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Under Canopies: collect an animal gift when inventory is full

Steam PC (Windows) · Official animal-reward change in 0.6.25 · Checked 2026-11-02

The short answer

If an animal gift does not fit, look for the collectible bag placed in front of you. Make inventory space and collect it manually.

Do not wait for Pickup Filter to take the gift automatically. Official 0.6.25 excludes animal gifts and bags from automatic pickup, and says this reward bag remains available after saving and loading.

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Before you start

  • Have actually earned an animal reward that cannot fit in inventory.
  • Use the 0.6.25 behavior. This does not describe an unearned reward or a blueprint that has never been unlocked.

Look for the bag in front of you

Official 0.6.25 changes the full-inventory case: the gift is placed in a collectible bag in front of the player. Look there rather than keep waiting for repeated item drops.

Make room for the reward before collecting it with the game’s displayed manual interaction. The patch does not give one universal reward size or a pickup key, so neither is invented here.

Original task-order schematic: Earned gift cannot fit in inventory; Find the bag placed in front of you; Make space and collect it manually.
Original editorial schematic of the cited sequence. This is not a screenshot, map or recreation of menu positions.Open full image ↗

Collect manually and check the reward

Automatic pickup now focuses on natural resources and chopping or mining drops. Bags, animal gifts, blueprints and placed loot require manual collection. An enabled resource filter does not override that distinction.

After collecting, check the reward in your inventory or its learned-recipe destination as appropriate to the reward. If you need to save before collection, the official note says the bag remains available after saving and loading; use the normal confirmed-save procedure.

Separate an uncollected gift from an unfinished unlock

This change applies when a gift has been earned but cannot fit. It does not remove animal friendship requirements. For Iron Pan, the two-rabbit requirement is separately documented and receives clearer hints in the same update.

If it does not work

Pickup Filter is enabled but the bag stays on the ground
Collect it manually. Bags and animal gifts are outside automatic pickup in 0.6.25.
There is still no room for the gift
Free suitable inventory space before trying again; the source does not establish a universal number of slots.
You have not completed the animal’s requirement
This bag rule only handles an earned gift that cannot fit. Follow the animal’s current progression instead of expecting a bag to grant an unfinished unlock.

How to know you are done

  • You manually collect the earned gift and can find it in your inventory. A bag waiting on the ground means collection is still unfinished.

Sources & version

Applies to Steam PC Early Access update 0.6.25, published November 2, 2026; official full patch body observed November 2 PST / November 3 UTC. Not a local gameplay replay. on Steam PC (Windows). Sources observed 2026-11-02. Updated 2026-11-02.

  1. Official update 0.6.25 — rain, animal gifts and automatic pickup — Official 0.6.25, published November 2, 2026 at 23:36:31 UTC; observed 2026-11-02. Fresh official Steam news API returned the full Novemtails-authored article at November 3 02:33:27 UTC / November 2 PST. The external official URL was resolved with HTTP 200 to this canonical announcement.