Containers

A container is an object that can contain weapons, armor, and various other treasure. Most NPCs won't mind you looting a container next to them or inside their homes or taverns (with certain exceptions). Containers shimmer when they contain something you can loot (this can be disabled under the Options menu). To retrieve them simply walk up to it and select it. A list of items contained will appear. You may either select certain ones or simply "Take All" of them by choosing said option. A container may also be locked; a rogue is necessary to pick such locks unless a key is required.

Each container is also assigned a rank and a treasure category (except for cases of fixed treasure), used to generate random treasure. In general, "Boss" rank containers are uncommon and only found in certain areas. In the toolset these ranks are not associated with creature ranks, instead they are listed as "Easy", "Hard", etc. Only one "Very Hard" chest exists in the base installation of the game and it rests in the bugged Jowan's Intention area called Deep Woods.

List of common containers
Some of the more common types of containers you can encounter:


 * Ancient Texts
 * Barrels
 * Charred Corpses
 * Chests
 * Cocoons
 * Cocooned Corpses
 * Corpses
 * Crates
 * Party Storage Chest
 * Piles of Bones
 * Piles of Books
 * Piles of Filth
 * Piles of Junk
 * Piles of Rags
 * Piles of Sacks
 * Piles of Treasure
 * Rubble
 * Sacks
 * Sarcophagus
 * Vases

Trivia

 * If you try to open the chest near the keeper of the Dalish elves, his apprentice will yell at you, if you do it again she will become angry. This is one of the few instances where using a container can cause issue with NPCs.
 * A sarcophagus is a funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved or cut from stone. The word "sarcophagus" comes from the Greek σαρξ sarx meaning "flesh", and φαγειν phagein meaning "to eat", hence sarkophagus means "flesh-eating"; from the phrase lithos sarkophagos (λιθος σαρκοφάγος) the word came to refer to the limestone that was thought to decompose the flesh of corpses interred within it.