Template:Infobox item (overhaul, temporary)/doc

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The template infobox item is an infobox to be used on any article that covers an in-game item (*.itm files). It summarizes and presents key information of the page.

An item is anything that can be placed in a character's inventory slots: all weapons, armor, treasure, consumables and many more. Whenever this infobox is added to a page in the main namespace, the article is automatically added to the category "items".

How to fill

 * Please refer also to the how-to-fill instructions in general and specifically the notes about automatization.

Although several fields can be filled by examining items in-game, for many parameters a game-files browser is helpful to get exact values or even needed to acquire the information at all. Here, Near Infinity has become the standard for all games created with the Infinity Engine; also, many parameter names reflect the fields used by this program. In addition, Near Infinity allows extraction of the description images and the inventory and ground icons the items use, which is preferred to screenshots.
 * See also: ITM file format – IESDP

Deprecated parameters
The following parameters are still part of the infobox on many item articles, but are deprecated. Either they are already disabled in the infobox and could be safely removed from pages, as long as the given information is incorporated otherwise, or they are still shown but will be replaced by other parameters or through alternative methods.
 * Item type – see
 * Damage type – see
 * vs. slashing – see
 * vs. crushing – see
 * vs. piercing – see
 * vs. missile – see
 * Saving throws – see   and following
 * Appears in – see

To do
Issues with the infobox which yet have to be addressed:
 * Template:Title icon infobox item – why is the default   not used if empty?
 * better label than "Used up"
 * check correlation between "breakable", "when drained" and "used up item"