These include Herbs/Grasses, Flowers and Ingredients. There are some Items, however, that can be stored either in the Refrigerator or in the Storage Bin. Materials, Ores and Gems only can be stored either in your backpack or in the Storage Bin. Crops, Fish and Cooked Dishes can be stored only in your backpack or in the Refrigerator. Most Items are defined rather rigidly in terms of storage. Storage space always is a problem for me, but there are ways to mitigate the problem if you know where an Item can be stored.

Once you have shipped an Item, you can begin to collect it for your own future use. Purchase prices for Items are far higher than the price you will obtain when you ship the same item, but that is of little consequence really compared to the ability to lay hands upon the item without going into a dungeon to fight the same Monster again and again in the faint hope that it will be dropped as a War Trophy.įurthermore, you can obtain valuable Items early in the game but when they are Materials that can be used at the Forge or Crafting Table, you will not be able to use them until your Skills at those activities increase enormously. You always should ship the very first 'Material' that you obtain, whether as a War Trophy or otherwise, as it then has the potential to appear in Raven's knapsack where you can purchase it. In Rune Factory 4, shipping at least one of every item has particularly positive effects, as it will allow the item to appear in local shops or in the menus of merchants such as Raven, the Fish Merchant and the Gem Merchant. I am an inveterate packrat in games as well as real life, but it is in the realm of Harvest Moon and Rune Factory that this characteristic actually can be positive, provided always that one can find storage space for everything.įirst of all, however, it is important to realise that one must create a perfect balance between shipping and storing items in these games.

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