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A Valuable Tip Before You Unpack Your Moving Boxes

(Thanks to CodeChic for this tip; see also WalruZ's similar thread.)

If you pick up a moving box and have it in your inventory, then the inventory search functionality will search over items in your moving boxes. It is then easier to move all of a certain type of item out of the moving box and into an SDB, for example.

(Inventory search is accessible via the little magnifying glass icon in the bottom left of the viewport; or by pressing the "~/`" key; or by pressing shift+F)

Items in moving boxes will also be available for crafting as well, as long as the box is in your inventory.

Posted 7 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • now you tell me!  but thanks anyway - it changes nothing between us......
    Posted 7 months ago by little peep Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Woot!!!!!!!

    Great tip!!!

    Thanks Codechic!!!  (And Stoot for passing it along)
    Posted 7 months ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink
  • wish i knew...my house is a mess O.O
    Posted 7 months ago by ◘ ▪ Leï.Leï ▪ ◘ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i moved into my box, so im getting a kick out of this...
    Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Elf in a box....  Is that anything like a Jack in a box?
    Posted 7 months ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good tip! Glad I've only opened 2 out of 5, and those two in an expanded back yard. It's a little tedious, but fun to organize the mess (geez, I sure had a lot of meat and booze--lol). I just completed a second story and having a blast!
    Posted 7 months ago by GreyGoose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Also, if you have it in your inventory and have SDB's, you can click on the SDB, click deposit, and everything in your inventory will show up. Then you can choose what to deposit, whether in the moving box or in your regular inventory.
    Posted 7 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm going to try this when I get in game but before I trigger some cataclysmic bug... has anyone done this with full bags in the moving box?
    Posted 7 months ago by Addi Bee~♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Haha thanks for the tip.  I'm not fond of the SDBs myself but I'm sure some people like this.  :)
    Posted 7 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Next time:)
    Posted 7 months ago by Fly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Dang!!!  This exploring and discovering stuff is fun!!!
    Posted 7 months ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Another timely release from TS....
    Posted 7 months ago by Clark Griswald Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Damn, missed it!
    My big mess on the floor already :/

    www.glitch.com/snaps/PUVTV7...

    www.glitch.com/snaps/PUVTV7...
    Posted 7 months ago by Lila Clemenceau Subscriber! | Permalink
  • my stuff is strewn all over. Seems I cannot pick up my heart. Also, my gnome is missing. :( Even tho the inside of my house will never be as cool as it was, at least I fixed the outside, so it still sort of feels like home.
    Posted 7 months ago by Auntie Grizelda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • this is how i feel right now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEszTzdUMcY
    Posted 7 months ago by LųĉĩđεşşΨ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • now just try remembering what is in what box...
    Posted 7 months ago by IxÆoN Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks Stoot, CodeChic & Little Miss Giggles!  That helps a lot! (saw this just before emptying my last box, which has most of the items from SDBs from the temp house, so the tips came in very handy!)
    Posted 7 months ago by Errata Stigmata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • :O
    Posted 7 months ago by Mr LaserExplosion Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all evening...
    Posted 7 months ago by Drakani Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Doh!
    Posted 7 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • what - don't I get any credit?

    http://www.glitch.com/forum/general/20852/#reply-220033
    Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • also, search does not work over moving boxes.  that's not what codechic's hint was about. 
    Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • awesome tip - I've already opened 2/5 boxes but will try this on the next 3.
    Posted 7 months ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • See, this is why I waited. I KNEW some cool tip would surface! :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'll remember this (belated) tip ... if we ever move again, which I hope to Grendaline we never do! :) Thanks, anyway. Putting my new house in order was really kinda fun.
    Posted 7 months ago by Mollie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WARNING - the bug that caused items to disappear when moving them into an SDB is back. They thought they had it fixed, but it just happened again.
    Posted 7 months ago by Audaria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This tip was working for me and then I just stopped having access to my stuff even with the moving boxes in my inventory... Did you fix it and I'm just out of luck? It was nice while it lasted.
    Posted 7 months ago by SkyWaitress Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @WalruZ

    I pointed you out to stoot in the status updates also.
    Posted 7 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wish I knew that before. There was this one evil box...  http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PA9P7M83LMD2FAO/9568-99ad84d9aa/ 
    *suddenly imagines the Devs carrying the boxes themselves one by one from house to house all night* Thank you for that ;)
    Posted 7 months ago by Miyoko Magic in SL Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WalruZ: I updated the post to give you credit too (I just saw that CodeChic's thread was a half hour earlier). Sorry!

    Mal'akh: that's where I saw it. Thanks!
    Posted 7 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The pick up option was grayed out for me eariler. I haven't been on game in a few hours though.
    Posted 7 months ago by EzBreezy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What a great tip.   I actually liked sorting out all the stuff on my floor, but the novelty does wear off.

    I love the moving boxes. I wish we could keep one.  Hey, I've moved plenty of times and there's always a box or five that never gets unpacked.   I'm going to try and unpack most of one using the SDBs and search tip and then leave something just so I can keep it in a corner somewhere.
    Posted 7 months ago by caley dunn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great tip, wish I had seen it before I exploded my first box, but it will help w/the other floor I haven't touched yet.
    Posted 7 months ago by Gizmospooky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Haha! That's funny! Spent the afternoon moving rock 50 at a time. Also helps to open the box in the room where you want the items to move into.
    Posted 7 months ago by Booknerd Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ caley dunn

    I was thinking of doing the exact same thing, then leaving the box in the attic.
    Posted 7 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Had I but known… that's several hours of my life I won't get back! :D
    Posted 7 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've found that you can also pick up your moving boxes full of supplies and craft furniture from those supplies without unpacking.
    Posted 7 months ago by unicyclr Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I didnt want to know that now! sigh....
    Posted 7 months ago by Teena Subscriber! | Permalink
  • can we access the bigger bag contents in the moving box when we pick it up?
    Posted 7 months ago by Zooo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I dont think so
    Posted 7 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • great.
    Posted 7 months ago by Zooo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was also able to donate stuff from the moving box's inventory. 
    Posted 7 months ago by Sirentist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ummmm okk lol Thanks anyway
     ..actually I still have one unopened box left..so yes this helps..:) x 
    Posted 7 months ago by Cryztal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Zooo - contents of bigger bags inside moving boxes can be viewed (and then moved) using the inventory search.

    If you know the name of your bags, you can also search on the name, click on it from the search list, and select drop to get just that bag out of the moving box.

    I <3 inventory search!
    Posted 7 months ago by unicyclr Subscriber! | Permalink
  • a little late with that info don't you think!
    Posted 7 months ago by celticlady Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ celticlady

    Stoot only found this hack out via WalruZ and CodeChic. Even the devs didn't know it was possible.
    Posted 7 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I tried the Donate stuff search but that didn't work,  but wooo when the crab asked for a tune... that list was  enormous.
    Sadly, inventory search no longer works for me. I know pretty much what's still in that box, but I can't get it out now without unpacking all of it....*sniff*  I really want to be able to keep a moving box as a memento of this day.  I suppose I still could but that's a whole lotta stuff to stay packed up forever. Things might start fermenting, mingling, congealing.. eventually I'm afraid I'd might need a Hazmat  suit just to walk by it.
    Posted 7 months ago by caley dunn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is a great tip, should be sticky, bump!
    Posted 7 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What happened to the sticky? Stoot stickied this post earlier.
    Posted 7 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh man, NOW I READ THIS.

    *muppet flail*
    Posted 7 months ago by Feylin Subscriber! | Permalink
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