Your backpack
What you're carrying, how to use it, and how to set it down.
Your backpack holds everything you pick up. The bar at the top shows how much you're carrying, with a mark where it starts to slow you down.
Things are sorted into food and drink, weapons and tools, materials, ore and stone, seeds, and finds, so the same things always sit in the same place. Your axe, pick and spade sit in there with the rest, and the right one comes out when a job needs it. A hammer and a knife you always have, so they don't show up.
The Gear tab is what you're wearing and holding. Tap a piece to take it off, put on hide clothing you're carrying, sew a new piece from hides, or make a stone axe, a stone pick or a wooden spade from sticks and flint.
Using things#
Everything in your backpack works the same way. Tap something and you get the usual things you'd do with it, like eat one, drink, or set one down. Nothing happens until you pick one, so you won't eat your supper by accident.
Hold it down, or right-click it on a computer, for the rest. That shows what it weighs (each, and for the whole stack), how much it fills you up if it's food, a button to set the whole lot down, and a link to read about it here in the wiki.
| Item | Tap it to |
|---|---|
| Food | Eat one, or set one down |
| Canteen water | Have a drink, worth 30 on your water bar |
| Anything else | Set one down, or hold it to set them all down |
Setting things down#
Whatever you set down goes in a pile at your feet. A pile holds 50 things, and when it's full the next lot starts a new pile beside it. Out in the open anyone can open a pile and take from it, so keep your good stuff on you or at home. Inside a settlement, only the people who live there, and whoever set the pile down, can touch it.
Down in a mine it works the same, except it goes on the tunnel floor. If you put a windlass on your shaft, it winds up whatever is piled at the foot of the ladder along with your pack.
Weight#
When you're new you walk at full speed up to 45 kg, and slow down the more you carry past that. At 75 kg you can't pick up anything else, and you can't climb a ladder with more than 50 kg. A log is 15 kg and a stone 12 kg, so heavy stuff adds up quick. That's what carts, horses and piles are for.
It gets better as you go. Heavy work and hauling build up your Strength, and every level of it lets you carry a bit more, up to 150 kg at Strength 50. The bar in your backpack always shows your own numbers.
On horseback your horse carries the load, so a full pack doesn't slow you down.
Giving things to someone#
Tap another player and choose Give to hand them something from your pack. You need to be standing within 4 m of them. It goes straight into their pack, but only as much as they can carry before it starts to slow them down. That's 45 kg for someone new, and more for someone strong. That way nobody can be loaded down with things they didn't ask for. If they can't take it all, the rest stays with you.
If you want something back for it, choose Trade instead of Give. You both put things in and both agree before anything moves. See Gold and trading.
It's the way to trade for now. Agree on a swap and hand your side over.