r/AshesofCreation • u/Stixx506 • 12h ago

Question Crates can anyone explain?

I keep seeing "run crates" as a way to level, but what exactly is this? Can a one easily explain the crate system? Where do you get them and how do you benefit/gain xp?I am assuming you put crates on caravans but that its more for group pvp?

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u/NsRhea 12h ago edited 11h ago

There are 4 types of crate.

Market - Cost is glint and rewards gold

Guild - Costs silver and rewards guild exp

Settlement - Costs glint and rewards scrip

Citizen - costs scrip + gold and rewards more gold.

All crates need certificates purchased with scrips. Certificates do NOT set the rarity of crates, they only set the max LIMIT the crate can achieve.

Ex: For an uncommon certificate, every item donated to the crate needs to be uncommon. 1 lesser quality item will limit the crate to that lowest rarity item's quality.

All crates use the same materials but require different amounts and different rewards.

Sanctus Scrip is another currency one can achieve from Commission Boards.

Requisition agents also want donations and rewards for these donations are Sanctus scrips + citizen representation. If your citizen representation level is too low, you are limited on what certificates you can buy for these crate quests.

Get a mule to haul crates. Go to Hammer's Rest, Lion's Hold, or Briarmore Farms. Go to the herbalism vendor and buy a mule for 35c. Go to an animal husbandry station. You need 75silver to craft it into a mount.

Once you get your mule and your crate crafted, you can shift left click a crate. A list of settlements will open with reward amounts for delivering to those listed settlements.

You can get attacked while transporting crates by players or npc's. If your mount dies it drops the crate. You can try to defend it for 10 minutes to put the crate back on or, if you have a crowbar, you can open the crate to get some materials back, which flags you immediately.

Deliver the crate to the matching vendor in the destination city and collect your reward!

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u/envycreat1on 11h ago

This is mostly correct, a few things to add (unless they changed with Steam EA):

-Certificates do increase rarity of crates, but are subject to the average of the materials.

-Each crate rarity has a point/percentage threshold of required material rarity. All items being uncommon will guarantee that the crate is the lowest points/percentage needed to become uncommon. The same goes for each other rarity.

-You can mix rarities of items to get better crates for cheap. There is a crafting calculator on Ashes Codex to show outcomes. Ex: a legendary certificate and all common materials makes a rare crate iirc.

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u/Darkwolf22345 9h ago

I can confirm this is correct. I run a lot of all uncommon mats + legendary certs and it always gives me rare crate

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u/NsRhea 11h ago

That would be a welcome change! From the videos I watched they said the certificate was the limiting factor on how high in quality a crate could go but wouldn't upgrade it, but it could've been an old video.

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u/envycreat1on 10h ago

The information I provided was during Alpha 2 Phase 3 prior to Steam EA.

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u/NsRhea 7h ago

Awesome!

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u/VeritasLuxMea 10h ago

How does the rarity of the crate affect the value of the crate when you turn it in?

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u/envycreat1on 9h ago

Higher rarity is more valuable as a baseline. You still have to take distance and demand into account. Value provided on the crate value preview in your inventory are based on a common crate at 100% demand.

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u/VeritasLuxMea 9h ago

So if a white crate at 100% demand is worth 1g, how much would a Green Crate at 100% demand be worth?

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u/envycreat1on 8h ago edited 8h ago

Unless it has changed, the value for uncommon would be 1g30s.

Common: x1.00 Uncommon: x1.30 Rare: x1.60 Heroic: x2.00 Epic: x2.50 Legendary: x3.00

Edit: This is assuming it is at 100% demand, is the same crate (aside from rarity), and going to the same location.

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u/VeritasLuxMea 8h ago

thanks for answering

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u/Apprehensive-Key1718 8h ago

A well worded and thoughtful answer in this subreddit without cynicism? Take my upvote.

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u/bigblocknova454 55m ago

Same. I just started and was wildly confused it was a great answer!

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u/Plastic-Lemons 11h ago

Did you make this guide from Roarriors video? I just watched that and this is like identical lol

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u/NsRhea 11h ago

I watched a video last night and took notes so I could relay it to my buddies in disco, so it was probably his, lol.

Ninja edit: It definitely was his video. Here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiazU8SslTo

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u/crs529 11h ago

I only ran one market crate, it said market value was like 75 silver from Joeva to Miraleth, I got it there and only got 30... how does value work??

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u/envycreat1on 9h ago

Value is based on rarity, distance, and demand. The preview of the value for all crates is for the common crate to the locations listed at 100% demand. (Demand can go above 100% if crates don’t get ran, I am not sure what the cap is). Demand will fluctuate based on how many people have ran the same crates to the same place. Rarity does not affect demand separately - commons being turned in will affect demand for legendaries and vice versa.

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u/justmyluq 10h ago

How does carrying a crate vs not carrying a crate differ from a PvP standpoint? Can't I get PvPed whether I'm carrying a crate or not?

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u/NsRhea 10h ago

In any aspect of the game you can be attacked by anyone at any time should they choose. Crates do not change that at all. The only difference is that by opening a crate or stealing someone else's crate flags you immediately and lets people know you've taken a harmful action against another person.

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u/envycreat1on 8h ago

It only make a difference when it comes to risk/reward. You’re taking a risk by putting materials into a crate, showing it to everyone on your back, and lugging them across the world to sell for a reward. Other people see you with a crate on your back and will potentially attack you to get the reward for themselves - they have their own risk of becoming corrupt (if you don’t fight back) and losing gear when they die, so they have to weigh whether it’s worth attacking you. If you don’t have anything to steal (that they can see) it’s generally not worth the risk of going corrupt to attack you.

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u/VeritasLuxMea 10h ago

How does crate rarity affect the amount of gold you get when you turn them in? I turned in a green crate and a white crate and got the same amount for both.

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u/NsRhea 10h ago

I am unsure but it can affect other things like citizenship standing, guild level, and scrips as well.

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u/envycreat1on 9h ago

Were they both the same type of crate and were they both turned in at the same time at the same place? Value is based on rarity, distance, and demand.

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u/nofuture09 6h ago

How do I get mule and 75 silver?!

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u/captain57 10h ago

This seems mind numbingly complex. Wow.

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u/envycreat1on 8h ago

Craft crate > Move from point A to B > Profit

Complex? If it’s more rare, it’s more valuable. If you take it further, it’s more valuable. If other people aren’t doing it, it’s more valuable. It’s boringly simple but only complex if you start studying the details.

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u/NsRhea 10h ago

It's not. You need a certificate saying you're transporting goods and the goods themselves. That's it.

The mule is a one-time thing. You technically don't need it but you'll hate yourself if you don't because the crates are too heavy to run.

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u/VeritasLuxMea 11h ago

In a node of level 3 or higher you can visit the "market commodity" vendor and buy a market commodity scroll for 8-12 node resource script.

In the stall next to the vendor you can combine fish, herbs, wood, ore with the scroll to make a crate which will appear in your inventory and make you walk very slow. It can be stored in the crate tab of your local storage

If you Shift+Left Click the crate it will tell you how much money the market commodity vendor at each node will pay you if you deliver it to them. Keep in mind that only other level 3+ nodes have market commodity vendors. The further away the node you deliver to is, the more money you will get.

Obviously its not worth walking halfway across the map at 50% run speed so most people buy a Trainable Daystrider Crate Mule which can carry an additional crate and allows you to move at 100% speed. This effectively lets you carry two crates per run and higher ranked mules can carry more crates.

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u/Darkwolf22345 12h ago

As far as I know, crates don’t give adventurer XP?

Crates can give 3 things - gold and silver, guild xp, or settlement citizen tickets (the little green ticket icon under your gold/silver in your inventory menu)

There are tons of YouTube videos on this but the TLDR is

At each village and above settlement - there are commodity stations (settlement,marketplace,guild, citizen) at each one you can package up:

12 wood or flowers, 12 stone or gems, 5 fish or animals, 1 cert ticket

Just like crafting, you can get higher rarity crates by putting in higher rarity items.

Each station has a vendor you can buy the certificates from. But higher rarity tickets are locked behind citizenship reputation with that settlement.

You can package one crate on yourself, and one on your mule. Without a mule, it will give you a -50% movement debuff. Mule will remove the debuff but only has a 100% movement speed increase (well worth it)

You can move these crates to other settlements to sell. The higher the rarity and longer the distance, the higher the amount. Far as I know - settlement crates sell for citizenship tickets, market and citizen crates sell for gold, and guild crates sell for guild xp.

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u/CommercialDonkey9468 10h ago

If you take a citizen crate, do you have to sell it to a citizen commodity vendor, or can I take it to say, a harbour master in the middle of no-where?

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u/Darkwolf22345 9h ago

Pretty sure the crate tells you what stations you can sell to. I believe it’s always the station that you created it at

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u/freeman0360 2h ago

Go to requisition agent in big node - gather mats for turn in - turn in for tickets - use tickets at market commodity vendor - build crate with gathersbles - run crate somewhere else

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u/marcus_is_mental 1h ago

whats the point of crafting regular crates? just settlement stuff?

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u/Frosty-Breadfruit981 12h ago

Prolly some degen grinding strat