Vocab word for "filler" items?

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?

Elevator7009,

Shop Fodder. Warning for TVTropes link.

GombeenSysadmin,

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.

lolcatnip,

Bad game design?

Durandal,
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Dungeon Lint

JoYo,
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guff.

Guffipedia was a gold mine.

can, (edited )

miscellanea?

averyminya,

Clutter, misc, trashure, junk, scrap.

GrappleHat,
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“Mathom” - A trinket or piece of bric-a-brac; a knick-knack, often used in regifting. Term coined by J.R.R. Tolkien

sbv,

“the intern’s summer project”

bear_delune,

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