Metal Crate

Metal Crates are a form of crate within Micro Tanks. It is the most common type of blocker in the game, and serves fundamentally as the game's "wall".

## Properties

Bullets ricochet off metal crates when they hit it. If the bullet has exceeded its ricochet limit, the bullet will be destroyed when it hits it. Metal crates also stop other forms of ammunition, such as machine gun bullets. Explosive rockets will explode on contact with metal crates.

These crates are totally indestructible, resistant to all sorts of blast and explosion. However, airborne attacks such as gas clouds can float over metal crates. Flighted enemies such as the [[Drone]] and the [[Rainbow Tank]] can also fly over metal crates. Notably, explosions are not occluded by metal crates, and will still harm entities on the other side of a metal crate wall to the source of the explosion.

There is only one instance in the entire game of metal crates being destroyed. In Mission Spectra, during the fifth phase, the lower two sets of metal crates spontaneously explode, destroying them immediately. The explosion is purely cosmetic, and can't actually kill the player. This is done to increase the difficulty of the final part of the final boss, creating a more open arena.

There also exists the [[Fake Metal Crate]], which is identical to the metal crate in appearance, but the player can actually drive under them, revealing secret areas.

### Sandbagged Metal Crates

In some missions, metal crates are "sandbagged". This is where a sandbag is embedded within walls created by metal crates. With this set-up, the wall allows bullets to ricochet, but blocks explosions from reaching the other side. This is usually used to stop the player easily blowing up stationary tanks on the other side of the wall (as in Mission 67), or from using mines to blow up all tanks to avoid direct confrontation (as in Mission 62).

## Appearances

Metal crates are almost ubiquitous throughout the game, appearing in most missions. They appear in the following missions:

* Mission 1
* Mission 2
* Mission 3
* Mission 4
* Mission 5
* Mission 6
* Mission 7
* Mission 8
* Mission 9
* Mission 10
* Mission 11
* Mission 12
* Mission 13
* Mission 14
* Mission 15
* Mission 16
* Mission 17
* Mission 18
* Mission 19
* Mission 20
* Mission 22
* Mission 23
* Mission 24
* Mission 25
* Mission Royale
* Mission 26
* Mission 28
* Mission 29
* Mission 30
* Mission 31
* Mission 32
* Mission 34
* Mission 36
* Mission 43
* Mission 44
* Mission 45
* Mission 46
* Mission 47
* Mission 48
* Mission 49
* Mission 50
* Mission Fumos
* Mission 51
* Mission 53
* Mission 55
* Mission 57
* Mission 58
* Mission 59
* Mission 60
* Mission 61
* Mission 62
* Mission 63
* Mission 64
* Mission 65
* Mission 66
* Mission 67
* Mission 68
* Mission 69
* Mission 70
* Mission 71
* Mission 72
* Mission 73
* Mission 74
* Mission 75
* Mission 76
* Mission 77
* Mission 80
* Mission 82
* Mission 83
* Mission 84
* Mission 85
* Mission 88
* Mission 89
* Mission 91
* Mission 93
* Mission 94
* Mission 96
* Mission 97
* Mission 98
* Mission 99
* Mission Spectra
* Secret Mission 1
* Secret Mission 20
* Secret Mission 29
* Secret Mission 42
* Secret Mission 59
* Secret Mission 67
* Secret Mission 72
* Secret Mission 93

## Trivia

* Mission 21 is the first mission of the Main Campaign to not feature any metal crates.
* There are 21 normal missions, 2 secret missions, and 1 boss mission that do not feature metal crates. This is a total of 24 missions out of 113. This means 79% of all missions of the main campaign feature metal crates.
* Metal crates appear in every mission in the 60s.
* The longest stretch of levels without metal crates is the 6 missions between 37 and 42 inclusive. This is because these missions heavily feature sandbags and explosive crates instead.