Where to find loot

#How a loot spot works

• A spot's items lie on the ground, each as its own model. Come within 2.5 m and look at an item: it gets a white outline and a prompt appears.
• Your inventory key opens the spot in the window, under "Nearby". By default it's I; in F2 you can pick Tab or J instead.
• A spot holds 0, 1 or 2 items, never two of the same.
• You can't search a spot through a wall.
• You can't put anything into a loot spot: it isn't storage. "Drop" puts the item on the ground next to you.

#What lies where

What exactly turns up in each place and how often — tap a place:

Houses 97Grocery stores 23Clothing stores 14Industrial 68Hospitals 33Police 99Military 168Heavy military 69Red room 65Underwater wrecks 55Labs 130

sometimes

PT92Road flareKnapsack

rarely

Double-barrel shotgunM590Sawed-off M500M1922P2000P7M10KnifeCrowbarBaseball bat9 mm roundsPainkillersBikerCivilian clothesHunterSports bagFirewoodTentMapCompassWatchMatches

very rarely

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Brown BessSaiga-12Thompson M1928Micro UziSkorpion vz. 61TEC-9M1911HatchetMacheteFlashlightPistol suppressorTactical flashlight9 mm SMG roundsThompson magazine12 gauge shellsSaiga-12 shellsMusket ballsBarbed wireCanned pastaCanned beansBurgerCrackersCooked meatPizzaRaw meatCanned stewChipsChocolate barAppleBrothBottle of waterSodaCanned coffeeMineral waterMilkEmpty bottleEmpty flaskJuiceThermos of teaWater flaskEnergy drinkAntibioticsBandageHeat packMorphinePRESS vestConstruction helmetJournalist helmetRich kidFirefighterCultistTourist backpackBatteryBoat propellerEngineWheelCar radioMoto wheelMain rotorPropellerEmpty jerrycanRepair kitBoat rudderFuel tankTail rotorSnow chainsLanding gearHoseLarge tentLockpickBreaker switchGPSToolbox

How often the item turns up in one loot spot, one event or on one zombie.

Specific guns and where to find them are in weapons, backpacks in backpacks, armor in armor.

The red room is behind a door with a card reader; a red keycard opens it. Doors with a breaker panel open with a breaker switch. The red keycard turns up in heavy military spots, rarely in red rooms and labs (no more than three in loot spots on the map), and in helicopter crashes. The breaker switch is about 1 in 200 house spots, 1 in 70 police spots, 1 in 30 military and heavy military spots, and also in events.

Red keycardOpens a door with a red card reader for 3 minutes, then the door locks again. Swipe: the loot key at the reader. One card lasts two openings, it breaks on the second.0.5 kgBreaker switchGoes into the panel of a breaker door: the door stays open for 5 minutes for everyone, then locks again. Insert: the loot key at the panel. One breaker, one opening.2 kg

#Special crates

• Medical crates in hospitals, red and white with a cross. Every 4 hours (±20 minutes, each crate on its own timer) they get a full set: medkits 4–5, blood bags 4–6, bandages, heat packs, morphine and antibiotics 4–5 each, painkillers 5, up to 4 anti-rad, and sometimes a radioprotector and an army medkit.
• Siren crate. Every 45 minutes it wails with a siren you can hear about 700 m away, and refills. 4 times out of 5 it holds a gun with ammo (almost always an assault rifle), otherwise a heavy vest or helmet, sometimes with an extra box of ammo.

#When loot comes back

• Each spot refills on its own timer: 4 hours ±30 minutes. If the spot was opened, the timer runs from the first opening.
• The more people on the server, the faster spots refill, except houses and red rooms: up to 10 players 4 hours, 20 players 2 hours, 30 players 1 hour 20 minutes, 40 or more 1 hour.
• Red rooms and radiation areas refill every 3 hours.
• When the timer runs out, leftovers are cleared and the spot refills, but never in front of you: while a player is within 100 m, it waits. If it has waited more than an hour, only someone standing right in the spot holds it up.
• A server restart doesn't reset loot: the timers keep running.
• Every gun in loot comes with its ammo: from a third of a magazine to two magazines.

#Map-wide limits

Some items are capped across the whole map, counting only what lies in loot spots:

Items held by players, in tents and in vehicles don't count, and events drop loot by their own tables.

#Loot from zombies

• A dead zombie is searched like a body: walk up to it and press the mouse wheel (menu) or your inventory key. You can't see what it carries from outside.
• About two zombies in three carry something: food, drinks, medicine, ammo, small items, sometimes a backpack or clothing.
• A gun is a separate roll that depends on the zombie type:

What each type of zombie can carry:

Civilian zombies 67Worker zombies 51Mechanic zombies 59Medic zombies 33Police zombies 89Military zombies 124Ironclad 68Frost lurker 110Mimic 76Bomber 56Ghost 84

sometimes

9 mm roundsChipsBottle of waterSodaMineral waterMilkEmpty bottleEmpty flaskJuiceWater flaskBandage

rarely

M1911PT92M1922P2000P7M10KnifeCrowbarBaseball batFlashlightCanned pastaCanned beansBurgerCrackersCooked meatPizzaRaw meatCanned stewChocolate barAppleBrothCanned coffeeThermos of teaEnergy drinkAntibioticsHeat packMorphinePainkillersFirewoodMapMatchesToolbox

very rarely

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Brown BessAA-12Saiga-12Double-barrel shotgunM590Sawed-off M500HatchetMachete12 gauge shellsAA-12 shellsSaiga-12 shellsMusket ballsMedkitBikerCivilian clothesRich kidHunterParkaKnapsackTourist backpackSports bagAvgas 100LLTentCompassWatch

How often the item turns up in one loot spot, one event or on one zombie.

Special zombies have their own loot, including big backpacks and armor. Zombie types are covered in zombies.

#Bodies and items on the ground

• When the time is up, the item or body disappears, but never in front of you: only when nobody is nearby.
• The map holds at most 400 bags and bodies. Past that, the oldest go early.
• A player's body holds everything from their inventory plus the worn backpack, body armor, helmet and parachute. Clothes stay on the body; you can take them through the body's menu.
• Someone who lived less than a minute leaves no body: their items are lost.
• At a body you can find out the cause of death: the time and the weapon.
• A server restart clears everything lying on the ground, bodies included.