Crates

Commodities crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a green symbol.

Materials crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a black symbol.

• Cargo transported by caravan and merchant ships must be stored in crates.

• There are small, medium, and large crates. The higher quality the crate, the greater its capacity.

• Commodities are transported by caravans and merchant ships in sealed crates.
  • Player commodities are "pre-crated" when they are purchased from commodities vendor NPCs.
  • Player commodities present in caravan wreckages have a portion of their value sunk (lost).
  • These commodities cannot be stored in a player's inventory. Looting them will convert them into stolen commodities which yield a lesser value when exchanged at black market locations in nodes.
  • To retain the value of the commodities, players must summon an empty caravan from a nearby node to collect and transport them.

Commodities can go into Crates to move them. If someone loses a Caravan, in the wreckage there are Crates. If you get a Crate to a Caravansary you can unpack it. – Ry Schueller

• Commodities crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a green symbol.
• Materials crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a black symbol.

• Unsealing crates (by breaking open sealed crates) yields less value than transporting the sealed crates for unloading. This is in addition to the value already lost when the caravan (or merchant ship) was destroyed.

• Glint must be transported via crate when in large quantities.

• Crates will undergo testing and iteration during Alpha-2.

List of crates

Item	Icon	Type	Profession	Rarity	Level requirement	Source	Cost
Extra Large Ash Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	30	Crafted items
Extra Large Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor
Extra Large Eastern Hemlock Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Crafted items
Extra Large Oak Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Crafted items
Extra Large Western Larch Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Crafted items
Large Ash Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Vendor,Crafted items
Large Braidwood Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Vendor,Crafted items
Large Brass Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Large Bronze Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Large Copper Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Large Copper Reinforced Crate (Packed)		Crate		Common−Legendary	20
Large Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Vendor
Large Eastern Hemlock Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Vendor,Crafted items
Large Iron Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Large Oak Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Vendor,Crafted items
Large Rividium Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Large Steel Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Large Tin Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Large Weeping Willow Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Vendor,Crafted items
Large Western Larch Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Vendor,Crafted items
Large Zinc Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Medium Ash Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor,Crafted items
Medium Braidwood Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Vendor,Crafted items
Medium Brass Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Crafted items
Medium Bronze Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Crafted items
Medium Copper Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Crafted items
Medium Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor
Medium Eastern Hemlock Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor,Crafted items
Medium Iron Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Medium Oak Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor,Crafted items
Medium Rividium Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Medium Steel Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Medium Tin Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Crafted items
Medium Weeping Willow Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Vendor,Crafted items
Medium Western Larch Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor,Crafted items
Medium Zinc Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Crafted items
Small Ash Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor,Crafted items
Small Braidwood Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Vendor,Crafted items
Small Brass Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Crafted items
Small Bronze Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Crafted items
Small Copper Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Crafted items
Small Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor
Small Eastern Hemlock Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor,Crafted items
Small Iron Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Small Oak Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor,Crafted items
Small Rividium Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Small Steel Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	20	Crafted items
Small Tin Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Crafted items
Small Weeping Willow Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary	10	Vendor,Crafted items
Small Western Larch Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Vendor,Crafted items
Small Zinc Reinforced Crate		Crate		Common−Legendary		Crafted items

Unsealing crates

Unsealing crates (by breaking open sealed crates) yields less value than transporting the sealed crates for unloading. This is in addition to the value already lost when the caravan (or merchant ship) was destroyed.

• Player commodities have a portion of their value sunk (lost).
  • These commodities cannot be stored in a player's inventory. Looting them will convert them into stolen commodities which yield a lesser value when exchanged at black market locations in nodes.
  • To retain the value of the commodities, players must summon an empty caravan from a nearby node to collect and transport them.
• Unsealing crates with other types of cargo may also cause the cargo to become stolen.
  • Resources taken from caravan wreckages become stolen resources.
  • Glint taken from caravan wreckages becomes stolen glint.

Cracking/breaking Crates always give less value than doing the work to get a Crate back to a place where you can unpack it. Commodities like "A Case of Kaelar Wooden Soldiers" don’t go into a player’s inventory. The only way someone gets Commodities like "A Case of Kaelar Wooden Soldiers" from place to place is in Crates. – Ry Schueller

Collecting cargo

Summoned caravan collecting commodities and materials crates from a caravan wreckage in Alpha-2.

Players may summon an empty caravan from a nearby node to collect and transport crates from caravan wreckages.

Looting at the spot obviously you can do right away. The problem with that though is you forfeit a lot of the materials: a lot more get lost; and as you crack open those crates. But if you're able to have your own caravan and bring it there, you can loot and you'll get more of the overall materials that way. – Chris Justo

Skill	Icon	Description
Collect Cargo		Pick up cargo nearest the mouse location and add them to your caravan's storage if there's enough room.

Unloading cargo

Alpha-2 Unpack Crate UI.

That timer scales with how the node progresses. That's actually an extremely fast unpacking time, but typically it's going to be on the scale of days. – John Collins

Materials crates that are transported by caravans (or merchant ships) may be unloaded into a node's warehouse.

• Unpacking time can take a number of IRL days to complete. This can be decreased through node policies, service building upgrades, and node progression.

That throttle of timing out the unloading of materials and supplies is intended to mitigate the impact on the local economy that transiting materials has within the world. Right now that's a runway, which means that through certain decisions that a node makes, whether it be upgrades or policies, they can reduce that amount of time significantly; and by creating a differential or a disparity of the amount that days would represent, versus hours, you can have the nodes that select those types of upgrades and policies really become the epicenter of trade within a particular region. – Steven Sharif

• Cargo stays on the caravan (or ship) until it is unloaded.

• Player commodities may be sold directly from caravan (or merchant ship) inventory to commodities vendors.

See also

• Cargo
• Inventory
• Caravans
• Storage