Drop Box

Health
100
Crafting
Workbench level 1
Research
30 Scrap

Crafting

Recipe

Requirements

Workbench
Craft time
30s
Research
Tech tree
Available from the startScrap cost not listed

Ingredients

  • 200

How to get

Loot 26 sources

Chance of at least one.

20 more loot sources
How loot chance works

The chance that a freshly spawned container, or a killed NPC, rolls at least one Drop Box. Container chances are before inventory limits: a full crate can discard rolled items, while bonus scrap drops beside it.

Other sources

  • Bought from a vendor

    2 vendor offers

    VendorPriceAmount received
    Building (Hapis)Can vary1
    Building Supplies (Bandit Camp)Can vary1

Raiding

Ignores 50% of explosion damage.

Lowest sulfur · single tool

Explosive · Drop Box · 10 matching methods

Cost
About 0s
Plan multiple targets →
Raid toolAmountTime to raidSulfurRaw materials
UsingSplash 3.8m
10s1,400
Splash 3.5m
717s1,400
AttachedNo wall splash
315s1,440
LooseNo wall splash
315s1,440
Splash 4.5m
1216s1,440
DeployedSplash 4m
212s1,800
AttachedNo wall splash
111s2,200
LooseNo wall splash
111s2,200
Splash 6m
581m 1s3,480
UsingSplash 4m
62s-

One target at full health and contact range, vanilla settings, fresh melee tools. This target has no soft side.

How counts and times are worked out

The splash filter describes sharing damage across walls, not collateral damage to players or nearby deployables. C4 and satchels do not share construction damage even when loose. Counts are for one target; visibility and distance determine possible splash.

Times are exact for melee and for anything fired: swings times swing delay, or shots times fire rate plus the reloads that forces. For a charge you place by hand it is one second per charge plus the fuse, and that one second is the only estimate here. Melee tool counts assume fresh tools, because repairing lowers a tool's maximum condition each time and that rate is not in the files we read. Vanilla server settings, contact range, no distance falloff.

Recycling

Recycling

Per item at full condition. Green’s 60% boost needs 4 heavy fuses at the Power Plant; red requires maximum power (18 fuses).

Returns
50% efficiency · 5s per cycle
60% efficiency · 5s per cycle 4.5s at maximum power
40% efficiency · 8s per cycle
75% efficiency · 4s per cycle
100120 to 12180150
How returns work

Component fractions are random rolls; Scrap fractions carry over between cycles. Worn items return less.

Stats

Gameplay details

Stack size
5
Despawns after
20 min
Technical details
Category
Items
Item id
-1,519,126,340
Shortname
dropbox
Has skins
No
In-game description

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.

Game data: build 25083359, captured 4 Sept 2026. Sources and dates.

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