Item Shop
General#
Between the map vote and the round, the Item Shop opens for fifteen seconds. Whatever you buy is in your hands when you spawn. The Gunsmith NPC in the lobby opens the same menu in view-only mode if you want to plan ahead.
The Slot Rule#
You do not buy an inventory, you buy slots:
Buying more of something you already bought merges into the same slot as long as it stacks. Three slots can be a full stack of bandages, a Katana and a Gas Mask. Three slots cannot be three bandages, a knife and a tablet as separate purchases.
This makes stackable items dramatically more efficient than one-off buys, and it is why most experienced loadouts are one consumable stack plus one or two key items.
Everything is refundable at full price until the round starts. Click a purchased slot to sell that one item back, or use Clear Slots to refund the lot.
Prices#
Medical and Utility#
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Radiation Tablet | 50 |
| Bandage | 100 |
| Scanner | 100 |
| Gas Mask | 200 |
Weapons#
| Item | Price | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Nail Bat | 50 | |
| Kitchen Knife | 100 | |
| Desert Eagle | 100 | Gold |
| M4 Carbine | 200 | Platinum |
| Katana | 500 |
Materials#
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Thread | 20 |
| Bread | 25 |
| Gunpowder | 40 |
| Cloth | 50 |
| Stick | 50 |
| Scrap Metal | 60 |
| Alcohol | 60 |
Gun Bases#
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Glock-19 Base | 60 |
| S1897 Base | 120 |
| UMP-9 Base | 180 |
| Scar-L Base | 240 |
| Remington 700 Base | 300 |
Every base still needs 3 Scrap Metal and a trip to the crafting menu to become a gun. A Remington 700 Base plus the scrap runs to 480 gold, which is the cheapest guaranteed route to the hardest-hitting weapon in the game.
What to Buy#
The Gas Mask is the strongest single purchase in the shop: at 200 gold it makes zombie melee do nothing at all to you and blocks acid and gas outright. Nothing else in the list changes a round as much.
After that it is a question of what the map is short of. Bandages and tablets stack, so they use one slot no matter how many you take. Scrap Metal is the most contested crafting material and buying a stack of it opens up armor, ammunition and grenades in the first minute rather than the fifth.
The Katana at 500 is the most expensive item on the board and is generally worse value than a base plus scrap.
Keeping It#
Finish the round alive as a human and your entire loadout carries into the next round for free. You keep buying on top of it, which is how veteran survivors end up spawning fully kitted.
Die or turn at any point and it is gone. Being picked as one of the starting infected does not cost you your purchases, they are held for you.