest/material/Rein controls and character-specific settings. Source text was reviewed from the retained acquisition snapshot; this is not a current-client test.
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- Inventory, Storage and Carriage secondary
Locking and manual shop sales are separately described item actions. Source text was reviewed from the retained acquisition snapshot; this is not a current-client test.
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- Official patch 1.0.0i first-party
Official unconditional Legendary Rein pickup. Source text was reviewed from the retained acquisition snapshot; this is not a current-client test.
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- Suggestion: Chests respect loot filter :: Deskrawl: Idle ARPG General Discussions community
One player reports opened-chest reward sales; retained as an anecdote. Source text was reviewed from the retained acquisition snapshot; this is not a current-client test.
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- Official Steam retail promotional screenshots first-party
The attributed promotional figure only; capture date and client build are not established, and it is not a current gameplay test.
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