In many games there are a lot of stupid filler items that you don’t know what they do and they don’t matter. (i.e. crafting ingredients). They are so ubiquitous across games that there ought to be a word for them. Sort of like a “MacGuffin” (except a MacGuffin moves the plot along, and these filler items don’t).
Is there a name for these filler items? If not, got any ideas?
“the intern’s summer project”
Vendor Trash
Clutter, misc, trashure, junk, scrap.
guff.
Guffipedia was a gold mine.
miscellanea?
“Mathom” - A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting. Term coined by J.R.R. Tolkien
One more word to add to the collection: cruft. Stuff that just builds up without you really noticing, mostly because it’s easier to collect everything than to filter it out of the good stuff.
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I always called it “clutter” tho I don’t know whether this is in any way official. De-cluttering an inventory means tossing the useless stuff out or packing it away.