Icker Preserve Kit:
Cost - 5 dreadstone, 3 icker blobs
Portability? - No
Slots - 1
Accessibility - Post-rift
Bundling Wrap:
Cost - 1 wax paper, 1 rope
Portability? - Yes
Slots - 4
Accessibility - always, when you want to
Yeah, it is SLIGHTLY more convenient because you do not need to rebundle stuff afterwards, but really, who doesn't bundle up ropes with their bundled items to rebundle it instantly afterwards anyways? The downside is almost nonexistent.
It makes no sense for the Icker Preserve to be so weak and so expensive at the same time.
Shouldn't the gel the food is stored inside dissolve it, and then using shadow magic reconstruct it when you want to pull it out? The mechanic would make the slots for the stored item infinite. Although the food would be covered in the icker goo I guess? Making the food give 5-10 sanity less.
Using Elastispacer on the item to make it infinite does not make sense, since Shadow Magic and Lunar Magic do not play along.