Trunks, player made and Kovac's

[Statue]

Hi,

Apologies if this is answered in another thread, I've searched for answers to my questions but only see threads about stuff going missing from trunks.

What I'd like to know is what the difference is between placing your stuff in one of your own trunks versus placing it in Kovac's trunk in the bunker. Are players intended to use them for different purposes, and if so what purposes?

Does stuff in Kovac's trunk act like a shared stash to transfer between characters? Or is the idea to put some supplies in Kovac's trunk so that if your camp gets over-run you can fall back and have a safety net in Kovac's bunker? Or something else? I know the text when using Kovac's trunk says something about stuff the player has destroyed, but I'm not sure what that's all about either.

Also, do trunks have limited capacity? Do people use multiple trunks for that reason? Or for faster sorting of different types of resources?

[Ixamesh]

1. Kovak's trunk acts like your private vault that is bound to your characters. So you can have access to its content on any server.

2. Regular trunks are bound to the server and other people may have access to them, if their server status allows that. When you build or craft something, mats will be drawn directly from those trunks, so you don't have to carry everything. Not sure whether mats can be drawn that way from Kovak's trunk, maybe only when regular trunks don't have required resources.

3. Always set Guest rights by default even in your private camps. Right now everyone has access to private camps, so many people abuse it and steal stuff.

4. Trunks have unlimited capacity. Buildings block zombie spawns, so most people use trunks as a cheap way to mark their camp territory.

[Nekoborg]

You are free to place anything into any trunk you have access to, there is no rules about this. You are right to think to place some things in Kovac´s box is way to share between your characters which there is 4 of online and 4 offline.

It gets a little more complicated since trunks are in every camp you make and only acessed in that specific camp.

You can make 4 online camps and 1 offline camp, but you can´t place something in a trunk and expect it to be in other trunks or in other camps.

Here is where it gets real tricky, each camp can have 4 trunks, this is useful to sort things and make spawn free zones reaching out around 30 feet radius from the trunk.


The cove I use only has 1 narrow path-way in, the rest is protected by trees and mud pits. There is only 2 such coves on the map. all other coves have 2 or more ways in..... harder to protect during pylon attacks.

[Statue]

Thanks guys, some really helpful information here :)

[tenthousand]

Reviving this old thread - I've seen mentioned that when you craft, it'll take materials from your trunk. However, I tried this and when I put materials into Kovac's trunk, it doesn't let me craft with them. Take them out, and I can craft with them.

I'm a new player, and I was going to try to just use Kovac's trunk, and not make any others. I'm guessing this doesn't really work for long.

So, maybe 1 for weapons and armor, 1 for mats, etc.

However, crafting is a struggle for me.

Am I missing something obvious?

[-=DEO=-]

Ok so there is 2 type of Trunks.

1: at Kovac base --> PLAYED (or ACTUAL) character's owned trunk. so u can build 4 character that means 4 different Trunks at Kovac's base. You can put Undropable items to this Trunk only (like Pumpkin helmet or Bat...etc). You can not use this Trunk's items for crafting, can not access it from the CAMP/Main Map.

2: Camp's Trunk --> You can build more bases and more Trunks on the main map. That Trunk I called Camp Trunk. After you put items and loots hete, you can acces it from anywhere when you are in the main map (camp map). So you can build items, weapons, food, buildings from the resources what u put here.

[tenthousand]

Nice! That makes a lot of sense to me now!

[SpinDie426]

can storage chests be destroyed and lose all items inside?

[RandalMcdaniel]

Honestly i dont know why kovacs chest even exists. Its bad game design. To a new player the safest place to stay is obviously the bunker.

So like many others, i made the mistake of putting all my items into kovacs chest.

For the first 10 hours of the game i just thought HTS2 didnt support using materials from storage chests to build (automatically)

The game is good. But it makes no sense. Like at all. Why cant i just live with kodac in his bunker?

They should have made kovacs base aboveground like every other survivor,

instead they make him batman? Seems super random

I know this games probably not worked on anymore but DAMN IS IT GOOD! Im so addicted. Its running in the background as i type