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Issue Data
Status: New
Issue Type: Bug Report
Project: Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch
Component: Fallout 4: Vanilla
Category: Items
Assigned To: Nobody
Platform: Windows PC
Severity: Low
Votes: 0
Watching: N/A
Opened By MauveCloud on Jun 19, 2017 4:08 pm

Issue #22527: "This item is too heavy to carry" for things that don't make sense

 
With power armor on at least (I haven't tried it without the power armor), I can move super mutant corpses around, but I've noticed two things so far I can't, even though I'm pretty sure they'd be lighter than a dead super mutant (it gives me the message "This item is too heavy to carry";):
1. dead wild/vicious/etc. mongrels (either the one across the bridge from Sanctuary or ones I kill in an encounter)
2. human skeletons (such as the one by the entrance to Fens Street Sewer)

Things like destroyed sentry bots, or dead radstags/brahmin I can believe as being too heavy to even drag along the ground, but not these.

Comments

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MauveCloud said:
 
I want to clarify something here: I don't insist that these things be movable, since there might be some underlying reason for making them non-movable, but the reason shown in-game is absurd.

Here's why:
At a guess, I'd say a super mutant weighs somewhere between 300 and 400 pounds.

A mongrel probably weighs 100 to 150 pounds - maybe 200 at a stretch.

Based on http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Bone_(item) a piecemeal human skeleton can be made almost complete at about 11 pounds: skull, rib cage, pelvis bones, left arm bones, left hand bones, (no "right arm bones" exist?), right hand bones, femur, tibia, left foot bones, right leg bones, right foot bones. A Google search for the weight of a human skeletion IRL turned up estimates ranging from 8 pounds to 30 pounds.

Edit: okay, the wikia is a bit inconsistent - the page I originally linked that summarizes items that break down into "bone" material is missing "right arm bones" and "left leg bones", but http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Right_arm_bones redirects to a page that lists base ids for them and even includes images. A more complete piecemeal skeleton without redundancy would be: skull, rib cage and spine, pelvis bones, left arm bones, left hand bones, right arm bones, left leg bones, left foot bones, right leg bones, right foot bones. Each of those weighs 1 pound, so that's 10 pounds total. The "rib cage and pelvis" gets weird - it looks like it includes the same bones as "rib cage and spine" combined with "pelvis bones", yet only weighs 1 pound instead of the 2 pounds of the separate items and yields 3 bone as opposed to 8 bone total of the separate items.

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