Crates are one kind of container in West of Loathing. They provide random loot, varying according to the type of crate.
Quantities[ | ]
A given crate will generally give you 2 items, with a 30% chance of a 3rd item. Each of the first 2 items can appear in multiple quantities, however, with the quantity depending on how many (of the same type of) crates you've opened: each type of crate has a unique counter, which is incremented every time you open a crate of that type.
- First item:
Crates Opened Loot Quantity 1 - 3 1 4 - 7 2 - 3 8+ 3 - 5
- Second item:
Crates Opened Loot Quantity 1 - 5 1 6+ 2 - 3
Below are listed the various types of crates, and what they may contain.
Types of crates[ | ]
Rancher supplies[ | ]
- bar of soap
- Depressed Rancher candy
- full canteen
- lock
- lasso
- a length of rope
- handful of nails
- ranch dressing
- ranch punch
- Additionally, special items are included when you open your nth crate:
Crates Opened Special Loot 5 rancher's pistol 10 branding ring 15 rucker's ranchsack
Sources[ | ]
Rancher supplies can be found:
- Stearns Ranch (2, including one assembled from a pile of loose boards)
- Lazy-A Dude Ranch
- Butterfield Ranch (assembled from a pile of loose boards)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region A
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region B (includes an additional cache of medicinal supplies)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region C
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region D
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region E (includes an additional cache of medicinal supplies)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region F
Mining supplies[ | ]
- can of kerosene
- can of oil
- dynamite
- smelling salts
- sulphur match
- thermos of spiked coffee
- Additionally, special items are included when you open your nth crate:
Crates Opened Special Loot 3 lodestone ring 6 caged canary 9 rock hammer
Sources[ | ]
Mining supplies can be found:
- Snakepit Mine (2, including one assembled from a pile of loose boards)
- Level 1 of the Lost Dutch Oven Mine
- The locker in Soupstock Lode
- Side tunnel 2 of the Abandoned Mine
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region A
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region B
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region C (includes an additional cache of medicinal supplies)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region D
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region E
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region F
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region G
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region H (includes an additional cache of medicinal supplies)
Military supplies[ | ]
- army field trauma kit
- smelling salts
- full canteen
- military-grade whiskey
- hard tack
- chemical bullet
- incendiary bullet
- silver bullet
- Additionally, special items are included when you open your nth crate:
Crates Opened Special Loot 5 artillery saber 10 military school class ring 15 chest full of medals
Sources[ | ]
Military supplies can be found:
- Various Military Cemetery plots have the goods directly available by digging them up:
- 9, 10, 15, 28, 39, 41, 47, 69, 70, 72, 77, 93, 96, 98, 102, 106, 137, 197, 203, 206, 207, 238, 244, 245, 250, 251, 252, 256, 261, 265, 270, 271, 279, 293, 309, 320, 343, 349, 354, 361, 367, 373, 389, 390, 408, 419, 429, 438, 439, 446, 447, 459, 467, 484, 500, 525, 536, 570, 588, 599, 638, 649, 663, 675, 679, 687, 714, 718, 719, 744, 766, 777, 799, 827, 828, 829, 841, 843, 844, 854, 861, 862, 864, 871, 914, 933, 939, 945, 961, 963, 964, 970, 971, 983, 985, 989, 990, 993, 995
- Other Military Cemetery plots contain military lockboxes, which require a needle to open and access the contents:
- 3, 30, 67, 71, 84, 87, 113, 114, 127, 144, 166, 173, 178, 179, 181, 182, 184, 187, 202, 210, 236, 253, 257, 260, 267, 268, 269, 277, 280, 292, 306, 307, 310, 319, 324, 325, 332, 341, 344, 362, 378, 398, 405, 410, 414, 418, 431, 443, 469, 507, 508, 513, 533, 535, 539, 545, 549, 554, 563, 575, 586, 606, 610, 616, 628, 657, 670, 671, 693, 699, 708, 720, 727, 742, 749, 756, 761, 766, 781, 786, 788, 789, 796, 798, 804, 818, 835, 842, 878, 898, 903, 905, 920, 921, 924, 953, 958, 959, 982, 984
- Footlockers in Fort Cowardice (3)
- Footlockers in Fort Alldead (3)
- Footlockers in Fort Treason (3)
- Crates in Fort of Darkness (3)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region A
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region C
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region D
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region E
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region F (includes an additional cache of medicinal supplies)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region G (includes an additional cache of medicinal supplies)
Dry goods[ | ]
- vienna blood sausages
- instant grits
- jellied escargot
- plum pudding
- soda crackers
- clove drops
- cat's eye candy
- sugar guns
- sarsaparilla
- sugared pork balls (possible after the 3rd dry goods container)
- peppermint drops (possible the 6th dry goods container)
Sources[ | ]
Dry goods can be found:
- The gothic picnic in Reboot Hill
- A table in Fort Treason
- A table on level 1 of the Lost Dutch Oven Mine
- A shelf in the cellar in Stearns Ranch
- A shelf in the Jelly Bean Thieves' Hideout
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region B (includes an additional cache of medicinal supplies)
Graves[ | ]
- burial whiskey (possible before the 9th grave)
- gold skull (possible before the 6th grave)
- gold tooth (possible after the 5th grave)
- gravedigger's flask (possible after the 8th grave)
- grave dirt
- handful of loose teeth
- handful of old coins
- skeleton bone
- skull chips
- An additional drop is also made, consisting of one of the following specific items (if you do not have them already), unlocked after looting the nth grave:
Graves Looted Special Loot 0+ old wedding ring 4+ old engagement ring 7+ perfumed pocket square 9+ reinforced pocket square 13+ stylish pocket square 16+ old silk trousers 19+ blood-soaked pocket square 22+ funerary derby 25+ shimmering pocket square
Sources[ | ]
Lootable graves can be found:
- Various Military Cemetery plots have the goods directly available by digging them up:
- 8, 40, 42, 50, 60, 80, 82, 91, 100, 101, 122, 132, 140, 141, 147, 174, 177, 201, 209, 221, 222, 237, 239, 248, 282, 294, 297, 318, 336, 345, 347, 374, 380, 382, 388, 392, 397, 406, 424, 441, 448, 462, 464, 470, 472, 511, 512, 521, 528, 543, 555, 582, 583, 584, 620, 629, 646, 659, 662, 665, 685, 696, 702, 721, 741, 743, 748, 767, 770, 791, 794, 800, 817, 821, 824, 826, 831, 833, 834, 849, 850, 855, 865, 866, 885, 891, 892, 907, 936, 937, 938, 954, 957, 967, 981, 991, 996
- A (locked) footlocker in Buffalo Pile (same one which also contains the buffalo soldier diagram)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region A
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region B
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region C
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region D
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region E
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region F
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region G
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region H
Medicinal supplies[ | ]
- blood-building tonic
- bottle of laudanum
- nerve pills
- smelling salts
- patent emetic
- surgical gin
- Additionally, special items are included when you open your nth crate:
Crates Opened Special Loot 3 orthopedic boots 6 medical gun 9 birthing breeches
Sources[ | ]
Medicinal containers can be found:
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region B (secondary to a cache of rancher supplies)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region B (secondary to a cache of dry goods)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region C (secondary to a cache of mining supplies)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region D
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region E (secondary to a cache of rancher supplies)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region F (secondary to a cache of military supplies)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region G (secondary to a cache of military supplies)
- In a random encounter while wandering in Region H (secondary to a cache of mining supplies)
- Abandoned Mine
Liquour[ | ]
Sources[ | ]
Liquour containers are only found in two places:
- On the third level of Madness Maw Mine, if you have Curly's auto-gyrotheodolite
- In a liquor cabinet found while wandering in Region C (requires Lockpickin' and a needle)
Piles of loose boards[ | ]
Piles of loose boards can be assembled into a crate using a hammer and handful of nails. These crates can then be opened for loot:
- Snakepit Mine - mining supplies
- Butterfield Ranch - ranching supplies
- Stearns Ranch - ranching supplies
- Danny's Tannery - two crates may be assembled (one in the tannery and one in the shed), with a custom selection of items.