Elden Ring: How to create a custom inventory layout for PVP

Elden Ring has dozens upon dozens of items. While most players will play through the game once or twice sticking close by a chosen favorite weapon or two, PVP players do things very differently. Each weapon has its own benefits, especially when custom and unique Weapon Skills are factored in. If you’re doing your best to take down an online foe in a duel, you may find yourself swapping through your weapon selection mid-battle. 

Experienced Dark Souls III PVP players already know the struggle all too well, flipping through a menagerie of items before you find what you want. You can store all of the excess in a Chest at any Site of Grace, but if you want to be prepared for any situation, you should have an array of weapons, shields, and perhaps even armor. Sorting those into an order of your choice would make those hot-swap situations much easier. 

If you want to customize your weapon and gear layout for PVP, or even just run through the game as normal, then follow this guide to put together your ideal custom item layout. 

Setting up a custom item layout – Elden Ring 

The actual process of setting up a custom weapon layout in Elden Ring is actually pretty simple, thanks to new item sorting functions included in Elden Ring, but somewhat hidden away. Not highlighted at the bottom of the screen, you can actually tap L3 (click in the left stick) in order to select your Item Sorting Method. Once you’ve found that, it’s simply a case of setting up your equipment as you like it. Thanks to HellboyDkS for highlighting this method. 

Unequip your current weapons. At a Site of Grace, access the Chest menu. Sort by Ascending Order of Acquisition. Empty all items that are equipped in your hands into the chest, such as weapons, staffs, shields, seals.

Once done, you can now withdraw only the items you wish to use, and withdraw them in the order you wish for them to appear. Each weapon you remove from the chest will appear in your inventory in the order that you add it to your personal inventory. 

You can repeat this process for shields, staffs, armor, and any other section of your inventory that you wish. As long as you keep the Order of Acquisition sorting method turned on, your weapons will always be in the order that you removed them from the chest. 

Written by Dave Aubrey on behalf of GLHF.