Moghouse Beautification: The storage space trade off

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Originally Posted by Mayoyama

Hi all,

In light of the recent fat chocobo discussion, I would like to offer an idea I thought of.

Being able to decorate one's moghouse allows people to take pride in their home; full of memories and trophies/memorabilia. However, doing so comes at a cost to potential storage space for gear/seal/etc.

Would it be possible to create another form of storage "Mog Warehouse" (just a made up name) that could store furniture-specific items and from which people could decorate their moghouses? If this was possible, then people could be able to freely decorate their moghouses without the current storage space penalty of "Mog safe"/"Mog Storage" (obviously setting a storage limit of say 30 items in the "Mog Warehouse").

Could make it a set of quests like the "Mog Safe" upgrade quests.

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I think but I'm not sure about all of them but.... If you look on the item's you can place in your mog house
they create 1 storage spot available so when you place them into your mog house they give one spot to store them self's
so it doesn't take up a storage spot.

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Originally Posted by Mayoyama

Hi all,

In light of the recent fat chocobo discussion, I would like to offer an idea I thought of.

Being able to decorate one's moghouse allows people to take pride in their home; full of memories and trophies/memorabilia. However, doing so comes at a cost to potential storage space for gear/seal/etc.

Would it be possible to create another form of storage "Mog Warehouse" (just a made up name) that could store furniture-specific items and from which people could decorate their moghouses? If this was possible, then people could be able to freely decorate their moghouses without the current storage space penalty of "Mog safe"/"Mog Storage" (obviously setting a storage limit of say 30 items in the "Mog Warehouse").

Could make it a set of quests like the "Mog Safe" upgrade quests.

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I would love something like this. o_o!!!

I would also like to have more "physical" space in my mog house. As in, more space on the floor to place more objects!
I've always felt that it was too small. v-v;;

That aside, great idea OP! ^_^

i never post here but i must say that this is a vary good idea, thanks for bringing it up.

The mog house could be fixed by creating a new entry called Mog House instead of mog safe.

1st rename mog safe to mog house and make it only capable of storing furniture. Previous non-furniture items that are in the mog house can be removed just not placed in the mog house inventory again.

2nd Recreate the Mog Safe in all it's glory without the furniture taking up it's space.


A lot of special inventories could be made for special item types.

Key Chain (keys only)
Link shells (link shells pearls etc.)
Medicines (potions foods consumables)
Crystals (Crystals and Clusters)

Same could be done with the mog house.

This seems like a good thread to point out that there's a great opportunity with the new expansion to overhaul the whole mog house situation. If we're getting our own islands, can we not have our own literal Mog Houses? Much larger areas to furnish? Many new furnishings to arrange in different rooms? Each room having its own elemental feng shui alignment for multiple concurrent Moghancements? (Srsly, you guys, totally sick of switching back and forth between Cooking and Fishing). This would be the perfect opportunity to revamp the whole paradigm of MH and how it relates to Storage.

Edit: also as regards crafting, can our islands not have new GP furnishings? A smithing forge? A carpentry workshop? Etc. I'd love for my island to host a 24/7 bazaar of my goods where others could come and purchase without me having to be logged on. I had visions of this when the stalls were announced.

If they add this, all we'll need then is a reason to be in our home nation mog houses so we can actually see our furnishings.

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Originally Posted by Ritsuka

I think but I'm not sure about all of them but.... If you look on the item's you can place in your mog house
they create 1 storage spot available so when you place them into your mog house they give one spot to store them self's
so it doesn't take up a storage spot.

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But it does take up a (very useful) storage spot. Not only that, but the one it "creates" you can't access from anywhere but in your home nation. Creating a category of storage just for furniture ensures that no useful inventory space is wasted, and it allows you to actually decorate your MH any way you see fit which is a wonderful solution. On the flipside, if you're ok with a barren MH then you should just be using a Panetiere (65 storage) and 6-Drawer Almirah (15 storage).

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Originally Posted by Mayoyama

Any word from the devs about changes to the furniture system? It currently takes up a lot of room in Mog Safe, especially if you make it look cozy... moving that furniture into it's own container and freeing up space would spark a wave of interior decorating!

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Hey Mayoyama,

This is a great idea and we can certainly understand your request for more room to decorate your Mog House. As mentioned in the Storage Woes: Fat Chocobo thread the development team is looking into ways to add more inventory space that would allow users more decorative freedom. However, since furniture, equipment, or consumable items take up the same amount of space/memory, we don't want to restrict the use of this valued storage upgrade to just furniture items. Therefore, if we are going to increase the total amount of inventory or storage slots, we would like to provide players with the freedom to use this new space as they please.

There have also been some calls for separating gardening from furnishing. Unfortunately, the pots and other things involved with gardening are managed by the furnishing system, so we are not able to separate these two elements at this time.

Finally, we saw an idea about turning furnishings into moogle slips or key items. These systems were set up based on the idea that several types of items or combinations of specific items would be remembered, so it's not possible to apply it towards physical items.

Currently storage has deep roots weaved into the item management system, so steering away from this setup too much would make item management increasingly difficult and time consuming.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Hey Mayoyama,

This is a great idea and we can certainly understand your request for more room to decorate your Mog House. As mentioned in the Storage Woes: Fat Chocobo thread the development team is looking into ways to add more inventory space that would allow users more decorative freedom. However, since furniture, equipment, or consumable items take up the same amount of space/memory, we don't want to restrict the use of this valued storage upgrade to just furniture items. Therefore, if we are going to increase the total amount of inventory or storage slots, we would like to provide players with the freedom to use this new space as they please.

There have also been some calls for separating gardening from furnishing. Unfortunately, the pots and other things involved with gardening are managed by the furnishing system, so we are not able to separate these two elements at this time.

Finally, we saw an idea about turning furnishings into moogle slips or key items. These systems were set up based on the idea that several types of items or combinations of specific items would be remembered, so it's not possible to apply it towards physical items.

Currently storage has deep roots weaved into the item management system, so steering away from this setup too much would make item management increasingly difficult and time consuming.

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I think you're missing the point. Nobody wants furniture specific storage to be mutually exclusive from an upgrade / expansion to normal storage inventory. People want both.

I want is a place to put decorative items that doesn't feel like it's eating up space that could be used for useful items. While it might be eating up the same resources from your perspective, it doesn't necessarily do so from ours. If inventory expansion was being held back for some kind of balance reasons and not technical reasons, I see no reason why a separate furniture storage could not be added in addition to another palette of normal storage.

Can Linkshells at least be turned into something like "attachements" which wouldn't take up inventory?