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[Centurion58]

I can't find a pauldron of any kind, anywhere. I don't see any way to make one, either. Does anyone know if they are region-specific or just rng?

[unlike'em]

the zombie bear in the snow biome drops a legendary one

[Alfafiles]

Do not forget that specific characteristics are generated ONLY WHEN LOOT DROP.
so when you meet a zombie bear, just save at a distance from him, AND ONLY THEN KILL, you may get very unnecessary/trash characteristics, load the save and try again.
In this case, the final quality depends only on your patience.
The same applies to the zombie lion.

[Warped_One]

As a shameless save scummer, I approve of Alfa's suggestion. Im ashamed I havent thought of that yet. I used to do it with book shelves when I was looking for particular book but I think the way containers work changed. I also found my Cloak in the snowy lands from a Mutated Bear. First and only one Ive seen, so far, but as I recall it was marginally larger than normal polar bear which should make them easier to spot.

[Centurion58]

I wonder if you could save scum before opening an airdropped crate. I have four legendary axes. Probably don't need any more!

[Warped_One]

Speaking of airdrops, I moved my base to the Western Grasslands around day 14 and I havent seen the red smoke since I left the starter area. I hear and see the drones pretty regularly but havent come across an airdrop in ten days or so.

[Alfafiles]

Originally posted by Warped_One:

Speaking of airdrops, I moved my base to the Western Grasslands around day 14 and I havent seen the red smoke since I left the starter area. I hear and see the drones pretty regularly but havent come across an airdrop in ten days or so.

It seems that this mechanic in the game is implemented very cleverly, it seems that the drop always falls near the central city (where the hospital
and the beginning of the plot), my base is in a villa near the city, but even when I spent the whole day in the snowy biome and returned to the wave at night - the drop and red smoke were ALWAYS near this city.

[Warped_One]

I believe you're correct. I was in the snowy area up on a hilltop and could see the red smoke pluming way off in the distance and it was clearly in the starting area. Could be a design flaw or it could be to incentivize one to return the that area. Do those drops have a chance for all uniques or are they tier bound?

[Alfafiles]

I saw that the quality and quantity of drops in this box greatly depends on the character’s statistics for dropping drops and the difficulty option of the game for dropping drops.
when the options are 3x and the character has a 200% drop - I got a lot of loot, money, gold bars and 3-5 "red items" but these were the commonly found "red" axes and pickaxes, I did not get other good unique things, but I don’t think I’ve seen ordinary items above level 3.
In any case, this sunlu is only good at the beginning of the game, and then you will find much better things and it’s good to take only coins from the chest, but there are much easier ways to get coins...