Drop Box

dropbox·Items

This item can be deployed on walls so that players can input items from the exterior of the building for safe keeping. You can only access the submitted contents of the Drop Box from the rear.

Stats

Stack size: 5
Despawns after: 20 min
Health when placed: 100

Best Monuments to Farm Drop Box

Monument	Per full clear	Mostly from
Train Yard	1 every 13 clears	Crate
Airfield	1 every 13 clears	Crate
Water Treatment Plant	1 every 15 clears	Crate
Missile Silo	1 every 16 clears	Crate
Ferry Terminal	1 every 17 clears	Crate
Launch Site	1 every 17 clears	Crate
Sewer Branch	1 every 17 clears	Crate
Power Plant	1 every 18 clears	Crate

Expected from opening every container in one copy of the monument once. Dots are the keycards its readers take. See the monument tier list for overall value.

Where to Find Drop Box

Source	Chance	Amount
Advanced Underwater Crate	1.1%	1
Crate (Underwater Labs)	0.5%	1
Train Wagon Crate	0.4%	1
Crate	0.4%	1
Tunnel Dweller	0.2%	1
Bradley APC Scientist	0.2%	1
Cargo Ship Scientist	0.2%	1
Arctic Scientist	0.2%	1

6 more sources

Excavator Scientist	0.2%	1
Oil Rig Scientist	0.2%	1
Roaming Scientist	0.2%	1
Chinook Scientist	0.1%	1
Underwater Lab Dweller	0.1%	1
Patrol Scientist	0.1%	1

Chance it's in one container or on one body, measured by filling each one 50,000 times on a vanilla server. Every source's full table is in the loot tables.

NPC Shops

Building Supplies at Bandit Camp sells Drop Box for 40 Scrap

Research

Tech tree: Workbench Level 1This item: 30 scrapFrom scratch: 210 scrap over 9 items

The from-scratch figure is the cheapest chain of unlocks from the start of the tree, with nothing researched yet. Mark what you already have on the tree to see what is actually left.

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