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[[Image:Stash_chest.jpg|right|thumb|200px150px|The stash in-game.]]A '''Stash''' is a chest where a player can store [[items]]. It is an important function in the Diablo franchise, since collecting items is a big an essential part of each game. Characters can access their stashes from towns and cities in game, and the stashes are stash is shared between all of the characters in the account, unlike in Diablo II where each character had their own individual stash. Note that [[Hardcore]] characters do not share a stash with softcore characters, nor can they trade between each other. ==Number of Stash Tabs== The Stash is divided into "tabs" each of which displays a full page of empty stash space. Only the top couple of rows of stash space are available to a new account (or at the start of a season) and players must purchase more rows in the first Tab, then buy additional tabs via in-game gold. [[File:Stash-buy-4th-tab-300k.jpg|thumb|200px|Purchase additional stash tabs.]]* Diablo 3 launched with four stash tabs, which players unlocked by purchasing them with in-game gold. * A fifth stash tab was added in [[Patch 2.1]] in August 2014, [[Reaper of Souls]] only. * A sixth tab was added in [[Patch 2.4.0]], purchasable for 500,000 gold.* The 7-10th tabs were added as a reward for working through the [[Season Journey]] starting in [[Season Five]], at the rate of one tab per season.** In Season Five players had to work through the [[Conqueror]] level in the [[Seasonal Journey]] to earn a tab. Requirements may change in future seasons.** Only one additional tab can be earned each season, and if players skip a season, they will only earn one (not two or more) picking back up a season or two later. ==Inadequate Storage Space Complaints== One of the biggest and longest-running complaints of many players is that the game does not provide adequate stash space. These complaints have only intensified over time, especially into the Reaper of Souls era, as each patch added additional top quality items, more viable builds, and a general increase in variety and quality of gear, causing players to want to store more and more of it for possible later use. An August 2014 vote measured fan opinion and came back with a clear answer:[http://www.diabloii.net/blog/comments/the-diablo-3-stash-is-way-too-small] <blockquote>How do you feel about stash space in Reaper of Souls? * 1) I need WAY more stash space. This is one of the game's worst problems. (58%, 950 Votes)* 2) I'd like more space, but it's not a huge deal. (31%, 515 Votes)* 3) The current stash space is okay. (5%, 84 Votes)* 4) There's more than enough space for people who aren't total pack rats. (5%, 76 Votes)* 5) No opinion/not sure. (1%, 10 Votes)Total Voters: 1,635</blockquote> ===Chinese Diablo 3: Stash for Cash=== In October of 2014 Josh Mosqueira commented on selling more stash space without giving a yes or no answer.[http://www.diabloii.net/blog/comments/stash-for-cash-diablo-3s-storage-crisis] <blue><font color="#FFFFFF">Q: This could be a controversial question. One problem people have in Diablo is character and stash space. Can we buy more inventory space or character space in Diablo 3?</font>Answer: Will we have a store to sell more stash space? Everyone wants that. Not specifically the store aspect, but we’re always discussing the issue of more space. And if we give you more you want more, and more and more and eventually all the internet is your items. We think about it and we want to address it, but nothing to say now.</blue> [[File:China-stash2.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Chinese D3: Stash for Cash]]In February 2015 Blizzard announced[http://www.diabloii.net/blog/comments/microtransactions-coming-diablo-3-asian-realm] that the upcoming release of Diablo 3 in China would be a free to play game, funded via microtransactions. These would allow games to purchase powerups to boost experience and gold and item finding, as well as "stash for cash," the option for players to buy more inventory space for money. The full details of this system were not revealed until May 2015[http://www.diabloii.net/blog/comments/diablo-3-in-china-cash-for-stash-details-revealed] when the Diablo 3 beta test got underway in China, and when the details were known... fans in the US and Europe were actually quite supportive. Envious, even, with many voting that they'd like to see that system come to their home regions. ==More Tabs from Seasonal Journey== Blizzard avoided answering the stash space issue until finally in late 2015 they revealed that the next patch ([[Patch 2.4]]) would add an additional sixth stash tab for everyone, and that each season after that would give players the chance to earn another stash tab via the [[Season Journey]]. [http://www.diabloii.net/blog/comments/no-stash-for-cash-season-journey-for-stash-tabs] <blue>Grimiku: In patch 2.4.0 everyone can purchase up to 6 stash tabs with gold. However, starting with Season 5, players will also be able to earn an additional stash tab by completing specific objectives in the Season’s Journey (for a total of 7). In the next season in which they participate they’ll be able to earn another stash tab for a total of 8. Each season (starting with Season 5) offers the chance to earn 1 more stash tab until the maximum of 10 has been reached. Grimiku: Yes, stash tabs opened up via Season’s Journey will also unlock them in non-season. Currently those additional tabs open up immediately, and do not require waiting till the end of the season to benefit non-season stash space.</blue> Once this feature went live in Patch 2.4 in early 2016, fans immediately clamored that it wasn't enough additional space, and that the requirements to earn the tab in the Season Journey were too steep, especially for non-Seasonal players.[http://www.diabloii.net/diablo-3-patch-2-4-stash-space-complaints]
==Shared Stash==
The stash is natively "unlocked" for the player. It doesn't have to be unlocked via a [[quest]] like the [[Cauldron of Jordan]] or the [[Nephalem Cube]] were. It is available as soon as the player enters [[New Tristram]].
===Upgrading the Stash===
[[Image:Inventory jan 2012.jpg|thumb|300px200px|left|The stash [[interface]].]] The stash is considered a [[gold sink]]. The player begins with 7x2 (14 squares) of inventory space, which is equivalent to seven pieces of larger gear, or [[items]] which only take up one inventory space, such as [[amulet]]s, or [[scroll]]s.
The stash can be upgraded in 4 increments of 14 squares. Each set of two rows costs 10,000 gold each. After the player has maxed out the first page of the stash, they will be able to purchase an entirely new tab for a substantial gold cost. The tab begins the same as the natural stash: 7x2, and can be upgraded further, up to a grand total of 210 inventory squares. The total amounts per tab have been calculated during the Diablo III [[Beta]] test <ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?818819-Got-an-Extra-Million-Gold-Lying-Around Got an Extra Million Gold Lying Around?] - IncGamers Forum, 27-12-2011</ref> and are shown in a table below.
===Hardcore Death & The Stash===
Hardcore characters do not have access to nor can trade with any softcore characters on the same account. If a Hardcore character dies any items they have placed in the shared stash will not be lost. All items on their person and inventory will however be lost with the character when it dies.<ref>[http://blues.incgamers.com/Posts/11/1/45/850/124329/hardcore-and-stash#postId_324360 Hardcore and stash] - Blizzard, 19/10/11</ref>