Armor weight?

[Zerbi]

So i'm wondering what effect armor weight has, guessing it either causes stamina to drain faster or you to move slower?

Secondly, anyone know which pirate drops the pirate boots? i know the unnamed captains drop the hat, but not sure about boots...

[Binkley Spacetrucker]

if armor weight has any effect i have been unable to detect it. this may be an item factor that hasn't been fully implemented yet. one of the fun things with an early access game like Salt is lots of features are experimental.

the infamous "pirate booties"!
these always seem to be the last of the "sailing speed" buff set items i manage to collect. there dropped by the un named pirate captains, but have the lowest drop rate. so you have to save at the pirate village and reload the game allot to farm captains like beans.

the highest drop rate item are the pirate pants, hence my Steam surname! :D

[Riot]

Currently item weight affects how fast you can sprint.

[Zerbi]

Thanks for the response Riot, love the game :)
edit: to clarify, does weight only affect sprint speed, or both walking and sprinting speed?

Binkley, thanks for all your work with the maps!
When you say save at a village, do you mean before i start killing them, and i'm guessing this is just a normal "pirate" village, not a "battlemaster" one?

[WillieSea]

Battlemaster island's only spawn battlemasters. (Perhaps a named captain.)
Only normal pirate islands spawn unnamed pirate captains.

[Druid]

It only affects sprint speed, not regular run speed. Makes it harder to run away!

[Zerbi]

Thanks for the response druid, good to know...and who runs away from things anyway? stand and fight ye scurvy dogs!