Crate

### Overview

Crates are a loot type the player can find when killing an enemy, boss, or spawner. The loot of the crate depends on it’s color. It can be one of the following: weapon, artifact, data chip, or refined minerals. At the moment there are 5 different kinds of crates player can find. Four of them have colored auras to distinguish between them.

### List of the crates

* Normal Crate  (Quantity drop: 1)

These crates may drop from anything you've killed, even from players in PvP matches. They are mostly found in Antor systems. Collecting such crates will bring some refined materials to your resources storage. Not seen to be farmed purposely, but still can be helpful to players who just started the game.

* Golden Crate  (Quantity drop: 1-10)

Golden crates are the main source of resources at midgame and endgame stages. It's possible to find any kind of refined resource type (   ), but not flux. The amount of resources scale with enemy's difficulty, which means gold crates dropped from Bionic Queen contain more resources than the ones dropped from Hattur. Golden crates can be found when specific enemies die, primarily bosses and mini-bosses but certain enemies are capable of dropping gold crates. Executor and Nezerian Regius Exterminatore drops golden crates with highest resources quantity. When playing in Clan Instance, "-20% loot" penalty applies toward amount of crates only, but not the amount of resources inside them.

* Light Blue Crate  (Quantity drop: 1-3)

Light Blue Crates contain various data chips inside them (  ). Usually light blue crates found in Antor systems contain Simple and Medium Data Chips, while most crates in Gellan systems contain Medium and Advanced Data Chips. Unlike any other crate type, these ones cannot be collected if the player's Cargo is full. The main sources of light blue crates are bosses, mini-bosses, and Dread Moths in Cynapsian system (drop Medium Data Chips only). The amount of Light Blue Crates is affected by Clan Instance loot penalty.

* Red Crate  (Quantity drop: 1-3)

Red Crates contain a weapon inside them (See the Table below). When picked, a new weapon adds to the ship the player currently used. Red Crates can be collected whether your ship has that weapon already or not. The main source of Red Crates are enemies, mini-bosses, and bosses. The weapon drop isn't always a weapon that is being used by killed enemy. For example - The Cleaner boss can't drop Skeletor Lighting, although it uses that weapon. The amount of Red Crates is affected by Clan Instance loot penalty.

* Purple Crate  (Quantity drop: 1-15)

Purple Crates contain a random artifact inside themselves. They can be found upon killing any enemy. Bosses and Mini Bosses guaranteed to drop Purple Crates. The amount of Purple Crates depends if enemy has Aura or not. Different auras add different additional Purple Crates to the total amount.

 Green
 Gold

Unlike regular enemies, enemies with an aura always drop Purple Crates. The amount of Purple Crates is not affected by Clan Instance loot penalty (more tests needed)

### Trivia

1. Advectorian drops most Red Crates per kill, with average value = 2.7 Red Crates/Kill (Based on 10 kills in PVE mode)
2. He's also the only boss in the game who can drop same weapons at one time.
3. Executor has the largest amount of various weapon drops among bosses. You can get 3 different weapons from it.
4. The max amount of Purple Crates you can get from one enemy is 25 (Golden Fanatic Tank)
5. Mother Brain drops more golden crates than any other boss. Up to 10 golden crates can be found from a single kill.

### Bugs and Issues

1. Sometimes a bug happens, when new weapon is collected. It leads to artifacts being effectively removed from your setup. You can warp to another system, die, land, or reload the game to fix this.
2. Sometimes enemies drop Purple Crates without aura, making them look similar to Normal Crates. To fix this visual bug, you should move far enough away from the crate so it is offscreen, and then come back to it.