The weight units of food and drink

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The weight units of food and drink

Postby Dragoth » Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:22 pm

Ok.discarded identify as its not on the list..
You feel informed:
Object 'pie food', Item type: FOOD
Item is: NOBITS
Weight: 1, Value: 20gold, Worn in: TAKE HOLD THROW

Eating a pie will reduce your hunger by 18 points (You will usually become full from eating a single pie) and it weights just 1 unit.

<922hp 801ma 356mv>cast 'create water'keg
Ok.discarded create water as its not on the list..
A keg of icybrau is filled.
<922hp 799ma 356mv>cast 'identify' keg
Ok.discarded create water as its not on the list..
You feel informed:
Object 'water keg icybrau', Item type: LIQUID CONTAINER
Item is: NOBITS
Weight: 75, Value: 1000gold, Worn in: TAKE

Drinking from this will roughly reduce your thirst by 10 points and the reduction in weight from drinking a single time is 11 weight units. (Alright, this seems variable and you can drink up to 20 units of weight in a single sitting for a reduction 20 points of thirst)

<922hp 776ma 356mv>drink keg
You drink from a keg of icybrau. It tastes like water.
Your stomach is full.
<922hp 784ma 356mv>cast 'identify' keg
The press gang leader arrives from the south.
Ok.discarded identify as its not on the list..
You feel informed:
Object 'water keg icybrau', Item type: LIQUID CONTAINER
Item is: NOBITS
Weight: 64, Value: 1000gold, Worn in: TAKE

Here we have a set of Darksteel shoulder guards
Two pieces of very dark steel inlaid with silver curve upwards from the
sides of a gorget of the same material. The silver on the central part
forms several runes, adding their magic to the strength of the steel.
The metal is as black as cold iron, but has an oily gleam to it.

Object 'guards darksteel dark shoulder', Item type: ARMOR
Item is: SHOULDER 2x40-ITEM
Weight: 8, Value: 750000gold, Worn in: TAKE NECK

How can a keg of water, weight as much as 10 shoulder guards made of steel and silver ? And how can a person drink a weight of those same shoulder guards or drink the same weight of 14 pies, when eating a single weight unit of those pies is enough to make him full and yet drinking all these units of water aren't enough to quench a thirst completely ?
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Re: The weight units of food and drink

Postby DarkArtist » Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:57 pm

The keg actually has a zero weight (enchanted I suppose), but contains 75 pounds of water.

The barrel has a weight of 5 and will hold 50 for a total full weight of 55.

Not long ago I reduced the weight of rations for player convenience, thus the 1 weight.

Regarding the unrealistically low weight of shoulder guards, it's another convenience factor. I don't think there would be wide support for increasing it, but make some suggestions and we'll see what happens.
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Re: The weight units of food and drink

Postby Dragoth » Sun Aug 09, 2015 5:48 pm

Shall i add another hundred items to the list that have unrealistic weight numbers compared to the water weights ?

And when is it ok to drink as much weight in water as two Adamantite cuirasses, is our bladder supposed to be the size of a house ?
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Re: The weight units of food and drink

Postby DarkArtist » Sun Aug 09, 2015 7:48 pm

Dragoth wrote:Shall i add another hundred items to the list that have unrealistic weight numbers compared to the water weights ?

And when is it ok to drink as much weight in water as two Adamantite cuirasses, is our bladder supposed to be the size of a house ?


1. Prolly not.

2. It's always ok. We do not limit players on the amount they drink.
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