How to Expand Your Stash

Personal and Transfer Stashes

• ▸The Personal Stash is that character's private storage, opened at hub stash NPCs/chests.
• ▸The Transfer Stash is accessible to every character in the same mode (SC/HC), making it the hub for materials, components, and gear destined for alts.
• ▸Each starts with a single usable tab; locked tabs are bought with iron (prices shown on the tabs).
• ▸Soulbound items cannot enter the Transfer Stash (see the Soulbound section of Components and Augments).

Components and Materials Have Their Own Shared Pages (the v1.3.0.0 Overhaul)

v1.3.0.0 rebuilt the stash. It changes what your purchased tabs are for and how you move materials around.

• ▸Components and Crafting Materials now have dedicated shared pages of their own. They sit apart from the ordinary tabs that hold gear, so materials no longer eat into your paid tab space.
• ▸One button in your inventory deposits every Component and Crafting Material into those shared tabs, from anywhere in the world - no more deciding between dropping and hauling materials, and no more trips back to town purely to stow them.
• ▸Alongside that, objects that ask for crafting materials can now draw from the stash rather than only your inventory (the example Crate gives is the Treasure Trove, the chest you open with Dynamite and the like).
• ▸Every tab gained 5% more space, existing tabs included.
• ▸Stash pages can now be labeled and customized - worth redoing if you had assigned purposes to particular pages.
• ▸The patch notes do not say whether the new shared pages must be purchased or depend on DLC. Treat the in-game stash window as the final word.

DLC Determines What You Can Expand

• ▸With the base game alone, only the Transfer Stash can gain tabs.
• ▸Installing AoM unlocks Personal Stash expansion.
• ▸Installing FG raises the tab caps further for both stashes.
• ▸Exact per-tab prices and maximums vary with installed DLC - the in-game stash window is the authoritative display.

Softcore/Hardcore Separation and What Is Shared

• ▸All stash data - Personal and Transfer alike - is managed completely separately between Softcore and Hardcore. Items never cross modes.
• ▸The Transfer Stash spans difficulties (Normal/Elite/Ultimate); only the mode (SC/HC) splits it.
• ▸Blueprints, once learned, apply to every character in the same mode (regardless of difficulty). Vendor duplicate drops of learned blueprints (see Mid Game Money) - and since blueprint items themselves cannot cross modes either, a Hardcore profile must find and learn its own within Hardcore.
• ▸Starting Hardcore means rebuilding your stash, iron, and blueprint assets from scratch - plan accordingly.

1. Grim Dawn Japanese Wiki: Smuggler (Stash) — Confirms both stashes starting at one tab, the expansion scope (base = Transfer only, AoM adds Personal, FG adds more to both), and the complete Softcore/Hardcore separation of stash data. The page was last modified 2022-03-12 and does not reflect the v1.3.0.0 stash overhaul, so only the DLC expansion scope rests on it; the overhaul itself comes from the official patch notes.
2. Grim Dawn Japanese Wiki: FAQ — Confirms buying locked tabs with iron.
3. Grim Dawn Japanese Wiki: Blueprints — Confirms learned blueprints being shared by all characters regardless of difficulty, and the Softcore/Hardcore save separation preventing cross-mode sharing.
4. Grim Dawn Japanese Wiki: Items — Confirms Soulbound items being barred from the Transfer Stash.
5. Official Grim Dawn Game Guide: Service NPCs — Confirms that Smugglers provide both the personal and shared stash, that all Smugglers are interconnected so anything deposited with one is available at another, that shared stash tabs are bought with Iron Bits and unlock across all characters, and that hardcore and normal characters cannot reach each other's shared stash. This page likewise predates the v1.3.0.0 overhaul.
6. Official Crate Forum: Grim Dawn v1.3.0.0 + Hotfixes — Confirms the overhaul verbatim: "The Stash has been overhauled with new dedicated Component and Crafting Materials shared pages and +5% additional space per tab. In addition, stash pages can now be customized and labeled." and "New functionality has been added to the player inventory to instantly deposit all Components and Crafting Materials in their shared tabs from anywhere in the world. To support this, objects that ask for crafting materials (ex. Treasure Troves), can now also access the stash instead of just the inventory." The full patch was read through: these are the only stash-related changes, and nothing alters tab prices, tab caps, or the DLC expansion scope.
7. Official Crate Forum: Grim Dawn v1.3.0.4 + v1.3.0.5 — Official patch notes for the verified version (v1.3.0.5 is the latest as of 2026-08-05). No further stash changes; the only inventory-adjacent entry is a fix for potion modifier quest rewards vanishing when the inventory was full.