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DaFox wrote:
> While digging out a new addition to the Den, DaFox found a scrap of parchment. On it,
> "Alex" <ac5c@cstone.net> wrote:
>
>
>>All, I have a problem I hope you can help me address. I am unable to eat or
>>drink by right clicking on an item. I can open bags and containers fine by
>>this method. Is there a switch somewhere that will turn this on? It is
>>gettingt o be a problem as I can't use gate potions and other similar items
>>(if there is another way I don't know how to do it). Thanks.
>>
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> You can only consume stuff from main inventory, not in bags/boxes.
> Move the food/drink/potion/etc to an open slot in your main inventory and right click
> from there.
>
You can only -force- consume in a main slot. But you'll eat and drink,
if hungry, from inside containers.
One solution is to click on the food to "pick it up" (put it on cursor),
then click on the backpack slot in your inventory (swapping the food
into main inventory and backpack onto your cursor), click the food to
take a bite, then reverse the procedure, swap backpack back into slot,
open backpack and drop food back where it belongs.
There's another plan though, its possible to tie use of a slot to a key
you use frequently, such as your left turn arrow. By putting food in
slot 7, drink in slot 8, you can make it so you are constantly trying to
eat and drink. You'll only do so when not stuffed to the gills, so your
rate of consumption won't go thru the roof doing this, but you'll never
get hungry while playing till you run out of food in that slot 7, which
means you protect the food in your backpacks. Two problems forced me to
eventually abandon this plan, and finally to go to the expense of simply
buying stacks of stat food: one, this eats two of your valuable
inventory slots; considering you could have backpacks there, 20 slots
worth of storage. Too high a cost. Two, this doesn't work if you
stand still for any length of time; say an extended AFK to play chess
with your kid. Stop moving and you stop triggering the eating.
In the end, I carried stat food buried deep with cheap food protecting
it, and only brought the good stuff out when doing something difficult.
And then I gave up on protecting it entirely, and bought only the stat
food, which after all costs a pittance on a high level income, and lasts
a long time; Groob Liquidized Meat and Qeynos Afternoon Tea or some such
combination. Stack of each will last a week or two of heavy play, take
up very little inventory space, and costs less than one mob drops in POJ
Death Row.
Lance
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