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Item weights are represented in [[Strength]] units. For example, an item of 18 weight units requires a bare minimum of 18 strength points for you to carry without suffering an [[Time Units#Encumbrance|encumbrance]] penalty on your [[Time Units|TU]] refresh rate. 

Therefore, if you want to micromanage your items for a very weak soldier, add up the weight of all the items you want to issue the soldier, then compare the result against the soldier's strength. Add or remove items as necessary while keeping the weight vs. strength level balanced. 

Tip: All small items (one inventory square) are 3 weight units.

Item Weights do not directly correlate to weight (e.g. in kilograms), and the relationship is not even a linear one. Think of it instead as a measure of how much the item causes Encumbrance. The Weight value should not be considered an actual physical quality such as mass. 

Due to a [[Known Bugs#Weightless Loaded Ammo|helpful bug]], clips or shells automatically loaded into carried weapons by the game engine for the pre-battle Equipment Setup screen are not counted for weight. This changes as soon as you unload or reload the weapon (even during the Equipment Setup screen); the full weight is counted thereafter. 

In the battlescape display, an item lying on the ground might represent a pile of items. In this case, it is the heaviest item displayed (usually a corpse).

The following represents a complete list of item weights for X-Com UFO Defense/Enemy Unknown.

<table>
<tr>
<th>Ballistic Weapons</th><th>Energy Weapons</th><th>Explosive Weapons</th><th>Corpses</th><th>Miscellaneous</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
{| {{StdDescTable}} 
|- {{StdDescTable_Heading}}
! Name !! Weight
|-
|[[Pistol]]       ||align="right"|5  
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pistol Clip   ||align="right"|3  
|-
|[[Rifle]]        ||align="right"|8  
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rifle Clip    ||align="right"|3  
|-
|-
|- style="border-top: 2px #808080 solid;"
|[[Heavy Cannon]] ||align="right"|18 
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HC-AP         ||align="right"|6  
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HC-HE         ||align="right"|6  
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HC-IN         ||align="right"|6  
|- style="border-top: 2px #808080 solid;"
|[[Auto-Cannon]]  ||align="right"|19 
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;AC-AP         ||align="right"|5  
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;AC-HE         ||align="right"|5  
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;AC-IN         ||align="right"|5  
|}
</td>

<td valign="top">
{| {{StdDescTable}} 
|- {{StdDescTable_Heading}}
! Name !! Weight
|-
|[[Laser Pistol]]      ||align="right"|7  
|-
|[[Laser Rifle]]       ||align="right"|8 
|-
|[[Heavy Laser]]       ||align="right"|18 
|- style="border-top: 2px #808080 solid;"
|[[Plasma Pistol]]     ||align="right"|3 
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Plasma Pistol Clip ||align="right"|3 
|-
|[[Plasma Rifle]]      ||align="right"|5 
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Plasma Rifle Clip  ||align="right"|3 
|-
|[[Heavy Plasma]]      ||align="right"|8 
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Heavy Plasma Clip  ||align="right"|3 
|-
|}
</td>

<td valign="top">
{| {{StdDescTable}} 
|- {{StdDescTable_Heading}}
! Name !! Weight
|-
|[[Rocket Launcher]]   ||align="right"|10
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Small Rocket       ||align="right"|6  
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Large Rocket       ||align="right"|8  
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Incendiary Rocket  ||align="right"|8  
|- style="border-top: 2px #808080 solid;"
|[[Small Launcher]]    ||align="right"|10 
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stun Bomb          ||align="right"|3  
|- style="border-top: 2px #808080 solid;"
|[[Blaster Launcher]]  ||align="right"|16
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Blaster Bomb       ||align="right"|3  
|-
|}
</td>

<td valign="top">
{| {{StdDescTable}} 
|- {{StdDescTable_Heading}}
! Name !! Weight
|-
|[[Coveralls|Jumpsuit]] ||align="right"|22  
|-
|[[Personal Armor]]     ||align="right"|24  
|-
|[[Power Suit]]*        ||align="right"|26  
|-
|[[Flying Suit]]*       ||align="right"|26  
|-
|[[Sectoid]]            ||align="right"|30  
|-
|[[Snakeman]]           ||align="right"|40  
|-
|[[Ethereal]]           ||align="right"|25  
|-
|[[Muton]]              ||align="right"|40  
|-
|[[Floater]]            ||align="right"|20  
|-
|[[Celatid]]            ||align="right"|35  
|-
|[[Silacoid]]           ||align="right"|40  
|-
|[[Chryssalid]]         ||align="right"|40  
|-
|}
</td>

<td valign="top">
{| {{StdDescTable}} 
|- {{StdDescTable_Heading}}
! Name !! Weight
|-
|[[Stun Rod]]          ||align="right"|6  
|-
|[[Grenade]]           ||align="right"|3  
|-
|[[Smoke Grenade]]     ||align="right"|3 
|-
|[[Proximity Grenade]] ||align="right"|3  
|-
|[[Alien Grenade]]     ||align="right"|3 
|-
|[[High Explosive]]    ||align="right"|6 
|-
|[[Electro-flare]]     ||align="right"|3  
|-
|[[Motion Scanner]]    ||align="right"|3  
|-
|[[Medi-Kit]]          ||align="right"|5  
|-
|[[Psi-Amp]]           ||align="right"|10 
|-
|[[Mind Probe]]        ||align="right"|5 
|-
|[[Elerium-115|Elerium]]           ||align="right"|3 
|}
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<small><nowiki>*</nowiki> Technically these corpses are the same object type, and have only 1 entry in [[OBDATA.DAT]]</small>

== Quick reference for common item sets ==

Note that for all weapons that are loaded by the game during setup, subtract the ammo weight from the "Loaded" values given below. The ammo weight only applies if you load the weapon yourself. Think of this as "Free-loading". :)

{| {{StdDescTable}} 
|- {{StdDescTable_Heading}}
! Items !! Weight
|-
| Loaded Rifle + 3 one-space items* ||align="right"| 20
|- 
| Laser Rifle + 3 one-space items ||align="right"| 17
|- 
| Loaded Heavy Cannon ||align="right"| 24
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; w/ extra clip ||align="right"| 30
|- 
| Loaded Auto Cannon ||align="right"| 24
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; w/ extra clip ||align="right"| 29
|- 
| Loaded Rocket Launcher + 3 Large Rockets ||align="right"| 42
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; w/ all Small Rockets ||align="right"| 34
|- 
| Loaded Heavy Plasma + 3 one-space items ||align="right"| 20
|- 
| Loaded Blaster Launcher ||align="right"| 19
|-
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; + 5 Blaster Bombs ||align="right"| 34
|- 
| Loaded Small Launcher + 2 one-space items ||align="right"| 19
|-  style="border-top: 2px #808080 solid;"
|    Laser Pistol ||align="right"| 7
|-
|    Loaded Plasma Pistol ||align="right"| 6
|-
|    Stun Rod ||align="right"| 6
|-
|    Medi-Kit ||align="right"| 5
|-
|    Mind Probe ||align="right"| 5
|-
|    Psi-Amp ||align="right"| 10 
|}

<nowiki>* All one space items (grenades, ammo clips, motion scanner, stun bombs) have a weight of 3 in UFO Defence (but not always in TFTD).</nowiki>

== Uncarryable items ==

The remaining items cannot be picked up, but are included for completeness sake: 
 
 '''Corpses (continued)''': 
 Reaper.................50
 Cyberdisc..............50
 Sectopod...............50
 Hovertank..............50
 Tank...................50
 Male Civilian..........30
 Female Civilian........50 

Note that for the large units, each quarter is worth 50 units.
 
 '''Unused Items''': 
 Unused slot.............1   
 Unused slot............22 (Same as above, but heavier)
 Unused slot............22 (Ditto) 
 Unused slot.............1 (Appears to be a type of plasma clip) 
 Unused slot.............4 (Pistol variant. Slower, less accurate, 1x1 in size)
 Unused slot.............4 (Unknown)
 
 Note: In TFTD, the above slots are used by the gauss clips and the drills

The game has six unused item slots. Unfortunately, there's no known way to get them into any of the item transfer screens. Otherwise, they'd make six extra weapons, clips, or grenades. They can be added to the Skyranger with a ship store editor, and they'll appear in combat, but their [[OBDATA.DAT]] entries have to be tweaked so that they work.
 
The first three unused slots are an unnamed multi-barrelled laser. Prime attracting feature: 15% TU Autofire @ 50% accuracy with 40 laser damage. It's assumed to be a multi-barrelled laser as the default battlescape image shows the autocannon, although uses the laser rifle for its inventory image.

== Sorted by item weight ==

Here's an alternate listing sorted by Item Weight. Does not include items that can't be picked up:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Weight 
! Item
|-
| 3 || Alien Grenade
|-
| 3 || Blaster Bomb
|-
| 3 || Electro Flare 
|-
| 3 || Elerium 
|-
| 3 || Grenade 
|-
| 3 || Heavy Plasma Clip
|-
| 3 || Motion Scanner
|-
| 3 || Pistol Clip
|-
| 3 || Plasma Pistol
|-
| 3 || Plasma Pistol Clip
|-
| 3 || Plasma Rifle Clip
|-
| 3 || Proximity Grenade
|-
| 3 || Rifle Clip
|-
| 3 || Smoke Grenade
|-
| 3 || Stun Bomb
|-
| 5 || AC-AP
|-
| 5 || AC-HE
|-
| 5 || AC-IN
|-
| 5 || Medi-Kit
|-
| 5 || Mind Probe
|-
| 5 || Pistol
|-
| 5 || Plasma Rifle
|-
| 6 || HC-AP
|-
| 6 || HC-HE
|-
| 6 || HC-IN
|-
| 6 || High Explosive
|-
| 6 || Small Rocket
|-
| 6 || Stun Rod
|-
| 7 || Laser Pistol
|-
| 8 || Heavy Plasma 
|-
| 8 || Incendiary Rocket 
|-
| 8 || Large Rocket
|-
| 8 || Laser Rifle
|-
| 8 || Rifle
|-
| 10 || Psi-Amp
|-
| 10 || Rocket Launcher
|-
| 10 || Small Launcher
|-
| 16 || Blaster Launcher
|-
| 18 || Heavy Cannon
|-
| 18 || Heavy Laser
|-
| 19 || Auto Cannon
|-
| 20 || Floater
|-
| 22 || Soldier in Jumpsuit
|-
| 24 || Soldier in Personal Armor
|-
| 25 || Ethereal
|-
| 26 || Soldier in Power or Flying Armor
|-
| 30 || Sectoid
|-
| 35 || Celatid
|-
| 40 || Chryssalid
|-
| 40 || Muton
|-
| 40 || Silacoid
|-
| 40 || Snakeman
|}


== See Also ==

*[[Item Weight (TFTD)]]

[[Category: data tables]]
[[Category:Enemy Unknown/UFO Defense]]