Crates

What Are Crates?

A crate is a loot box. Each crate has a list of possible rewards. When you open it, the crate spins (a fun animation) and lands on one reward. Some rewards are common (small money), some are extremely rare (huge jackpots, free prestige, exclusive cosmetics).

You need a key that matches the crate type to open it.

How to Get Keys

Type /crate keys any time to see how many keys you have for each crate.

How to Open a Crate

1. Type /crate to open the crate menu.
2. Click Browse to see all available crates.
3. Click a crate you have a key for.
4. The crate opens with an animation and shows your reward.

You can also open by command: /crate open <type> (for example, /crate open vote).

The opening animation

Each open plays a short spin animation - the reward tiles scroll and slow down before landing on your prize. Higher-tier crates have flashier animations and longer suspense. You can skip the animation for bulk opens (see below).

Rewards scale with your rank

Denarius and Auctoritas prizes from the tier-ladder crates multiply by your rank's sell multiplier — the same curve your mined blocks pay (×1.00 at Rank I, up to ×6.94 at Rank C). A "5,000 Denarius" prize is worth 5,000 at Rank I and about 19,700 at Rank L. Civitas, Aureus and item prizes always pay the listed amount, and the store's Roman-line chests use fixed payouts.

Crate Types and Tiers

Crates come in seven tiers, from cheapest to most valuable. Higher tiers have better rewards.

What you can win

To see the exact rewards and odds for any crate, type /crate preview <type> or /crate odds <type>.

Roman-Themed Crates

Alongside the seven progression tiers, Imperium runs a second family of Roman-line crates themed around the military and political ranks. These are earned through events, dungeons, and the store:

Special and Event Crates

A third family of special crates sits outside the tier ladder - they use unique reward tables and their own key sources:

Special crates are often tied to a specific activity (voting, trivia, the starter kit) - if you want more of their keys, you know exactly what to do.

The Pity System (Guaranteed Good Rewards)

Crates are random, but Imperium has a pity system so you never get unlucky forever.

How pity works

• Every time you open a crate and do not get a rare reward, your pity counter goes up.
• After 50 opens without a rare reward, the next open is guaranteed to be rare.
• “Rare” means any reward in the bottom 20% of drop weights - the good stuff.
• Pity is tracked per crate type, so your Vote Crate pity is separate from your Legendary Crate pity.
• Luck multipliers (see below) bend the odds toward rarer rewards while you roll - they change your odds, not your pity count.

So if you open a crate 50 times and keep getting small money, the 51st open will give you something good. You are never fully unlucky.

Luck - Bending the Odds

Crates support luck multipliers: a player holding a luck permission (or luck effect) for a crate has every reward's chance passed through a rarity-bending exponent before the roll - higher luck makes rare outcomes proportionally more likely, while the overall table still sums to 100%. Luck changes your odds, never the pity counter.

Type /crate luck or /crate stats to see your current luck and pity progress per crate type.

Bulk Opening

Do not want to watch the animation 20 times? You can open multiple crates at once.

• In the crate menu, choose how many keys to use at once.
• The rewards stack up and show in a summary at the end.
• Pity still counts each individual open toward your guaranteed-rare threshold.

Bulk opening is perfect when you have saved up a big pile of vote keys.

Rerolling (Try Again for a Better Prize)

The crate engine supports rerolls - PhoenixCrates-style second chances on an open. The mechanics as built:

• After an opening with reroll enabled, you have 15 seconds to run /crate reroll.
• Rerolling costs either another key or a flat Denarius fee (per-crate config; the fee defaults to 100,000).
• You can reroll up to a per-crate maximum (default 3), and the reroll avoids handing back the exact same reward.

LootBoxes (Physical Crates)

Some crates come as physical items in your inventory (a chest or ender chest). These are called LootBoxes.

• Right-click a LootBox in your hand to open it.
• LootBoxes can be traded, sold, or stored.
• Higher-tier LootBoxes appear as Ender Chests; lower tiers as regular chests.

LootBoxes use the same reward tables as their virtual crate counterparts.

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