Replaced the primary runtime-built backpack chrome with an editor-authored Unity AssetBundle across the standalone backpack, storage, station, deal-handover, settings, and dedicated-canvas surfaces.
Unified anchoring, safe-area fitting, UI scaling, slot-grid placement, and input/raycaster behavior so backpack surfaces remain usable across display resolutions and supported UI scales.
Added the integrated settings overlay, scalable slider-style settings icon, side-mounted collapse rail with explanatory tooltips, and visually connected active filter tabs.
Improved the product metrics drawer with package counts, unit and total values, drug-family colors, unpackaged product imagery, overflow ellipses, and a scroll indicator for longer lists.
Retained the runtime-authored UI as a compatibility fallback when the embedded AssetBundle is missing or fails contract validation.
Backpack, storage, and handover reliability
Fixed larger backpack tiers restoring with the wrong capacity and prevented non-local player initialization from taking ownership of the local backpack UI.
Stabilized storage, station, employee-inventory, and handover panel lifecycles so embedded backpack surfaces bind, dismiss, and reopen without leaking layout or visibility state into their host UI.
Preserved vanilla handover completion controls and corrected backpack slot layering, anchoring, active-tab state, search alignment, and metrics-panel joins.
Added guarded runtime compatibility discovery so optional station patches are skipped cleanly when their target methods are unavailable on a game branch.
Transfers and large-inventory performance
Made deal auto-fill package-aware so requested unit counts are assembled correctly from bags, jars, bricks, and unpackaged product.
Bounded large auto-fill combination searches and moved backpack stacking to a deterministic planner so large inventories remain responsive.
Prewarmed reflection metadata, UI assets, menu overloads, and camera-lock state to reduce first-open and hotkey latency.
Added an opt-in UI profiler and summary tooling for measuring full backpack, storage, station, and handover interaction paths without enabling diagnostics by default.
Runtime compatibility and validation
Preserved Mono and IL2CPP support across current/beta and alternate/legacy Schedule One branches.
Added focused tests for auto-fill planning, stack planning, embedded-panel sessions, runtime target discovery, reflection caching, UI bounds, and scaling policy.
Release metadata
Bumped the mod version to 2.1.0.
2.0.0
Redesigned backpack browser
Replaced the standalone backpack display with a responsive, Schedule One-style backpack browser designed for large bags, multiple pages, and varied display resolutions and UI scales.
Added live partial-match search across item names, qualities, categories, drug types, base strains, and derived mixed products.
Added type and quality filters; sort tabs for all items, favorites, name, quantity, quality, type, and recent items; and ascending or descending ordering.
Added favorites and recent-item views, persistent favorite state, keyboard navigation for PackRat controls, and safe focus handling for text entry and mouse interaction.
Added opening, closing, filter/search, tab, and pagination animations, including directional page wipes.
Added Organize to group items by type, name, and quality, plus Stack to consolidate compatible stacks into the earliest available slots across pages.
In-game settings and appearance
Added a backpack settings modal with live per-view X/Y positioning and scale controls for the hotkey, storage, station, and deal-handover views.
Added settings for search, sync diagnostics, organization, smart routing, product metrics, and backpack tiers.
Added built-in visual themes and a custom primary-color picker that derives the remaining backpack UI colors from the selected color.
Integrated storage and deal views
Reused the backpack browser in storage containers, stations, and deal handovers with independent layout scaling and positioning.
Improved deal-handover lifecycle handling so the backpack browser appears and closes with its owning UI without interfering with vanilla storage containers.
Added vehicle/backpack source switching in deal handovers when an eligible vehicle is available.
Added highlighted deal matches, reliable tooltip layering, source feedback, and one-click deal autofill from the available item sources.
Transfer and routing quality of life
Added bulk transfers in storage menus for selected item categories and products in either direction between storage and the backpack.
Expanded marijuana bulk selection to include derivative mixed products for the selected base strain.
Added smart quick-move routing with configurable category rules for products, seeds, mixers, and reagents.
Product metrics
Added an expandable product metrics drawer with grouped product quantities, unit and total values, and active-order quantities when applicable.
Added settings that control the product metrics shown in the drawer.
Reliability and compatibility
Hardened backpack state synchronization so completed backpack changes are queued after the menu closes, improving client restore and reconnection behavior.
Updated current beta and alternate-beta game references while retaining Mono and IL2CPP compatibility.
Release metadata
Bumped the mod version to 2.0.0.
1.1.2
Backpack UI integration
Added backpack integration for storage containers and station UIs, with paginated 3x3 panels and quick-move support.
Added configurable X/Y offsets for storage, station, and handover backpack overlays via PackRat.cfg.
Gameplay fixes
Added backpack ammo support for weapon reloads.
Fixed duplicate backpack unlockable registration.
Fixed unintended backpack disabling on player death.
Fixed cash quick-move ordering so hot-deposited money stacks into existing cash slots before filling empty storage or backpack slots.
Fixed station backpack panel raycaster registration so drag/drop can target backpack slots inside station UIs.
Release metadata
Bumped the mod version to 1.1.2.
1.0.8
IL2CPP hardware-store stability
Reworked IL2CPP backpack definition creation so PackRat no longer falls back to cloning arbitrary shop items when the safe template is unavailable.
Deferred safe backpack template creation until hardware-store integration time, when IL2CPP has a valid shop context to seed from if direct StorableItemDefinition instantiation is still unavailable.
Sanitized fallback template state before reuse and reduced repeated safe-template failure logs to a single actionable warning instead of console spam.
Release metadata
Bumped the mod version to 1.0.8 and restored Thunderstore-compatible semantic versioning in the packaged manifest.
1.0.7
Backpack definition and storage fixes
Added a safe backpack item template for IL2CPP fallback definition creation so backpack tier purchases no longer clone arbitrary hardware-store items.
Fixed backpack storage lookup to target PackRat's own StorageEntity instead of blindly taking the first storage component on the player.
Hardened legality checks to read legal status by reflection so both Mono and IL2CPP continue working across game API changes.
Fixed extended-slot growth to avoid registering the same storage slot twice, resolving the regression where the final backpack slots could mirror each other when items were moved.
Save/load and sizing fixes
Ensured the saved purchased backpack tier is applied before restoring saved contents.
Fixed slot growth so newly created backpack slots are actually appended to the underlying storage slot list.
Added equipped-backpack tier persistence so upgrades and downgrades save correctly and restore the active backpack size on the next load.
Compatibility
Added the new core assembly references required by the latest Schedule One update for both Mono and IL2CPP builds.
Split Mono and IL2CPP intermediate build output into separate obj folders so switching runtimes no longer contaminates restore/build state.
Runtime stability and multiplayer
Fixed host-to-client config sync parsing after the EnableSearch payload change so clients correctly receive host backpack settings again.
Added null-safety around shop/cart backpack checks and guarded backpack save-path lookups against missing player-data indices.
Cleaned up duplicate local PlayerBackpack components, improved slot clearing to prefer game-native clear methods, and removed the extra IL2CPP handover diagnostics while pruning stale handover panel cache state.
1.0.6
Game update compatibility
Updated Mono and IL2CPP references for the latest Schedule One game version, including the new ScheduleOne.Core / Il2CppScheduleOne.Core assembly split.
Removed hard dependency on game assemblies that are no longer present in newer installs so both runtimes compile cleanly against the current game files.
Adjusted cross-runtime item/core type handling to match the updated game API surface.
Backpack save/load fixes
Fixed backpack restore order so the purchased backpack tier and slot count are applied before backpack contents are deserialized.
Fixed larger backpacks only restoring the first 8 slots by ensuring restored item data loads into the correctly resized storage.
Applied the same pre-resize restore flow to host-synced multiplayer backpack snapshots.
Arrest and respawn stability
Removed backpack enable/disable lifecycle hooks tied to player arrest/exit flows to avoid respawn activation issues after arrest.
Fixed the post-arrest local player lockup where the game could leave the player unable to move after respawn.
1.0.5
Handover UI performance
Fixed severe handover UI lag when moving items from the backpack panel or player inventory by removing broad hierarchy-wide label scans.
Reduced repeated header reapply passes and limited backpack label updates to local storage-panel operations so handover paging and item movement remain responsive on both Mono and IL2CPP.
1.0.4
Multiplayer backpack sync
Added host-driven backpack state sync so clients request and receive the host-authoritative backpack snapshot in multiplayer sessions.
Added chunked backpack snapshot transfer and host-to-client backpack pull/response handling to keep larger backpack inventories synchronized reliably.
Non-host clients now skip local backpack persistence and instead load/apply the synchronized host state.
Added BackpackSyncDebugLogging configuration to enable verbose multiplayer backpack sync diagnostics when needed.
Runtime and UI robustness
Improved IL2CPP string assignment handling in reflection utilities so managed strings can be written safely to Il2CppSystem.String members.
Added supporting save/load and variable-database hooks required for multiplayer backpack synchronization.
Hardened backpack/player initialization paths so backpack components and synced state are attached/applied more reliably across runtime variants.
Documentation
Updated hosted README screenshots and project links for the 1.0.4 release.
1.0.3
Deal handover backpack panel
Added backpack storage integration to the deal handover UI with paged slot rendering for larger backpack tiers.
Added a vehicle/backpack view toggle under the pager; backpack view is default and toggle is only shown when vehicle storage is available within 20 meters.
Handover UI behavior and stability
Fixed item duplication regression introduced during early slot-initialization experiments.
Hardened handover panel lifecycle checks against stale/destroyed components to prevent open-time exceptions in IL2CPP.
Improved pager setup robustness for IL2CPP by recreating/repairing missing controls and guarding fragile component access paths.
Handover UI placement and visuals
Reworked pager layout anchoring so controls are placed beneath the backpack storage area.
Added a dedicated pager background element and aligned it with the pager controls.
1.0.1
IL2CPP Hardware Store fixes
Fixed IL2CPP backpack tier listing creation by using IL2CPP-safe TryCast and a template-clone fallback when creating StorableItemDefinition instances.
Improved Hardware Store integration flow to use game-native listing UI refresh methods and to avoid false "added" success logs.
Added targeted diagnostics for resource lookup and tier-listing pipeline failures to make IL2CPP troubleshooting actionable.
Backpack tier purchase and use (Hardware Store)
Backpack tiers are now purchased at the Hardware Store (both locations) with account funds; they no longer unlock automatically by rank.
After purchase, a backpack tier item appears in your inventory/hotbar (real StorableItemDefinition with tier icon). Select it and press B to consume it, apply that tier to your backpack, and open the backpack.
Added config options Tier{n}_Price (defaults: 25, 75, 150, 300, 500) for store prices.
Inventory UI is refreshed after consuming a backpack item so the hotbar slot updates immediately.
Already-purchased tiers no longer show in the Hardware Store: when adding listings we only add tiers the player has not yet purchased; when the player uses a backpack item (press B) we remove that tier and all lower tiers’s from all stores (each tier is an upgrade; buying Tactical Pack means only Hiking Backpack remains).
Removed / simplified
Removed patches that blocked the backpack item from being added or that cleaned it up in the background; the item is now a normal purchasable that you use with B.
Removed PlayerInventoryPatch and InventoryAddBlockPatch; removed OnEnable patch from ShopInterfacePatch. Purchase and payment are handled entirely by the game; our shop patch only adds tier listings and returns without running purchase logic for them.
1.0.0
Initial port of ScheduleOne-Backpack (v1.8.1) by D-Kay into the PackRat project structure
Full cross-runtime support: IL2CPP (net6) and Mono (netstandard2.1)
Backpack storage entity attached to player prefab via PlayerSpawner patch
