Stealing

Summary

• Players can use the Stealing skill to take certain items from another player.
• To steal from innocents, a player must join the Red Hand Thieves Guild.
• Base success chance to steal an item is (1 * (Stealing Skill / 100)).
• A minimum of 80 Snooping skill is required to make any Stealing attempts.
• Players cannot make Stealing or Snooping attempts for 2 minutes after death.
• Stealing an item is considered "using" an item, which triggers the 500ms delay before another item can be used or moved.
• Players will not be Perma-Flagged for stealing against a player who attacked them first.
• Stolen items cannot be lifted by any player for 30 seconds.
• Players who make a stealing attempt (success or fail) cannot use Eject or Help/Stuck from a house for 5 seconds.
• Players can join the Grey Hand Thieves Guild to perform Mugging & Pilfering against creatures.
• The Thieves Codex enhances the Stealing skill for PvM.

• • The following apply to stealing from creatures:
  • A player may only steal a maximum of 1,000 gold per creature.
  • A player can only successfully steal from a creature once.
  • A creature will become barren after 3 players have successfully stolen from it.
  • Stealing from a Paragon mob will always yield a Black Goods item.

• Players no longer need a free hand to perform a Stealing action.
• Skill Cooldown for using the Stealing skill is now 5 seconds (previously 10 seconds) (Patch: June 22, 2024).

Improving Stealing Chance

• A player who is wearing a Disguise Kit no longer gains a +25% bonus to stealing success chances.
• A player making a stealing attempt against a Disarmed target has a +25% bonus to stealing success chances.
• A player making a stealing attempt against a Hamstrung target has a +25% bonus to stealing success chances.

Stealing Weights

• Item weight does not affect stealing success chances.
• Maximum weight a player can steal per item is:

 (10 * (Stealing Skill / 100)) stones.

• If an item is stacked (gold, reagents, etc.), the amount stolen is:

 ((5 * (Stealing Skill / 100)) / Individual Item Weight * (Random value between .9 and 1.1)).

• • Example: At 100 Stealing skill, an average of:
  • 50 Reagents or 250 Gold can be stolen from a stack.

Stealing from Containers

• The max total weight of items stolen from a stack is no longer reduced by 50%.
• The max total weight of Arrows/Bolts stolen from a Quiver is scaled downward based on the quiver's weight reduction scalar.
• The max total weight of Reagents and Spell Scrolls stolen from a Wizard's Satchel is scaled downward by the satchel's weight reduction scalar.
• The max total weight of Gold stolen from a player is scaled by the thief’s gold weight reduction for Strong Box Customizations.

Being Noticed

• When a player makes a criminal stealing attempt (against a blue target), they have a chance to be noticed by:
  • Other players.
  • Human NPCs.

• If a thief is noticed outside of town, it will only generate a system message.
• If a thief is noticed inside a town:
  • NPCs will call guards, instantly killing the thief.
  • Players may call guards within 30 seconds, but must be within 14 tiles.

• Increased chance of being noticed if:
  • Each non-friendly player within 8 tiles increases the notice chance by 10% (5% if not in Line of Sight).
  • Each human NPC within 8 tiles increases the notice chance by 5% (2.5% if not in Line of Sight).
  • The thief has raised any Suspicion in town (see below).

Suspicion

• If a player is noticed after a stealing attempt, their Suspicion in that specific town increases.
• Each time a player is noticed, their future stealing attempts in that town have a cumulative +10% increased chance to be noticed.
• Suspicion remains for 12 hours unless the player avoids being killed by guards in that period.
• Players can check their Suspicion levels for each town by typing:

 "I must consider my sins" or [ConsiderSins.

Locked Containers

• Players can now use Lockpicking against Locked Containers in other players' backpacks.
• Players can no longer drag/drop/stack items inside Locked Containers in their own backpack.

Training

Pickpocket Dip Method

• Pickpocket dips train Stealing and Snooping simultaneously to 100.
• Setup a macro to double-click the dip every 5 seconds.

If you have access to a Pickpocket Dip, this is the easiest method:

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Use a Pickpocket Dip on Shelter Island
80-100	Use a Pickpocket Dip outside of Shelter Island (See pinned messages in #thieves-pvm on the Outlands Discord)

Pack Animal Method

• Buy a Pack Llama or Pack Horse from a Stablemaster and train Stealing on it.

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-100	Steal from a pack animal or another player/character outside of Shelter Island.