More than 200 EMPTY chests and barrels (A good portion of them from Dante's Brewery) were removed from the face of Caphori, to make room for joining newbs or events. If your chest had items in it, it was not removed.
If you have a chest that is empty (is deco or not used yet) and it has not been removed, please remove it. Consider using dressers or ale kegs for 'storage' decor, rather than chests or barrels (Looking at you, Pum). If you require said deco items to place asap (unlikely), contact a mod with item-spawning capability.
Question: how does removing 5 barrels from a house make room for newbs
It means we're five more barrels away from the chest cap. Barrels count as chests, as they can store items- the game doesn't differentiate between the two aside from visual aesthetics.
Not sure about safes and piggybanks though- I don't think they do, as their inventory is stored on-character, while chests and barrels store on-map (In other words, have as many of those as you like).
It makes room for newbs because, at the chest cap, more chests/barrels can't be placed. At all. It circumvents the flood of 'LOL THIS SERVER SUX I CANT STORE MY SHIT' that we would otherwise receive.
Ok well that makes sense now, thanks :3
never knew there was such a thing as a chest cap.
what is the cap, anyways?
well crap :\ If I had known about the cap, I would have designed the storage better
1000 each for both chests and signs, according to Ria.