Supply Crate

Biodata

Appearance and Locations

• Construction: The first crate is crudely assembled from scraps of wood 1.
• Buried locations: Crates appear beneath snow, including just outside Ye Fei’s fence and beneath a snow-covered dead tree 4.
• Elevated locations: Green-quality crates can also be lodged high in dead trees 24 40.
• Snow-covered branches: Eclipse Moon locates a white-quality crate buried in snow accumulated on a dead tree’s branches 82 83.
• Visible marker: Ye Fei sees a small, translucent box-shaped icon marking a crate’s location. The marker disappears when he picks up the crate; a later passage describes the icon as green 1 4.
• Purple-quality appearance: The first purple-quality crate Ye Fei sees is square and the same size as other Supply Crates 195.
• Iceberg pits: Jun Mo reports that crates often spawn inside pits in the thick ice around his home, where retrieving them can leave him unable to climb out 52.
• Caves: Jun Mo discovers an unexplored cave containing numerous white-, green-, and blue-quality crates, as well as three purple-quality crates 308.
• Deserted Island: Crates lie in heaps among withered grass, beneath yellow sand, between reefs, and out in the open. Long Heng attributes their abundance to the island having gone unvisited by players since he left 518.

Spawning and Environmental Changes

• After the Snow Mountain crisis ends, the area outside Ye Fei’s courtyard resets to an appearance resembling its original state. Unlike the mostly buried crates at his arrival, a crate is plainly visible without prompts after the reset 70.
• During the subsequent search in the refreshed area, Ye Fei finds three green-quality crates in a single morning, despite remarking that he had found no more than three in over a month beforehand 76.
• Disasters increase the chance of higher-quality wilderness resources spawning rather than directly upgrading existing Supply Crates from white to green or another grade 195.

Collection and Opening

Finding Crates

• Ye Fei follows visible markers rather than searching blindly. Other players complain about lengthy searches without mentioning markers, leading him to suspect that these prompts are exclusive to him 4.
• His subsequently revealed See Through talent is the ability he suspects enables the prompts 6.
• Qingxue can locate crates independently: she leads Ye Fei uphill to a buried green-quality crate 11.
• A crate location is not necessarily safe. A red warning marker appears beside one crate where a Snow Fox Cub is hiding 4 5.
• Eclipse Moon searches for crates and can also warn Ye Fei of danger near them. During one search, the puppy locates a crate on a tree’s branches, then later refuses to let him approach a snowdrift concealing a trap 82 83.
• Phantom Spirit, the Little Deer, independently digs a green-quality crate out of the snow while Ye Fei is logging nearby. It remembers Qingxue saying that their human needs such items, although it does not know what is inside 103.
• Pet-assisted collection continues later: Eclipse Moon digs crates out of the snow during an outing, and Ye Fei’s companions return from gathering rounds with crates alongside prey and plant seedlings 250 260.

Inventory and Consumption

• Crates can be placed in the Inventory and opened later, or opened immediately where they are found 2 10.
• Unopened supply crates do not stack. Identical items obtained from them can stack after opening 7 11.
• Wooden crates vanish after their contents are released 4.
• Supply-search quests require collecting crates, not handing them in; Ye Fei keeps and opens the collected supplies 4 5.
• Opening a crate can create inventory pressure when it produces several different item types. Ye Fei postpones opening his first green-quality crate for this reason 11.
• A Pet Item Storage Space allows pets to bring Supply Crates home rather than remain beside their finds waiting for Ye Fei. Feng Bai’s beginner storage space contains 100 cubic meters and cannot hold living creatures 147.
• Qingxue and Feng Bai later use this arrangement to bring home Ye Fei’s first purple-quality crate, which Feng Bai takes out of his pet storage space 195.
• During his Deserted Island collection trip, Ye Fei asks Long Heng to receive the items he sends over and store them in the Storage Cabinets at his home 518.

Damage

• Dropping a green-quality crate from a tree damages it. Its description warns that the contents may have been affected, although Ye Fei still receives useful supplies and an Inventory Expansion Ticket 24 25.

Retrieval Hazards

• A green-quality crate spawns above an Unknown Trap beneath a snowdrift. Ye Fei judges the crate and trap to be separate objects because the crate itself displays no additional warning information 83.
• To retrieve it, he loops Hemp Rope around the crate and joins three ten-meter bundles, retreating more than twenty meters before pulling. Moving the crate triggers an explosion and a roughly three-second barrage of poisonous spikes; he protects himself and his three pets with Golden Light Shield 83.
• Ye Fei successfully collects the crate afterward. Its former location contains a circular pit approximately three meters across and five meters deep, with Gray Mist drifting from it 83.
• Other collection trips also require caution: Ye Fei warns Jun Mo about remaining demon insects while searching, and kills venomous creatures hiding among the crates on Deserted Island 303 518.

Variants

Documented Contents

The following are recorded openings, not guaranteed loot combinations.

Across four additional crates collected in one afternoon, Ye Fei also obtains another frozen dressed chicken, two tomato seeds, and three eggs that cannot be hatched; their distribution between individual crates is not specified 8.

• Additional planting supplies: The three green-quality crates collected during the post-reset quest also yield Potato Seeds ×2. The account does not assign these to a specific crate 77.
• Variable food availability: Although bread and water are standard fare in Ye Fei’s early openings, Jun Mo later reports that the crates he has found contain almost nothing related to food 4 13 308.

Quest and Story Role

• Farming: Crate-sourced cabbage and tomato seeds become Ye Fei’s first vegetable patch; the damaged green crate later expands his planting options with grapes and cucumbers 7 8 11 25.
• Expanded cultivation options: Later green-quality crates add licorice, Sichuan pepper, and potatoes to his planting supplies 76 77.
• Continued provisioning: Ye Fei keeps collecting crates alongside hunting and logging, replenishing bread, water, and timber even after his daily quests shift to other objectives 23 25 29 40 41.
• Ongoing quest use: Supply searches remain part of Ye Fei’s routine well beyond the beginner period. He collects three crates during a plant-search outing and later pursues another Supply Crate Random Quest while clearing snow and rubbish with his pets 59 133.
• Pet-supported gathering: With storage available to Feng Bai, the little companions can bring finds home themselves. Ye Fei later sorts their combined haul of crates, prey, and seedlings before opening the crates 147 195 260.