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== Stealing and how to do it == Whatever your moral stance may be, regular stealing is almost critically necessary in the game not just for the extensive amount of vital money and resources you can gain from it, but multiple quests only start if you manage to steal a key item from a location. The basic principles of stealing in ELEX: * Theft is considered a capital crime in civilized areas such as [[Goliet]]. If you are caught stealing everyone in the immediate area will immediately attack you in a fight to the death. * Not all items available to be picked up will be considered stolen if you take them. The crucial ones have a red Forbidden tag next to their popup name when you are near them. * To be caught stealing, someone needs to be awake and looking at you within a certain distance of you while you take the item. You could take a forbidden item in broad daylight right next to a person if they are looking away from you and no one else is around. * You can get into a Sneaking stance (with the Capslock key by default on PC). This does nothing to change how easy you are to see, and nearby characters who see you doing it will give quite crass commentary as you do it; however, what sneaking does do is make your footsteps silent. This becomes important if you want to steal from someone while they are sleeping; if you enter a building/home with sleeping occupants using normal movement, your footsteps will wake them up and they will stay up watching you until you leave, preventing safe theft. However, if you enter the home while Sneaking they will stay asleep, allowing you to loot everything in the building and potentially Pickpocket the occupants as well as long as no one awake sees you from outside. For many places such as most of the buildings in [[Goliet]] this is practically the only way you can steal everything in the building: sneaking thefts at night while everyone sleeps. * In order to Pickpocket, you need to learn at least one level in [[Pickpocket]] and then be close to any character in the Sneaking stance to open up the option. Characters will initially be Unsuspecting and the easiest to steal from (though you can still rarely fail). You can attempt thefts from the same character multiple times (provided they have that many things to steal), but as you do more attempts they will gradually become more and more aware, providing a higher chance that a theft will fail. Characters also appear to be more protective of high-value items like equippable gear and theft attempts of such items at anything other than Unsuspecting state has a higher chance of failing. Also, while a stack of Elexit can be stolen all at once, nearly any other item type will get stolen one at a time if they have multiple (with all the stacking difficulty penalties accordingly). As usual, if anybody awake sees you they will all attack you. Finally, you can only steal from humans; monsters and mechs have nothing to steal. *
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