D&D 5E Haversack is rare?

[Sword of Spirit]

They goofed when they imported it from 3e. It is supposed to be easier to get what you want out of it than a bag of holding, but the rules don’t reflect this. Either you can make it more difficult to get things from a bag of holding (like by making it take 3 rounds to ruffle around through it in order to find and retrieve the item) or you can make it easier to retrieve an item from the haversack (like by using your object interaction). I favor the latter, since retrieving an item from a non-magical haversack only takes one action.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Like others have said, a lot of groups house-rule that getting an item is either an extra free-interaction or can be done as a bonus action (which our table does).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I generally don't allow players to root about though their bag of holding in combat.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Why is the Handy Haversack a rare magic item in 5e? It takes the same action to retrieve an item from the Bag of Holding, which is an uncommon magic item, as it does from the Haversack and the Bag holds a lot more.

The Haversack is less useful than the Bag of Holding. According to the DMG, the rarity of an item is correlated to the making time, so the Haversack, by RAW, takes 10 times the resources necessary to make a Bag. If it takes more (or the same) effort to create a Haversack than a Bag of Holding, and is less useful than said Bag of Holding, item makers wisely and smartly made more Bags than Haversack. So rarity (the game statistics) correlates greatly with availability.

 

[MarkB]

Here's another way to make the haversack more useful: Make the side pouches detachable, and have all compartments share the same extradimensional space, so that an item placed into one of the pouches can be withdrawn from either pouch, or from the main compartment.

Put a distance limit on it - the side pouches must be within, say, 200 feet of the main compartment in order to function - so that it can't be used as a long-distance mailing device.

 

[Reynard]

Obviously, Haversacks go to Sackworld, which is harder to reach from the Prime Material Plane than Bagworld.