Inventory Managment Questions

[CrisGer]

OK ,i have now got an assistant for storing things but even with her both our inventories are getting full. How do you combine identical items? I have a number of dupblicate entries for many things. And I can't seem to be able to combine them into larger sets.....can anyone help? I could break them down but i am just starting my crafting and don't know what will be useful ....and I am hoping there is a simple way to combine things. Otherwise we will run out of room. Can we hire a second assistant at any time or do we have to wait for a certain level? thanks.

I see a button for Auto sort ..what does it do? how does it sort things?

[Rhona]

You get two retainers. Combining piles of things is only possible if the quality is the same.. maybe the ones that won't pile are different quality? I'm sure someone else will help with the rest of your questions

[CrisGer]

Some of the items are identical like Animal Skins, and for some reason they wont combine. Seems silly I will try two retainers thanks for the reply

[Magnesium02]

Make sure you aren't trying to stack animal hides with animal skins. Also most items have a mac stack size of 99. More than that and they make a new stack

[Conradus]

Some of the items are identical like Animal Skins, and for some reason they wont combine. Seems silly I will try two retainers thanks for the reply

They may both be Animal Skins, but if one is regular Animal Skins and the other is HQ Animal Skins (as denoted by the funky icon next to its name), you can't stack them together.

[Michelasso]

No, he is right. Sometime the inventory for some obscure reasons splits the items in two (or more?) sets. To stack them back up just give all items of the same kind o the retainer and then take them back.

The day that they will patch that thing will be always too late. The inventory is killing half of my fun as a crafter.

[CrisGer]

ah ha, good , ok i will try that. See if she will do that magic for me. Yes i want to do all of the crafts and can see it will involve a LOT of files before i am done thanks again for all the nice replies.

[Bixby]

You don't need your retainer to stack things, though if you're already there with the retainer's inventory open, you might find it easier/faster that way.

To stack things together in your own inventory (or your retainer's inventory), just click the first stack to pick it up, then click the second stack. If the stacks can be combined (stackable items of the same type that add up to <= the stack maximum), they'll all go into the inventory slot that holds the second stack. If they're on different inventory pages, you can pick the first one up, switch pages (by clicking on the page # button with the mouse or using R1/L1 on the gamepad) while you're still "holding" it, then click the second one.

[CrisGer]

wow, not sure how that can work if you have "picked" up the item wont the mouse be engaged already? i will try this tho, i hope it works, i like a neat and well organized inventory....have learned the hard way it is essential to good craftmanship in both virtual and real worldz. thanks again for the help, i will try this out.

[Bixby]

On the first click, your mouse cursor will have the icon for the first stack attached to it, but it's still a mouse cursor. You can move this around the screen and still click on things, including the inventory page numbers. It's a little more difficult, since the item icon kind of gets in the way, but the page numbers are big enough that it's not a problem. This is also how you move things from page to page to keep some kind of sane inventory scheme going (e.g., all materia on page four).

If the items are on the same inventory page, I'm pretty sure you can also just drag one to the other (click and hold and then let go instead of click then click again).