Big Walk Backpack: Where to Find It & How to Use It

Find one of the six verified Backpack locations, have a teammate attach it to your back, then carry an extra compatible item without keeping it in your hands.

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6 verified Backpack locations
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Quick Answer

Backpacks sit inside blue round or spiral bag pavilions around the island, and six of those pavilions are verified Backpack locations. Pick one up, then have another player attach it to your back. Wearing it is also what unlocks Big Pack.

Where Do You Want to Start?

Find the Nearest Backpack How to Equip It Backpack Missing?Get Big Pack

What Does a Backpack Look Like?

The Backpack is not shaped like a normal bag, which is why players walk straight past the thing they came for.

Looks like

An open rack-like frame in a bright colour — that frame standing inside the pavilion is the Backpack itself.

Not like

A soft fabric backpack with shoulder straps. If you are searching for that shape, you are looking for the wrong object.

The item itself

Backpack in Big Walk — Once a teammate attaches it

A compatible item rides with the Backpack instead of occupying your hands, so your group can move one more thing at a time.

What Does a Backpack Location Look Like?

Every Backpack waits inside a small pavilion, so spotting the structure is most of the search.

Blue
Round or spiral
Short ramp
A Backpack frame inside

Which one do you reach first?

Players on the opening island route past the Drawbridge pass Red Cone first, so that pavilion tends to be the earliest Backpack.

Where each pavilion sits inside its landmark is not confirmed yet — feedback welcome.

Show on Map

Find the Nearest Backpack

Pick the landmark you are closest to and open it on the map. From there, look for the blue pavilion inside that area.

Where are you?

Head for

Red Cone

Backpack

Show on Map

Exact positions inside a landmark are not confirmed yet — feedback welcome.

All Backpack Locations

These are the pavilions where a Backpack is actually waiting. Other pavilions in the world hold hip gear only, so not every blue building you pass has one.

6 verified Backpack locations.

Landmark	What is inside	Map
Crevasse	Backpack	Show on Map
Forest	Backpack	Show on Map
Monkey Creek	Backpack	Show on Map
Oberon	Backpack	Show on Map
Red Cone	Backpack	Show on Map
South Peak	Backpackalso has hip gear	Show on Map

Some pavilions carry hip gear instead of a Backpack. Those belong to the Holster, not here.

How to Equip a Backpack

You cannot put a Backpack on your own back. A second player does the attaching for you.

1
One player picks the Backpack up.
2
Both players stand next to each other.
3
The player holding it attaches it to the other player.
4
The Backpack now counts as worn rather than carried.

Playing alone? You can hold a Backpack, but you cannot wear one — the equip step needs a teammate.

Until it is attached, a Backpack is just another prop in your hands.

Worn one already?

Backpack worn on your character

Your answer is remembered on this device only.

How to Use a Backpack

A worn Backpack gives your group one more place to put a compatible item, so nobody has to hold it.

Three ways to carry something

Back — a compatible item riding on the Backpack.
Hip — hip gear, which is a separate system.
Hands — anything you can lift and hold.

1
Make sure the Backpack is worn.
2
Pick up an item that supports Backpack storage.
3
Use the storage interaction on it.

You know it worked when

✓ The item is no longer in your hands.
✓ It rides with the Backpack instead.

Some route objects follow their own rules, so not everything can be stored. If an item refuses to attach, check whether that item supports Backpack storage before treating it as a bug.

Backpack or Hip Bag?

Both are bags you wear, which is why the two get mixed up. They are different slots with different achievements.

Backpack vs Hip Bag

Backpack vs Hip Bag	Backpack	Hip Bag
Worn on	Back	Hip
Main job	An extra place for a Backpack-compatible item	An extra place for a hip item
Achievement	Big Pack	Big Help

One does not stand in for the other. Wearing a hip bag will not award Big Pack, and a Backpack will not award Big Help.

Holster and hip gear guide

Can This Item Go in the Backpack?

Type an item to see which carry method it uses.

Search an item

Type at least two characters to check an item.

Backpack Missing?

Work through these in order. Most missing Backpacks come from a finished session rather than a bug.

1A session just ended
Anything you were holding or wearing when the host ended the game is waiting in Lost & Found at the start of the next session.
2You put it down this session
Walk your route back. A dropped Backpack stays where you left it until the session ends.
3You are in a different world
Make sure you are continuing the same hosted journey before you assume it is gone.

Open Lost & Found Guide

Not sure whose world you are in? How hosting and saves work

Backpack Not Working?

Pick the symptom that matches what you are seeing.

I can't put it on

You cannot attach a Backpack to yourself. Ask another player to attach it to your back.

Fix →

Big Pack Achievement

The requirement is one line, but it is easy to think you have met it when you have not.

Official requirement

Wear a backpack.

Equipaggia uno Zaino.

Picking one up is not enough

1Pick up a Backpack.
2A teammate attaches it to your back.
3The Backpack becomes worn.
4Big Pack registers from that worn state.

If Big Pack has appeared, the game has registered the Backpack as worn. That is your confirmation that the equip step worked.

Holding a Backpack and wearing one look almost the same on screen, so check your character rather than your hands.

Where you are now

○ Backpack picked up
○ Backpack worn on your character
○ Big Pack

Not worn yet — the achievement is still ahead of you.

How to Equip It

Full Big Pack guide →

Big Walk Backpack FAQ

Dove posso trovare uno Zaino in Big Walk?: All'interno di un padiglione blu tondo o a spirale. Red Cone è quello che la maggior parte dei giocatori raggiunge per primo, e la mappa mostra gli altri. Posizioni degli zaini
Quante posizioni di Zaino ci sono?: Sei padiglioni contengono uno Zaino. Gli altri padiglioni del mondo contengono invece equipaggiamento da fianco. Trova il più vicino
Come si equipaggia uno Zaino?: Un compagno te lo aggancia sulla schiena. Tu lo tieni, lui lo posiziona, e diventa indossato. Passaggi per equipaggiare
Puoi agganciare lo Zaino a te stesso?: No. L'interazione di aggancio richiede un secondo giocatore, quindi organizza una partita con qualcun altro. Perché lo fa un compagno
A cosa serve lo Zaino?: Offre al tuo gruppo una posizione di trasporto in più per un oggetto che supporta il deposito nello Zaino, liberando le mani di chi lo indossa. Come funziona il deposito
Perché un oggetto non entra nel mio Zaino?: Non tutti gli oggetti supportano il deposito nello Zaino. Alcuni usano lo slot del fianco, altri restano nelle tue mani e altri ancora seguono regole proprie. Controlla un oggetto
Qual è la differenza tra uno Zaino e un marsupio?: Lo Zaino si indossa sulla schiena e assegna Grande zaino. Il marsupio sta sul fianco e assegna Grande aiuto. Confronta i due
Dove va il mio Zaino dopo la fine di una sessione?: Se lo stavi tenendo o indossando quando l'organizzatore ha terminato la partita, ti aspetta in Oggetti smarriti all'inizio della sessione successiva. Oggetti smarriti
Come si sblocca “Grande zaino”?: Indossa uno Zaino. Raccoglierlo non basta: l'obiettivo compare quando lo Zaino è agganciato al tuo personaggio. Guida a Grande zaino

Backpack locations and the Big Pack trigger last checked on 1 October 2026.