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Plunderer's Instinct is a General Perk available to all Survivors.

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Cost
2,500
3,250
4,000
Description
Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability and improves your luck when finding Items in Chests:
  • The Auras of the following objects are revealed to you within 32/48/64 metres:
    • Closed Chests located in the environment.
    • Items sitting inside opened Chests.
    • Items dropped in the environment.
  • Increases the Odds of finding Items of higher Rarities in Chests by +50 %.
"The pioneers used to loot these babies for hours." — Aizeyu, The Lost Tapes


History

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Description
Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability and improves your luck when finding Items in Chests:
  • The Auras of the following objects are revealed to you within 32/48/64 metres:
    • Closed Chests located in the environment.
    • Items sitting inside opened Chests.
    • Items dropped in the environment.
  • Increases the chances of finding Items of higher Rarities in Chests by +50 %.

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Description
Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability and improves your luck when finding Items in Chests:
  • The Auras of the following objects are revealed to you within 16/24/32 metres:
    • Closed Chests located in the environment.
    • Items sitting inside opened Chests.
    • Items dropped in the environment.
  • Increases the chances of finding Items of higher Rarities in Chests by 14/24/46 %.

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Description
Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability and improves your luck when finding Items in Chests:
  • The Auras of closed or opened Chests are revealed to you within 16/24/32 metres.
  • Increases the chances of finding Items of higher Rarities in Chests by 14/24/46 %.

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Description
Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability:
  • The Auras of closed or opened Chests are revealed to you within 16/32/64 metres.


Change Log

Patch 1.3.0

  • Buff: now increases the chance of finding rarer Items in Chests by 14/24/46 %.
  • Nerf: reduced the Aura-reveal distances from 16/32/64 metres to 16/24/32 metres.

Patch 2.6.0

  • Intended Buff: intended to modify the secondary effect from a variable 14/24/46 % to a fixed 46 % across all Tiers.
    • However, this change was never applied to the Perk's code, despite the in-game description having been adjusted, resulting in the Perk continuing to apply its secondary effect based on its current Tier for years, until Patch 8.4.0 finally corrected it.

Patch 3.3.0

  • Buff: added the ability to read the Aura of dropped Items.
  • Quality of Life: now only reveals the Aura of unopened Chests to reduce visual clutter.

Patch 8.4.0

  • Buff: doubled the Aura-reveal distances from 16/24/32 metres to 32/48/64 metres.
  • Buff: modified and buffed the secondary effect from a variable 14/24/46 % to a fixed 50 % across all Tiers.


Trivia

  • The flavour text is a direct reference to "Pizza Delivery" (Season 1, Episode 5A) of Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants, in which Spongebob states: "The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles", after encountering a boulder in the middle of nowhere.
  • Contrary to popular belief, Plunderer's Instinct does not interact with the Luck mechanic.


Video

Plunderer's Instinct revealing Chest Auras


Gallery

Chest Auras revealed by Plunderer's Instinct