Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz/Items

Throughout the game you will encounter items that you can pick up and carry with you to other locations. You can pick up items using commands such as TAKE SWORD or GET LAMP or PICK UP PAPER. Under normal circumstances, the item will then stay with you until you DROP or PUT DOWN the item.

Normally the game will confirm and simply respond, "Taken." If the items you are carrying weigh a lot, you may instead get a response, "Your load is too heavy." This will occur if the total weight of your items including what you are trying to pick up, using the size values in the tables, is greater than 95. If you are carrying 8 or more items, but the weight with what you want to pick up is less than the limit, Zork may respond, "You try to pick it up, but with everything else you have, you can't manage to hold onto it!" Despite this, repeated attempts to pick it up may eventually be successful, becoming less and less likely as the number of items increases.

Some of the wizard's spells may affect items you are carrying. "Feeble" and "Fumble" will cause you to drop an item, and the weight and number of items, respectively, you can carry will be reduced. "Filch" will take one valuable item that you are carrying (or the next one you take) away from you and put it in a secret location.

Dying will scatter any items you were holding when you died, except for the lamp, which always appears with you Inside the Barrow.

In the tables, the name listed under Item is what Zork refers to it as when picking up and dropping it. Other names are what you can call the item and still have Zork understand. The adjectives may or may not be able to be used without a noun, and some short names will need specification if similar objects are around. Description comes from what Zork tells you when you first find it, when it's sitting wherever, and when you examine it. Size is given without any potential contents.

Initially available
Non-point items that can be taken without solving any puzzles.

Other non-point items
Items that can be found in areas not initially available, but that do not contribute to your score.

Valuable items
Items that give you points and are considered valuable, including treasures.

Multi-item uses
These are properties of numerous items that can make it possible to use any of them for certain things.

Property A: These (mostly) large items can be used to break the aquarium in Aquarium Room.

Property B: These small burnable items can be burned in the balloon receptacle to fly it from Volcano Bottom.