I made a post about this 2 years ago and it didn’t get much visibility. I just wanted to post about it again, hoping that with the launch coming up that it will be seen by more people and get more input. I also apologize for the wall of text.
I love the autosort feature. It’s amazing. What I don’t like, however, is going to my stash, sorting, and having an entire column at the end completely open, but unable to put most of my 2 wide items. Almost every item in this game is 2 boxes wide. Boots, chests, helms, weapons, shields, belts, catalyst, etc. There are only a few things that are only 1 box wide. These include rings, amulets, vertical idols, keys, and shards (maybe some other stuff?). What this means, is that when you have an autosort feature that rearranges things horizontally in your inventory or stash, those single stack items will go last, and take up the last columns of space. This means that after you autosort, could have 10+ boxes of space (vertical), but not be able to put your boots inside.
So that explains the problem. Here is my solution. When the autosort feature is clicked, sort every slot based on having a width of 2 boxes. That way all single items will go side by side in the last 2 columns, and other 2 width items will still be able to fit. The stash tab has 12 boxes for a row (horizontal) and 17 boxes for a column (vertical). So that’s 12x17, or 204 boxes total. I’m gonna use this in the example below.
For an example, lets say I have the first 10 boxes of rows completely filled vertically, and then I have like 20 rings on top of that. When I hit the autosort feature currently, the second to last column will fill vertically with 17 rings, then the last column will have 3 rings leftover. That leaves 14 boxes available, in the last column, vertically. I can’t put any boots, weapons, helms, anything else into the box however. With my suggestion, the rings would stack side by side, so they would take up the last 2 columns, 10 rows down. That would leave 7 rows left, with 2 columns. Those 14 boxes are now able to put in many different items, such as boots, helms, weapons, and even a few more belts. This would be a huge QoL in sorting and quickly adding items to the stash. It also would help your inventory, for picking up items. Also, I’m sorry if that was a little complex to follow.
TLDR: Make autosort work based on 2 width of boxes (helms, weapons, etc). That way, 1 width items (rings, amulets, etc) don’t fill the last 2 columns vertically first, preventing you from adding these wider items to the stash and inventory.