Supply Crate
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- "We worried about the crate cliché a lot during development. Finally we gave up, and one of the first things you see when you start the game is a crate. We figured that this was the Old Man Murray equivalent of throwing yourself to the mercy of the court."
- ― Gabe Newell[src]
Originally manufactured and used by the Combine, Supply Crates are storage units exploited in great numbers by the Resistance to hold and provide health, ammunition, and energy provisions.
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Overview[edit]
Supply crates visually differ from normal wooden crates by their much smaller size and the word "supply" with a bar code in a yellow square printed on them. Much like other objects, crates can be picked up and destroyed by the Gravity Gun or the Crowbar in one hit, regardless of the difficulty setting. What is found in the crate depends on the player's status, for example, if the player's health is low, the supply crate will usually provide a medkit. If the player's status doesn't require any specific items, a random piece of ammo used by a weapon that the player has will be inside the crate.
After leaving Station 21 in Episode Two, the supply crates encountered are equipped with Transponders, allowing Gordon and Alyx to find them easier with the radar mounted on their Muscle Car.
The supply crate also has a variant called the "infinite ammo crate", which are olive-green metal trunks that contain infinite ammo of one type. They cannot be moved or destroyed and will resupply every time they are opened or hit with a crowbar. RPG infinite ammo crates often hint at an important battle to come, most of the time involving one or more Combine Gunships or Striders. Standard wooden crates are generally located near a Lambda logo, while infinite ammo crates are placed in Combine or Resistance-controlled areas.
During Half-Life: Alyx, the Combine uses an early kind of supply crate, with the wooden box being flatter and more rectangular in shape and the contents inside protected by a layer of styrofoam pieces. The supply crates in Alyx contain ammunition or a single Health Pen.
Related Achievements[edit]
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Lambda Locator (15G) |
| Find all lambda caches. | |
| Half-Life 2: Episode Two | |
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Cache Checker (10G) |
| Find every radar cache in chapter Under The Radar. | |
| Half-Life: Alyx | |
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Smash and Grab |
| Break open a supply crate with your hands. | |
Behind the scenes[edit]
Some texture files show that the Half-Life 2 infinite ammo crates were also to provide ammo for the .357 Magnum and the crossbow. They can still be added with Hammer but will display the "ERROR" model because the crate models are missing.
The Alyx model is based on a 5.45×39mm cartridges ammo crate, introduced with the Soviet AK-74 assault rifle.
Gallery[edit]
Half-Life 2 and Episodes[edit]
Models[edit]
Standard supply crate model from Half-Life 2.
Ditto, with attached Transponder from Episode Two.
Infinite ammo crate for the AR2.
Ditto, for the AR2 Energy Ball.
Ditto, for the Grenade.
Ditto, for the 9mm Pistol.
Ditto, for the RPG.
Ditto, for the SPAS-12.
Ditto, for the Submachine Gun.
Ditto, for the Submachine Gun's grenade.
Screenshots[edit]
An infinite RPG supply crate.
Ditto.
Ditto, near Nova Prospekt.
Ditto, in City 17 streets.
Ditto, near Bridge Point.
An infinite and two supply crates in an armory in Overwatch Nexus.
A Supply Crate near an abandoned house.
Supply Crates near the railway.
Ditto.
A bunch of Supply Crates stacked together.
Supply crates in Matt's home.
Supply Crates inside a container.
Ditto.
A Rebel throwing supply crates for Gordon.
Supply Crates at a Resistance point.
Supply crates in the Singing Vortigaunt's cave.
Supply Crates in a small hut.
Supply Crates in a room.
A Supply Crate in a nearly destroyed housing.
A nearly destroyed bedroom with some Supply Crates.
Supply crates near a fallen Citizen.
Supply Crates on a dock.
Supply Crates near the Combine Bunkers.
Supply crates in a Combine Bunker near Nova Prospekt.
Supply Crates in front of the prison door.
A Crossbow on a Supply Crate.
An Health Charger and some Supply Crates in the command room.
Supply Crates in one of the prisoner cells.
A Rebel throwing down a Supply Crate from a Combine Watchtower.
Stacked Supply Crates in the underground section.
Some supplies found on a cliff.
Supply Crates on the scaffoldings.
Supply Crates inside the monastery.
An infinite supply crate for the RPG.
One of the rebel supply caches in the Outlands, featuring crates with transponders attached.
Half-Life: Alyx[edit]
Standard supply crate model from Alyx.
A Supply Crate in the Metro Area.
Ditto, another location.
Near a dead Zombie inside a train.
Ditto, another one.
In the Drainage Tunnels.
Near a dead Zombie.
Near a Combine Shield in Fairview Junction.
In the Terminal Gardens.
In the Northern Star hotel, just above a Tripmine.
In the Holden Company Processing Plant.
Ditto, on a lift near a Combine Heavy Door.
Ditto, on a shelf.
In the Golden Lion Distillery.
In the Central Zoo.
At the Tanker Yard.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
In the Parking Garage.
Ditto.
List of appearances[edit]
Main games[edit]
- Half-Life 2 (First appearance)
- Half-Life 2: Episode One
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two
- Half-Life: Alyx
Other[edit]
- Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
- Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (Non-canonical appearance)
- ApertureScience.com (Not before Christmas 2007)
- Source Particle Benchmark (Game files only) (Non-canonical appearance)
