Travel Trunk - a giant slow backpack

[pupikman]

Travel Trunk:

A backpack-like item with lots and lots of inventory slots that slows you down like carrying a chess piece.
It can be crafted by applying a Koalefant trunk on an unopened sunken chest.
Used for base relocation, complex setups, or any time you want to transport lots of items at once. This trunk makes it so you'd need to make one slow trip instead of many quick trips.

To prevent players from riding a Beefalo to mitigate the slowing debuff and using this item as a giant backpack, the speed multiplier should also be applied when riding a Beefalo. It would still be preferable to carry the trunk on a Beefalo rather than on foot, but not to use the trunk for day-to-day exploration.

Since chess pieces slow players down by 0.15 (I think?), the trunk has to have at least 6x the storage of a backpack to be worth it (so maybe 50 slots?).
This raises another problem: why not use this as a giant stationary chest? To prevent this, the trunk will slowly spit out its contents while it isn't being carried.

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Alternative Implementation:

What if you could use a Koalefant trunk to temporarily mobilize existing chests? (normal chests, tall chests, scaled chests...)

This would retain the original inventory size of the affected chest (and its contents) but would allow you to pick it up like a statue and move it about. The effect would be temporary, of course. The chest would remain mobile while it is being carried but revert to its regular form a minute or so after being placed back on the ground.

In this version of the Travel Trunk, the inventory size isn't that impressive, as it is determined by the original chest size. However, if you have the means to craft Scaled Chests or Elastispacers, it would be better. Either way, I think this version doesn't need to have the speed debuff on Beefalos and can act like regular heavy objects.

What do you think?

(I'm adding a basic sketch I made of the idea, mostly to give a general idea of the vibe I'm going for. It's a mashup of a sunken chest, a koalafant and chester)

[Creatingabe1125]

I have a feeling using a beefalo and/or gift/bundling wrap would be faster most of the time, and if you needed to move that much in one trip, it would probably be cause of an emergency like meteors which that speed boost would not help. The idea is good but I think it would need to be reworked a bit. I have an idea on how to do the same idea but with treasure chests, but I’ll leave it at that.