Inventory Space Update

[Myrany]

I would like a separate bag for fishing bait. Otherwise I don't have a lot of problems with inventory

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I would like a separate bag for fishing bait. Otherwise I don't have a lot of problems with inventory

That's what the saddlebag is for.

[Myrany]

That's what the saddlebag is for.

ANd I use it for that but it would be nice since we already have the seperate thing in the fisherman skill that shows a much smaller bag with the bait we have in our regular inventory if that became say an item we could put in our regular inventory that we could place the same limited amount of bait in. 1 inventory space used (for the bag) rather than multiple.

[Hasrat]

I would like a separate bag for fishing bait. Otherwise I don't have a lot of problems with inventory

Having caught everything, I keep on hand exactly two types of bait. (versatile lure and metal spinner)

I'd much rather have inventory that's more useful than for storing things I will literally never touch again.

OP:

I likewise have a one retainer holding onto materia + relic items. First of all, you shouldn't be keeping all those crafter souls... actually I don't even know if they allow those to remain useful. You're only ever supposed to be allowed to have 3 crafters designated as specialists, and if you ever need to change that, you need to trade in the designated soul with a separate stackable item to swap specialist. The stackable item is all you ever need (and that rarely), just make things specialist and stop holding onto whatever you have in regards to that.
Materia: Grade 1-3 combat materia are good for ARR relics. Grade 4 can be nice for that, but will often be unnecessary (unless you're trying to give relics "good" stats, but there is zero point to that at this time). Sell/trash all of your gathering/crafting materia. These are only useful at "endgame" stages, and only for the highest tier hardest items. Most players will find no use or value from them. And even if you do find you need/want them, they are far, far easier to reacquire with scrips you can get in abundance.
Faded scrolls can start piling up, definitely worth getting to those eventually if you feel more inventory crunch. But it is a pain getting to them as soon as you get them, so having room to stash a few is nice. Just don't go stashing too many copies, or holding onto ones for scrolls you've already made; very few are really worth selling at all.

Sell all your seeds. Especially if you're just holding onto whatever you gathered, it's clearly easy to gather them. Only a handful are likely of any real use/value, and only if you're actually gardening. Apartments can't do much fancy with that anyway, the important stuff is all garden bed cross breeding.

Your crafting mats are probably your biggest problem, especially if you're going with the approach of wanting to craft everything in the crafting log. Your inventory is going to suffer for this, and for no good reason. Check marks and achievements, all so you're left with piles of items nobody wants. You either realize crafting everything is a bad idea and only keep materials for crafts you might actually use (minions, bardings, Extreme trial weapons), or you decide you're going to dedicate to completing the crafting log, and hopefully recognize you are almost certainly underestimating the undertaking.

Eventually, you're probably going to have to start asking yourself if you want to buy one extra retainer to start storing all of your raid tokens, as it very much sounds like you'll end up trying to hold onto all of them. I did. One extra retainer isn't too burdensome, personally. I don't think I could possibly find enough use to justify more than that, tho.

[KatieKuro]

At the moment I'm only crafting each of the level based crafts. I'm not doing the special or master recipes probably until I've finished all the level based stuff. My goal to craft everything is not something I intend to sit down and really grind out, but rather do over a period of years. Do keep in mind that I KNOW what I'm doing is a lot of work for literally no other reason than to see yellow checkmarks, but I'm aware of the work needed and I'm not underestimating anything. While leveling to 90 I prefer to craft everything I can in the level based recipes even if they're useless for me and don't sell for much. I've done that through ARR and don't want to stop now. The mats I have currently would've been used up, but my crafters didn't have high enough stats to craft. I'm well aware my inventory will suffer for wanting to craft everything, but I also feel like it shouldn't be as much of an issue as it currently is. If I never crafted or gathered I would have a pretty clean and neat inventory for both myself and my retainers. I'm being punished for wanting to be more self sufficient

[Sjol]

Went through my stuff and came away with a rough count, though I'm sure I missed stuff. Some of it could be shed, but a lot of it is just the natural end result of starting things and breaking up the grind so it's not quite so oppressive. I'm currently maxed selling on the market where I'm:

1) vendoring anything that would generate less than 100gil over vendoring
2) priced-adjusting daily to be lowest on market, more often feels jerkish
3) keeping at least some slots continuously moving

69 Relic Weapons (in-progress)
18 Relic Tools (in-progress)
10 Eureka Armor (in-progress)
 4 Bojza Armor (in-progress)
22 Glams
35 Non-craftable, non-store Dyes
20 Skybuilder's Stuff
20 Raid Token Sets (for glams, incomplete)
90 EW Materials
 2 Fantasia
 3 Keepsakes
35 Map Materials
 3 Orchestration Mats

The above is over 330 slots before bait, other tokens, etc. Also, a lot of my relic stuff are in my Armoury Chest. That's just the stuff that isn't.