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Locked crates, is there a secret?
To finding them? I've been over almost the entire map for an entire season from March-April. have 3 keys and I have not seen a single one yet.
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No secret, just have to have some good luck. Its totally random where they spawn, as far as I can tell. I usually find them when I dont have any keys on me. lol.
LE Jan 2 @ 7:58pm 
Originally posted by hyperion:
To finding them? I've been over almost the entire map for an entire season from March-April. have 3 keys and I have not seen a single one yet.
There are a set number of locked crates and each one spawns in it's own area. That area can be large depending on what you call large. I have made videos of myself finding locked crates in the past. I've found four in 4 minutes and 3 in two minutes and I posted those videos on YouTube in the past, I don't know if they are still on YouTube. I don't bother with locked crates anymore and I've heard some say the number of locked crates are less than they used to be, I don't know if that's true. Two locked crates in my game would sometimes spawn very close to each other because the area they spawned in overlapped, I made videos of the close together locked crates too. Good Luck fining them!
LE Jan 2 @ 8:10pm 
Actually it was 4 locked crates in just under five minutes and 3 locked crates in two minutes in the winter at night. Here are those two videos, I made others but I've lost or deleted them. https://youtu.be/IN5hLdCVDok
https://youtu.be/0E3NUkFr5Mk
Last edited by LE; Jan 3 @ 12:50am
I still have not see one. I used to find them when I payed years ago.
RCLAC-14 Jan 5 @ 12:59am 
Originally posted by Skeleton Society:
No secret, just have to have some good luck. Its totally random where they spawn, as far as I can tell. I usually find them when I dont have any keys on me. lol.

No it is not. There are fixed points in which locked crates might appear. There are player made maps marking those places too
No secret, random spawn evey where (except in snow moutain), there's no special zone/coordinate to have them... & almost, just have lucky... You can have +/-2 in 1h & in other day have zero by travel the same path...

But, if you don't have enought material to build more key, you should keep them if you decide to destroy hunter's base UCB, where that will spawn a locked chest to have a premium weapon part...
Originally posted by .♥~*°("_")°*~♥.:
But, if you don't have enought material to build more key, you should keep them if you decide to destroy hunter's base UCB, where that will spawn a locked chest to have a premium weapon part...

The special chests in the destroyed hunter bases do not require a lockpick.
terry Jan 5 @ 7:06am 
Originally posted by .♥~*°("_")°*~♥.:

But, if you don't have enought material to build more key, you should keep them if you decide to destroy hunter's base UCB, where that will spawn a locked chest to have a premium weapon part...
Wow. As much as you talk about knowing everything about this game and you dont even know those chests dont require a pick to open.

@Hyperion: If you are having issues finding locked crates I suggest looking through some maps. As RCLAC mentioned, there are maps that mark their possible spawn locations. That being said, not all spots will have a locked crate in them all the time. Best I can tell, its random as to which of those spots a crate will spawn. I usually try to build my main base in a location that has several possible spawn points fairly close so I can check for them on my daily loot runs.
Last edited by terry; Jan 5 @ 7:09am
Hello!
Here is a map with the possible places (but not secured) where the locked boxes can come out.

https://imgur.com/76SXEHi

good hunting! <3

Off-topic:
Originally posted by terry:
Originally posted by .♥~*°("_")°*~♥.:

But, if you don't have enought material to build more key, you should keep them if you decide to destroy hunter's base UCB, where that will spawn a locked chest to have a premium weapon part...
Wow. As much as you talk about knowing everything about this game and you dont even know those chests dont require a pick to open.

Basically he is NOW trying to pretend to be "nice" to other people (in every post as far as I can see) and replying everything (even if he is wrong) since he was recently banned from this forum. (for being VERY toxic 99,99% of his posts).

Unfortunately, he is still just as toxic person on other game forums.. I don't understand how he was unbanned, after so much time spewing barbarism and toxicity around here... but it's ok I guess.

For my part I will not mention this topic any more. Only time will tell :)
Last edited by Leinad Ventura; Jan 5 @ 11:09am
Originally posted by Chris Alex:
Originally posted by .♥~*°("_")°*~♥.:
But, if you don't have enought material to build more key, you should keep them if you decide to destroy hunter's base UCB, where that will spawn a locked chest to have a premium weapon part...

The special chests in the destroyed hunter bases do not require a lockpick.

xDDD... Today with recent version maybe, IDK, but I don't play (even anymore this game by help my chilkdrens) a recent version & so that need key...
Originally posted by terry:
Wow. As much as you talk about knowing everything about this game and you dont even know those chests dont require a pick to open.

xDDD... & who said that all need to play the same version of the game ? ? ? Ah ah ah...
There are some hot spots for chests... you'll learn after playing a bit longer.

Not sure if these new wooden logs added borks the spawns, anyone playing after the update who have more information?
terry Jan 7 @ 12:16pm 
Originally posted by Jo_Rocker:
There are some hot spots for chests... you'll learn after playing a bit longer.

Not sure if these new wooden logs added borks the spawns, anyone playing after the update who have more information?
Im still finding them in the same places I always have. But I havent been over the entire map since the update.
Originally posted by hyperion:
To finding them? I've been over almost the entire map for an entire season from March-April. have 3 keys and I have not seen a single one yet.

I haven't played for several months, although I read about a lot of the changes, I don't know to what extent they have changed the game. I got the following Map of the new area from Raw early last year. It was spot on at the time with regards to the drop locations. It may be of some use, but can't guarantee that now.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3403104556

If you have learned the map in general and are familiar with landmarks, Raw did a lot of Videos of the Locked Boxes. he used to get between 5 and 7. I lost the link to his channel but I might have a link to one of the locked box runs because I watched it a few times to try and learn the areas. It was very helpful but that video is over a year old now. Let me know if you want it.
There are no secrets per se, its a total RNG, as the players above mentioned. However there's a certain mechanic that I would strongly advise to understand and learn.

The locked crates spawn within certain areas, you can locate them using the maps provided by players above. Finding the spot where two such areas overlap/touch will give you a place where you can see two locked crates spawn in close viscinity from one another.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2749777072

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2749777431

I believe you can even find spots where there are three such areas touching each other. So I've seen three locked crates on one screen, if I remember correctly, but don't have screenshots of that.
Last edited by ice_freezer; Jan 15 @ 2:57am
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