With this arrangement, if I need to heal up, I just hold Y + up. Here’s how I have mine set up: Image: FromSoftware/Bandai Namco via Polygon You could put other items in there, but those are the ones I found to be the most useful. Here you can assign each of the D-pad directions to your potions and your horse. But if you hit right on the d-pad, it’ll pop you over to an easy-to-miss series of boxes that represent your hotbar/quick pouch. On the left you’ll see familiar menu options, like your inventory and equipment.
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How to assign your items to the Elden Ring hotbar/quick pouch Specifically, we’re going to assign your two flasks, your physick, and your horse to the hotbar and make your life much, much better. (In-game it’s technically called the pouch, but you’d be forgiven for not knowing that.)īy default, one of those icons is a mostly-useless item that teleports you back to the last site of grace while removing all your carried runes. If you hold Triangle/Y during normal gameplay, you’ll see those four icons change to four new icons. To be clear, it’s not the four icons that live on the lower left corner of the screen, showing your equipped items, spells, and gear. What is Elden Ring’s hotbar (aka the quick pouch)?
It took me repeatedly hunting around the menus to figure out how to assign stuff to it. The game mentions it briefly very early on, but even the tooltip about it is vague. If you find yourself playing Elden Ring and not using your hotbar (also called the pouch), you’d be forgiven.