Mystery Boxes, also known as Presents, are a somewhat rare object purchased from Shops or dropped from Great Humphead.
Properties
Upon opening the Mystery Box, it drops an item from a large pool, ranging from Bomb Boxes, Climbing Gloves, or even Royal Jelly.
The Mystery Box can also drop a disarmed Bear Trap, if a player is particularly unlucky.
Every single item in the Mystery Box has the exact same drop chance as one another, being 4%. The only exception to this rule is the Plasma Cannon, which only has a 0.1% of dropping.
Offering a Mystery Box to a Kali Altar will produce an Eggplant. Note that this will not occur if Kali is mad at the player for destroying one of her altars.
Cloned Mystery Boxes will have a different item inside compared to the original Mystery Box that was cloned.
Accessories | Paste | Spectacles | Climbing Gloves | Pitcher's Mitt | Spring Shoes | Spike Shoes | Compass | Alien Compass | Parachute | Skeleton Key | Kapala | Udjat Eye | Ankh | Tablet of Destiny |
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Crowns | Crown | Hedjet | The True Crown | Eggplant Crown |
Back Items | Cape | Vlad's Cape | Jetpack | Telepack | Hoverpack | Powerpack |
Weapons | Webgun | Shotgun | Freeze Ray | Crossbow | Hou Yi's Bow | Camera | Boomerang | Machete | Excalibur | Broken Sword | Plasma Cannon | Scepter | Wooden Shield | Metal Shield |
Consumables | Bomb Bag | Rope Pile | Cooked Turkey | Royal Jelly | Elixir | Eggplant Flesh | Four-leaf Clover | Corpse Bag |
Miscellaneous | Mattock | Teleporter | Golden Idol | The Tusk Idol | Curse Pot | Ushabti | Eggplant | Crate | Present | Chest | Metal Key | Gold Key | Big Chest | Arrow | Torch | Ball and Chain | Dice | Pot of Gold | Treasure |
Mystery Boxes, also known as Presents, are useful objects that can be broken open to receive different items.
Properties
Presents can only be found at Shops with a 18.55% chance of spawning. When they are damaged or opened (by pressing up + action while holding one), they will be destroyed and leave an item in their place.
Presents can contain a large number of items of varying values. Depending on what you get out of it they can be a great deal (finding a Jetpack in the mines for $8000) or a dismal prospect (getting a Parachute instead).
Presents come in 3 different variations, although they are entirely cosmetic.
During multiplayer runs, every item that is bought in a Shop will turn into a Present containing that specific item.
Sacrificing the box itself at an Altar will result in Kali giving the player an Eggplant and change the background music to "Ultra Egg" during that level. Note that this music does not play if angry Shopkeepers spotted the player already.

The different colors of a mystery box
Items | |
Accessories | Bomb Paste • Book of the Dead • Cape • Climbing Gloves • Compass • Hedjet • Jetpack • Kapala • Pitcher's Mitt • Spectacles • Spike Shoes • Spring Shoes • Udjat Eye • Vlad's Amulet • Vlad's Cape |
Equipment | Ankh • Arrow • Bombs • Parachute • Rope |
Objects | Arrow • Big Chest • Box of Flares • Chest • Corpse • Crate • Crystal Skull • Eggplant • Flare • Golden Idol • Key • Lantern • Mattock Head • Mystery Box • Piranha Skeleton • Pot • Rock • Skull |
Weapons | Boomerang • Bow • Camera • Crysknife • Freeze Ray • Machete • Mattock • Pistol • Plasma Cannon • Scepter • Shield • Shotgun • Web Gun • Whip |
Miscellaneous | Royal Jelly • Teleporter • Treasure |