"Alright there's kinda a lot of it. Have you figured out your personal storage? It's probably the easiest way to keep track of it. I can also just stick it all directly into your storage if you'd like."

"I have no idea how my personal storage works but I should probably learn!"

"Here," she hands over a copper short sword, "You should feel the ability to put this into one of your quick access slots. If you focus on those you should be able to feel your storage and equipment slots."

A little dubiously, she tries it.

The sword vanishes from her hand and she can feel it in a slot. She can call it to either hand with a thought. If she focuses on the slots themselves suddenly there's a lot more of them it's hard to focus on anything else though. The storage slots are clearly in a cluster and there are a hundred of those. The quick access slots are also there and there's ten of those and then there's a fuzzy number of slots which must be the equipment slots. Those contain everything she's wearing including the map bracelet. She can move things from one slot to another.

Bizarre. Useful, though.

She swaps the sword back and forth from hand to hand a few times and then says, "Okay, I think I'm getting the hang of this."

"The other part of this system is stacked items. Here's an example." She hands over what seems to be a torch but when April holds it she knows immediately that it's actually a hundred torches. She also feels the ability to place torches anywhere within three meters. If she wanted to she could divide the stack.

"...whoa. How do I make things do that?"

"You should be able to do that for any stackable items if you're holding more than one. It would work with the coins you found as an example. Stackable items will also clump together if they're near each other on the ground."

"Let's see."

She goes through her collection and tries to stack all the things.

Fruit stacks when it's the same fruit. For some reason a clump of cherries stacks with a giant cherry. Weird smelly eggs stack. Coins stack. Leaves.... do not stack. Branches spontaneously turn into orderly wood planks upon being stacked. She planted all her acorns so she can't test those. Bark also doesn't stack.

If she separates the cherries again does she get clumps or giants or both or what?

One of each.

Weird.

Okay, enough dicking around, time to take this sword and go fight a slime.

Slimes are very findable. If she walks (or runs) a short ways in just about any direction she'll find on in short order. Like that blue one right there. It seems to notice her and start bouncing toward her.

Sword, meet slime. May your relationship be short and to the point.

This sword appears to be not the best it'll take a good five stabs for the slime to die. Once it does it drops a stack of two globs of slime and another stack with 8 of some orange material.

She picks it all up to bring back home and ask about.

"That was fast, how was your first fight with the local monsters? Oh and do you want the rest of your starting equipment?"

"It was short. Yes please. And what's this stuff?"

"That looks like Copper ore and slime. The Guide is the expert at what you can use things to craft but I know slime is mostly used to make torches and copper ore is mostly used to make copper bars."

"Fair enough. So what's the rest of the starting equipment?"

"Well we were just talking about crafting so here's the external storage and crafting system." She hands over three small cubes each of which will be a 2/3 of a meter on a side when placed. One is a stack of 25. "The one you have a bunch of is storage, those are upgradable, each can hold forty slots of stuff at the moment. The green one is an interface that lets your take things in and out and the blue one is the crafting system. It has special slots for crafting stations."

"... Okay, so, how do they all work, what are they for, what do I do with them?"

"Well, you'll get a whole bunch of stuff exploring this world and you'll want a bunch of it to craft stuff later so you need a place to put it all. As for how it works, you can access the interface or crafter by touching them after you place them down. You'll need to place them all touching each other for them to connect."