Alloy Steel
Alloy Steel feels worth the slot when a real craft, upgrade, or sale plan is already waiting for it after extraction.
Coral Dust starts feeling good the moment you realize it is not random filler and actually feeds ammo people want to craft.
Coral Dust is where the easy coral economy starts turning into something sharper. Once you press Coral Chunk into it, you are no longer just carrying another mid-tier material around, you are moving toward ammo that can actually change how a fight feels. That is why this stack tends to matter more than its rarity suggests.
Most of the time you make it yourself from Coral Chunk, which is why a good coral route can quietly stock future ammo crafting without looking flashy in the moment.
Alloy Steel feels worth the slot when a real craft, upgrade, or sale plan is already waiting for it after extraction.
Coral Chunk feels useful early because you keep finding places to spend it instead of watching it rot in storage.
Fabric matters when the next recipe has already moved past scraps, so it wins the slot only if a higher-grade textile input is actually waiting.
Fabric Scraps only deserve cargo space when a live recipe still accepts scraps; otherwise they lose to fuel, heals, and ammo fast.
Gunpowder is a keep-or-drop material, and it wins the slot only when ammo or explosive crafting is already part of the plan.
High-Grade Gunpowder earns cargo space only when a real craft or trade plan already needs it more than the survival stacks competing for the same slot.
Leviathan Meat is the easier Leviathan material to justify, because Food Crates drop it and each stack still sells for 14 Crowns per piece at the pawn shop.
Leviathan Skin is the Leviathan material to route for when your path already hits coral, wreck, or Living Sand Jr POIs and you still want a 14-Crown resource stack on the way out.
It feels best when you already know the next step is ammo, because then every piece of dust is quietly becoming real combat value.
If you are not crafting with it soon, the dust can feel a little too prepared compared with just keeping the Chunk and converting later.
It feels worth keeping when you are already pushing toward the ammo crafts that make the dust matter.
Mostly by pressing Coral Chunk into it, which is why it tends to show up naturally once coral routes become part of your regular loop.