Alloy Steel
Alloy Steel feels worth the slot when a real craft, upgrade, or sale plan is already waiting for it after extraction.
Fabric Scraps only deserve cargo space when a live recipe still accepts scraps; otherwise they lose to fuel, heals, and ammo fast.
Fabric Scraps feel fine as early textile filler, but they stop looking special the second no live recipe is waiting for them. When the next craft, trade, or research step still accepts scraps, the stack makes sense. If not, it is exactly the kind of cargo that quietly steals space from the fuel, healing, and ammunition that gets the Trampler home.
Found through specialized boxes.
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.
Coral Dust starts feeling good the moment you realize it is not random filler and actually feeds ammo people want to craft.
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.
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 earns a slot when the next textile craft still takes scraps and you already know where that stack is going.
When no recipe or research step is waiting for it, Fabric Scraps falls behind the supplies that keep the run alive.
They are worth keeping when the next recipe still accepts scraps instead of full Fabric.
Fabric Scraps comes from specialized boxes.