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A ship inventory holds personnel, weapons, planetary supplies, defensive devices, gold, and spies. [[Report command|<code>REPORT INVENTORY</code>]] lists nonzero counts and the total occupied cargo weight.

== Inventory items ==
A ship can carry fourteen categories of [[Items|items]], including weapons, flux pods, planetary supplies, gold, and spies. [[Items]] lists their names, stock weights, prices, and production rates.

Carrying an item does not mean the ship can use it as equipment. Its [[Ship class configuration|class]] determines capabilities: a ship without a missile launcher can transport missiles but cannot fire them. Men, food, troops, fighters, ion cannons, and spies can be carried for colonization or trade where the applicable command permits it.

== Cargo capacity ==
Every item has a configurable weight measured in hundredths of a ton, and each [[Ship class configuration|ship class]] has a cargo limit in whole tons. The game combines fractional weight across all item types before checking that limit. For example, stock gold weighs half a ton per unit: one unit occupies half a ton but displays as one ton in [[Report command|<code>REPORT INVENTORY</code>]], while two units occupy one full ton. The same capacity rules determine how many additional units of an item will fit during a purchase, transfer, or [[Combat#Kill credit, scoring, and salvage|salvage]].

Item weights come from the main message/configuration file; [[Items]] lists the stock values. Changing a weight changes capacity checks but not existing item counts. Classic's intermediate cargo-weight calculation can overflow; see [[Classic bug: Cargo weight overflow]].

== Changing inventory ==
A ship's carried quantities change when it [[Buy command|buys]] or [[Sell command|sells]] goods in orbit, [[Transfer command|transfers]] goods to or from a planet, uses ammunition or devices, [[Jettison command|jettisons]] permitted cargo, or collects [[Combat#Kill credit, scoring, and salvage|salvage]] from a destroyed ship. Each command has its own access, stock, and capacity rules. ge-next does not allow men, troops, or spies to be jettisoned.

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