Port Inspection

01. The Freighter Loop

Every Manifest you spend pays out. That is the single most important thing to understand about this event: 24 of the 25 containers pay a common reward and the 25th holds your gift, so an inspection never returns nothing. You are not gambling for the gift — you are buying commons and collecting the gift along the way.

A freighter docks with 25 shipping containers laid out in a pyramid. One Cargo Manifest opens one container. When you find the surprise gift, the freighter is cleared, the board wipes, a new freighter sails in, and your progress counter resets to zero.

The 24 Common Rewards

Twelve items, each holding two of the 24 common slots. This is the guaranteed floor on every Manifest you spend.

Before you pick a gift the board shows you this list as a preview, one item per container, and every inspection is blocked. Pick a gift first or nothing happens when you tap.

02. The Guarantee

Two rules decide when your gift turns up, and the game explains neither one clearly. The first is the draw weight — every container you open is rolled, and the gift is a rare result that gets less rare the deeper you go into a freighter. The second is the guarantee — a hard stop that hands you the gift once you have opened enough containers on that freighter. The second rule is the one that matters, because it turns the event into a fixed price.

Rule 1 — How A Container Is Rolled

The 24 commons are a fixed list, but the container you tap tells you nothing about which one you get. The server decides the contents when the container opens, so there is no layout to read and no order to play. Every common reward still left on the board carries a draw weight of 10. Your surprise gift carries a weight of its own, and it starts at 2 on a fresh freighter. The chance the container holds the gift is the gift's weight against all the weight still on the board.

On your first inspection that is 2 against 24 commons at 10 each — 2 in 242, or roughly 0.8%. By your 13th inspection the gift's weight has climbed to 10 and only 12 commons are left, so it is 10 in 130, or roughly 7.7%. The gift never becomes likely. It becomes guaranteed.

Those two percentages are ours, not the game's. The game shows you the weights and never the odds. Its Probability tab lists the gift at 2 and every common at 10, and the climb to 5, 10 and 20 appears only as a line of prose in the Rules tab. Nothing in the game divides those numbers for you, and the roll itself happens on the server.

Rule 2 — What The Guarantee Is

The guarantee is a pity counter, one per freighter. Open 14 containers on a Common Freighter and you have the gift, however cold the rolls run. On an Ocean Freighter the count is 22. That is why this guide quotes a price instead of odds — the worst case is fixed, and you can budget for it.

Read the guarantee as a price tag, not as a safety net. The weight starts so low that early inspections almost never find the gift, and on a Common Freighter it only reaches 10 — level with a single common — at inspection 13, one before the guarantee fires. In practice most Common Freighters end at the guarantee, not before it.

The Weight Ladder

The gift's weight climbs in four steps as you work through a single freighter, then resets when the freighter changes.

The last rung never applies on a Common Freighter. That board is guaranteed at 14, so it never reaches inspection 19. Weight 20 only exists on an Ocean Freighter, which runs as far as 22.

03. The Ocean Freighter

The Ocean Freighter is sold as a trade-off — double the gift, but the guarantee slides from 14 to 22. Do the division and it is not a trade-off at all. Twenty-two Manifests for a doubled gift is 11 Manifests per unit of gift. Fourteen Manifests for a single gift is 14. Even at its own worst case, the Ocean Freighter is 21% cheaper per unit of reward than a Common Freighter.

🚢 Common Freighter

Blue ship, daylight dock. Standard gift counts. Guaranteed by inspection 14. Worst case: 14 Manifests per gift.

🌊 Ocean Freighter

Gold ship, night dock. Every gift count is exactly doubled. Guaranteed by inspection 22. Worst case: 11 Manifests per gift.

An Ocean Freighter docks whenever your cleared-freighter count is a multiple of five — freighter 5, 10, 15, and so on. Everything about the scene changes: gold hull instead of blue, night instead of day, a different container skin. That visual switch is your only warning that this board will run longer.

The practical consequence is budgeting, not tactics. Every fifth board needs up to eight more Manifests than the four before it. If you are running your balance to zero, run it to zero on a Common Freighter and start the Ocean board with a full stock.

04. The Work Log

The Work Log's daily payout is tuned to an exact target, and the target is five cleared freighters. Claim all four tasks for all three days and you bank 78 Manifests. Clearing freighters 1 through 5 at the worst possible luck costs 14 + 14 + 14 + 14 + 22 — which is 78 exactly. That is not a coincidence.

Those freighter counts are worst-case floors — good luck gets you further on either path. But the free path stalls at three cleared freighters and leaves six Manifests stranded, while the full path lands you exactly on freighter 5, which is an Ocean Freighter paying a doubled gift, and clears the 5-freighter milestone at the same time. One purchase buys two milestones and a double payout.

Refresh And Reissue

• ▸Tasks refresh at 00:00 server time. Three refreshes across a three-day event, so do day one's tasks on day one — you cannot make them up later.
• ▸Unclaimed task rewards are mailed to you. They are reissued at the daily refresh and at event close, so you cannot lose them by forgetting to tap Claim.
• ▸Manifests mailed after the event ends are worthless. The reissue delivers the item, but the only screen that spends it is gone.
• ▸There is no Claim All button. Every task is claimed individually, and claimable tasks sort to the top of the list.

05. The Surprise Gift

Switching your gift is free, unlimited, instant, and has no confirmation prompt. Changing your pick mid-freighter costs nothing and never resets your inspection progress. A stray tap on Confirm alone is harmless — the window opens on the gift you already hold, and Confirm does nothing at all until you have picked something. Tap a different item first, though, and Confirm swaps your gift with nothing asking you if you meant it.

You choose one item from a short list before you inspect anything. That item becomes the 25th container. You can swap it at any point right up until it is found on the current freighter. The only time the button is locked is during the roughly four seconds of ship-change animation between freighters.

Gift Candidates

The list depends on how old your server is, not on how far into the event you are. Newer servers see four options; servers on day 70 or later see five, with every count raised.

Gift	Common	Ocean	Common (Day 70+)	Ocean (Day 70+)
1-Hr Universal Speedup	20	40	25	50
Hero Eqpt. Chest	10	20	12	24
Chief Eqpt. Materials Chest (R)	5	10	7	14
Chief Badge Material Chest (R)	5	10	7	14
Premium Whistle	—	—	3	6

• ▸Building or upgrading anything: 1-Hr Universal Speedup. Twenty hours per Common Freighter, forty per Ocean, is the largest raw number on the list by a wide margin.
• ▸Gearing heroes: Hero Eqpt. Chest. Each one is a random Rare or better piece of hero equipment, with a chance at Legendary.
• ▸Pushing Chief gear or badges: the two random material chests. Lowest counts on the list, so only take these if that track is your actual bottleneck.
• ▸Running Elite K9 training: Premium Whistle, on servers of day 70 or later. Only three per Common Freighter, so this is a narrow pick for accounts deep into K9 work.

06. Auto-Inspect

Auto-Inspect has no spend limit and no low-balance warning. It opens one container every half second until something stops it, and running out of Manifests is one of the things that stops it. A free three-day stockpile of 48 Manifests empties in 24 seconds.

It is still the right way to play. There is no x5 or x10 button anywhere in this event, so manual play is one tap per Manifest. Auto-Inspect is the only way to clear a 14-container freighter without fourteen taps.

Every Way It Stops

• ▸You run out of Manifests. No warning, no toast — it just stops and the Manifest shop opens.
• ▸The freighter clears. Always, on every board.
• ▸You tap anywhere on the page. Any tap inside the board area stops it, and that tap is swallowed rather than opening a container.
• ▸Any window opens. Rewards Preview, Rules, the milestone list — all of them halt it.
• ▸You leave the page. Closing the board ends the run.

07. Cumulative Rewards

The milestone ladder counts freighters cleared, not Manifests spent — and it runs all the way to 100. A full three-day run with every task claimed clears about five to six freighters. The top of this ladder is not reachable in one event by any free path.

Milestones are claimed one at a time from the Cumulative Inspection Rewards window. There is no claim-all, and a milestone you have not reached shows a greyed button rather than an explanation. Claim everything you have earned before the event closes.

The First Five

These are the ones a normal account will actually see in a single run.

08. Common Mistakes