Supply Containers

Supply Containers
Supply Containers logbook icon Recommended Tool: Hands

Logbook Entry

PRIVATE FIELD NOTES, Dr. Everett, date unknown.

Our time is up, it seems, and as much as we might try, we cannot abandon the Zone fast enough.

We are leaving so much behind. Each day we are instructed to close another lab and junk everything there. Or to mark it for what they call recycling. But we know no such recycling will happen. We may as well loot our own equipment.

We dash out the door, leaving our things on the table, our experiments half-finished, or logs incomplete. We're creating a ghost town in our wake, even a whole series of ghost towns. A ghost nation, if you will. Our own Mary Celeste, a record of our last moments, frozen in time.

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Synopsis

Supply containers are found everywhere in the Zone and can contain nearly any resource. They come in many flavors: cabinets and lockers, crates and chests, backpacks, dressers, coolers, tackleboxes and toolboxes, and trash cans. The exact loot that spawns in a given container is dependent on the biome and condition of the surrounding structures. Government buildings and containers generally contain rarer resources, and abandoned structures generate with fewer resources than sealed structures. Containers found in deeper Zone biomes can generate with rarer resources.

Like all resource providers, supply container loot tables are generated through a decision tree. For a metal cabinet found in a sealed building, the game will roll between six and eight times on the "Cabinet Metal Basic" tree, which in turn calls between four and seven instances of the "Cabinet Base Items" tree, as well as up to two instances of biome-specific items and up to one instance of civilian or government tools. The "Cabinet Base Items" tree contains chances for generating fabric, duct tape, plastic, scrap metal, rubber, glass shards, and batteries.

Some supply containers, like toolboxes, can contain tools like Prybars or Scrappers, and many contain cosmetic items. Dumpsters may include Dumpster Pearls or car parts.