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***Not to be confused with Military Air Drop.***
The **Air Drop** was added in the v0.5.0 "*Air drop it like it's hot*" update on July 26, 2018, as a game mechanic in surviv.io that allows random drops of Meteor Crates from the air. It is dropped by the Airplane. You can summon an Air drop with a Flare Gun.

## Info

The Air Drop is a mechanic that was added in the 0.5.0 "Air drop it like it's hot" update on July 26, 2018. Every once in a while, you will find an Airplane flying overhead which will make the air drop along its flight path. When in the air, you can only see the parachute and when it lands to the ground, the parachute disappears, smoke comes out for a short while before revealing the meteor crate. Once on the ground, an orange parachute icon appears on the screen pointing in the direction where the air drop landed, visible to all players, hence making players attack each other over it. When the air drop is landed, the icon disappears. Shooting a Flare Gun will summon an air drop and will land on the spot where you shot the gun from. It usually contains rare and exclusive loot, and to compensate for that it is one of the toughest crates in the game due to the armor surrounding it. Be careful when going to loot an airdrop as it transforms into a war zone quickly.

## Air Drop Ping

When there is an airdrop on the map, this ping will briefly show where the airdrop will land. It cannot be seen on the ground but it is visible on the Minimap and as an off-screen ping arrow. It is visible on everyone's map and every survivr gets a signal.

## Military Air Drop

The Military Air Drop is a special type of Air Drop, found in 50v50, which is basically an extra large Air Drop to accommodate the large number of players on each team. Each leader gets a Flare Gun with one Flare Ammo, shoots it, and then the plane drops an oversized air drop onto the ground. Once it drops, it can be indicated of its value by whether the spikes are silver or gold. It takes many hits to destroy it since it is huge, but the large number of players crowded around it means it shouldn’t take that long. It can contain all sorts of guns, throwables, melee weapons, and equipment, but (unlike regular ones) can't contain Flare Guns.

## Tips

* Unless you have good Equipment, it's best to stay away from air drops, as they typically attract many players, turning the area into a deadly war zone very quickly.
* Just because a weapon is from an Air Drop, it may not be better than the player's current weapons. The player should consider other factors, such as how many players are remaining, the player's current situation, the Red Zone movement, and more when taking a weapon.
* Follow the Airplane. The direction it's facing is where the air drop will land.
* Standing under an air drop before it has hit the ground will kill you or knock you out, no matter how much armor you have. Smoke will appear when the air drop has landed.
* If you have low-tier equipment, hide in a Bush or under a Tree and wait for stronger players to weaken each other fighting over the air drop before trying to collect resources from it.
* Remember, when an air drop occurs, all players get a notification. It is imperative that you leave quickly after collecting the loot from the air drop to avoid additional combatants.
* The outer casing of an air drop can block oncoming bullets, but keep in mind that Frag Grenades can still affect you, as they deal splash damage and can be thrown over an air drop.
* When an air drop notification comes in, open the full map to get a sense of how far it is in order to see if it is worth pursuing
* Even in single player, you can use a multiplayer location indicator on your map to make note of where an airdrop is, as the air drop notification expires quickly.
* 50v50 Airdrops usually have lots more attention than normal ones. If you're lucky, you might have it to yourself, but that's not usually the case, so expect a lot of company when you find one (and it's not usually friendly!)
* A popular strategy for quickly and effeciently cracking open an Air Drop is to toss a Grenade onto the Meteor Crate as it unlocks. The grenade explodes very soon after it is unlocked. Doing this forces you to back away from the Air Drop, but keeps you free to shoot and move as the Meteor Crate unlocks and the grenade explodes, something that can't be done simultaneously by going up and punching the Meteor Crate.
	+ Frag Grenades are preferred, as the secondary explosions of MIRV Grenades scatter the Air Drop contents.
* If you have sufficient loot, toss Mines onto the air drop to bait unsuspecting players into unlocking the air drop and dying/getting damaged.
* If a teammate is afk, but hasn’t left the game, it is possible to shoot a flare and the air drop will knock down the teammate.

## Planes

The Air Drop is dropped by a plane. The plane used to be re-textured to be a sleigh pulled by reindeer on the Snow Map as a reference to Santa Claus.

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## Parachutes

The parachute of the Air Drop is added after it is "dropped" from the plane. It is just an image that is projected to shrink in size and once a certain size is reached, the sprite vanishes in favor of the smoke when landing.

The parachute of an Air DropThe parachute of an Air Drop on the Snow Map
## Trivia

* If someone stands beneath the air drop when it lands, it will deal 100 armor piercing damage to them, which is enough to kill any survivr regardless of gear.
	+ In team modes, the survivr will be knocked out instead of fully killed (unless they were already knocked out), per usual.
	+ Flak Jacket and Cast Ironskin do reduce damage from air drops, meaning it is possible to survive an air drop, with it dealing 90 and 50 damage respectively. The only other way to survive an air drop is through the use of a Growler.
	+ If an air drop lands on you, it will push you off to the side. If you are killed by the air drop, your death marker gets pushed off to the side.
* Any obstacles that are under the air drop when it lands get destroyed.
	+ If you shoot 2 flares at in the same place, one of the air drops will be dropped to the side.
	+ If you shoot a flare too close to a structure that can't be destroyed, the air drop will also go to the side. The same thing applies to if it is fired inside a structure, such as on the border between the Bank and it's vault (which was a glitch that has been patched).
* Air Drops are indestructible, but when destroyed turn into their specific inner crate. However, they also have an attribute that they are destroyed when they are used, allowing them to be opened.
* According to the Christmas Air Drop skin Tallow's Little Helper, it indicates that Dr. Chandler Tallow from the game's lore controls the airdrops.
* You will have a very rare chance to get an M9 in Golden Meteor Crates.
	+ The surviv.io Developers are known to put the M9 in rare crates such as the Hatchet Case.
* Sometimes, in the Woods Map, Air Drops will not contain a weapon, but instead have throwables as their main drop.
* Air Drops are basically just the outer shell of the actual Meteor Crate.
* Sometimes, as a bug, the Airdrop can land even before the airplane comes.
* Opening the outer shell of the Airdrop with the Scavenger and Master Scavenger Perk will drop an item.
* In the Snow Map, the airplane and air drop used to be reskinned but was changed in v0.9.0 “*Stay frosty*” update on January 13, 2020.
* If an Air Drop plane is flying across the map when the game ends, the Air Drop will drop but when it lands, it will not make a dust cloud and will keep its "falling" look.

## Gallery

8 air drops on the [[Desert Map]Even more air dropsRecent air drop with slight explosive damage. This is caused when an air drop lands on a barrel.The smoke of an Air Drop