Inventory 101

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Inventory 101 serves as an updated, all-in-one reference guide to help players know their storage options in FFXI.

Final Fantasy XI has evolved immensely throughout the years, and added a ton of quality-of-life improvements (read about them here!) One of the biggest improvements has been the addition of multiple new storage options. As a returner myself, the last time I had played, my inventory could only hold 50 items and my Mog Safe could hold another 50. As you probably already know, storage space of that kind evaporates quickly. I had a Mog Locker in Aht Urghan Whitegate, but would have to travel out there just to be able to do anything with it. Times sure have changed since then, so this guide go over what we have now to help you get up to speed as quickly as possible.

Personal Inventory

Gobbiebag

This is your main inventory.

In other words, this is all of the stuff you carry around with you on your person. You won't find the word "Gobbiebag" anywhere in your menus, because it is designated by the word—you guessed it—"Items" and "Inventory". (That said, the quests that expand your inventory size clearly refer to it as "The Gobbiebag".)

When you start out, you only have space for 30 items, and those spaces fill up very quickly when you're out leveling up and collecting amazing treasures like Rock Salt, Flint Stones, and Pebbles.

Tip: One of the first things you want to do is turn on auto-sorting. From the Main Menu (2nd page) → Config → Gameplay → Inventory Sort ON.

This feature will allow items to stack automatically with other items of the same type upon entering your Gobbiebag. If you don't do this, a Fire Crystal will take up one of your 30 slots, and then the next one that you get will take up another slot, and so on until your bag is completely full and they hit the ground rather than your pockets.

So what do I use the Gobbiebag for? As your main storage bag, it's accessible anywhere, so you can put anything into it.

Any consumable item in the game that you want to "Use" must be in your Gobbiebag, like Potions, Elixirs, Echo Drops, Instant Warp, Instant Reraise, or any type of food, Ninja Tools, and so on.

In fact, when you create a new character, you will see the starting clothes that you're wearing are in there by default. Take that stuff off, move it to your Mog Wardrobe (more about this later), and then put it back on. In general, Equipment should never be in this bag, because you can get all the benefits of wearing it from the Mog Wardrobe. (This includes using a piece of equipped gear as an item to activate its enchantment—including the ever-popular Warp Ring. Equipment activates just fine from the Wardrobes.)

Also, items that drop from enemies or are found in treasure chests go directly into your Gobbiebag, so the rest of the open space will constantly fill up with all kinds of junk. Most of these items will be sold to an NPC or sold on the auction house, or simply just dropped in the trash.

Gobbiebag Upgrades

The Gobbiebag can be upgraded through a series of quests up to 80 slots, where increasingly expensive crafted or farmed items are required, or alternatively bypassed for each expansion quest with a Goblin Stew 880 for a flat cost of 150,000 gil from an NPC. Check the cost of the items on the auction house—sometimes it's cheaper to buy the items, sometimes it's cheaper to buy the stew.

Quest Items Needed Slot Expansion
The Gobbiebag Part I 35
The Gobbiebag Part II 40
The Gobbiebag Part III 45
The Gobbiebag Part IV 50
The Gobbiebag Part V 55
The Gobbiebag Part VI 60
The Gobbiebag Part VII 65
The Gobbiebag Part VIII 70
The Gobbiebag Part IX 75
The Gobbiebag Part X 80

Mog Safe 1

This is the other original storage location from the early days of FFXI. Much like an actual safe, it's located inside your Mog House and thus could originally be accessed from in there. While out in the field, you can go to your menu and then View House to see the contents of your Mog Safe (and all your other storage locations), but you can't move items in and out of there. Due to this, I keep most of my long-term items in there; things I want to keep but won't touch for a long period of time (like an Abjuration for a job I would like to play someday.) Home Points, Survival Guides, and other QoL travel improvements - as well as Nomad Moogles located in smaller towns who can access the Mog Safes - have made getting back to your mog house pretty damn easy, so it's not like the old days where the thought of going back to your mog house sounded like a 45 minute trip. But, I'd still stick to only keeping long term stuff in there.

When you start out, your Mog Safe can only hold 50 items. The three quests below will allow you to upgrade your Mog Safe to hold 80 items. There is a caveat to how much you can hold in your Mog Safe, but I'm saving those details for the Storage section below.

Quest Required items Slot Expansion
Give a Moogle a Break 60
The Moogle's Picnic! 70
Moogles in the Wild 80

Mog Safe 2

This second Mog Safe functions in the same way as the original Mog Safe. Rather than upgrading it separately, it just mirrors the space your Mog Safe 1 has. If you have 50 slots in Mog Safe 1, then you will have 50 slots in this safe as well. Mog Safe 2 is automatically expanded when you do the Mog Safe 1 expansion quests.

Accessing this Mog Safe requires unlocking the second floor of your Mog House, which is opened via the following three quests.

Quest NPC Location Item Required
Growing Flowers Kuu Mohzolhi Northern San d'Oria (F-8) Marguerite
A Lady's Heart Valah Molkot Port Bastok (J-12) Amaryllis
Flower Child Ojha Rhawash Windurst Walls (C-13) Lilac

Once these quests are completed, zone into your Mog House in your home nation to open up your second floor and Mog Safe 2. You cannot use a Rent-a-Room elsewhere to unlock these!

Storage

OK, so your Mog House is a house, right? Now imagine chests, trunks, and dresser drawers to store all your stuff! That's what Storage is. At first, you won't have any Storage because you won't have any furniture. Once you place a furnishing into your Mog Safe, use Layout in the Mog House menu to display them around and utilize the storage that each piece provides as well as other benefits beyond this guide.

Since you have to place a furnishing into your Mog Safe before placing it in your house, you lose one Mog Safe slot per furnishing. For example, if you place an Oak Bed, you don't actually gain an overall inventory slot, even though the bed is (STG:1), because it took one Mog Safe slot to gain one Storage slot. However, if you place a Dresser (STG:15), you gain an extra overall 14 slots; 15 Storage minus 1 Mog Safe. Thus aside from decorating, the goal is to obtain the maximum 80 Storage slots in exchange for the least number of Mog Safe slots. See a full list of Furnishings. Suggestions include:

Furnishing Storage slots
Well* 80
Panetiere 65
Jeunoan Dresser 55
Chest of Marbled Drawers 45
Gilded Shelf 40
Semainier 35
Jeunoan Armoire 30
Mannequin (various race, gender) 28
Bookshelf
Cartonnier
Gilded Chest		 20
Galley Kitchen 17
Spence
Bookstack
9-Drawer Almirah		 16
Dresser 15
  • The Well is limited to screenshot contest participants held on the Official Forums.

Note: Unlike other Mog House-based inventory, Storage cannot be accessed by Nomad Moogles. As a result, Storage is best used for things you'll not want to take out on a whim. Think "deep storage," as it's more involved to access than other inventories if your Home Point is in, for example, Mhaura or Norg.

Mog Locker

Mog Lockers were first made available with the release of Treasures of Aht Urhgan as a special "benefit" of being an employee of the Salaheem's Sentinels mercenary company.

Fubruhn in Aht Urghan Whitegate (F-11) manages their administration. Lockers start out with 30 slots and can be expanded up to 80.

Leases are purchased with Imperial Bronze Pieces in one-week real life increments while accessible only in Al Zahbi's Mog House, or in five-day increments for global access from any Mog House in addition to Al Zahbi's, which is the recommended setting.

Because of the ongoing lease cost, there are two main approaches:

  1. Pay for a single week to get access to it, then jam it full of things that you don't even want to waste Storage slots on. Things like Malignance Sword that drop rarely but you have zero use for and so on.
  2. Pay a year in advance for a x99 stack of Imperial Bronze Pieces, or more, to guarantee you're good until 2070 and forget it. And I do mean 2070, because there's a hard cap.

To expand your Mog Locker, you have to pay a one-time upgrade fee to Fubruhn:

Cost
(Imperial Standing Equivalent) 		Slot Expansion
4x Imperial Mythril Piece
(800 IS)		 40
2x Imperial Gold Piece
(2,000 IS)		 50
3x Imperial Gold Piece
(3,000 IS)		 60
5x Imperial Gold Piece
(5,000 IS)		 70
10x Imperial Gold Piece
(10,000 IS)		 80

Mog Satchel

The Mog Satchel feature is available to players who enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) on their Square Enix account (Apple Passwords, Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, etc.).

The Mog Satchel is accessible from anywhere in Vana'diel. Its storage capacity always matches the player’s Gobbiebag, increasing automatically as Gobbiebag expansions are completed, up to a maximum of 80 slots.

For instructions on enabling 2FA, see here.

If you later disable 2FA—or previously used the now-discontinued Square Enix Security Token (a physical key fob formerly sold through the Square Enix Store) or the Square Enix Software Token Android/iOS app—you will retain access to the Mog Satchel. However, enabling a modern form of multi-factor authentication is strongly recommended to help keep your account secure.

Players who still use the discontinued Square Enix Security Token (physical) or the Square Enix Software Token Android/iOS app, and who have linked their PlayOnline account to a Square Enix account, are encouraged to migrate to a currently supported 2FA method. New registrations for the Square Enix Software Token have been discontinued as of November 20, 2023.1

Mog Sack

The Mog Sack is storage that can be accessed anywhere, including in the field. It can be purchased for 9,980 gil from any Artisan Moogle. It holds the same amount of space as your Gobbiebag at the time of purchase, thus also maxing out at 80 items. When you upgrade your Gobbiebag, the Mog Sack will not automatically upgrade with it - you have to return to the Artisan Moogle and talk to them again to receive a free Mog Sack upgrade.

Mog Case

The Mog Case is like a Mog Sack you don't have to purchase or upgrade, or a Mog Satchel you don't have to authenticate for. It also starts at 80 slots immediately. That makes it very useful for items you will frequently use or deliberately carry around - Copper A.M.A.N. Vouchers, stacks of Geas Fete pop items, equipment reforge materials, various currencies, food for secondary jobs, and so on.

Mog Wardrobes 1 & 2

As you might expect from the name, the Wardrobe stores equipment. One thing to note, is that if you wish to move any gear from here into another inventory, you have to unequip it first. You can't move things that you are wearing.

These two Wardrobes are given to you at character creation, hold 80 items each, and are accessible from anywhere.

Equipment in the Mog Wardrobe still has all of its relevant benefits - they can be equipped, their Enchantments can be used, etc. All gear that you intend to equip should be stored here instead of your Gobbiebag as soon as possible.

Mog Wardrobes 3-8

These additional Wardrobes work exactly like the first two, except that the only way to access each one is to purchase an additional $2 monthly option on your subscription per wardrobe (or 2€, £1.40, ¥200). Subscribing to a wardrobe option unlocks that specific wardrobe for every character on the same service account. Further details about subscribing to additional Wardrobes can be found here.

If you add this service option while already in game, access to these additional Wardrobes only requires a logout and login, not a total shutdown.

When the option is unsubscribed (inactive), the equipment kept inside of them will be inaccessible and unequippable, except for use as Lock styles.

Tip: It’s possible to subscribe to an additional wardrobe, say Wardrobe 8, when paying in Crysta on the last (few) day(s) of a monthly billing cycle. As the cost is prorated from the 30-day billing cycle, it will only cost a few cents to unlock, letting you store it full of Lock style pieces, or equipment that you otherwise have no use for but don’t want to toss either.

Recycle Bin

This is an item container where the last 10 items that you've dropped are temporarily moved to. You can pull up your Recycle Bin by typing "/recycle" in-game.

Note that all items inside the Recycle Bin vanish forever when you zone, logout, or disconnect from the game.

Other Inventory

Porter Moogle

Porter Moogles located across Vana'diel's towns and cities, including your Mog Garden, store certain categories of equipment and seasonal event items onto Storage Slips.

There are a number of these slips, each of which are specific to an entire category of items such as Ambuscade armor, upgraded Artifact and Relic armor, among many others.

Each slip costs a one-time fee of 1,000 gil. Storing and withdrawing from a slip is free of charge. Storage slips cannot be (accidentally) dropped unless all items on them have first been withdrawn, so there’s no need to worry.

Trade an item to the Porter to see if it’s eligible for storage and on which slip number. Purchase the relevant slip, if not already purchased. Trade the slip to the Porter along with the item(s) to store, or trade the slip by itself to retrieve your armor later when you need it. This is a useful way to free up inventory space, especially when gearing multiple different jobs.

Armor Storage NPC

An older predecessor to Porter Moogles, Armor Storage NPCs store certain lower level sets of armor and original Artifact sets in exchange for a Key Item Claim Slip, as opposed to the Porter’s slips, so they don't take up any space.

It was useful for older level-capped BCNMs and Ballista. That said, there's little-to-no reason to use these NPCs nowadays, since they only store full five-piece armor sets rather than individual pieces, and can't store anything past level 75. But hey, if you want to keep some Brass Finger Gauntlets, sure, go ahead and store the entire set.

Storing sets is free. Withdrawing them costs a varying amount of gil, depending on the set.

Event Storage NPC

Event Storage NPCs store a variety of the rewards and other knick-knacks stuff you have received from the FFXI holiday events and celebrations (like that old Treat Staff you got many years ago for Halloween).

Storing items is free, but withdrawing an item costs 250 gil.

Ephemeral Moogles

Ephemeral Moogles are transparent moogles that will store Crystals and clusters for you. They can be found near Crafting Guilds, as well as in your Mog Garden after purchasing a Key Item Shimmering invitation. Withdrawing crystals will automatically convert stacks into clusters for easier stacking.

Miscellaneous Storage Options

There are other NPCs around Vana'diel that will store and hold certain consumable items for you to help free up more inventory slots for other things you want to keep.

Besides these common items, there are many additional currencies that can be stored. Navigate to "Status > Currencies 1 or 2" in your menu, then highlight an item to see the related storage NPC in the help text at the top-middle of your screen.

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