Beast of Burden

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Beast of Burden is a type of Summoning familiar that has the ability to carry items for the summoner. The familiars with this ability are shown in the table below:

Familiar	Summoning Level Required	Number of Slots	Time
Thorny snail	13	3	16
Spirit kalphite	25	6	22
Bull ant	40	9	30
Spirit terrorbird	52	12	36
War tortoise	67	18	43
Pack Yak	96	30	58

Contents 1 Item Storage 2 Limits of items carried 3 Glitch 4 Trivia

[edit] Item Storage

If you have a beast of burden (BoB) familiar, you can move its entire inventory into your bank account by clicking the 'backpack' icon at the bottom of the bank interface.

Before the familiar's time limit is up, two messages will appear:

• You have 1 minute before your familiar vanishes.
• You have 30 seconds before your familiar vanishes.

After that: Your familiar has dropped all the items it was holding.

[edit] Limits of items carried

Currently the known limits for what a beast of burden will carry are as such:

• A maximum of 600k coins
• Only tradeable items (untradeable items cannot be carried by the familiar)
• Items with lower values.
• Rune and pure essence cannot be carried except by the three abyssal familiars which can only carry essence.

Currently it is unknown what the limit is for the items with lower values. Also it is unknown whether that limit is based on high alch value or Grand Exchange market value. For example a beast of burden will carry a rune full helm, but not a rune kiteshield or rune platelegs.

[edit] Glitch

There is a glitch when using Cyreg Paddlehorn's boat (to or from Mort'ton). When a beast of burden is following a player the beast will be forced to leave and while doing so it drops all of the items it is carrying on the boat, however there is no way to pick up the items on the boat. Oddly the messages only appear after arriving at the destination and dismissing the message that informs the player of the arrival.

Example of the problem

Note the red dot showing the dropped items (only visible after second trip).

The messages that appear after arrival.

[edit] Trivia

The amount a familiar could hold was changed with the release of summoning batch #2. There is speculation that it was changed because people were complaining about the limited amount of items a player could store with the familiars.

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