MapleStory Classic Etc Items: What to Keep for Quests, Crafting

Checked against v1.0.0 on October 29, 2026.

Your Etc tab fills up fast in MapleStory Classic World, and most of it sells to NPCs for 1 to 50 mesos each. Some of those cheap drops are what quests and crafting recipes ask for later, sometimes 100 or more at a time. This MapleStory Classic Etc items guide turns MapleStory Quest's keep list (299 items that a live quest or recipe wants) into decisions: what to hold, how many, what's hard to farm again, and what you can sell.

Quick summary

• 299 items are wanted by a quest or recipe: 259 by live content and 40 more only by Closed Online Test 2 quests (MapleStory Quest keep list).
• Selling the whole list would earn just 245,022 mesos, so holding it costs you very little (MapleStory Quest).
• 41 items are hard to replace: only one or two monsters drop them. Examples are the Cursed Doll (570 wanted in total), Tablecloth (165) and Stone Golem Rubble (150) (MapleStory Quest).
• Crafting runs on six materials: Screws (142 recipes), Processed Leather (101), Spool of Thread (82), Iron Ingots (67), Processed Cloth (57) and Processed Wood (44) (MapleStory Quest).
• 26 items can be bought back from shops, like dyes, fruit and Pure Water, so sell those freely.
• Grand Launch added new asks: Pia's Legend of the Snail chain wants 20 each of Snail, Blue Snail and Red Snail Shells, and the Halloween quest wants 100 Halloween Candies until November 18 (NiaMeowDB, Nexon).

How the Etc keep list works

MapleStory Quest's keep list joins three things from the client. Quest rows say what they want and how many. Recipes name their ingredients. Item rows carry the NPC sell price. For each item it shows the biggest single ask, the total across everything that wants it, the lowest level that asks, and where another would come from.

Risk label	Items	What it means
No known source	210	MapleStory Quest's drop tables don't list it. Many are crafted or given by quests
Hard to replace	41	One or two monsters drop it
Bought back	26	An NPC shop sells it
Farmable again	22	Several monsters drop it

Fifty of the "no known source" items are handed to you by the quest that wants them (MapleStory Quest). You can ignore those.

Etc items to keep: the hard-to-replace drops

Item	Keep (largest ask / total)	Dropped by	NPC pays	Wanted by
Cursed Doll	200 / 570	Zombie Lupin	40	Collecting 50 and 70 Cursed Dolls, and more
Tablecloth	50 / 165	Jr. Wraith	34	Maya's Second Collection, house materials
Medicine With Weird Vibes	50 / 160	Wraith	48	Jane's First and Second Challenge
Stone Golem Rubble	100 / 150	Stone Golem	56	Maya's Last Collection, Building a New House For Blackbull
Cold Eye Tail	30 / 120	Cold Eye	41	Maya's Third Collection, house materials
Green Mushroom Cap	30 / 115	Green Mushroom	14	Pia and the Blue Mushroom, Maya's First Collection
Horny Mushroom Cap	30 / 115	Horny Mushroom	22	Jane and the Mushroom, Maya's First Collection
Octopus Leg	30 / 110	Octopus	12	Estelle's Special Sauce, Getting Arcon's Blood
Orange Mushroom Cap	30 / 101	Orange Mushroom	8	Maya's First Collection, 4 recipes
Blue Mushroom Cap	30 / 100	Blue Mushroom	19	Jane and the Mushroom, Pia and the Blue Mushroom
Tortie Shell	50 / 90	Tortie	46	Maya's Third Collection, Donating to Henesys
Evil Eye Tail	30 / 90	Evil Eye	27	Cutthroat Manny's Request, Donating to Henesys
Squishy Liquid	30 / 82	Slime	6	Getting Arcon's Blood, I Need Help on My Homework!
Stirge Wing	30 / 80	Stirge	20	Icarus's Hang Glider, Luke the Security Guy
Firewood	30 / 60	Axe Stump, Dark Axe Stump	17	Progress on Fossil Research, Bruce's Cooking Ingredients
Jr. Necki Skin	25 / 60	Jr. Necki	21	Dr. Faymus's Request, Luke the Security Guy
Red Snail Shell	30 / 60	Red Snail	4	Donating to Henesys and Kerning City, 5 recipes
Ligator Skin	30 / 60	Ligator	31	Donating to Henesys and Kerning City
Wild Boar Tooth	30 / 60	Wild Boar	25	Donating to Henesys and Kerning City
Croco Skin	50 / 50	Croco	52	Taking Out the Alligators 2
Dark Stone Golem Rubble	50 / 50	Dark Stone Golem	58	Maya's Last Collection
Lupin Doll	30 / 30	Lupin	100	Maya's Third Collection
Black Crystal	8 / 8	Jr. Balrog	2,500	What Pia Borrowed, 26 recipes
Sap of Ancient Tree	10 / 10	Dark Axe Stump	300	Jane's Final Challenge
Mushmom Spore	1 / 1	Mushmom	400	Jane's Second Challenge

All rows are MapleStory Quest's; we spot-checked the Stone Golem Rubble asks (100 for Blackbull, 50 for Maya) on NiaMeowDB's quest tracker. "Donating to Henesys" and "Donating to Kerning City" are Citizenship quests (our Citizenship guide). Jr. Wraith and Wraith maps are in our Kerning subway guide, and Black Crystal comes from our Jr. Balrog guide. The quests that use the mushroom caps, Rubble and Tablecloths are walked through in our Henesys guide, Golem's Temple guide and Icarus Cape guide.

Early-level drops worth a slot

A few cheap drops from levels 1 to 20 come back in quests you'll meet soon after. Counts are from the quest tables in our Henesys Hunting Ground and L Forest guides:

Item	Keep	Quests that ask
Slime Bubble	14	Teo's Weird Hobby (1), I Need Help on My Homework! (3), Mrs. Ming Ming's First Worry (10)
Mushroom Spore	10	The Reason Behind the Mushroom Studies (Bruce, level 10)
Pig's Ribbon	20	Mrs. Ming Ming's First Worry, then more for Maya and citizenship
Snail, Blue Snail and Red Snail Shells	20 each	Snail Hunt, in Pia's Legend of the Snail chain (level 20, new at Grand Launch)
Lupin's Banana, Lorang Claw, Clang Claw	55 / 100 / 70	Riel's four Florina Beach quests; see our Florina Beach guide

Hold the crafting staples

Material	Recipes that use it	Quest asks too	NPC pays	How you get more
Screw	142	Yes (90 all told)	1	Craft (one craft makes 10)
Processed Leather	101	No	10	Craft from Leather
Spool of Thread	82	Yes (Francois in Need of Help)	1	Craft
Iron Ingot	67	Yes (Mr. Thunder)	100	Craft from 5 Iron Ore
Processed Cloth	57	No	10	Craft
Processed Wood	44	Yes (41 all told)	10	Craft from Firewood or Tree Branches
Garnet, Gold Ingot	35 each	Yes	200, 300	Craft from ore
Mithril Ingot	32	Yes	200	Craft from ore
Fragment of Magic	24	Yes (20 all told)	10	Arcforge
Dragon Skin	23	Yes (90 all told)	200	Copper Drake, Drake
Seedling, Wooden Board	Processed Wood	—	—	Excavation Site drops, new at Grand Launch (henesys.gg)

Recipe counts are MapleStory Quest's. Ore-to-ingot rules (5 ore each) and Screw yield come from our crafting guides. Our gloves guide shows a typical recipe: a level 30 glove takes Processed Leather, Iron Ingots and Spools of Thread. Our read: if you plan to craft, never vendor raw ore. Every ore type is in the "farmable again" group, but each sells for 20 to 500 mesos and feeds ingots for dozens of recipes (our ore guide and crafting guide).

Sell these instead

Group	Examples	Why you can sell	Source
Shop-bought	Blue, Red, Yellow, Black and White Dye; Apple, Egg, Orange, Lemon, Salad; Pure Water; bronze helmets from Harry	Buy another at an NPC when a quest asks	MapleStory Quest; NiaMeowDB shops
Quest-given	50 items, including Omok pieces	The quest hands them to you	MapleStory Quest
Etc not on the list	Anything the keep list doesn't name	Nothing in the Public Release asks for it	MapleStory Quest
Closed test only	40 items wanted only by Closed Online Test 2 quests	Those quests aren't in the release	MapleStory Quest

The Halloween Candies (100 for the event quest) are a special case: they're untradeable, stack to 100, and disappear on November 18 at 11:59 PM UTC, so hand them in rather than storing them (Nexon, NiaMeowDB). Our Halloween event guide covers the quest.

Budget your storage

Our math: the 25 hard-to-replace drops in the table above add up to 2,497 items. Our inventory guide says materials stack to 100, and NiaMeowDB records Halloween Candies stacking to 100. Assuming these Etc drops do too (check in game), that's 38 slots for the full totals, or 26 if you only hold the largest single ask of each (rounding each item up to a whole slot). Spread it over storage and alts. Our inventory and storage guide covers slot counts and the storage fee.

Plan	Items held	Slots (100 a stack, assumed)	Vendor value forgone
Largest single ask of each drop above	1,014	26	59,805 mesos
Full totals of each drop above	2,497	38	104,020 mesos
Everything on the keep list	All 299 rows	Far beyond one character	245,022 mesos (MapleStory Quest)

Vendor value is our sum of keep count × NPC price. The 8 Black Crystals alone are 20,000 of it.

Example: a level 35 Cleric holding 30 Cold Eye Tails, 40 Tablecloths and 60 Squishy Liquid forgoes about 2,950 mesos by not selling them, less than one White Potion stack. Those three stacks cover Maya's Third Collection, most of Icarus and the Balloon, and Getting Arcon's Blood later. Our read: a full-totals hoard costs about 104,000 mesos in lost sales. That's less than two two-handed weapon Lessers at El Moth (60,000 each, NiaMeowDB). Our mesos guide covers better ways to earn.

Choose a keep strategy

Strategy	Who it suits	Upside	Downside
Keep the largest ask only	Solo players doing quests as they go	Low storage	You'll farm again for repeat or chained quests
Keep full totals	Citizenship and house-quest completionists	One farming pass	About 38 slots
Keep crafting staples only	Crafters	Feeds every recipe	Quest drops sold too early
Sell everything	Speed levelers	Most mesos now	You'll refarm for Citizenship later

Our quests worth doing guide shows which quest lines pay off enough to justify the storage.

Handle alts and returning players

• Returning players: many drop names are the same as in old GMS, but the quests asking for them are new Citizenship and house lines (MapleStory Quest Public Release notes).
• Alts as storage: account storage is shared by every character, and a house's storage chest opens the same storage (NiaMeowDB). That beats parking stacks on an alt, which needs a trade, and new accounts can't trade until 24 hours after a character reaches level 15 (Nexon). Our housing guide covers the chest.
• Crafters: keep Leather, Firewood and ore for processing even if you sell other Etc items.
• Minigame fans: Monster Cards (15) and the Omok pieces make the game sets (our minigames guide).
• Powerleveled characters: a carried character skips the drops you'd normally pick up, so expect to farm Citizenship items later.

Want a hand with this?

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What changed for Etc items at Grand Launch

The keep list above is built from the live client. Grand Launch (v1.0.0, October 21, 2026) and the patches around it changed these asks and rules, per Nexon's Grand Launch maintenance notes, October 15 notes and henesys.gg:

Change	What it means for your Etc tab
New quests in Victoria Island, including Pia's Legend of the Snail chain	Keep snail shells from the first maps
The Filing Error now needs 25 Torn Ledger Pages, down from 50 (October 15)	Stop at 25; see our Caretaker's Ledger guide
Dr. Betty's Research on Plant Fossils text fixed to 8 Plant Samples, the amount it always took (October 15)	Don't farm 20
Pets now pick up stackable Etc items when your inventory is full, if an existing stack has room (October 15)	Partial stacks keep filling during long sessions
Excavation Site added, with Seedlings and Wooden Boards for Processed Wood	A second wood source for crafters
Debt System (October 22): accounts in debt can't trade or drop items	Debt also blocks selling Etc to players
New-account trade lock until 24 hours after a character reaches level 15	Sell Etc to NPCs or hold it until then

Crafting still stops at craft level 8, so materials for level 9 and 10 recipes don't need to be stockpiled yet. The MapleStory Classic hub collects every guide for the game.

FAQ

What Etc items should I keep in MapleStory Classic? The 41 hard-to-replace drops, led by Cursed Dolls, Tablecloths and Stone Golem Rubble, plus crafting materials if you craft (MapleStory Quest).

Can I sell Etc items to NPCs? Yes. Anything not on the keep list, shop-bought items and quest-given items can all go. Selling the whole keep list earns only 245,022 mesos (MapleStory Quest).

How many Cursed Dolls do I need? 570 across every quest that asks, with 200 as the largest single ask (MapleStory Quest).

What is the most used crafting material? Screws, in 142 recipes, followed by Processed Leather in 101 (MapleStory Quest).

Should I sell ore? Not if you plan to craft. Ingots take 5 ore each and feed dozens of recipes (our crafting guides).

What does 'no known source' mean on the keep list? MapleStory Quest couldn't match the item to a drop in its older v83 tables. Many such items are crafted, quest-given, or dropped by a monster with a matching name, like Lorang Claws. Mushroom caps, by contrast, are easy: Maya, Jane and Pia want about 100 of each.

Related guides

• Inventory and storage guide
• Citizenship guide
• Crafting guide
• Quests worth doing
• Icarus Cape quest guide
• Forest Up North guide
• MapleStory Classic hub