Cargo Crate

Cargo Crate

“	Be on the lookout for lost Cargo Crates in the caves of normal missions - they are known to contain copious amounts of minerals and weapon skins!
	— Update 25 Patch notes

Cargo Crates can spawn inside of normal missions with a chance dependent on mission length (1/10 for , 1/6 for and 1/3 for ). Along with it, two batteries will spawn within 30 meters of the Cargo Crate (in any direction, so not necessarily in the same cave) that need to be found and inserted into the crate. The batteries themselves emit a pulsating sound that allows them to be found more easily. When a player holds a battery, it emits a different pulsating sound that increases in frequency as the player gets closer to the Cargo Crate, which will cease once inserted. The crate then needs to be manually repaired after inserting both batteries, very much like repairing a broken Mini-M.U.L.E.

Rewards

After completing the repair, the Cargo Crate will open and dispense rewards of Gold and chunks of the Crafting Materials based on the region the crate is located in along with an additional claimable cosmetic reward. If all cosmetic rewards have been obtained, a pop-up informing that all possible rewards have been collected will appear instead when interacting with the Cargo Crate.

Biome	Crafting Materials
Crystalline Caverns	Jadiz	Bismor
Dense Biozone	Bismor	Umanite
Fungus Bogs	Croppa	Jadiz
Glacial Strata	Magnite	Umanite
Magma Core	Magnite	Croppa
Radioactive Exclusion Zone	Umanite	Enor Pearl
Salt Pits	Enor Pearl	Bismor
Sandblasted Corridors	Enor Pearl	Magnite
Azure Weald	Croppa	Umanite
Hollow Bough	Jadiz	Bismor

A special Framework or Victory Move can be claimed by each dwarf that is present when the crate is first opened. Compared to Paintjob, Frameworks come with additional cosmetic attachments on the weapons.

Each player will receive a reward based off of the first person who opens the crate; however, if the next player to claim already owns it, they will be rewarded with a different one.
The received reward is not linked to the class of the player opening the box in any way, it’ll simply be a cosmetic that the player doesn’t have yet.

 •  There are 120 possible Frameworks that will be chosen at random as reward from 6 sets:

Custom Engineered		Fourth Relic		Glyphid Trophy Hunter
Mechanized		Neonband		Scale Brigade

 •  There are 36 possible Victory Moves that will be chosen at random as reward from 9 sets:

Beer Toss Classic Flex Handstand

Praise Me Sharp Salute Smug Pushups

Swarmer Infestation Swarmer Kick Three Point Landing

Note: The cosmetics obtained from Cargo Crates cannot be obtained by any other means.

Gallery

A Cargo Crate Battery	Starting state	With both Batteries inserted	Fully repaired	Dispensing reward

Trivia

• Similar encounter as Lost Pack.
  • Lost Packs and Cargo Crates spawn independently of each other, and can sometimes both be in the map.
• Frameworks used to be called Mesh with an unique Paintjob and model modification prior to Update 28.
• The Neonband Mesh variation was accidentally leaked during Experimental and removed only to be re-added in Update 26.
• Cargo Crates used to be able to reward duplicate skins to the players who did not open the crate first, because the skin rewarded is based on the first player to claim the crate. Now, a player will always be rewarded a skin, given they do not already own every possible reward from the crate.
• The developers at one point intended beer licenses for the Craft(able) Beers to be gained from Cargo Crates.
• Cargo Crates used to only give mineable crafting materials as a reward but as off Update 27 it can now give Jadiz & Enor Pearl.
• For a very long time the length-dependent mechanic wasn't actually used, and until the Season 1 update Cargo Crates used to have a static 1/6 chance to spawn regardless of any factors.
• Since Season 01, there are 156 cargo crate skins due to the increased number of primary weapons.
• Using Binomial distribution, one can assume that it will take on average 936 Missions to obtain all 156 skins and Victory Poses.
  • Keep in mind this number is an estimate and may not reflect real outcomes - While it is statistically improbable to flip a coin 100 times and get 100 heads, that doesn't mean it's impossible. One may get all the Cargo Crates in 156 missions, or a player may never encounter one at all.