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Under CanopiesAn independent field guide

Crafting

Choose the station problem first. Craft a Workbench, then follow the complete Wood Cutter blueprint-to-planks chain. At a selected Workbench project, the ingredient shortcut can save menu changes; nearby storage is a separate available-material check. Rope and ordinary Log have dedicated pages in Resources, while animal-earned recipe unlocks are in Animals.

Under Canopies: unlock the Wood Cutter and make planks Craft a Workbench in Under Canopies Craft basic ingredients at the Under Canopies Workbench All crafting guides

Building

Open a structure: repair the Old Farm entrance before looking for its blueprint table. At camp, refuel an existing standing torch or use your placed tent's map marker to find your way back. Each route starts from the object it needs: the boarded farm door, a placed torch or a placed tent.

Repair the Old Farm door in Under Canopies Refuel a standing torch in Under Canopies Find your camping tent on the Under Canopies map All building guides

Controls

Inventory tasks come first: Pickup Filter changes automatic collection, while Empty Hands changes the held item. To preserve progress, use the pause-menu Save Game action and check its confirmation. For screen visibility, P hides or restores the HUD. Each page states its PC and patch scope.

Set the automatic pickup filter in Under Canopies Put your held item away in Under Canopies Hide and restore the Under Canopies HUD with P All controls guides

Animals

Choose the next animal task. Prepare housing by crafting and placing the Chicken Coop after learning its blueprint. For a missing chicken pet prompt, check the current stage and close targeting; for deer, drinking comes before stew. Rabbit friendship unlocks the Iron Pan, while the new 0.6.25 gift-bag page covers an earned reward that cannot fit in inventory. Each guide labels its actual source version.

Under Canopies: craft and place a Chicken Coop Under Canopies: pet a chicken when the prompt is missing Under Canopies: check the deer’s drinking step before stew All animals guides

Resources

Match the missing material before gathering. Ordinary Log comes from the axe-and-dead-tree task; Rope is crafted from Fiber Plant in Inventory. Check the station recipe’s exact name and amount, then return to the Workbench or Wood Cutter chain. These pages cover the available early materials, not a complete resource map.

Under Canopies: get ordinary Log with an axe Craft Rope in Under Canopies All resources guides

Farming

Start with the blocker: seeds cannot go into wild soil, so check the Farming Bed prerequisite first. If your supply is gone, the Old Farm page gives a confirmed player destination for replacement corn. If corn is already growing, use the watering-can E interaction and check its plaque. These are different tasks; no exact respawn or harvest timer is promised.

Under Canopies: seeds need a Farming Bed, not wild soil Under Canopies: check the old farmhouse for more corn Under Canopies: water planted corn and check its status All farming guides

Controls

Put your held item away in Under Canopies

Steam PC (Windows) · Put away the held item · Checked 2026-11-02

The short answer

Select the Empty Hands slot at the start of the hotbar. It puts the item you are holding away without using up an inventory slot.

The patch notes do not specify a numbered hotkey or universal controller button for this slot.

On this page

Before you start

An EA version with the Empty Hands slot introduced in 0.6.23.
Access to the hotbar while you are holding an item.

Select the Empty Hands slot

Look at the start of your hotbar.
Select Empty Hands using your current hotbar control.
Check that the previously held item is no longer in your hands.

Original schematic: start of hotbar, select Empty Hands, held item put away without clearing inventory space. — Original explanatory schematic based on the cited 0.6.23 source. This is not a game screenshot or the actual interface layout.Open full image ↗

A clearer view for screenshots

Putting a held item away is separate from hiding the HUD. The P shortcut added in 0.6.24 hides the HUD when you want a clean gameplay screenshot.

Hide and restore the HUD with P — The HUD shortcut changes on-screen information; Empty Hands changes what you hold.

If it does not work

You are looking for an empty inventory cell.: Use the dedicated Empty Hands slot at the start of the hotbar instead.
The slot is absent.: Check the installed version: this specific feature was added in EA 0.6.23. This page does not establish an equivalent shortcut for older versions.

How to know you are done

Your held item is put away, and you did not have to clear an inventory slot to do it.

Sources & version

Applies to Introduced in EA 0.6.23; latest official patch checked: 0.6.25. The cited older source is not a v0.6.25 gameplay replay. on Steam PC (Windows). Sources observed 2026-11-02. Updated 2026-11-02.

Official update 0.6.23: Easier Crafting, Smarter Pickups & Refuelable Torches — 0.6.23; observed 2026-11-02T14:45:00.189Z. Published patch notes, not a hands-on replay of Steam public build 26335062.
Official update 0.6.24: Better Building, Animal Rewards & Inventory Fixes — 0.6.24; observed 2026-11-02T14:44:45.324Z. Published patch notes, not a hands-on replay of Steam public build 26335062.