Talk:Items

Cheers to danheretic, Tanarchy, and Lint for adding more info to the Items page! --Meatiershower 14:14, 13 February 2006 (GMT)

• Thanks!
  I'm a little curious as to what Simon's intentions with the wiki are. Should we be striving towards documenting every single detail or leaving things a little vague? --Lint 21:10, 13 February 2006 (GMT)

• Make it as vague or as detailed as you want. Information about locations of useful stuff is likely to be of interest to plenty of people ;) --Simon 21:14, 13 February 2006 (GMT)

• Great! Was interested in adding some stuff, and have, but not sure how much was too much. Driftwood was one example. Luckily, someone with more courage than myself posted it already, lol. =] --Meatiershower 21:52, 14 February 2006 (GMT)

Item Details

• I see that Knife is listed as unknown base level and and damage. I just signed up as a native (a warrior, I think). I found a knife. The hit percentage is 20% with a damage of 1. Is that what people mean by the base level? Shades of Grey 09:25, 15 February 2006 (GMT)

-Shades of Grey : I believe that is what should be listed. I found one and posted about the knife, but have not tried to use it yet. Post that info!--Meatiershower 22:28, 15 February 2006 (GMT)

• Can someone who understands the GPS please explain exactly what the numbers mean? I have yet to make heads or tails from them...--Meatiershower 22:28, 15 February 2006 (GMT)

I've added some info to the Items page. --Dr. J 00:31, 16 February 2006 (GMT)

Thanks, Doc! What is the '70' and '26' for on the GPS? Do they never change? --Meatiershower 15:10, 16 February 2006 (GMT)

They are part of the coordinates. As to whether they change - that depends on how big Shartak is. --Dr. J 11:46, 17 February 2006 (GMT)

I assume they are the notional lattitude and longitude of the island. 70E 26S is in the Indian Ocean, 70W 26N is NE of the Caribbean (70E 26N is in NW India and 70W 26S is in South America). --Richard Hawke-Welch 08:39, 20 February 2006 (GMT)

• I waded out into the Water with my Soldier and decided to search. Amid the multiple failed searches, I got one message: "You search and find a broken knife which you discard." Was that a potential item that required a certain skill to use or just junk? --Lint 03:59, 20 February 2006 (GMT)

• Anyone know if sharp machetes ever get dull? --Jackel 19:46, 23 February 2006 (GMT)

• I have some "dried herbs". I don't find them in this wiki, and I haven't used them yet. Anyone know what they do? --Jackel 20:36, 23 February 2006 (GMT) EDIT: Just tried using them got a message saying I didn't know how to use them. My guess is they are "healing herbs" and can only be used with the "Natural Medicine" skill--Jackel 18:42, 24 February 2006 (GMT)

Which character did you find them with? If you were an outsider, maybe it's the "Native Knowledge" skill you require rather than "Natural Medicine". I wonder what a first aid kit looks like to a native. --Lint 19:23, 24 February 2006 (GMT)

My outsider scientist has these. --Jackel 17:36, 25 February 2006 (GMT)

• Who added the heavy sword? We should all take some time to figure out where you can reliablly find them -- Daylan 19:58, 24 February 2006 (GMT)

It was added by "Fitzcarraldo". --Jackel 17:36, 25 February 2006 (GMT)

I am unfortunately not sure where I found it, it was found on the first day I tried shartak and I wasn't really paying attention, which is why I included the "(?)". Please feel free to add some data to Search Odds or Search Odds Condensed to help figure out where to find this item and others! -- Fitzcarraldo 10:13, 26 February 2006 (GMT)

Inventory Limit

• I finally hit an inventory limit. You're carrying too much to be able to search. You need to drop or use something first.
• 4 x banana
• 1 x blunt machete
• 2 x bottle of beer
• 5 x bottle of water
• 1 x crab
• 4 x first aid kit
• 2 x gold coin
• 4 x gourd of water
• 1 x gps unit [-70.376,26.301]
• 7 x knife
• 14 x machete
• 1 x mango
• 4 x piece of driftwood
• 1 x poison dart
• 5 x rifle bullet
• 8 x rifle (2)
• 1 x sharpening stone
• At the minimimum this would mean an inventory size of 65 for a level 0 Soldier. If we are to assume that rifles take up 2 spaces, the size would be 73 (which is a weird number). This presents an interesting situation where your greed for gold may very well impede your survival (if in fact a coin takes up 1 space). --Lint 19:12, 23 February 2006 (GMT)

The (2) next to the rifle means that it is loaded with two bullets --Dr. J

Style Guidelines

• Removed AP costs from the item information. Unless it costs more than 1 AP to use an item, it probably isn't noteworthy. --Lint 01:34, 17 February 2006 (GMT)

• Proposal to remove the names of classes that start with a specific item. This information is already available on the Character Classes page. --Lint 21:12, 19 February 2006 (GMT)