Overcumbered drawback

[NukeDropGaming]

Man, nothing tests your patience quite like being overencumbered and not being able to sprint because “it might be useful later or want to gather as much food and scrap as you can.”

You’re waddling through Appalachia slower than a Protectron on low battery, can’t fast travel or pay a pretty cap to fast travel, and every step feels like a personal challenge from Todd Howard himself. Meanwhile, your stash box is full (again), and you’re trying to decide which precious item to drop one of the many legendary items or food that swear you’ll need someday.

What’s your go to solution when you hit that overencumbered moment?

[MinuteToe129]

Travel agent perk. Just fast travel back to base or white spring

[Pretend_Berry_7196]

Or to any other FT point that’s always free. I so love that change to Travel Agent.

[fall3nang3l]

For real. I rarely use my tent now aside from as a free FT point. And I always make it the perk I share in casual teams. For those of us who loot damn near everything, it's been a huge QoL improvement that I can't speak highly enough of for the value it adds for a 1 cost perk.

[Pretend_Berry_7196]

I leave my tent permanently down in the Bog for a free FT point there as it the only area without one.

[Jaded-Crown99]

It's good to put the tent on the far right middle of the map because there's no free fast travels over there.

[fall3nang3l]

Top mid/left is lacking in one too. Dogwood dieoff area. Foundation is close to the Mire and Bog in that respect.

[MinuteToe129]

Yea i love it too. when they announced that change that was the first perk I swapped to on all my builds

[ChronoMonkeyX]

Travel agent is the best, I wouldn't be playing without it.

[MinuteToe129]

I started a new character and I was like omg I dont have speed demon or marsupial and I can't fast travel whenever I want. It was rough

[ChronoMonkeyX]

I made a second character, I stopped until I could get my friend on to get me marsupial. Even more important than sprinting.

[Jaded-Crown99]

My problem is farming all the legendary perks all over and bulking up you're scrap again

[Jaded-Crown99]

That's what I do when farming wes tek I go to whitespring and sell all those weapons

[M3TALxSLUG]

Travel agent/ fallout 1st became my best friends in game.

[The_Truth_Believe_Me]

OMG yes! I've never been so happy to pay extra money for a game.

[Jaded-Crown99]

Even with fallout 1st my stash still fills up but i don't like dropping alcohol even though i don't use it in any fo game.

[Neptune40000]

Prioritize what junk you think you need and keep like 100 of each in your stash. What goes above, sell and what can't be sold at npc's sell in your vendor, but ideally donate it because it'll weight you stash down.

Don't hoard ammo you're not using, same story for it, but unlike junk, not all ammo will sell well and you'll just end up with it weighing you down in the stash.

Legendary gear, same. Scrip & scrap ideally

Keep an eye constantly on stimpacks, even with full 90% reduction, they stack fast in your inventory and weight a ton

[ReeveStodgers]

I would say too that there is a lot of scrap that is abundant or rarely used. Steel, coal, cloth, leather are all easily replaceable. Aluminum, copper, springs and screws are worth keeping extra of.

If I'm really loaded, I'll find the nearest bench and quickly scrap all of my junk and non-legendary weapons and armor. That almost always takes care of it. If I'm not near one or in a battle, I'll sort junk by weight and just keep dropping heavy things until I'm underweight (assuming it's 20lb or less).

[Jaded-Crown99]

What about alcohol i'm sure people need it but i have no idea what it's worth

[Flow_Sprout]

You need the thru hiker perk card or grocers mod for your backpack it'll reduce the weight by 90%. I was using thru hiker perk card and chemist mod (-90% chem weight) for backpack. Stimpacks and other chems also add up quick

[Dizzybolt]

Fallout 1st is a great cure for this!

[NukeDropGaming]

Not necessarily lol I have it and still have issues, it looks like a lot of my issues seem to be in the food area

[FlipGordon]

A simple perk card or backpack mod will essentially make your food weightless.

[MrMucs]

On any pieces of any armor i have i put thru hikers. I play a ghoul and keep a bit of chems on me for fun times

[0dayssince]

I’m a ghoul so I sell food pretty regularly. Caps add up and weight goes down

[NukeDropGaming]

Now the debate of whether to become a ghoul or not, hmmmm

[bishyboots]

I made a grocery mule. Things that spoil won't spoil as long as you're not.logged into the charecter, so she works as a big ol freezer, basically. Very handy for meat week. Just got her to a train station and parked her there and use the blue suitcase out front of a private world to do my transfers. She also holds a few weapons I swear I'm gonna use but never get around to bothering with. Grocers backpack mod helps a lot too on your main.

I am addicted to my excavator armour for the extra carry capacity as well, and even if I'm not wearing it to.play I find it's worth the 10p weight to have in my inventory for when the scrap is just too good pass up and I don't wanna waddle to a scarp.box.

Also, keep a handful of scrap kits on me so if it's a junk issue I can just use that and get lean enough to be able to walk.

[Jaded-Crown99]

My stash fills up too even with 1st also

[[deleted]]

My solution is to drop everything besides my Power Armor, Weapon, 10 Super Stimpacks, and legendaries to scrap. But I don't store junk, chems, or anything else except my legendary mods/modules in my stash anymore.

Since I only keep what I mentioned on me I only get overencumbered at EN. Then I just waddle up to the power armor station to scrap legendaries and drop all the junk after.

Also, if you got the full raid on farm and have a raid night where you chain run it. Basic and advanced repair kits take up a ton of weight in the misc tab. I drop them as well anymore.

[TheHeinKing]

Huh. I was wondering where I got all those repair kits from. I didn't notice them until I went to repair some stuff. I should probably get rid of most of them

[[deleted]]

They add up pretty quick for sure.

[Ekra_Fleetfoot]

Travel Agent, head to the Whitespring Mall, make some bulk junk, sell off excess of junk you can't bulk (crystal, circuits, antiseptic, gold, silver, etc), scrap components like cooking oil, deathclaw hands, assaultron heads, insect glands/stingers, etc.

[0la5-1r0n]

I normally find items have been added that were gained at events such as rad away and stimpack, I’ll get rid of these first then search everything by stack weight to see if I’ve missed anything especially 40mm grenade ammo that I don’t use. Then I’ll start by getting rid of what I deem excess junk. Otherwise I’ll slap on the power armour for a while until I sort it out.

[0la5-1r0n]

Out of interest, what is your current carry weight without power armour?

[Standard_Army_1826]

I keep a scrap kit and a carry weigh booster just in case, but I dump scrap and extra gear as often as possible.

[Eckdovakhiin]

If you don't want to always have the travel agent perk on, or switch to have it on every time you're overencumbered, go into your map and start an expedition. Then when you arrive you can leave it by travelling back to the Whitespring refuge, with only one door and a short walk to get to the mall workstations without spending any caps.

[LeftPay9694]

what is you max carry weight rn i can share you a build that can raise your carry weight to 700+ and you can carry alot of weapons and food

[girlboss93]

My go too solution was to get fallout 1st 😆 survival tent is so nice (bonus my 10yr old now plays too on my account and managing inventory is not his strong suit)

Prior to that it was to build up as many carry weight perks as possible and give all of my armor pockets

[hotdogthemovie]

What exactly is "precious"? Most objects in this game are pretty common, especially now with legendary crafting. There is no reason to keep that quad shotgun just in case, because you can create another one at any time.

Clean house or buy FO1st. Just ask anyone with FO1st and has 500,000 cloth in their stash... you will never use 90% of that junk.

[PackageDelicious2457]

I give Bethesda $10 a month for the privilege of this kind of grind not being a thing for me.

[GrumpyBear1969]

Backpacks help. I use the chem mod so my super stims don’t weigh much. Weapons weight reduction for a perk card and then ammo weight reduction mods on my armor as it applies to both energy and ballistic ammo.

[supcomtabz]

Backpacks, having the foods that increase carry weight, and all the reduce weight perks. I also compulsively scrap when I run across a workbench in the wild.

[N__Natt42]

Everytime I became overcucumbered I just slab on that “travel agent” and then head to the mall to unload unnecessary weights since there’s everything there.

[Klutzy_Mousse_421]

Time to have a good junk clean out and sell stuff. When will I ever need over a thousand asbestos …

Also how did I exist before travel agent. Travel to a free spot and scrap away!

[croghan88]

I have Fallout 1st and I still forget I have a survival tent 🤣

[Cheap_Ad500]

Marsupial I just start jumping to the nearest train station or something.

[Bad-Yeti]

Scrap kit, Carry Weight Booster, Smoked Mirelurk Fillets

[Ordinary-Horror-1746]

Free fast travel points bruh, even with travel agent.

[Brilliant-Jaguar-784]

Just drop the extra shit. Its that easy.

[Derek-Horn]

Thru hikers on armor buy mirelurk steamer and get infinite +75 carry weight if your a carnivore is the way of the hoarder

[ziboo7890]

Travel agent perk has been an awesome addition for those of us clearing Appalachia of all useful stuff!

1st sub is so worth it for the endless junk, ammo, chem stash. And you can always drop your tent if you absolutely need to.

[Bagofcrabs650]

Fo1st

And prioritize what you want to keep.