Managing your carry weight is crucial for maximizing efficiency and enjoyment in Fallout 76 where inventory management plays a major role. In this guide, I’ll cover ways to increase your carry weight and reduce item weight, ensuring you stay mobile and prepared for any challenge.

Strength: The Core of Carry Weight

Strength is your foundation for managing carry weight. It directly increases the amount you can carry and enhances melee damage. To maximize your carry weight, prioritize boosting your Strength stat through gear, food, perks, and other methods.

Gear for Increasing Carry Weight

1. Backpacks

    Base Backpack: Obtainable at the Overseer's Camp near the blue stash box after leaving the Vault. Upgrade every 10 levels up to level 50 for an additional 30 carry weight.
    Pioneer Scouts Backpack: Complete the Order of the Tadpole quest to earn a backpack with a base 60 carry weight, upgradeable to 120 using the High Capacity Mod.
    Specialized Mods: The Chemist Mod reduces the weight of chems, enabling you to carry more healing Fallout 76 items.

2. Power Armor

    Excavator Power Armor: Ideal for beginners, offering +100 carry weight when wearing a full set. Add Calibrated Shocks mods to the legs for an extra +50 carry weight per leg, totaling +200 carry weight.
    Deep Pocketed Mod: Adds +10 carry weight per armor piece, giving +50 carry weight with a full set of Deep Pocketed gear.

Food Buffs

1. Meats and Special Foods

    Ribeye Steak: Crafted from Brahmin meat, offering a moderate carry weight boost.
    Pepperoni Roll: Found at The Wayward or bought from Rudy Fernandez at Big Bend Tunnel East. Grants +30 carry weight (or +60 with the Carnivore Mutation).
    Deathclaw Wellington: Made with Deathclaw egg, Deathclaw meat, and pepper, this food boosts Strength by up to +9, significantly increasing carry weight.

2. Carnivore Mutation

This mutation doubles the benefits of meat-based foods, making it essential for players focusing on carry weight increases.

3. Carry Weight Booster

Available from the Atomic Shop or the Scoreboard, this consumable provides +50 carry weight for an hour.

Perk Cards for Carry Weight Management

1. Increasing Carry Weight

    Strong Back: Adds a flat carry weight bonus, great for beginners.
    Radical: Increases Strength as radiation builds up, perfect for low-health (bloodied) builds.
    Solar Powered: Boosts Strength between 6 AM and 6 PM, offering additional carry weight during the day.

2. Reducing Item Weight

    Traveling Pharmacy: Reduces chem weight.
    Thru-Hiker: Reduces the weight of food and drinks.
    Pack Rat: Reduces junk weight, ideal for scavengers.
    Batteries Included: Reduces the weight of energy ammo and fusion cores.
    Ordinance Express: Lowers grenade and explosive ammo weight.
    Martial Artist: Reduces melee weapon weight.
    Sturdy Frame: Reduces armor weight when not using Power Armor.

3. Ammo and Weapon Weight Reduction

    Bandolier: Decreases ballistic ammo weight, essential for railway or fixer users.
    Arms Keeper: Reduces rifle weight.
    Scattershot: Decreases shotgun weight.

Additional Tips

    Combine Effects: Pair Strength boosts with weight-reducing perks and mods to maximize your efficiency.
    Server Hopping: If certain items like Pepperoni Rolls aren’t available, try switching servers to restock.
    Event Farming: Participate in events like Riding Shotgun for additional Pepperoni Rolls and other resources.

By combining the right gear, food buffs, mutations, and perk cards, you can optimize your carry weight and keep your inventory manageable. Let me know if I missed any strategies, and thank you for reading! Best of luck!