Storage Chests Not Stacking Items When Full

Apache_Kid

When my newly purchased storage chests are at 60/60 and I have 1 specific recipe in the chest, if i try to put in another copy of that recipe, I am told the chest is full. Even if it is full, should the chest not accept the recipe and just stack it? Seems to be doing this to items other than recipes and it is really annoying as I keep having to remove stuff to put stuff into the chests. It is becoming a huge inconvenience and wasting a lot of my time. This is all on Xbox NA. Please fix.

Apache_Kid

Still an issue @ZOS_GinaBruno and its really annoying. I'm sure you feel the same way about me but a little acknowledgement goes a long way...

Apache_Kid

Any chance of this issue being fixed in Summerset?

Shadowshire

Apache_Kid wrote: »

When my newly purchased storage chests are at 60/60 and I have 1 specific recipe in the chest, if i try to put in another copy of that recipe, I am told the chest is full. Even if it is full, should the chest not accept the recipe and just stack it? Seems to be doing this to items other than recipes and it is really annoying as I keep having to remove stuff to put stuff into the chests. It is becoming a huge inconvenience and wasting a lot of my time. This is all on Xbox NA. Please fix.

Well, Kid, it also happens on PC NA, too. When thy cup runneth over, thou must drink from it before it can be filled again.

If I recall correctly, the same thing happens when all of the slots in a character's Bags are occupied. (It also happens when all of the slots in the Bank account are filled.) <- note the parentheses.

When all slots are filled, then the character must:

1. deposit an item or stack into the Bank to make space in the Bags (or withdraw an item or stack from the Bank to make space in the Bank);
2. add an item which already exists in the Bank and in the Bags to the Bags (or add one which already exists in the Bags and the Bank to the Bank);
3. press "Y" to stack all items in the Bags in order to free-up the space, (or to stack all items in the Bank); then
4. withdraw the new stack from the Bank (or deposit the new stack into the Bank).

Of course, it is best to anticipate this and always keep at least one or two slots unused in the Bags (and in the Bank). If it happens that all the slots in both the Bags and the Bank are filled, then we will have to discard (destroy) an item or stack from the Bags, so that we can empty space in the Bank to stack any more items in it.

As far as I know, adding an item to a stack of the same item in the Bank after all Bank spaces are filled is an old issue that has never been addressed. After all Bag spaces are filled, a character can continue to loot or otherwise obtain an item -- e.g., by detaching it from an e-mail message -- that already exists in the Bags, unless and until only stacks of it which are at maximum size are present. Also note that a few items cannot be combined into a stack, usually because the character is permitted to have only one of those items in the Bags at any given time.

Since programmers prefer to copy existing source code that has been written for a procedure instead of writing more of the same, any vagaries of using the Bank for storage have probably been carried over to using Chests and Coffers in Homesteads.

For a while, over a month ago, some items would not stack with the same existing item (or a stack of them), when an individual item or a stack of it was added to the character's Bags. They also would not be combined with an existing stack when the player pressed "Y" on the Inventory (Bags) UI. However, I have not encountered that problem with those items for quite a while, so I suppose that ZOS corrected the "bug".

Apache_Kid

Shadowshire wrote: »

Apache_Kid wrote: »

When my newly purchased storage chests are at 60/60 and I have 1 specific recipe in the chest, if i try to put in another copy of that recipe, I am told the chest is full. Even if it is full, should the chest not accept the recipe and just stack it? Seems to be doing this to items other than recipes and it is really annoying as I keep having to remove stuff to put stuff into the chests. It is becoming a huge inconvenience and wasting a lot of my time. This is all on Xbox NA. Please fix.

Well, Kid, it also happens on PC NA, too. When thy cup runneth over, thou must drink from it before it can be filled again.

If I recall correctly, the same thing happens when all of the slots in a character's Bags are occupied. (It also happens when all of the slots in the Bank account are filled.) <- note the parentheses.

When all slots are filled, then the character must:

1. deposit an item or stack into the Bank to make space in the Bags (or withdraw an item or stack from the Bank to make space in the Bank);
2. add an item which already exists in the Bank and in the Bags to the Bags (or add one which already exists in the Bags and the Bank to the Bank);
3. press "Y" to stack all items in the Bags in order to free-up the space, (or to stack all items in the Bank); then
4. withdraw the new stack from the Bank (or deposit the new stack into the Bank).

Of course, it is best to anticipate this and always keep at least one or two slots unused in the Bags (and in the Bank). If it happens that all the slots in both the Bags and the Bank are filled, then we will have to discard (destroy) an item or stack from the Bags, so that we can empty space in the Bank to stack any more items in it.

As far as I know, adding an item to a stack of the same item in the Bank after all Bank spaces are filled is an old issue that has never been addressed. After all Bag spaces are filled, a character can continue to loot or otherwise obtain an item -- e.g., by detaching it from an e-mail message -- that already exists in the Bags, unless and until only stacks of it which are at maximum size are present. Also note that a few items cannot be combined into a stack, usually because the character is permitted to have only one of those items in the Bags at any given time.

Since programmers prefer to copy existing source code that has been written for a procedure instead of writing more of the same, any vagaries of using the Bank for storage have probably been carried over to using Chests and Coffers in Homesteads.

For a while, over a month ago, some items would not stack with the same existing item (or a stack of them), when an individual item or a stack of it was added to the character's Bags. They also would not be combined with an existing stack when the player pressed "Y" on the Inventory (Bags) UI. However, I have not encountered that problem with those items for quite a while, so I suppose that ZOS corrected the "bug".

So what you're saying is I shouldn't expect this to be fixed

WhiteCoatSyndrome

I have also run into this, I have also found it to be annoying.

makreth

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

I have also run into this, I have also found it to be annoying.

yup....also while we are at it...a search box for both bank,coffers would be...I have to use an addon for that as well sadly..

WhiteCoatSyndrome

makreth wrote: »

yup....also while we are at it...a search box for both bank,coffers would be...I have to use an addon for that as well sadly..

Second this too. I also use an add-on, but our friends on console don't have that option.

Slick_007

+1