Carrying Capacity

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This page discusses a defunct game mechanic. It has never been in use, having been withdrawn before ever being implemented.

Carrying Capacity refers to the maximum number of items you could carry in your inventory, in days when Jick planned to limit inventory sizes. Containers were originally designed to increase this when the limit was imposed. Like for hats or pants, there was until recently an equipment slot for a container, but almost no items that actually used it. This was because early on, it was decided that limited carrying capacity was a bad idea, so it was dropped during a semi-open-discussion stage without ever being implemented (many people already having many more items than the limited inventory sizes would have supported.) The original three Container items - Mr. Container, the hemp backpack and Newbiesport backpack - were planned but never released, however some were created as a result of arbitrary item creation bugs (or item duplication bugs once the originals had been hacked into existence) and still exist in the game: but they are very rare. Because of the non-implementation of Carrying Capacity, these items were entirely useless until February 12, 2006, when enchantments were added to them which slightly increased item drops or meat drops. A fourth Container-type item - the TΤ◊lisman of Baiø‡ - was introduced into the game in April 2010, as a drop from Mr. Store's Baby Bugged Bugbear familiar. It has two effects which cancel out to do nothing.

Containers were officially removed from the game on June 28th, 2012. With the exception of the Radio KoL Coffee Mug which became an accessory, the other containers were folded into the newly created back item slot.

Container Capacity

Item	Type	Capacity		Enchantment
		Original	Current
Mr. Container	container	1000	3	+3% Item Drops from Monsters
hemp backpack	container	300	2	+2% Item Drops from Monsters
Newbiesport™ backpack	container	100	1	+1% Item Drops from Monsters
Radio KoL Coffee Mug	accessory	-	0	All Attributes +10 +10 Hot Damage Custom item given to KolMohDee
TΤ◊lisman of Baiø‡	container	-	200	Monsters will be more attracted to you Monsters will be less attracted to you

Bonus Carrying Capacity

Item	Type		Enchantment
	Original	Current	Original	Current
box-in-the-box-in-the-box	accessory	off-hand item	Carrying Capacity +70	+3% Meat from Monsters
box-in-the-box	accessory	off-hand item	Carrying Capacity +50	+2% Meat from Monsters
box	accessory	off-hand item	Carrying Capacity +30	+1% Meat from Monsters

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