ROB RUN Cargo and Contraband Guide

What cargo is and where you find it

In ROB RUN, cargo is loot too bulky to pocket: bags, boxes and crates that ride in a vehicle trunk. It goes to a smuggler on the map or to a workbench in your base. Two players report that it drops during robberies and that loose crates also lie inside buildings around the city.

A single guide rates house robberies among the best places to farm cargo, and describes a mission that sometimes leaves a crate on a truck in a parking garage for players to fight over. Valuable crates are rarer: they come from random world events that are hard to catch, plus the gun room, and only a workbench opens one.

One word causes confusion. Players report that the H key opens a Shipments menu, the unlock tree for equipment, property and base features, which has nothing to do with hauling crates. When Kefir (Kefir Games) writes “shipments” in its patch notes, it means the cargo itself. No base yet? Set one up first with the beginner guide to ROB RUN.

Sell it or open it?

Several player guides describe the same trade-off: a smuggler pays cash on the spot, while a workbench at base pays more but takes time. Smuggler spots carry a box icon on the map; the dollar sign is the fence.

The only hard numbers come from one player, so treat them as examples, not rates:

Item	Sold as is	After opening
Legendary bank bag	$69,000 to the smuggler	$100,000 in cash
Valuable cargo crate	$150,000 shown unopened	$293,000

Our read: sell when the base is far or you need cash now; open when the crate is valuable and a bench is free.

Who sells matters too. Two players report a solo seller bonus: solo players and duos start with higher notoriety, which raises the smuggler’s price. A single guide, citing the game’s own guide, says top notoriety lifts smuggler and fence payouts by up to 50%. That source also says you must be flagged as a criminal, then you move the cargo from your trunk into the back of the smuggler’s truck and take the cash.

The cargo workbench

This is the “open it” option. According to one player guide, the bench saws or breaks into the cargo and hands you the raw items inside. The job took 30 minutes in a recording from November 8, after the patch that made dismantling slower.

Bench space is the real limit: one player had to remove a collection table and a contraband workbench to fit a cargo workbench. The same source says a collection table turns junk items into crates. Two players also list a grow room among the rooms a base can hold.

The contraband workbench

Contraband is a crate you buy, then process at its own bench. Two sources agree on $5,000 at a settlement sales center, though one calls the spot the Cargo Trading Zone. Access comes once you rent a plot or own a home.

Where	Price	Risk
Settlement sales center	$5,000	Full-loot zone, campers
Lenny’s Motel	$10,000	None, per one source

Two sources say players camp the sales center, often with snipers, and kill buyers for what they carry.

Reports on the bench split three ways:

• Time. Player guides disagree: one puts a crate at 30 minutes, an earlier post at about 25. The first source says label printer and toolbox upgrades speed the bench up, which may explain the gap.
• What it does. One guide says the bench gives the crate a new label and seal and raises its rarity, so it sells for more. Two other sources say you open the contraband and sell what comes out.
• Return. A post from November 6 puts the profit at $10,000 to $20,000 from the contents. A guide from November 8 says the upgraded crate sells for about $40,000. The same guide later shows a crate at $35,000 on the shelf before a solo seller bonus, without saying whether it had finished on the bench.

Protecting the cash afterward is a separate job; the ROB RUN money guide covers banking and laundering.

Moving and storing cargo

Two players report that whatever you pick up goes into your trunk, and that a van suits cargo runs because it has much more trunk space than a car and fits several crates. The Buletti is out: since November 4 it cannot carry shipments.

At base, cargo goes on a storage rack; two sources advise buying shelf space early, and one says the small rack stores six. Moving the base costs less than it sounds: two sources say workbenches follow you to a new plot, and one says items on a bench keep their remaining time.

Keeping cargo safe

Each of these comes from a single report:

• Summoning your vehicle deletes everything in its trunk. Unload first.
• A car that falls in the water loses its cargo.
• Other players can open a trunk with lockpicks, so a parked car is never storage.

At base, a pair of player guides say the gate and front door matter most. Anyone who hops the fence or walks in can take crates off your racks and drop them so they despawn. One player guide gives house numbers: 27 fuse slots, a starting protection value of 15, and 45 once ten purple fuses go in.

Cops get paid for confiscating contraband, one source says. A single player post suggests popping into Looty Bay, checking for police and selling fast instead of lingering near the trading zone.

The support center says the Federal Raid wipes plots, bases, weapons and cash every seven days, so do not stockpile for a later week; the ROB RUN wipe guide lists what carries over.

What the November 4 patch changed

As of November 9, 2026, the November 4 patch notes are the official word on cargo. They change three things:

• Shipments pay more, drop less. You find fewer of them now and taking one apart takes longer, but what you get for breaking one down or selling it went up a lot.
• No more Buletti runs. The Buletti can no longer transport shipments.
• Base businesses earn more. Kefir raised their profits sharply, and the notes list contraband among them.

The notes give no prices. Every dollar figure and timer above comes from players after the patch and could change with the next one.