They are worth a lot and u can put an item inside of them so they don't take an inventory slot

For extra totem. Need the bag to have it activated as a third totem.

Only some totem's work when you have them inside the bag and you carry it with you .. like resistance , health regen and my favorite that you must have in my opinion is immune to bleed .

in farm town there is a boss that patrols marked with ??? on map
and its drop can only be extracted if its inside one of the bags

Anything else besides totems that you can carry in these bags that gives you extras?

someone said the eggshell EDIT HAT would regen hp carried inside the tote bag.
but just one random person in a thread. i never felt the need to try it or wanted to try it.

Tote Bag should originally meant to be joke item with the unintentional use of able to bring limited items outside the map.
The text on the bag reads 尿素, or urea in English. It's an ongoing satire spread across Chinese online forums that luxury brands make ugly tote bags. For instance, Balenciaga's Ikea bag.
Moreover, Decathlon in China intentionally released an outdoor backpack that looks like a crappy urea bag, but with much cheaper price. Targeting those luxury brands with similar designs but inflated price.

I tested Tote bags and totems.

You get super fast healing to full health. So far I only got 85hp, still it heals that very fast.
Totem Physical RES has immune to bleed and it works to when inside of tote bag.
I dont got other totems now but I continue to test.

So far these work fine and I noticed, there is no limit apparently. I got Tote bags and put into them 10 Recovery III totems and the effect stacks :D
You get massive fast healing after 10 seconds of no damage.

Originally posted by Nyu:

someone said the eggshell EDIT HAT would regen hp carried inside the tote bag.
but just one random person in a thread. i never felt the need to try it or wanted to try it.

Hey this works! I put in broken eggshell in Tote bag and it heals while in combat and outside of it! Feels like cheating tho. Makes game very easy if you stack few of those.
Anyways it worked :)

yeah its cheating since obviously not intentional.

Originally posted by Wardemon:

I tested Tote bags and totems.

You get super fast healing to full health. So far I only got 85hp, still it heals that very fast.
Totem Physical RES has immune to bleed and it works to when inside of tote bag.
I dont got other totems now but I continue to test.

So far these work fine and I noticed, there is no limit apparently. I got Tote bags and put into them 10 Recovery III totems and the effect stacks :D
You get massive fast healing after 10 seconds of no damage.

are you sure you dont use a mod? i didnt play the recent update but i know before that the effects of recovery totems didnt stack using the same, it did work with using the different once. like recovery I + II + III

Nope, I dont have mod. The totem slots work as you said, you cant stack two but on tote bags they seem to stack.
Also why is it cheating? Where is description should it work like this or should not work at all? Also singleplayer game, who cares if you play as you will. I myself wont play using them because it makes game too easy and loses the fun factor. I just tested because I wondered why are the tote bags ingame. Still I dont find what they really are used for and why the totems works in them.

Originally posted by Tanktyr:

yeah its cheating since obviously not intentional.

I also agree that this is a bug and a scam, but the current generation of players are so happy to exploit bugs, vulnerabilities in the game and cheats for profit, rather than relying on their ability to act rationally in the heat of battle with enemies, to improve their skill, they just want to be immortal, like anime heroes, it's just awful.

I heard that Jeff, a member of the dev team, initially planned to fix this bug, but after seeing player feedback, he said, "I'm not really sure if this counts as a bug anymore."
Also, it’s not just non-numerical effects of Totems and egg shell in Tote Bags—putting a Fisherman’s Hat in tote Bags also gives a healing effect.