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| The Wonderful World of Vendors and Merchants |
| Chapter 7 - Inventory and Storage, by Zamboni Driver; edited
by Xena Dragon |
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Recently, there have been radical changes to house security and storage
capacity in UO. The most notable changes revolve around item decay
within houses and additional secure storage.
House Storage
Before the Clean Up Britannia patches, houses had unlimited
unsecure storage and limited secure storage. With this series of
patches, however, secure storage has been increased and unsecure storage
has been eliminated. Here are the new limits for secure storage in
houses (including lockdowns):
Small House - 425 items (3 secure containers)
Large brick house, large house with patio - 1100 (8 secure containers)
2 Story house - 1370 items (10 secure containers)
Tower - 2119 items (15 secure containers)
Keep - 2625 items (18 secure containers)
Castle - 4076 items (28 secure containers)
An additional change has been the elimination of weight limits on secure
containers and bank boxes. Taking that change into account, therefore,
the owner of a small house can safely store 550 items (425 in the house,
125 in the bank), regardless of weight.
These limits will influence your choice of vendors and your inventory
control. It will be difficult to operate a magic items vendor unless
one has access to more than a small house. Alchemists, on the other
hand, can breathe a sigh of relief - the introduction of the potion keg
has all but eliminated any need to worry about huge item count usually
associated with running a potion vendor. Craftspeople can also relax,
since raw materials are stackable and only take up 1 item spot each (e.g.:
you can store 25000 ingots in a secure chest and it only takes up 1 slot).
Scribes can expect their entire operation to take up under 125 slots (64
different stacks of scrolls, 1 container for each circle, a big pile of
blank scrolls, 8 piles of reagents, blank runes (for runebooks), runebooks
and spellbooks). Smiths will have to maintain a limited stockpile
of weapons and armour and create product as required to restock their vendors.
Item Decay
With Phase III of the Clean Up Britannia patches, all items
not locked down or in a secure container are subject to the same rate of
decay as if they were lying on the ground outside. In other words,
the only way to store goods in your house is to either put them inside
a secure container or to lock them down.
note: items placed inside a locked down (but not secure)
container are subject to decay unless the items themselves are also locked
down.
Additional Storage
Characters that are co-owners of houses are entitled to place
one mini-secure container that can hold 25 items. Only the placer
of this container has access to it.
note: the above doesn't apply to characters who are automatically
co-owners by virtue of being on the same account as the owner of the house.
Boats offer limited additional storage. Only items in the hold
of a boat are exempt from item decay (i.e.: items on the deck of the boat
will decay at the normal rate). Further, boat holds are still subject
to the 400 stone weight limit, so are more useful if you want to store
a large number of light items. For example, boats are ideal places
to store treasure maps (as long as you're very careful about boat security).
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