Inventory 101

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Inventory Management

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This mini-guide serves as an updated, all-in-one reference to help players know their storage options in FFXI.

Foreword

Final Fantasy XI has evolved immensely throughout the years, and added a ton of quality-of-life improvements (read about them here!) One of the biggest improvements has been the addition of multiple new storage options. As a returner myself, the last time I had played, my inventory could only hold 50 items and my Mog Safe could hold another 50. As you probably already know, storage space of that kind evaporates quickly. I had a Mog Locker in Aht Urghan Whitegate, but would have to travel out there just to be able to do anything with it. Times sure have changed since then, so I will go over what we have now to help you get up to speed as quickly as possible.

Personal Inventory

Gobbiebag

This is your main inventory. In other words, this is all of the stuff you carry around with you on your person. You won't find the word "Gobbiebag" anywhere in your menus, because it is designated by the word - you guessed it - "Inventory". (That said, the quests that expand your inventory size clearly refer to it as "The Gobbiebag".) When you start out, you only have space for 30 items, and those spaces fill up very quickly when you're out leveling up and collecting amazing treasures like Rock Salt, Flint Stones, and Pebbles. One of the first things you want to do is go into the Config menu and turn on Auto-Sort. This feature will allow items to stack automatically with other items of the same type upon entering your Gobbiebag. If you don't do this, a Fire Crystal will take up one of your thirty slots, and then the next one that you get will take up another slot, and so on until your bag is completely full and they hit the ground rather than your pockets.

So what do I use the Gobbiebag for? As your main storage bag, it's accessible anywhere, so you can put anything into it. In fact, when you create a new character, you will see the starting clothes that you're wearing are in there by default. Take that stuff off, move it to your Mog Wardrobe (more about this later), and then put it back on. In general, Equipment should never be in this bag, because you can get all the benefits of wearing it from the Mog Wardrobe. (This includes using a piece of equipped gear as an item to activate its enchantment - including the ever-popular Warp Ring. Equipment activates just fine from the Wardrobes.)

Any consumable item in the game that you want to "Use" must be in your Gobbiebag, like Potions, Elixirs, Echo Drops, or any type of food. Also, items that drop from enemies or are found in treasure chests go directly into your Gobbiebag, so the rest of the open space will constantly fill up with all kinds of junk. Most of these items will be sold to an NPC or sold on the auction house, or sometimes just dumped in the trash.


Gobbiebag Upgrades

Mog Safe 1

This is the other original storage location from the early days of FFXI. Much like an actual safe, it's located inside your Mog House and thus could originally be accessed from in there. While out in the field, you can go to your menu and then View House to see the contents of your Mog Safe (and all your other storage locations), but you can't move items in and out of there. Due to this, I keep most of my long-term items in there; things I want to keep but won't touch for a long period of time (like an Abjuration for a job I would like to play someday.) Home Points, Survival Guides, and other QoL travel improvements - as well as Nomad Moogles located in smaller towns who can access the Mog Safes - have made getting back to your mog house pretty damn easy, so it's not like the old days where the thought of going back to your mog house sounded like a 45 minute trip. But, I'd still stick to only keeping long term stuff in there.

When you start out, your Mog Safe can only hold 50 items. The three quests below will allow you to upgrade your Mog Safe to hold 80 items. There is a caveat to how much you can hold in your Mog Safe, but I'm saving those details for the Storage section below.

Mog Safe 2

This second Mog Safe functions in the same way as the original Mog Safe. Rather than upgrading it separately, it just mirrors the space your Mog Safe 1 has. If you have 50 slots in Mog Safe 1, then you will have 50 slots in this safe as well. Mog Safe 2 is automatically expanded when you do the Mog Safe 1 expansion quests.

Accessing this Mog Safe requires unlocking the second floor of your Mog House, which is opened via the following three quests.

Once these quests are completed, zone into your Mog House in your home nation to open up your second floor and Mog Safe 2. You cannot use a Rent-a-Room elsewhere to unlock these!

Storage

OK, so your Mog House is a house, right? Now imagine chests, trunks, and dresser drawers to store all your stuff! That's what Storage is. At first, you won't have any Storage because you won't have any furniture. Once you place a furnishing into your Mog Safe, use Layout in the Mog House menu to display them around and utilize the storage that each piece provides as well as other benefits beyond this guide.

Since you have to place a furnishing into your Mog Safe before placing it in your house, you lose one Mog Safe slot per furnishing. For example, if you place an Oak Bed, you don't actually gain an overall inventory slot, even though the bed is (STG:1), because it took one Mog Safe slot to gain one Storage slot. However, if you place a Dresser (STG:15), you gain an extra overall 14 slots; 15 Storage minus 1 Mog Safe. Thus aside from decorating, the goal is to obtain the maximum 80 Storage slots in exchange for the least number of Mog Safe slots. See a full list of Furnishings. Suggestions include:

Note: Unlike other Mog House-based inventory, Storage cannot be accessed by Nomad Moogles. As a result, Storage is best used for things you'll not want to take out on a whim. Think "deep storage," as it's more involved to access than other inventories if your Home Point is in, for example, Mhaura or Norg.

Mog Locker

Mog Lockers were added with the release of Treasures of Aht Urhgan. They start out as 30 slots, but can be expanded up to 80. Their unique gimmick is that it's a Locker, so you have to lease it. You purchase this lease in one-week increments for one Imp. Brz. Piece icon.png Imperial Bronze Piece (or five-day increments if you want to access it from anywhere other than Al Zahbi, which you do.)

Because of the ongoing lease cost, there are two main Mog Locker usage strategies:
1) Pay for a single week to get access to it, then jam it full of things that you don't even want to waste Storage slots on them. Things like Malignance Sword that drop rarely but you have zero use for. Things like weapons that start Artifact Armor quests (Peregrine for DRG, Honor Sword for PLD.) And so on.
2) Stuff your moogle with Imp. Brz. Piece icon.png Imperial Bronze Pieces until they choke. Guarantee you're good until 2070 and forget it. And I do mean 2070, because there's a hard cap.

To expand your Mog Locker, you have to pay a fee:

Mog Satchel

The Mog Satchel is a form of storage accessible from anywhere in Vana'diel. It has the same storage capacity as the player's Gobbiebag, and will grow in size to a maximum of 80 slots as you upgrade your Gobbiebag.

  • The Mog Satchel feature is available only to players who possess a registered Square Enix security token, or Square Enix security token app for iOS or Android smartphones, and have linked their PlayOnline accounts to a Square Enix account. Read about obtaining an SE security token here.
    • If you choose not to use the Square Enix security token or app, you can disable it and still retain access to the Satchel.

Mog Sack

The Mog Sack is storage that can be accessed anywhere, including in the field. It can be purchased for 9,980 gil from any Artisan Moogle. It holds the same amount of space as your Gobbiebag at the time of purchase, thus also maxing out at 80 items. When you upgrade your Gobbiebag, the Mog Sack will not automatically upgrade with it - you have to return to the Artisan Moogle and talk to them again to receive a free Mog Sack upgrade.

Mog Case

The Mog Case is like a Mog Sack you don't have to purchase or upgrade, or a Mog Satchel you don't have to authenticate for. It also starts at 80 slots immediately. That makes it very useful for items you will frequently use or deliberately carry around - Copper Vouchers, stacks of Geas Fete pop items, equipment reforge materials, various currencies, food for secondary jobs, and so on.

Mog Wardrobes 1 & 2

As you might expect from the name, the Wardrobe stores equipment. One thing to note, is that if you wish to move any gear from here into another inventory, you have to unequip it first. You can't move things that you are wearing.

These two Wardrobes are given to you at character creation, hold 80 items each, and are accessible from anywhere.

Mog Wardrobes 3-8

These Wardrobes work exactly like the first two, except the only way to obtain each one is to pay an additional $2 monthly on your subscription to unlock it. Paying the extra $2 unlocks that single wardrobe for every character on your service account. Read further details about this here.

Access to these Wardrobe only requires a logout and login, not a total shutdown, if you add the service while in game.

Recycle Bin

This is an item container where the last 10 items that you've dropped are temporarily moved to. You can pull up your Recycle Bin by typing "/recycle" in-game.

Note that all items inside the Recycle Bin vanish forever when you zone, logout, or disconnect from the game.

Other Inventory

Porter Moogle

There are several of these moogles across Vana'diel that will store certain sets of equipment and give you a Storage Slip in return. You can trade the Slip to the Porter to retrieve your armor later when you need it. This is a useful way to free up inventory space. These moogles take Ambuscade armor, and upgraded Artifact and Relic armor, and many other things.

  • Details on Porter Moogle locations and types of armor that can be stored are here: Porter Moogle

Armor Storage NPC

Just like the Porter Moogles, Armor Storage NPCs will store certain sets of armor for you in exchange for a Claim Slip. There's no reason to use these NPCs, since they only store full armor sets rather than individual pieces and don't store anything past level 75. But hey, if you want to keep some Brass Finger Gauntlets, sure, go ahead and store the entire set.

Event Storage NPC

Event Storage NPCs store a variety of the rewards and other knick-knacks stuff you have received from the FFXI holiday events and celebrations (like that old Treat Staff you got many years ago for Halloween).

Ephemeral Moogles

Ephemeral Moogles are transparent moogles that will store Crystals and clusters for you. They can be found near Crafting Guilds, as well as in your Mog Garden after purchasing a Key Item Shimmering invitation. Withdrawing crystals will automatically convert stacks into clusters for easier stacking.

Miscellaneous Storage Options

There are other NPCs around Vana'diel that will store and hold certain consumable items for you to help free up more inventory slots for other things you want to keep.

Besides these common items, there are many additional currencies that can be stored. Navigate to "Status > Currencies 1 or 2" in your menu, then highlight an item to see the related storage NPC in the help text at the top-middle of your screen.

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