Quote Originally Posted by Angelhearth View Post
It's basically this. I tried to find out if chests exist in this game. I found they did, but there was absolutely no information anywhere I looked about how to use them. SO I bought one (it was actually a stack of 3 for around 1500 gil, which should have hinted that they were useless). I then went to a room in the in and tried to USE it, which wasn't possible. SO I still wonder, are chests a thing in FFXIV?
What do you mean by 'chests'? You seem to refer to something with some specific functionality, but not having played exactly the same other games as you I have no idea what kind of items that might be.

I also got this new question that doesn't seem to be answered anywhere: Is it possible to skin animals in this game? Everywhere I look there are explanations of what the different gathering/crafting classes can do, but not a single place does it specify if skinning is possible, and if so, which class can do it. I have tried to find out many other things on the net, but have ended up having to find out myself, in-game, through trial and error. That such basic information is so hard to come by is seriously frustrating.
Skins and other body parts are random drops from animals you kill. There is little information about this because there is very little to write about it. Kill animals and you may get skins, horns, chunks of meat, etc.
If you want to know exactly what animals drop a certain type of skin, or what can drop from a specific type of animal, then there are plenty of websites that will tell you about it - all just a google-search away.