Carrying things

Most loot goes straight into your pockets. A few things don’t fit: Gruppe Sechs briefcases and bags, a laptop, a painting, a flat-screen TV. Those you carry in your hands, and you only have one pair.

Three sizes

Size	Examples	Where it can go
Pocket-sized	Almost everything: cash, jewellery, tools, drinks	Your pockets, anywhere
Bag-sized	A G6 briefcase, cash bag, gold bag or duffel; a laptop; a painting or canvas; a trophy; a vase	A bag you’re wearing (if it has room), else your hands, a boot, a car seat or the ground. Never loose in your pockets
Arms-sized	A guitar, a flat-screen TV	Your hands, a boot or the ground. Never a pocket, a bag or a car seat

A bag-sized thing that you get goes into your worn bag first, if it has room. If you have no bag, or it is full, it goes into your hands. If your hands are full too and it was a find, it drops on the floor at your feet. Something bag-sized taken out of a boot goes into your worn bag if there’s room, otherwise your hands. Taken out of a bag, it comes into your hands.

Picking one up off the ground works the same way, one at a time. If your hands are already full you’re told to put down what you’re holding first, and while you hold a two-handed thing you can’t pick anything up at all.

What you carry from a Gruppe Sechs truck

Cargo	Weight	How you hold it
G6 Briefcase	3 kg (6.6 lb)	By the handle
G6 Cash Bag	6 kg (13.2 lb)	A bag at your side
G6 Gold Bag	7.5 kg (16.5 lb)	A bag at your side
G6 Cash Duffel	12 kg (26.5 lb)	A bag at your side

The cargo comes out of a truck into your hands, whether or not you wear a bag. It isn’t put in your bag for you: put it down, in a boot or on a seat, or put it in the bag yourself. See Gruppe Sechs trucks.

Other pieces you might find are lighter, from a laptop or a painting to a trophy, a vase or a guitar. A flat-screen TV is the heavy one at 12 kg (26.5 lb).

What holding something stops

While you hold anything, you can’t shoot, aim, fight or take cover, and you can’t play an emote. Your gun is holstered the moment you pick it up. Drawing a weapon makes you drop what you hold. The briefcase is the one exception: it is held as a weapon of its own.

How much else it stops depends on how you carry it.

How it’s held	Examples	Sprint	Jump	In a car
One-handed, by the handle or at your side	G6 briefcase, bags and duffel, a guitar	Yes	Yes	Allowed
One-handed, under your arm	Laptop, a painting	Yes	No	Allowed
Two-handed, in both arms	A TV, a vase, a trophy	No	No	No: put it in a boot first

A one-handed thing is hidden while you sit in a car and is back in your hand when you get out. A bag-sized one can ride on a seat instead (see below).
A two-handed thing can’t get into a car. Pressing the enter key tells you both hands are full: put it in a boot first with E at the boot.
The phone: a one-handed thing moves to your other hand while the phone is up. With a two-handed thing, a call is hands-free.
A G6 grab needs empty hands. A jewel case or a deposit box only refuses you while both arms are full, and both need a bag on your back to put the takings in.
A thing you hold can’t be traded. Put it down first. See Trading.

When it falls out of your hands

What you hold drops at your feet, as the same item, when you:

draw a weapon;
are knocked down or ragdoll;
go into water;
are cuffed, or are in any hands-up, surrender, frisk, hostage, carrying, CPR or searching animation, so a robber’s victim with their hands up drops it, and an officer frisking you takes it off the ground afterwards;
end up in a car holding a two-handed thing;
die, where you fell: this is on every death and is on the Money page too;
log out: it is dropped where you were last seen holding it. If that place isn’t known, it stays in your hands for your next login.

Putting it down

Press Left Alt and let go: you crouch and put it on the ground in front of you. It doesn’t work while you’re typing. In a car, Left Alt puts a bag-sized thing on a seat instead (see below). Left Alt also puts down a person you are carrying. Put down on the item in your inventory does the same.

The boot

E at the boot of a car with your hands full: the prompt reads Put in trunk and the thing goes straight in, no menu. It is weighed against the boot’s capacity like anything else (see Vehicles). Vans and box trucks open their rear doors and can be reached from further away.

Something bag-sized or arms-sized in a boot comes out into your worn bag, or into your hands, and the lid shuts behind you once your hands are full.

A car seat

A bag-sized thing, like a briefcase, a bag or a laptop, can ride on any seat except the driver’s. Arms-sized things go in the boot.

Getting in with it. Once you’re seated in a car or a boat holding one, a short progress bar puts it on the front passenger seat, or on a back seat you can see into: any seat on a boat, or with the roof down, or beside a window of its own. With no seat free it stays in your hand.
Inside the car, Left Alt puts what you hold on the nearest free seat, or takes back what is on a seat when your hands are empty. It works while moving. A two-handed thing can’t be held in a car, so it comes off a seat only from outside.
At the door, E on the seat says Put the (thing) on the seat when you hold one and the seat is free, or Take the (thing) when something is on it.
Who can: anybody who could get into the car: it is unlocked, or yours, or its window is smashed, or its roof is down. Taking something off from outside only works through a window with the glass out, or with the roof down. With the glass in, the prompt just says what is on the seat, or that it is locked.
Nobody can sit on a loaded seat. You’re told there’s something on it. One thing to a seat, and two people can’t load the same seat at once.
A personal vehicle keeps what’s on its seats through a relog. In any other vehicle, whatever’s on a seat goes when the vehicle does.

Selling it

What you hold still counts as yours: the pawn shop and the G6 insider buy from your hands as well as your pockets. See Selling stolen goods.

Tips

Bring a bag. A bag on your back takes bag-sized loot by itself and keeps your hands free for a gun.
A boot holds what your arms can’t. Keep the boot clear before a job.
Don’t draw to fight with a case in your hand: the case falls at your feet and anybody can pick it up.
Die with it and it’s on the ground where you died, for anyone to pick up.