Stash Tabs Explained

Stash Tabs are a form of storage space accessible from towns or hideouts. Stash Tabs have considerably more storage space than the player’s inventory and also grant substantially more functionality, including the ability to list items for sale or sort items into specific Stash Tabs automatically. For more information about how to use Stash Tabs to sell your items, use our Trading Guide for Beginners, or the Bulk Selling Guide.

Players start the game with 4 Basic Stash Tabs, with additional Tabs being purchasable via the In-Game Store.

Stash Tabs are sold in Path of Exile's Microtransaction Shop (keybound to M in-game). Some stash tabs are able to store any (non-quest) Path of Exile item, but others are more specialized. When a tab is more specialized, it offers more space for the items. For example the Gem Tab exclusively stores and sorts up to 500 Gems.

Affinities are a crucial part of farming in Path of Exile as they drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to sort through the items you are farming. After setting up your Affinities, items like Maps, Currency, Essences, Divination Cards, and Fossils, are sorted automatically. So all you need to deal with are items without a matching affinity like Rare Gear or Cluster Jewels.

Stash Tab Affinities are enabled within a tab's menu and allow you to assign an affinity type to the tab. Once you assign an affinity, the corresponding items automatically go to this tab when stashed.

Once your affinities are assigned, click the gear icon pictured below (located at the top right of your stash tabs) to open up a small menu for Affinity settings.

The Affinity configuration allows you to automatically send items in your Inventory to the tab corresponding with their Affinity type by simply Control + Left Clicking them while your Stash is open.

*NOTE: If you enable Affinity Auto-Navigation, whenever you stash an item of the appropriate affinity this becomes the active tab. Most players find this annoying so our advice is to leave it disabled.

Unfortunately, not all items in Path of Exile correspond to an Affinity, these include:

Although Heist Rogue Gear doesn't have an Affinity, all other Heist related items do. Contracts, Blueprints and Rogue Markers are assigned the Heist Affinity by accessing the Heist Locker.

Some League Mechanics have their own dedicated storage space, or crafting UI, some examples of this include the Harvest Crafting Bench where players used to store their crafts, or the Sentinel Locker for saving & combining Sentinels. You can always check the Decorations tab in your Hideout to see if there's a Locker or Bench you're missing!

Use Stash Tab folders to group and organize your Stash Tabs. This functionality is very basic and does not allow much more than grouping, however it is still highly useful for some players with an abundance of tabs and a need for additional organization.

Unlike Premium Tabs, Stash Tab Folders don't have a recolor option. Therefore it is ideal to space them out so that your Stash Tabs are visually readable at a glance.

A great way to use Stash Tab Folders are to store spare tabs that you aren't currently using. This allows you to access the tabs that you consider important without having to scroll between them. Once you own more than 30 Tabs, even the side bar will require you to scroll in order to navigate your tabs.

Grinding Gear Games frequently holds Stash Tab sales, so whether you're looking to pick up the basics or grab some additional useful tabs, here's the most important tabs to buy. You can buy as many copies of a tab as you desire, but the more specialized tabs typically don't offer as much value from buying repeat copies due to their expanded but situational storage.

These are the most impactful Stash Tab purchases for new players because they allow you to engage in the typical gameplay loop of mapping and selling far more effectively than the other options. Your first 315 Points spent should absolutely go towards buying these tabs!

These Tabs offer a lot of storage for items players pick up frequently or in large amounts. The Divination and Essence tabs significantly improve the storage available in your regular tabs by removing common items such as Essences and Divination cards, whereas a Quad Tab enables more efficient dumping. Some players prefer to use multiple Quad Tabs over additional Premium Tabs, others buy 1 Quad Tab to use as a main dump tab and call it a day.

These tabs generally aren't as useful as the first two categories. However, they remain very space efficient for the price. Each tab costs the same amount as a Premium Tab but stores 5,000 of each stackable item and at least 50 of the unstackable items. If you're looking for more trading space, pick up extra Premium Tabs.

Most players won't need these tabs, as not many players collect large amounts of Gems or Flasks. Similarly, the Unique Tab functions more like a collection tool than storage. It has room for exactly one of every Unique item in Path of Exile. If you're playing in Solo Self-Found, it's a great way to save space and keep track of your Uniques. Lastly, the Basic Tabs have severely limited functionality, so you're almost always better off buying a Premium Tab.