Crates & items
A walk worth taking.
Crates appear on the map where you are, on real footpaths inside real parks, never on private land, never at a random coordinate. Five things come out of every one, at least two of them stickers and two of them point caches. The further you walk to it, the better its odds.
How it works
Same crates all day.
- Open the app, see today's crates. They are placed for the day on real paths, and everyone nearby sees the same ones. Closing and reopening the app does not reroll them.
- Pick one and walk. Each crate says its tier and which sticker packs it can hold before you set off. Distance decides the tier: the crate at the end of the road is usually wooden; the one two kilometres away has a real shot at gold.
- Open it there. Five slots: at least two stickers and two point caches, and sometimes extra scans. Pro crates have ten slots, eight stickers and two caches, drawn from a deeper pool. Free members open three to five crates a day, more as they play, and the rest wait with a padlock.
- Keep what came out. New stickers go in the book, duplicates go to your spares for trading, scans are added on the spot, and a cache goes straight on your score.
Crates sit on paths, inside public greenspace.
Tiers
Distance shifts the odds.
The tier is decided when the crate is placed, from how far away it is, and the odds are the same for everyone. Past two kilometres a crate also gains extra slots. The tier is the reward for the walk.
A cache is a lump of points. Every crate carries two, and the tier rolls for a third. Better tiers pay bigger caches, and a diamond cache can be worth half a very rare species.
| Distance | Gold or better | Diamond |
|---|---|---|
| Under 600 m | 12% | 0.5% |
| 600 m to 2 km | 25% | 2% |
| 2 km and over | 40% | 8% |
| Crate | Extra cache chance | Cache size |
|---|---|---|
 Crate |
50% |  25 or 75 pts |
 Gold crate |
65% |  75 or 200 pts |
 Diamond crate |
80% |  200 or 500 pts |
Scans
Extra scans, found on the way.
A free crate sometimes carries extra scans, added the moment you open it. Nothing in a crate upgrades a rarity, forces an identification, or banks a find you did not photograph.
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Five scans
Five more scans, added the moment you open the crate.
79% of scan drops
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Twenty scans
Twenty more scans, added the moment you open the crate.
21% of scan drops
The promise
Crates are never sold.
Not as spawns, not as keys, not with the odds printed on the side. Nothing purchasable places a crate, re-rolls a tier or opens one remotely, and you still have to walk to every one. Pro lets you open more of the crates everyone can see and fills each with ten slots; the odds inside are the same for everybody. Anything money buys in Biotadex is priced in money, with no coins in between.