Be careful, taking furniture from your Furniture Vault can bind it

Blood_again · June 17

Honestly, I went to create a request: "Let us bind the furniture items". Because I struggled with inventory after opening the NM faction crates.
Suddenly, I found that my problem is solvable. However, you won't like it.

This is a part of my inventory.
You can see doubled items like Factotum body and Khajiit jug. They won't stack because some parts are bound and others are not.
You can see merged items on the top: Incense burner and Gravy boat. They were in two stacks the same way, but I put both stacks in the vault and then took them out. Now they are stacked.
It turns your items bound or unbound depending on the order you take them out from the vault. Once you do it, you can't turn it back until you find another item of the same kind.
So be careful, don't bind your items accidentally.

@ZOS_Kevin please could this problem be addressed?
I also hope we will have a feature "bind item" for furniture, so we could stack them intentionally.

freespirit · June 17

So you are saying if taken out in the correct order and having others to stack with it will change their Bound/Unbound status??

So in theory you could make certain bound items unbound?

Well that is a humdinger of a bug/exploit, definitely worth raising to the right team @ZOS_Kevin

Ardriel · June 17

This could really be an exploit. Players could buy furniture in crown store unbind them and sell them for gold.
On the other hand it would be a good thing in my opinion if certain crown items weren't bound. So people could sell crown items for gold in a legal way and without risk.

ob1ken0bi · June 17

Can we just unbind all furnishings except those acquired from achievements?
So frustrating not being able to share them with guildies.
Also, I have 40+ of every jubilee furnishing. Next year may hit 70 of each. All Bound.

BretonMage · June 17

I thought it was just a stacking simplification thing, and once they were taken out of the stack, they reverted to their original status? I remember fiddling around with bound and unbound paper lanterns, but ultimately it seemed that the originally bound ones stayed bound after all. I can check again tomorrow when I log back in with a crown store bench that had been stacked with an unbound one.

freespirit · June 17

BretonMage wrote: »

I thought it was just a stacking simplification thing, and once they were taken out of the stack, they reverted to their original status? I remember fiddling around with bound and unbound paper lanterns, but ultimately it seemed that the originally bound ones stayed bound after all. I can check again tomorrow when I log back in with a crown store bench that had been stacked with an unbound one.

I've found that in my vault the bound and the unbound items are stored in two separate stacks they are not stacked together.

It was mildly annoying me because, well because I hoard and one stack would be ideal for me!

Edit to add piccie.......

As you can see two distinct stacks, although the vault pop up lists the total number

BretonMage · June 18

BretonMage wrote: »

I thought it was just a stacking simplification thing, and once they were taken out of the stack, they reverted to their original status? I remember fiddling around with bound and unbound paper lanterns, but ultimately it seemed that the originally bound ones stayed bound after all. I can check again tomorrow when I log back in with a crown store bench that had been stacked with an unbound one.

I checked my benches, and the unbound bench is still unbound, and the crown bench is still bound. Yesterday I had retrieved the crown one into my inventory, and saw that they both stacked as unbound. Then I placed my crown bench into the house, keeping the unbound one in the inventory. When I logged in today, I went to store the unbound bench into the furnishing vault, and retrieved the placed crown bench and saw it was still bound. (Then there was a weird thing where I undid the previous actions and somehow the bound and unbound ones got swapped, but it's all good, I still have one bound, one unbound).