The STOW and LOOT verbs have been updated to provide a more efficient and friendly experience when looting treasure dropped by slain foes and subsequently stowing that treasure away.

The STOW verb has been updated to allow for several containers to be assigned for various types of items and items may be stowed into those containers by specifying the type of container. See STOW HELP for details.

The LOOT verb has been updated to include some new features which work together with the STOW verb. LOOT ROOM (or LOOT AREA) will search through the items in the room (on the "ground" or "floor") and attempt to GET and STOW any that it finds to be common treasure.

Additionally, the LOOT verb may target an opened treasure chest (i.e. the chest, box, strongbox, coffer, and trunk containers commonly found as treasure) and will attempt to GET and STOW each item it contains, excluding any silver coins.

Finally, individual treasure items in the room may be targetted directly by LOOT {item} to have your character attempt to GET and STOW that item.

Note that it is possible for the LOOT verb to successfully GET an item but not be able to STOW it due to the container being full, leaving the item in hand.

When this LOOT feature attempts to STOW the item it will specify a type appropriate for the item, facilitating the storing of treasure into specific containers. (e.g. If the item being picked up and stowed is a skin, it will be stowed as if the STOW SKIN {item} command were used; if a gem, then STOW GEM {item}; and so on.)

You will also find a new Loot window in the StormFront front end which will report a summary of item looted and where they were stowed.

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Naos

Any chance we could get LOOT IGNORE to set the LOOT verb ignore a specific type of item. For example, my empath doesn't have any use for herbs so it'd be awesome if I could LOOT without her picking up all sorts of herbs I don't want or need (and can't sell).

Starchitin, the OG

A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.

OOPS. That should be fixed, Avaia. I take it you are not a StormFront user?

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Naos

Unlikely on the LOOT IGNORE front; I implemented this to be as simple as possible, and adding a whole configuration to LOOT was beyond the complexity I wanted. I assume players want all the loot. Filtering out the occasional herb after a hunt seems like a small price to pay for the feature.

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Naos

A shame about not being able to ignore unwanted item types.... besides herbs, I'll often leave behind other things because of their weight (heavy quartz orbs and those cubes) or lack of value ("ugly" clothing that the pawn refuses to buy).

While using LOOT ROOM with my ranger and skins set to be put in her auto-bundling I get the following when picking up the skin:

As you place your snake fang inside your mesh field pack, you notice another fang inside the pack and carefully arrange the two snake fangs into a neat bundle.
I could not find what you were referring to.
With a discerning eye, you gather up what treasure you find worthwhile and casually stow it away.

Aside from the message about not finding it, the fang is picked up, put in the container, and bundled, but the LOOT window doesn't reflect that it picked it up.

Starchitin, the OG

A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.

Wow. Thank you for continued updates like this to the game. Now to get in the habit of not scripting my looting.

Clothing is not picked up via LOOT ROOM so you shouldn't be burdened with that. Ignoring individual items is exactly what I was avoiding; that sort of thing greatly increases the complexity of this feature. Quartz orbs and moonstone cubes are classified as trinkets, which also includes things like: gold rings, crystal amulets, ruby amulets, small statues and blue/black/white crystals.

My suggestion is to have a container dedicated to miscellaneous loot and to sort through it manually after your hunt, but there will inevitably be some things you like and some you do not in many classes of loot.

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Naos

Ahahaha...okay, I want to make that a thing now. It might get weird since you would keep looting the item over and over again if you didn't move rooms.

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Naos

<My suggestion is to have a container dedicated to miscellaneous loot and to sort through it manually after your hunt, but there will inevitably be some things you like and some you do not in many classes of loot.>

The reason I don't pick up quartz orbs is they're heavy (7 lbs last time I WEIGHed one), I'm trying to keep my encumbrance down, and their value doesn't off-set their weight. Following this suggestion wouldn't matter much for my giantkin warrior, but with my sorcerer or gnome where every lb matters I'm not only having to deal with the occasional extra weight of the orbs but the weight of whatever extra container I'd be carrying around all the time. I'll just just use GET and STORE to get whatever else drops at the same time the orbs do.

Starchitin, the OG

A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.

>My suggestion is to have a container dedicated to miscellaneous loot and to sort through it manually after your hunt, but there will inevitably be some things you like and some you do not in many classes of loot.

I find the best place to sort loot is on the ground. SF container windows are far fiddlier to work with than the story or room window. If only there was some way to tip this container's contents onto the ground rather than dragging and dropping them individually like I do with opened boxes at the moment ...

>stow set

Which container did you wish to use to store stowed items?

Currently valid containers:

some blood red goat hide gloves (worn)
a red velvet backpack (worn)
a stylish leather belt (worn)
a leather sheath (worn)
a coal black sailcloth sack (worn)

You may also specify individual containers to hold the following specific classes of commonly stowed items.
You may STOW SET {TYPE} for the following types: BOX, GEM, HERB, SKIN, WAND, SCROLL, POTION, REAGENT, TRINKET, LOCKPICK, TREASURE, FORAGEABLE


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