[mikepg]

just drop things you don't need. You should have to go slower if you have ten tons of stuff to carry. Imagine you're an average strengthed person, you carry a sword, a shovel, a pick axe, a steel watering can, an axe, and god knows what else in a back pack or something of the like. You cannot honestly tell me you wouldn't be walking pretty slow!

God help you if you carry around those items though...maybe if you live in russia you might need them...

But the weight factor is good.

Just hide your stuff behind a tree somewhere out of the way if it's valuable, or just drop it and make another if it's worthless.
People hide things behind trees all the time, I know I do when I restart if there aren't any players on that i trust to hold my stuff.