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Better Inventory System Needed
verlainem
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I know this has been mentioned before but .... Really we need this now. The current inventory system is a time waster and extremely frustrating to use
My first two sims have long lives and drank much elixir, I can't find anything in their inventories. If you want to brew herbal remedies you have to have certain things but can't tell what she has or doesn't have quickly or if one of the other sims in the house has it to give her. It would be nice too if the plant grafts you could tell which plant they were originally from.
My first two sims have long lives and drank much elixir, I can't find anything in their inventories. If you want to brew herbal remedies you have to have certain things but can't tell what she has or doesn't have quickly or if one of the other sims in the house has it to give her. It would be nice too if the plant grafts you could tell which plant they were originally from.
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Food and produce, of course, goes into the refrigerator. Flowers go into the flower arranging bench. All the elixirs and potions (and the new drink things you can get as a celebrity) all go into one storage chest. All of the music one of my sims makes on the mixing station goes into another. Any pictures I want to keep that I don't hang go into another. All miscellenous growables that can't go into the fridge or flower bench go into another, etc.
If you don't use mods, basements make a good place to put a bunch of storage chests for things. You can even shrink them with [ before placing and still use them, so they take up less room.
If you do use mods, Coolspear has a set of mods that adds a bunch of new skins for storage chests. The one I use for music, for example, looks like a file cabinet. The one I use for pictures like an old decorative camera, the one for herbal ingredient produce like a stack of baskets and crates. Potions go into the pastry display for counters (base game item that he turned into a storage option). I regularly clean out the inventory of all active sims of "stuff" into these containers.
You aren't actively using things in your sims inventory every single sim day, so why keep it all on you at all times? If you have a place where all things of a specific type go, you put it all from every sim there, so it's all in one place to know what you actually have.
The only thing I'd really kill for is a feature to auto-put the stuff in the containers...could be done with script mods.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Still, most stuff can, like the collectables and what not.
there is also a game glitch that can effect an inventory item which makes it not storeable. It effects an entire stack of an item even if only one item in the stack is glitched. Only workaround I've found for this is to remove the single bad item in the stack by selecting 'place in world', then the rest of the stack can be stored.
I really hate this glitch...glad I don't see it often.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
I somehow never really used storage objects to their full potential. I guess it seemed annoying to not have all the stuff on hand and to have to go to the object or even go to the home lot first to retrieve it. Maybe it won't be as much of a hassle as I imagine. I guess it would be more realistic that way too.
I thought the chests share a single inventory, though?
While trying to look that up I also found people saying they use the inventories of the sales tables from city living and jungle adventure as storage places. That might be interesting.
I checked his mod description and it seems to imply that you are correct, default game behaviour shares storage across the chests. This is from the mod description; I bolded the part that seems to indicate you are correct regarding non-modded game behaviour:
That's unfortunate, as it certainly makes the storage chest much less useful for folks who are not willing to use mods.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Yes, that's the problem I've got - I try to avoid mods (just because I don't want to waste time updating them with every patch), and my storage chest is a mess. I've also wished we could store things separately in different bookcases and refrigerators - it would be nice to have a fridge for potions, spices and other things I rarely use, and one for leftovers and pomegranates. And a personal bookcase for each Sim, so that anything she's already read can be tossed into the family bookcase.
There's actually a mod for that too...but I don't use it. Although I do use mods, I limit which ones I use for the same reason you indicated you try to avoid them. I only let myself use mods from 3 specific mod makers and MCCC, to make things very easy on me for maintaining them.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
https://www.reddit.com/r/ravasheen/comments/fu3hh2/hoarders_simnonymous_storage_set_the_ultimate/
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