In survival games like RuneScape: Dragonwilds, maximizing your carry weight is essential for enhancing your gameplay experience. Fortunately, players can boost their storage capacity through various methods, enabling them to explore the wilderness longer and gather resources without frequent trips back to base.
Optimizing Carry Weight in RuneScape: Dragonwilds
The primary method to directly enhance your carry weight in RuneScape: Dragonwilds is by equipping the Leggings of Lightness. These can be found at the top of the Temple Woods Windmill, a location associated with the Restless Ghosts side quest. Equipping these leggings grants you an additional +50 to your carry weight, increasing your total from 400 to 450 units.
Leggings of Lightness Overview
The Leggings of Lightness is categorized as a Power Level 1 Leg Armor Piece and possesses the following attributes:
- Melee Defense: 0
- Ranged Defense: 0
- Magic Defense: 0
- Special Effect: Lightness (+50 Carry Weight)
Acquiring the Leggings of Lightness
To obtain the Leggings of Lightness, players must ascend to the top of the Windmill. This can be accomplished in two ways: either by using the Windstep ability twice for a direct ascent or by constructing a vertical pathway around the Windmill. Building a combination of Stairs and Foundations will allow you to reach the summit with just one Windstep.
Upon accessing the chest at the top, you will discover the recipe for the Leggings of Lightness. Right-click to learn the crafting recipe, which requires the following materials:
- Rune Essence x6
- Coarse Animal Fur x6
Establishing a Personal Chest (Construction XP Farming)
As players progress through RuneScape: Dragonwilds, reliance on the Leggings of Lightness can diminish due to their inadequate defense against powerful foes. For a more robust solution to carry weight challenges, players should aim to unlock the Personal Chest.
This versatile spell becomes available upon reaching level 40 in the Construction skill, allowing players to summon a personal storage chest with 20 slots anywhere in the game world for a cost of 20 Law Runes and 15 Astral Runes. This is an efficient way to store materials while exploring without being hindered by excess carry weight.
However, leveling Construction to 40 can be laborious. Fortunately, a straightforward farming method can expedite this process:
- Construct a 3×3 block of wood foundation near your base.
- Adjacent to it, build six Sawmills.
- Feed each Sawmill with 50 Ash Logs (max capacity) to produce 600 Ash Planks.
- Repeat to gather an additional 1200 Ash Planks.
- Consume a Weak Focused Construction Potion, crafted from Clay Vessel, Flax, and Marrentil in a Brewing Cauldron.
- Access the build menu, navigate to Furniture, and select Chair.
- Continue constructing chairs until your Ash Planks are exhausted.
- Upon completion, you will achieve level 40 in Construction and unlock the Personal Chest ability.
For context, utilizing approximately 1150 Ash Planks was sufficient to progress from level 15 to level 40 in Construction while using a Weak Focused Construction Potion. Since two Ash Planks are created from one Ash Log, you will need around 575 Ash Logs to obtain the necessary planks. For efficiency, aim to convert 600 Ash Logs into 1200 Ash Planks before starting your leveling session.