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This article is about all the collectable items in Just Cause 2. For any other collectable items, see: Collectable Items - disambiguation.

Drug Drop — This is a "Drug drop", one of the faction items in Just Cause 2.

Description

When observed from a distance, they all shine a lot of light.

All Resource items are gray boxes, about 60 x 40 x 40 cm.
The Faction items are different for different factions.
- Skulls are collected for the Ular Boys. They appear as small ancient wooden crosses, with a skull on top. They might be graves. According to Sri Irawan, they contain "powerful magic". Skulls are mostly found in seemingly untouched nature areas, or at high altitudes such as mountain summits.
- Black Boxes are dark gray boxes, just like the resource items. They're collected for the Reapers and are always under water. It's unknown why the Reapers want these, but according to Bolo Santosi, they contain "revolutionary goodies."
- Drug Drops are little metallic-white briefcases, containing drugs. They're collected for the Roaches and they're located on bridges, rooftops (in both civilian and military settlements) and Panau City. According to Razak Razman, who describes them as "cases of goodness", they were dropped from one of their cargo planes that was shot down by the Panau Military. That's very odd, because the cases are all over Panau and not along any pattern. Also because all cases are standing on the same edge.

Finding them

Resource items

If you're having trouble finding the armor, weapon, cash and vehicle parts while trying to take over any given village or base, remember to keep an eye on the "transmission strength" indicator at the upper left corner of the mini-map. It looks like a radar dish, with signal strength "bars" like on a cell phone. If there are no stashes in the area, this icon will NOT appear. If you are in the immediate vicinity of a stash, the icon will start flashing and a faint, white arrow will appear in the center of your screen telling you which direction the stash is located. Once you are facing the right direction, a white circle icon with the stash type will appear on your screen telling you where the stash is (if the stash is behind a wall, the icon will still show on your screen).

Faction items

When finding faction items, if the faction item is some way away put the marker on it then once it's on your minmap cancel the marker and follow the mini map instead, if you have a vehicle then align yourself straight towards it. If it isn't in plain sight when you are near it continue straight on foot and grapple, keeping in mind that it can be in a high place.

If it's in the water, if you have no vehicle/a disposable vehicle/a boat then go over the marker then dive down continuing going straight. If the collectable is way out in the water and you have no boat you will be forced to abandon your vehicle.

Consequently it is best to pick up faction collectables in one go, not whilst doing other things, as it shows up on your map anyway. This is also a more time efficient than getting them along the way. Unless of course it is right near you and in plain sight.

Purpose

Collect them all.

Resource items include vehicle and weapon upgrades (Vehicle Parts and Weapon Parts), upgrades for Rico's maximum health (Armor Parts, health is upgraded after 5 are collected), and cash bundles of $2500 each (Cash Stashes). There are more than enough weapon and vehicle parts to fully upgrade all 22 black market items to maximum, with plenty of excess parts that you will never be able to use.
Faction items give you money (to buy equipment and vehicles at the Black Market) and progress the game by giving Chaos points.

List

There are 7 different collectable items in Panau, with a total of 3,000 individuals. This external Interactive Map lists them all in their locations.

Resource Items	Total Amount	Reward
Cash Stashes	450	$2500, each: $1,125,000 total
Armor Parts	400	Every fifth upgrades Rico's health: 80 upgrades total
Vehicle Parts	900	Can be used to upgrade Black Market vehicles
Weapon Parts	950	Can be used to upgrade Black Market weapons
Faction Items	Total Amount	Reward
Skulls	100	$2000 and 500 Chaos points each. $600,000 total; 150,000 total Chaos points
Black Boxes	100
Drug Drops	100

Trivia

The faction items do not have an effect on the transmission bar on the minimap at first. Each faction item can be seen after a stronghold takeover within a region. For instance, when the Berawan Besar Mountains have been taken over by the Reapers, all the faction items (including other faction items) will be located on the map as white/blue dots (similar to the yellow undiscovered settlement dot, but blue and round). The dots can appear white on some screens. The items can be collected before then, if you know where to find them.
In some cases, there are settlements that only need the collection of one item in order to complete it.
Many bridges have two armour parts underneath them.
It's actually possible to complete this game (not 100%, but all missions) by collecting only these items. So many of them result in settlement completions that there's no need to destroy any Sabotage Destructable Objects. Settlement completions and faction items give Chaos points and of course, it's impossible to play with out having to destroy government vehicles, also causing chaos.
It is really weird how the drug drops all end up in different locations across Panau and, in some cases, very extreme places. Take, for example, a drug drop on top of some cable car system on Kastelo Singa. If it really landed on top of that support, that would've taken sheer luck. Razak Razman also stated "they (the drug drops) come from a cargo plane of ours that was recently shot down" after picking up your first drug drop after their first takeover mission. Realistically, if the drug drops ended up where they are in the game, the plane would've had to somehow fly all the way all around Panau dropping those cases before crash landing "somewhere" on Panau. Perhaps that Bering I-86DP on Hantu Island at the beach (Lost reference) belonged to the Roaches at one point? Extremely unlikely. But possible.

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 Drug Drop odd location (6).JPG|A Drug Drop in one of the four districts of [[Panau City]].
 Drug Drop odd location (7).JPG|A Drug Drop near the starting point for the [[Roaches]] side-mission [[Smugglers do Run]].
-Drug Drop odd location (8).JPG|A Drug Drop close to [[Pekan Ular Sawa]]. Realistically there would be a Skull here.
+Drug Drop odd location (8).JPG|A Drug Drop close to [[Pekan Ular Sawa]].
-Drug Drop odd location (9).JPG|A Drug Drop at some place in the Senjakala Islands. Coordinates yet to be found...
+Drug Drop odd location (9).JPG|In the [[Senjakala Islands]].
-Drug Drop odd location (10).JPG|A Drug Drop somewhere in the Senjakala Islands. Coordinates yet to be found...
+Drug Drop odd location (10).JPG|In the [[Senjakala Islands]].
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