Object Containers
Type:	Varies
Appearances:	Dragon Age: Origins

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.

The random items in a container are determined when the player first enters the area in which it is located. Hence saving before looting a container, then reloading for another try will not change the contents you will get; neither will exiting and then re-entering the area.

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 (there are at least two others: one near the start of the Carta Hideout, Orzammar and another in the Gnawed Noble Tavern, Denerim that require level Device Mastery to open which implies a "Very Hard" rating - xbox360).

List of common containersEdit

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

• Ancient Texts
• Barrels
• Bloody Corpses
• 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
• Weapon Rack

Gallery of ContainersEdit

The Adventurer's Corpse yields Adventurer's Journal, part of Codex entry: Unbound.

A chest. Some chests are locked and you will need either a key or sufficient lockpick skill to open it.

Cocoons are used by Giant Spiders to web their victims in.

A dragon's egg is located in the Mountainside Caverns, this yields Lifedrinker and and Codex entry: The Life Drinker.

A dragon's hoard is located in Ruins Upper Level, looting these can yield a lot of items and gold.

The party storage chest only becomes available after completing the quest of Levi Dryden concerning the Soldier's Peak. The storage size is about 90. (Or the same as your party storage.

Piles of bones are long dead humanoids, they often have some items of use near their remains.

Rummaging through a pile of sacks can yield some handy items.

Sarcophagi are mainly located in the Lower Ruins and Caridin's Cross

Weapon Racks are a common method of storing weapons, and can be found in most armories.

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TriviaEdit

• If you try to open the chest near Zathrian at the Dalish Camp, Lanaya 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. You can receive the item only if you convince Zathrian to remove the spell of the werewolves, in turn sacrificing his life and making Lanaya the new keeeper.
• 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.