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THINGS I WISH I'D KNOWN EARLIER - Inventory and Banking

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* Elm strongboxes can be fairly easily made via the tradeskilling system and will give you an 8 slot container you can put in your bank. Fill all the slots in your bank with them and you will be able to hold quite a bit of stuff. They are too heavy to lug around on low-level characters, but bags can be crafted from harvested hides in a similar way. Bags have less slots than boxes of the same tier.

* The four bank slots at the bottom of the bank window are shared bank slots, and accessible to every character from the same account, on the same server, and of the same alignment. You can not directly move money via the shared bank slot (the manual is wrong). Coin can be mailed though, at a cost of 10c.

* Coin will automatically convert up to the next denomination as you get it.  Ie, if you have 78 silver, and get 34 silver as a quest reward, your coin will show 1g 12s.

* At times it can be useful to open all your bags/bank boxes at once. To set this up, go to Options > Controls > Window Keys. Choose a hotkey for "open/close inventory bags" (default is B) and "open/close bank bags" (default Shift+B). Pressing that hotkey will open all your bags, and pressing it again will close them all. Alternatively, you can use the /togglebags command. You can create a hotbar button to togglebags by creating a macro (Socials > Macros), then dragging the macro to your hotbar.

* You can pick up a single item from a stack of items by holding down the control key and click-dragging on the stack of items. You can pick up a specific quantity by holding down shift and click-dragging, which will bring up a quantity-select window.

* You can downconvert coins in your bank by using the /bank_withdraw command. Go to your banker and open your bank. Then type /bank_withdraw ### (where ### is the amount of coins in copper you want to withdraw), and it will make change for you.

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