Crafters and Gatherers need their own inventory

[Valfreyja]

GOD please a crafting inventory would be amazing. I am leveling ONE crafter right now, and along with dye and items I use daily, I have to do constant clean up just to have the stuff I need. Would really appreciate a separate bag for crafting mats.

I put my dyes in the saddlebag. And only General Purpose ones I get from venture crates.
For craft dyes, I carry pigments and only craft the dyes I actually need, when I need them. You can carry hundreds of the base pigments to cover all craft dyes with minimal inventory space used.
For beast tribe dyes, I fly to them and purchase what I need when I need it.
Same with vendor dyes, I only buy them if I need them.

[Kurando]

snip

Who said anything about not enjoying the game? Or.glamour? Or being against paying extra for an increase to retainers? An increase is entirely possible, they've done it before with the normal inventory, if it wasn't necessary they would've have done it. So maybe calm your tits before you come charging in like the game can't do no wrong....

[Deveryn]

Who said anything about not enjoying the game? Or.glamour? Or being against paying extra for an increase to retainers? An increase is entirely possible, they've done it before with the normal inventory, if it wasn't necessary they would've have done it. So maybe calm your tits before you come charging in like the game can't do no wrong....

I need to calm my tits, but you don't understand "inb4"... or much else of what I wrote for that matter.

breathe.

[Deveryn]

just saiyan island will have there own inventory systems. Should be hard for them to add one for normal use

"Shouldn't be hard"?

Island Sanctuary will in fact have its own inventory. I covered this already. Inventories like that aren't a part of the character info. They exist separately to be referenced to the character in the related instance. That's why they can keep introducing these things. It's how you can hire more retainers and not have it be a strain.

[hynaku]

It be nice if they added storage for crafting mats. I have 6 retainers full of crafting mats and fish lures. Be nice if it was account wide where your alts could use the crafting mats to.

[Arzalis]

Crafting inventory would be nice, but I think the bigger issue is all the tokens they keep adding to the game that for some reason don't just go into the tab.

There are legitimately dozens of currencies that waste inventory space and SE keeps adding more, despite adding a system designed to handle those currencies. It sometimes feels like half of the team never communicates with the other.

[Skivvy]

Saddle bags were basically the answer for a bait box. SE just didn't make it exclusive to bait, and players fill it up with whatever. Inventory congestion was immensely alleviated when stack size was increased from x99 to x999. And a lot of currencies have been placed into separate inventories. This is just asking for more of what has already been given, so again I will say that players need to figure out how to properly manage their items. Its just part of mmo life to do so. There are now so many items in the game. You need to also keep in mind that the more stuff you have, the more you'll need to manage. Things will never be unlimited so why put yourself through that, unless you enjoy it?

Saddlebag and increased stack size were appreciated, but I don't see why it needs to end there. A material storage is an incredible QoL item that can be found in other games, and it's always one I greatly miss when I come back to XIV. Yes, of course we can all take the time to sort inventories, and let me tell you, I actually really enjoy cleaning out my inventory (no lie, makes me happy), but it's still a chore.

I normally keep about 2-4 items in my character's inventory on any given day, but when I've gone on my gathering and crafting sprees, I've been able to fill it to max within a single day...multiple times. It gets really annoying when you have to start shuffling things between the various inventories in order to keep working on whatever it is you're doing. There's also just something really nice about already having supplies on hand when you need to craft up something, but unless you extra retainers, there's no way you could possibly store all the items you'll use. And for those who may be thinking "But you can just go farm up <whatever item it is you need>....yes, you're right. But again, it's really handy having materials ready and waiting for when you need them.

This would be a massive QoL update for gatherers & crafters.

[Gemina]

It be nice if they added storage for crafting mats. I have 6 retainers full of crafting mats and fish lures. Be nice if it was account wide where your alts could use the crafting mats to.

I have one retainer that holds crafting mats, and she is at 150/175. I strongly suggest you start dumping those mats that are just collecting dust that serve no purpose other than to save you a porting cost you may or may not make in the future. I'm an omni crafter and gather all my own mats and even I don't need that much space, or an additional 6 bucks added to my sub fee.

What would be nice is for you to figure out how to solve for X instead of the dev team taking on your burden in order to create an easy button for you.

[Deveryn]

This is my 2 retainers before EW launch. Not much has changed, aside from the gear in the bottom right being desynthed.

My inventory grid can be seen in the middle.
I can craft all the things.

The devs don't need to do anything. Folks just need to learn the inventory management game.

[ballprince]

I put my dyes in the saddlebag. And only General Purpose ones I get from venture crates.
For craft dyes, I carry pigments and only craft the dyes I actually need, when I need them. You can carry hundreds of the base pigments to cover all craft dyes with minimal inventory space used.
For beast tribe dyes, I fly to them and purchase what I need when I need it.
Same with vendor dyes, I only buy them if I need them.

This is a really good idea, thanks for the suggestion! I'm gonna start doing some of this now.

Need to level my tribal quests though lol, this is definitely a good reason!