Island Sanctuary not Outdoor Furnishing Storage

This was an important piece of information shared in the Live Letter and it would be good to get the word out in advance.

We cannot use Island Sanctuary as a place to store outdoor furnishings that we're currently keeping in inventory or on retainers. How furnishings work in Island Sanctuary will be different from how they work in housing. It is somewhat based on the glamour system. My understanding of how it will work is a bit shaky since all I have to rely on is the subreddit translation by Miuna but here goes best that I can.

When we want to add furnishings to our Hideaway (the area where they can be placed will be marked in blue when the furnishing interface is open), we will apply an Island Prism to the item in our normal inventory. That will generate a copy of the item (that they seem to be calling a mirage?). If you want to use multiple of that item, you can apply multiple prisms to the same item to create multiple copies. You won't need multiples of the item in your inventory. The original item stays in your inventory and is not consumed so you could take an item currently placed at your house, copy it in Island Sanctuary then put it back at your house.

The furnishing interface will have a list of furnishings saved and furnishings placed. Once a furnishing has been saved to the list, you will not need to have it in your inventory to place it again. I could not tell from the translation if an Island Prism will be needed every time you want to place another item or only to save it to the list though I think it's needed to place.

The controls have the standard placement (still no Z axis) and rotation. Instead of the return to inventory bag or storeroom options, there's a single option to remove the furnishing (dispel the mirage?).

If anyone is able to give a clearer explanation of the process from another translation or source, feel free to add it. Someone in the chat during the stream did express disappointment that we won't be able to store the actual furnishings on the island and YoshiP said it wasn't something they had in mind when working on the system

Regarding Island Prisms: they're going to increase the number of prisms yielded when crafting at some point in the future but it was unclear if they meant in 6.4 or a later date. Crafters may want to gather the needed materials in advance but wait to craft them until the patch (you won't be any worse off if the increase is delayed). It's hard to say what's going to happen to prices on the marketboard for those who are not crafters so you'll have to take your chances on buying now or waiting until later.

I was wondering about that… so nothing is actually placed, just a hologram of the item essentially? That’s disappointing. While I like the copy idea to create multiple of the same item, I was really hoping to clear out a retainer but placing and storing on the island. So much for that!

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

I was wondering about that… so nothing is actually placed, just a hologram of the item essentially? That’s disappointing.

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It's how all glamours work.
You're not actually wearing that skimpy bikini, it's just a light refraction to make it look like you are. That's what prisms do IRL, change the diffraction of light.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

It's how all glamours work.
You're not actually wearing that skimpy bikini, it's just a light refraction to make it look like you are. That's what prisms do IRL, change the diffraction of light.

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Oh I know… I was just hoping I’d be able to unload some inventory! lol I have one retainer full of outdoor furnishings that I rotate in and out of my yard.

Damn it...

Or, hear me out, scrap island sanctuary and use all of that server space to alleviate the housing issues.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

When we want to add furnishings to our Hideaway (the area where they can be placed will be marked in blue when the furnishing interface is open), we will apply an Island Prism to the item in our normal inventory. That will generate a copy of the item (that they seem to be calling a mirage?). If you want to use multiple of that item, you can apply multiple prisms to the same item to create multiple copies. You won't need multiples of the item in your inventory. The original item stays in your inventory and is not consumed so you could take an item currently placed at your house, copy it in Island Sanctuary then put it back at your house.

The furnishing interface will have a list of furnishings saved and furnishings placed. Once a furnishing has been saved to the list, you will not need to have it in your inventory to place it again. I could not tell from the translation if an Island Prism will be needed every time you want to place another item or only to save it to the list though I think it's needed to place.

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Sounds good so far. Even if you can't "store" the item in the island, you don't need to hoard it anymore if you can save it there and generate an infinite number of copies. Though they mentioned it would be bound anyway, so at that point it might as well be considered stored.

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Originally Posted by VictorSpoils

Sounds good so far. Even if you can't "store" the item in the island, you don't need to hoard it anymore if you can save it there and generate an infinite number of copies. Though they mentioned it would be bound anyway, so at that point it might as well be considered stored.

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Except if the player wanted to use the furnishing at a house, they would no longer have it if they discarded it after saving it on the island. It may be stored for island use but not housing use. That would be especially unfortunate in the case of seasonal event items the player has been storing. They would have to pay real money to get the item back if they wanted to use it at a house.

I think this is going to be one of those situations where players without houses are excited and happy at first but later realize they still want an actual house.

Well... At least you can put alot of Cherry Blossom tree without spending money :)

In theory, the outdoor furnishing at the Island Sanctuary fills a need (of sorts). Apartments are readily available - so there's your indoor furnishing. Sanctuary provides your outdoor furnishing (with some restrictions, I'm sure).

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Originally Posted by dspguy

In theory, the outdoor furnishing at the Island Sanctuary fills a need (of sorts). Apartments are readily available - so there's your indoor furnishing. Sanctuary provides your outdoor furnishing (with some restrictions, I'm sure).

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The problem is that larges have a unique interior different than the other two; it has a very large space to build into vertically. Some of us will use that single squared area for all 400 decorations; My medium uses 300 decorations on 2/3 of the 1st floor.

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

I was wondering about that… so nothing is actually placed, just a hologram of the item essentially? That’s disappointing. While I like the copy idea to create multiple of the same item, I was really hoping to clear out a retainer but placing and storing on the island. So much for that!

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I'm actually glad the system is this way because I frequently redecorate and often have to get like 40 low garden hedges or something and then I redecorate and don't need any garden hedges. Now they are in my retainer. I have like over 1000 housing items on alts and retainers. The glamour system is a life saver