Out of curiosity, could anyone give a run down of what the various items you can pick up are? I'm fairly certain their just extra... whatever the souls are in this game are, but I think there are some other things that you can pick up that aren't those.
Going over the list of everything I picked up in the latest version and my memory:
-The first item you always start with is the Old Crested Cloth, essentially a Darksign or Hunter's Mark that warps you back while abandoning all money but doesn't work yet
-The majority of what you'll pick up are various Idea bundles (イデア) in various sizes
-You'll find Fire Paper around (炎) that seems to work just like in Bloodborne
-Regular Crested Cloth Scraps are lying around that are essentially the Bold Hunter's Mark
-After the first boss is a Serum bottle, which I think was the only one with an icon so it should be obvious
-A few enemies and places have Latent Stones, which are just the titanite chunks. There's also a large version and I believe a twinkling version, but nobody can upgrade you yet
-Lockpicks are lying around but cannot be used
-The nuns mostly drop Sewing Kits for repairing your clothes. They don't work and there's also no negative repercussions to being stripped yet except being demonitized on Youtube
I think that's it.