In Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, Sam's backpack, aside from his little baby Lou, is his best friend. There are plenty of items you can make, weapons you can use, tools you cꦕan utilise. But his backpack is the one constant in this entire journey to connect Australia and Mexico to the Chiral Network. So it only makes sense that Sam can put a personal touch onto it.

Sam's backpack is more than just for carrying cargo, though. You can personalise it to your own preference, but you can add a series of component🐓s to it to give it new and unique functions as well. And here's how to do so.

How To Customise Your Backpack

Customising your backpack is simple. It can only be done while in a private room, though that's the only requirement. Once Sam is in his room, all he has to do is look at the backpack hanging up on the wall and click 'Square' to bring up the customisation menu.

From here, you can change the colour of your backpack, where and what patches are on it, and create new components for it, too. Your backpack does have limited space💙 though, so only put on what you really want to make sure you have the space for everything.

How To Unlock New Backpack Colours

The very first feature of backpack customisation available to you is the ability to change its colour. While this has no impact on your visibility like the camo of Sam's outfits do, it 🗹does 𝕴still pay to have a nice coloured backpack. It's what you'll spend most of the game looking at, after all.

The colour can be changed completely free-of-charge, with no materials or Chiral Crystals needed to do so. There's only a small selection at the beginning, but each new connection level you make with The Artist prepper will unlock new colours for you to use.

These colours can also be applied to Sam's outfit, BB's pod, and Dollm♎an's suit.

How To Unlock New Backpack Attachments And Accessories

After the colours, there are three other major ways of customising your backpack. These are Patches, Components, and Attachments. Patches are purely aesthetic, and take up very little space on the backpack. Components offer new functions and abilities for both Sam and his backpack, and consequently take up much more space. Accessories dangle from your backpack, and offer a unique,ꦍ though typically less directly useful, effect.

๊Each of these are unlocked differently. Here's h🗹ow.

Patches

As you might expect from Patches being purely for visuals, there are quite a few of them. All of them are very small, taking up a single spot on the whole backpack. These are unlocked in a variety of different ways, though the vast majority of them come from maxing out your connection level with any prepper. Each prepper has a unique patch for Sam.

When choosing what to put on your backpack, you should absolutely prioritise Components. Patches are mor🍬e for customising the space that's left over after putting on all the components you want.

Components

Components are where the backpack really shines in terms of customisation. As you progress through the game, completing main orders and increasing your connection level with preppers, you will unlock even more components to use. These can take up quite a bit of space, so make sure you're o♛nly putting 🎀on the ones you need so you're not over-packing your backpack.

As we advance through the game, this table will be updated with even more of the backpack co🍌mponents.

Most of the components work in a rather unique way. Rather than being one-and-done, they can be increased in strength. The more you equip, the more powerful they are. You can equip all G𒈔renade Pouches if you want, or put multiple Antigravity Devices to make Sam's cargo light as air. It's all up to you, and you can change it whenever you want for a very small material cost.

You cannot, however, store backpack components to equip later. If they're not equipped🌼, they will be automatically recycled for their creation cost after you have completed c💧ustomising the backpack.

Accessories

Accessories are♕ the rarest items of all, and only one can be equipped to your backpaℱck at a time. These offer brand-new effects unlike any other items you can equip to your backpack. Unlike both Patches and Components, however, they are not crafted.

Instead, all Accessories are given to you by preppers and other characters you meet. For example, the earliest Accessory you are likely to come across is the Porter Accessory. This is given to you by the Bokka back in Mexico once you reach Connection level 4 with him. This allows you to see theꦉ location of other NPC porters on the map.

There are plenty others for you to find, either as rewards for completing certain orders, or from the aforementioned preppers with increas🔥ed Connection levels.