How to increase your character's carry capacity in New World Aeternum

New World Aeternum offers a whole world for players to farm materials and gather necessary resources, making it crucial to have a higher carry capacity. This is especially useful for enthusiasts who wish to play the game by crafting better gear and equipment and selling it on the market. Fortunately, this MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) has a simple method to increase carry capacity to help players.

New World Aeternum provides a massive open-world experience where players can take up various quests, progress the storyline, and build their characters with the best items and spells. The game has received a huge amount of gameplay content throughout its live development phase and introduced both PvE (Player versus Environment) and PvP (Player versus Player) combat for the community to enjoy.

This article will highlight the best way to increase carry capacity in New World Aeternum.

Note: Parts of the article are subjective and reflect the author’s opinion.

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How to increase carry capacity in New World Aeternum

Increasing Encumbrance is the primary method of increasing your character’s ability to carry more items in the bag. This is a sure shot way to make sure you do not have to make a trip back to the city after short sessions.

New World Aeternum offers access to various items to increase character abilities (Image via Amazon Games)

Fans can boost their Encumbrance stat, which determines how much weight a character can carry in their bags. However, this stat only takes into account the overall weight of the items and does not consider any bonuses like Item Weight Decrease that comes with different items.

Here is how you can increase Encumbrance for a character:

• Get a better bag by either purchasing or crafting it. The newer slots can be viewed in the Tool Tab of the Inventory.
• You should get around 50 stat points invested to access the Trait Nodes.
• Equipping gear that can increase the Weight Capacity Limit is another way to increase the carry limit.

The bag slots are unlocked as players grind the game and increase the character levels. The character receives one extra bag slot at the 5, 30, and 45 levels. Investing stat points is important as most of them offer bonus perks like Strength can decrease the ore weight after reaching 150 points.

That said, here is a list of all the stats that can decrease item weight and increase Encumbrance:

Strength

• +25 encumbrance at 50 stats
• +50 encumbrance at 100 stats
• -10% mining Item weight at 150 stats

Dexterity

• +50 encumbrance at 100 stat points
• -10% skinning Item weight at 150 stats

Intelligence attribute Perks

• +50 encumbrance at 100 stats
• -10% harvested Item weight at 150 stats

Focus

• +50 encumbrance at 100 stats
• -10% fishing Item weight at 150 stats

Constitution

• +50 encumbrance at 100 stats
• -10% lumber Item weight at 150 stats

Players can enjoy both PvE and PvP battles in New World (Image via Amazon Games)

Similarly, items can also provide essential perks that can improve the carry limit in New World Aeternum:

• Extra Pockets: Increases Encumbrance by 50-95 (depends on item quality)
• Lumberjack's Burden: Wood, Wodcutter Axes, and Plank weight reduction
• Gourmand's Burden: Food items weight reduction
• Prospector’s Burden: Reduce the weight of ores, ingots, and pickaxes
• Quarryman’s Burden: Stone, Gems, and Pickaxe weight reduction
• Weaver’s Burden: Fiber, Cloth, and Sickles weight reduction
• Tanner’s Burden: Skinning items weight reduction
• Mercenary’s Burden: Weapons weight reduction (when inside bag)
• Quartermaster’s Burden: Armor weight reduction (when inside bag)
• Alchemist’s Burden: Flask and Potion items weight reduction

Players can also choose to craft bags after gathering the necessary items. Runes of Holding is a crucial part of the recipe and a resource that can only be bought from Faction Vendors on the map. The price of each rune increases with its quality and can be used to craft a higher-tier bag. Here is a list of all the Rune of Holding prices:

• Minor Rune of Holding: 1000 Faction Tokens
• Major Rune of Holding: 3000 Faction Tokens
• Greater Rune of Holding: 5000 Faction Tokens
• Grand Rune of Holding: 7500 Faction Tokens

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By combining better carry bags and perks in different character slots, players can boost their carry limit in New World Aeternum with ease. However, this is not an instantaneous trick and will require a fair amount of grind.

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