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 |
A Cargo Crate can spawn inside of normal missions. Along with it, two batteries will spawn within 30 meters of the Cargo Crate (in any direction, so not necessarily in the same room) 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 (holding the USE key, "e" by default).
Spawning
Cargo Crate's spawn chance is based on Mission Scale, which is a value set for each mission type and variation, check the table below for the values:
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| 0.7 | 7% |  ( 7  )
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| 1 | 10% |  ( 200  )
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| 1.1 | 10.5% | ( 225 )
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| 1.2 | 11% | ( 250 )
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 ( 2  )
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| 1.3 | 11.5% |  ( 1  )
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| 1.4 | 12% |  ( 2  )
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( 1  )
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| 1.5 | 12.5% | ( 6 )
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( 1 )
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| 1.6 | 13% | ( 325 )
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( 2 )
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( 3 )
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| 1.7 | 13.5% | ( 3 )
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| 1.8 | 14% | ( 3 )
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( 2 )
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| 2 | 15% | ( 400 )
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( 8 )
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Rewards
After completing the repair, the Cargo Crate will offer a special Weapon Framework or a Victory Move which can be claimed by each dwarf that is present. If all cosmetic rewards have been obtained, interacting with a Cargo Crate will trigger a pop-up informing the player that all possible rewards have been collected.
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 crate, it’ll simply be a cosmetic that the player doesn’t have.
Currently, there are 280 possible rewards in total available from Cargo Crates.
• There are 216 possible Weapon Frameworks in 9 sets that can be chosen from the reward pool.
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Builder's Choice 
Custom Engineered 
Fourth Relic 
Glyphid Trophy Hunter 
Mechanized
Neon Band 
MilSpec 
Scale Brigade 
Waster
• There are 64 possible Victory Moves in 16 sets that can be chosen from the reward pool.
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Additionally, the Cargo Crate will dispense chunks of 
Gold and Crafting Materials based on the region.
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Note: The cosmetics obtained from Cargo Crates cannot be obtained by any other means.
Gallery
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| 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 and Paintjobs were formerly called Meshes and Skins, and were listed under the same equip menu, meaning custom colors could only be applied to the stock weapon model and meshes could only be used with their base color schemes. Update 28 allowed Frameworks and Paintjobs to be equipped independently on the same weapon.
- The Neonband mesh 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 of 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.
- Prior to the February Maintenance Update, Bosco Frameworks and the Lemon Clean Bosco Paintjob appeared in Cargo Crates instead of Lost Packs due to a bug.
- On average, each Performance Pass adds 36 new rewards to the Cargo Crate: 24 Weapon Frameworks (One for each Weapon) and 12 Victory Moves (Three per Class).
- It is possible for Cargo Crate batteries to spawn in the ceiling due to the game detecting it as a valid cave layer above the crate.
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