Deadly Days: Roadtrip Item Packs: Unlocks and Contents

How to Unlock Item Packs

Your next backpack combo starts back at camp. Deadly Days: Roadtrip item packs unlock additional gear for future runs, giving you more ways to connect weapons, passive bonuses, and triggered effects. Spend resources such as duct tape at the base workbench to open up those options.

At camp, follow these steps:

1. Open the workbench’s permanent unlock menu.
2. Select an item pack and read its requirements, cost, and contents.
3. Spend the required resources once you meet its conditions.
4. Look through the unlock popup to see which items you have added.

The base progression menu also includes facilities such as the merchant and item workbench. Read each entry before spending your duct tape so you can distinguish a pack of new equipment from a facility unlock.

Use the requirements displayed in version 1.0 when planning purchases. The October 29, 2026 update gave packs names and adjusted their unlock requirements and costs.

Expedition Kit Contents

The Expedition Kit contains six items:

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• War drum
• Magnet
• Battery
• Machete
• Katana
• Gem of mirroring

This pack brings together melee weapons and supporting equipment. The Machete performs a small sweeping melee attack, while the Katana received a damage increase across its rarities in version 1.0.

If you want to experiment with melee weapons, inspect this pack’s requirements at the workbench. Once its gear becomes available, read each item’s marked spaces and compatibility before rebuilding your inventory around it.

Backpack placement matters as much as finding another weapon. Supporting items affect particular spaces, so arrange compatible equipment inside those selectors and check that the synergy link activates. Leave room around a weapon for the effects you want to stack onto it.

Getting Duct Tape for More Unlocks

Duct tape funds workbench progression, and the base also lets you exchange apples for it. Apples have another use: permanent stat upgrades, including maximum health and attack speed.

Before exchanging apples, compare the next pack’s cost with the stat upgrades you could purchase. If you are struggling to survive long enough to collect useful loot, consider investing in those permanent upgrades before expanding your equipment choices.

Version 1.0 changed several relevant rewards:

• Some achievements award apples or duct tape at the base.
• Bosses drop +1 duct tape from MKing response level 3 and +2 from level 5.
• The HQ end boss’s base duct tape drop decreased from 5 to 3.
• Reaper drops 1 duct tape.

Check achievement rewards while planning your next unlock. When deciding whether to push farther into a run, weigh the extra loot against your ability to reach the bus safely; nighttime threat keeps rising while you remain outside.

Version 1.0 Changes That Matter for New Gear

The full release expanded the combined weapon and item roster to over 110, adding 10 weapons and 16 items. Five of those new weapons are available only through crafting.

Pack unlocks, crafting, and backpack arrangement all contribute to your equipment options. At the item workbench, the recipe list now prioritizes what you can craft and displays ingredient quantities and rarities. Check that list before selling equipment you could use in a recipe.

Several new items reward careful placement:

Item	Effect	Placement detail
Hammer	Upgrades marked items by one rarity at the end of the day	Upgrades cannot exceed the Hammer’s own rarity
Hand Mirror	Copies effects that hit a marked item onto the marked item opposite it	Arrange both marked targets to receive the copied effect
Cogwheel	Triggers other marked triggerable items when one activates	Each item can trigger only once per chain
Tesla Coil	Fires a projectile every 3 seconds that can electrocute	Additional bounces for marked lightning items require an even number of marked electric items

Check selectors again after merging or rearranging equipment. Version 1.0’s Auto Equip considers synergies when choosing an open position, but inspect the resulting layout before committing to your next stop.

In co-op, selectors can also mark equipment in the other player’s backpack. Coordinate both layouts when placing support items, especially when the backpack grids touch.

Item Packs and the Supporter Pack

Workbench item packs belong to the game’s progression system. The separately sold Supporter Pack includes a flagpole for your base and two dog companions that can accompany you on runs.

For new equipment options, spend your attention on the base workbench’s unlock menu. For the companion and base extras, visit the Deadly Days: Roadtrip Supporter Pack on Steam.