Carrying Capacity of Various Items and Animals
Last update: 15 June 2005
I base the list below on my own observation and the observations of those kind enough to send me data. If you have some data for this page, please do send me an email or talk to me on Darkwind. Thanks!
Item/Animal
Cost (a) Capacity (b) Cost/Item (c) Cost to
Corral/Stable
----------- p;
--------- ------------ --------------
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handbag
40 0 (d)
--- &
---
small web sack
60 6
10.0
---
large sack
300 8
37.5
---
burlap sack
10 10
1.0
---
Small bag
60 10
6.0
---
strange bag
1,000 11
90.9
---
Spelunker's Backpack 600
40 15.0
---
Garou Cube (e) --- 40
--- &
---
5k Pony (f)
5,000 66
75.8
500
10k Camel (f)
10,000 80
125.0
500
Mastadon
--- ;
94
--- &
---
Gekko /
Teapot (g) 10,100
94 107.5
---
Gekko /
Teapot 16,500
94 175.5
---
Gekko /
Teapot 22,000
94 234.0
---
Newbie Tome (h) 35,000
94 372.3
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Notes
(a) The "Cost" is either the cost of the item/animal from Taylor,
Market, or the appropriate shop. Naturally you can minimize your costs by
finding an item, taking it from a mob or via transfer from another player.
Since the "Market" system has come in, we no longer buy items from shops, so
some of the prices are still from "shop times". What you pay for them on
Market is, of course, subject to the judgement (or "greed") of the selling
player.
(b) I base the "Capacity" field on the number of snakeskins (found in the
Jungle of Kerei) you may store in the item or animal. Theoretically, you
could use anything to measure capacity, but I use the skins because they are
small enough to provide the granularity we need here.
(c) To determine "Cost/Item", I divide the "Cost" by the "Capacity" so that
we get a relative idea of the how much it costs us to carry each item in that
pack or animal. The lower the number in this column, the better relative
value we get per item we carry in that pack or animal.
(d) The "handbag" holds only cash, not items.
(e) As the "Garou" term suggests, this is only relevant to the best guild on the Mud. ;-)
(f) For ponies and camels, I think it's functional to only consider the "max"
animal you can buy -- the 5,000-coin Pony and 10,000-coin Camel.
(g) The Enchanted Teapot and the Quick and Cute Gekko are special "pack animals" that a wizard gives out
or puts on Market and I've based the price on exactly
that, including tax. The three prices shown above are the three different
prices I've observed over time. According to James, there will be a Gekko Shoppe as part of the New Economy,
but the gekkos sold there will not be able to hold as much as the current
gekko.
(h) This is not the classical Newbie Tome. :-) It's the "animated and annoying newbie tome" that a wizard gives out. It's not only a pack animal -- it also takes random hits for you during combat! Very spammy little bugger, though. I base the price on the "market" rate I've observed.