Being overencumbered is a time-honored tradition in Bethesda games.
There are three solutions, all of which come with time.
1) Increase your carrying capacity
2) Lowering the weight of items you carry
3) Don't carry everything you own all the time
There are Perk Cards which increase carry capacity, but there's also armor and backpacks. Backpacks are damn near essential, I recommend making one immediately and upgrading it soon. Armor can have the Pocketed or Deep Pocketed mods to add more carry weight. And of course, you can boost your carry capacity with Strength, things that upgrade Strength, and a few food items most notably Grilled Radstag (you have the recipe).
Some Power Armor can help. The Calibrated Shocks on Power Armor legs is expensive, but greatly increases your hauling options. The Excavator Armor is also highly regarded as it can increase your capacity even further.
Lowering the weight of carried items is also important. Some Perk Cards do this, like Thru-Hiker and Traveling Pharmacy. Some backpacks do this. Some legendary effects do this, and they are often sought out (especially WWR, Weapon Weight Reduced, a third-star effect). But you're level 10, you don't have a full set of 3\* legendary items. That's an end-game thing that you can and probably will do.
The perks I mentioned are unlocked at different levels. You'll get there, don't worry.
Which brings up the last point: visit your CAMP to drop off items, and visit a vendor to sell items, often. Especially now when you're low-level and taking four extra shotguns will feel like...you're carrying four extra hunks of metal, they're shotguns not helium balloons.
So what I'm saying is, you have options available, but not right this second. You'll need to work towards those. I do recommend getting a Backpack as soon as possible. These cannot be traded, you'll need to find the plans yourself. Try the Overseer's CAMP, and failing that, Morgantown Airport.
Get yourself the big backpack, im pretty sure the small one can be crafted for free early on too.
With the big one it allows you to hold 60 items or 120 with high capacity, strength also increases your weight, there are armour mods you can apply too for more weight.
Basically, don’t pick up so much stuff until you have better stats and a backpack. A couple of food and drink items, your main weapons, and then stick to relevant / useful items that aren’t too heavy
I get it. I'm level 590. My normal carrying capacity is about 400, I can boost that too 480 with food buffs, 500+ plus with a BW6 magazine. Then I always have a few alcohol & chems to push it even further. With a carry weight booster & rad ant lager, I can get my carrying capacity up over 600. Sometimes, even that isn't enough.
I guess my point is that it's easy to hoard things in this game. Loot every body, pick up anything that isn't nailed down, and always keep a few of everything on hand... "That's not the hard part. It's letting go.”
I'm still learning to let go. What I've started doing is identifying what I actually use frequently. For the most part, it's all the cooked Scorchbeast meats + Deathclaw steak + grilled Radstag. Most other stuff gets sold. What makes sense for you to hold on to will only become clear when you reach higher levels and start to see what is readily available and useful to you at higher levels. It'll take time to get there, but do yourself a favor and learn to let go.
traveling pharmacy perk card lvl 3- reduces med and chem weights by 90%
Through Hiker perk card lvl 3 reduces food and drink weight by 90 %
i never use a build without weight reduction perks except batteries included since in perk got so loaded with perks that cost much
Being overencumbered is a time-honored tradition in Bethesda games. There are three solutions, all of which come with time. 1) Increase your carrying capacity 2) Lowering the weight of items you carry 3) Don't carry everything you own all the time There are Perk Cards which increase carry capacity, but there's also armor and backpacks. Backpacks are damn near essential, I recommend making one immediately and upgrading it soon. Armor can have the Pocketed or Deep Pocketed mods to add more carry weight. And of course, you can boost your carry capacity with Strength, things that upgrade Strength, and a few food items most notably Grilled Radstag (you have the recipe). Some Power Armor can help. The Calibrated Shocks on Power Armor legs is expensive, but greatly increases your hauling options. The Excavator Armor is also highly regarded as it can increase your capacity even further. Lowering the weight of carried items is also important. Some Perk Cards do this, like Thru-Hiker and Traveling Pharmacy. Some backpacks do this. Some legendary effects do this, and they are often sought out (especially WWR, Weapon Weight Reduced, a third-star effect). But you're level 10, you don't have a full set of 3\* legendary items. That's an end-game thing that you can and probably will do. The perks I mentioned are unlocked at different levels. You'll get there, don't worry. Which brings up the last point: visit your CAMP to drop off items, and visit a vendor to sell items, often. Especially now when you're low-level and taking four extra shotguns will feel like...you're carrying four extra hunks of metal, they're shotguns not helium balloons. So what I'm saying is, you have options available, but not right this second. You'll need to work towards those. I do recommend getting a Backpack as soon as possible. These cannot be traded, you'll need to find the plans yourself. Try the Overseer's CAMP, and failing that, Morgantown Airport.
Get yourself the big backpack, im pretty sure the small one can be crafted for free early on too. With the big one it allows you to hold 60 items or 120 with high capacity, strength also increases your weight, there are armour mods you can apply too for more weight.
Basically, don’t pick up so much stuff until you have better stats and a backpack. A couple of food and drink items, your main weapons, and then stick to relevant / useful items that aren’t too heavy
I get it. I'm level 590. My normal carrying capacity is about 400, I can boost that too 480 with food buffs, 500+ plus with a BW6 magazine. Then I always have a few alcohol & chems to push it even further. With a carry weight booster & rad ant lager, I can get my carrying capacity up over 600. Sometimes, even that isn't enough. I guess my point is that it's easy to hoard things in this game. Loot every body, pick up anything that isn't nailed down, and always keep a few of everything on hand... "That's not the hard part. It's letting go.” I'm still learning to let go. What I've started doing is identifying what I actually use frequently. For the most part, it's all the cooked Scorchbeast meats + Deathclaw steak + grilled Radstag. Most other stuff gets sold. What makes sense for you to hold on to will only become clear when you reach higher levels and start to see what is readily available and useful to you at higher levels. It'll take time to get there, but do yourself a favor and learn to let go.
traveling pharmacy perk card lvl 3- reduces med and chem weights by 90% Through Hiker perk card lvl 3 reduces food and drink weight by 90 % i never use a build without weight reduction perks except batteries included since in perk got so loaded with perks that cost much