Oblivion Remastered: How to Increase Carry Weight | Elder Scrolls IV

If you’re a real loot goblin, you’ll definitely need to increase your carry weight limit in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.

While you have technically infinite inventory space in Oblivion, everything you pick up has a weight to it. If you carry a total more weight than what your character can handle, you’ll become practically unable to move. Thankfully, you can increase this limit!

Read on and we’ll quickly tell you everything you can do to raise your Encumbrance.

How to Increase Carry Weight | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered

The only real way to permanently increase your Carry Weight in this game is to increase your Strength Attribute. You can increase it anytime you level up. In Remastered, you gain XP toward leveling up whenever you level up any of your Skills, though Major Skills do give more XP than Minor Skills.

Your maximum Encumbrance will increase by 5 for every 1 point of Strength. So, it really does pay to level up Strength if you’re having trouble with the limited carry weight!

You can also temporarily buff your maximum Encumbrance by using spells, potions, and gear with Feather effects. The lowest tier of Feather effects, Ease Burden, gives you a pretty solid +50 Encumbrance for 240 seconds. Not bad at all, right?

What’s more Feather effects can stack with each other as long as they have different names. For example, you can stack Lighten Load with Beast of Burden for a total of +325 Encumbrance for 300 seconds.

Similarly, the Fortify Strength and Greater Fortify Strength spells can also help. They give you a temporary buff to your Strength stat, which means you also get a buff to your carry weight while it lasts.

So, there you have it, that’s everything you can do to increase your Carry Weight in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. In summary, increase your Strength and use any items that have Feather and Fortify Strength effects on them!

Have you yet to start the game or are you planning to start another character? Well, check out our character creation guide, as well. It covers everything you need to know to make a character that best fits your preferences.