NPC containers!

[burger queen]

Before I had a house on OSI, I was always stashin' stuff in (and stealin' stuff from) chests in the inns and what-have-you to transfer it between characters. I found out yesterday that you can't do that here! What gives?

[kill drizitz]

Before I had a house on OSI, I was always stashin' stuff in (and stealin' stuff from) chests in the inns and what-have-you to transfer it between characters. I found out yesterday that you can't do that here! What gives?

qft. and im pretty sure that the barrels ontop of lord british's castle had armor in them. u could take them (might have had to steal them) and sell them to npcs. i think this was in era.

[MatronDeWinter]

There was a chest in serps hold that spawned plate armor, I remember reading a uo-comic during the era and learning about it. Then taking advantage of it myself.

[Derrick]

Indeed. We don't have this system quite right yet, however items do spawn in the chests in town, it's just not yet possible to store your own stuff in them

[burger queen]

It also seems like you've got some post-T2A player trade rules in place

[nightshark]

also i noticed there's no books on NPC bookshelves. pretty sure i've seen the old books documented somewhere. blank books used to spawn on the shelves too, and you could write in them. the first time i ever played uo, i did 2 things

make a make with 10 str in magincia, and get killed by a rat after i couldnt outrun it (and obviously my char was too crap to kill it)

write in one of the books.. which was full of stuff from other clueless nubs as well.. lol

[Derrick]

Empty books should currently be spawning in library bookcases, and they should be writable.

[MatronDeWinter]

I remember seeing a bunch of books, one that comes to mind was called "Dimensional Travel". They had some various UO-lore, often relating to hunting simple animals or moongate travel. I know for sure they spawned in the Brit library.

[Kraarug]

Indeed. We don't have this system quite right yet, however items do spawn in the chests in town, it's just not yet possible to store your own stuff in them

Derrick

Items did spawn in NPC containers and players could easily take them out. You didn't have to 'steal them'. They made that change with CUB phase III came about.

As far as using NPC containers, yes players could place things in them but it worked like placing them on the ground as far as decay.

A player could place whatever he or she wanted in a container, bookcase, barrel and it could be retrieved later.

This was a favorite trick of mine with my GM Tinker.

I would 'hop' a trapped box full of junk and go into a busy prov shop to drop the box into a container pretending I was a n00b just begging to have my stuff taken.

Players would open the container and then open my trapped box killing them instantly. I couldn't loot them in town of course but the purpose was just to kill greedy fools.

In short though:

• Yes, stuff like bacon, armor, and other semi rares like herbs would spawn in NPC containers (Moonglow specifically for herbs).
  
  Yes, players could drop things in these containers and remove them without that still "this container doesn't belong to you n00b" message.
  
  This was changed all when CUB Phase III came about and thus would make restoring this function a true T2A era accurate change.

[Akanigit]

If I remember correctly the roof of the castle had armor in the barrels you could steal. You could also fill the empty ones with water from a pitcher and then you could steal them. I used to do that in Skara Brae all the time for giggles.

[Kraarug]

If I remember correctly the roof of the castle had armor in the barrels you could steal. You could also fill the empty ones with water from a pitcher and then you could steal them. I used to do that in Skara Brae all the time for giggles.

You didn't have to steal them.

And your right, there was a bug that allowed you to get the barrels by filling them or draining them of water. Once they changed from their spawned status (from spawned filled to player drianed or vice versa) they became available to take.

(You always had to drain the barrels because they weight over 400 stones. There was some trick you could do allowing you to fill a barrel in your pack and be very very very over weight. I forget the details though)

[Akanigit]

Now that I think about it I had to get on the roof with my mage and I could take things. I think I went up there looking for cannonballs or hanging armor.

[Kaivan]

By T2A, in-town containers had been standardized into 2 categories: spawning containers and containers that could hold items. All spawning containers in a given area would spawn items that needed to be stolen, provided the container was within guard zone. Otherwise, the items could be freely taken (the whips in Skara Brae, or the barrels in the Blacksmith shop of Bucs Den are good examples). The other containers were simply standard containers that people could put items in to and take items out of. This, of course, was later changed to disallow storage of any items in town containers.

[MatronDeWinter]

Can you comment on whether or not these containers were "lockable" ? Not that they were "locked", just "lockable".

[Direwolf]

When I first started this server I noticed barrels on docks don't have the stuff in them to loot like in the "old days"