Check the Classification Before Taking the Item
An object's appearance is a poor substitute for the rules at your checkpoint. The Item Index helps you avoid both letting prohibited goods through and taking legal belongings unnecessarily. If you are looking up Airport Contraband how to use item index, start by identifying the object, opening its index information, and checking whether it is legal, restricted, or contraband before choosing confiscation or arrest.
Recorded Demo and prerelease player sessions show the handbook being used during tray, body, and luggage checks. Those recordings provide player experience of the interface; they are not proof that every keybinding has remained unchanged in the released game.
Follow the Documented Demo Opening Sequence
In a May developer response about the first-passenger tutorial, the developer describes this sequence:
- Open the queue and let the first passenger place the knife on the initial tray.
- Move the pointer over the knife to trigger its tutorial information.
- Press Q for the next instruction about checking the object.
- Press C to open the Item Index and continue the tutorial.
- Press Q again to close the index, then hover over the item and use the right mouse button to confiscate it.
This is a documented Demo tutorial sequence. It is useful when following that same introduction, but the reply does not establish a universal shortcut configuration for every build or a fix for every blocked tutorial. Use the prompts shown in your own game if they differ.
Turn the Information Into the Correct Decision
The index is most useful when it changes what you do with the object. In the recorded tutorial, a restricted item is confiscated, but the passenger is allowed to continue because that classification does not itself make possession a criminal offense.
The prerelease recording later introduces contraband as a separate class. Its tutorial requires taking the prohibited object and arresting the smuggler. A legal object, meanwhile, should not be confiscated merely because it looks unusual.
| Classification in the documented tutorial | What the inspection calls for |
|---|---|
| Legal | Leave it with the passenger unless another active rule or task changes the decision. |
| Restricted | Confiscate the object; the introductory rule does not require arrest for that alone. |
| Contraband | Follow the contraband instruction to confiscate and arrest. |
Cartel tasks can deliberately ask you to break normal procedure. Check those instructions separately rather than treating a cartel request as a change to an item's legal classification.
Use It Throughout the Search
The first knife is only the introduction. During later inspections, check unfamiliar items found on the body or inside luggage instead of relying on memory from a different version.
The Demo footage itself illustrates why version context matters: its item pool and available mechanics are limited, and later prerelease footage introduces additional classifications and tasks. The official Steam page describes the wider inspection game, including concealed items and changing decisions.
FAQ
Which key opens the Item Index?
The developer's May Demo instructions use C after the Q tutorial step. Follow your current on-screen binding if it is different.
Does checking an item confiscate it?
No. Checking the index informs the decision; confiscation is a separate action in the documented sequence.
Are restricted items and contraband the same?
No. The recorded tutorials distinguish confiscating restricted goods from the confiscation-and-arrest response to contraband.