What is supposed to stack in the vault?

Ravensilver · June 3

I just placed the vault and started dumping tons of furniture inside. So now it's full, of course.

But...

Trees don't stack. Paintings don't stack. I didn't check the rest, but I thought it was supposed to be a question of category/type, wasn't it?

I assumed that if all chairs, of any style, are supposed to stack, then paintings would, too. Or trees... all trees in one stack?

Or did I misunderstand?

tomofhyrule · June 3

It stacks things that are exactly the same.

So if you have "Breton Chair, Padded" and "Breton Chair, Slatted," those would not stack since they are different things. It doesn't matter that they're both chairs, or even both Breton chairs. They need to be exactly the same.

If they are the same, like 57 "Breton Chair, Padded," then they will stack.

Ravensilver · June 3

tomofhyrule wrote: »

It stacks things that are exactly the same.

So if you have "Breton Chair, Padded" and "Breton Chair, Slatted," those would not stack since they are different things. It doesn't matter that they're both chairs, or even both Breton chairs. They need to be exactly the same.

If they are the same, like 57 "Breton Chair, Padded," then they will stack.

Ah... that explains it.

I understood it to be a category thing. All chairs (no matter what they are) get stacked together...

Oh well. Maybe I can buy a second vault? *looks hopeful* ^^;;

davidtk · June 3

Only one vault, for 500 slots nad max 1000 stack IIRC.
But I would like to have 750 slots for example.

cyclonus11 · June 3

Also bound, non-bound, and crown store versions of the same item won't stack.

Though sometimes just in general I have to click "Stack All Items" because occasionally things won't auto-stack for whatever reason.

UrQuan · June 3

Ravensilver wrote: »

Ah... that explains it.

I understood it to be a category thing. All chairs (no matter what they are) get stacked together...

It wouldn't be possible for furnishings with different item IDs to stack. If they did and you wanted to pull out a "Breton Chair, Padded" from a stack just called "Chairs" how would that even work? Either you'd have to withdraw everything in the stack all at once (hope you've got room for all of the different types in your inventory!) or there would have to be a brand new system to have an interface to browse everything in the stack as if the stack itself was a bank. Neither of those are good options (the former because it makes it basically unusable, and the latter because of the technical complexity and how much testing would need to go into it).

More importantly, they told us the reason the vault is limited to 500 slots is because of database capacity. With 500 slots they need the capacity for each player to have up to 500 database records associated with their vault, with each record having at least 2 fields of data: 1 field with the item ID for the specific type of furnishing, and 1 field for the number of that type of furnishing present in the vault. If each "slot" for a stack of furnishings held an entire category of furnishings, then the number of database records needed could increase exponentially. Instead of needing the database capacity for 500 records with 2 fields of data each, you'd need the database capacity for 500 categories, each of which could have dozens or even hundreds of records within it, each with 2 fields of data.