Items can be used for many things. But sometimes you need to get a lot of them for various situations. So what do you do? You go Item Farming. Item farming is where you go use various methods to gain items, like killing enemies for their random drops or go Video Game Stealing to grind for various items. This can also include going around and exploring various places to collect items. Since this is done in almost all MMORPGs, no straight MMORPG examples please.(Notable subversions are fine.) Sister trope of Level Grinding and Money Grinding.