When a raid goes badly, we all know the sad fate awaiting our gear and the items we’re carrying. The only guaranteed salvation is the Secure Container. A nearly magical space (whose actual location is the subject of ironic speculation and various nicknames) that will save anything that fits into it.
As the name suggests, the Secure Container is a safety box part of your inventory where you can store the most valuable items you bring into a raid or find during the raid. If you die, you won't lose its contents, and they'll be immediately available in your hideout once you return.
The only downsides of the Secure Container are:
It cannot store certain item types, primarily grenades or magazines.
If it contains a FIR (Found in Raid) item and you die, go MIA, perform a Run Through, or abandon the raid (ESC + Disconnect), the item will remain in the Secure Container but lose its FIR status. So if you needed that item with FIR status for a quest, you could sell it, but it would no longer be valid for the quest.
With Patch 0.16 also upgrades to the hideout require FIR items. This can be considered an big nerf to Secure Container usefulness. Read more about this and what it changes in terms of gameplay.
You can view the various types of Secure Containers and how to obtain them on this EFT Wiki page.
Clicking on the different Secure Containers will show the details of what they can hold. While there are slight differences between them, the main items they can't store are those mentioned above.
What is worth storing inside?
The simplest answer is, "the most valuable things you take into a raid," but here’s a priority list based on online research, and my personal experience:
Injectors/ Injector case
Painkillers (Golden Star / Ibuprofen / Vaseline)
Expensive Ammo (priority depends on the ammo’s value).
What you can and should bring into the raid inside the Secure Container depends on the container you have (its slot count), your PMC level, your financial situation, and the purpose of the raid.
At lower levels, most players prioritize medical items since they are scarce and harder to acquire early on (with low Therapist reputation and the flea market locked). Losing them and repurchasing them after every death can be costly for already limited finances.
The downside is that you can’t place healing items on the hotbar, meaning you must open your inventory to use them. To mitigate this, I usually store most healing items in the Secure Container and keep one or two Tourniquets, an AI-2 medkit, and one or two Immobilizing splints outside for emergencies—unless I have a Grizzly in the Secure Container, which can also treat fractures.
The CMS surgical kit is often the first thing players prioritize because of its importance during raids. Fixing blacked-out limbs is vital, and the kit costs a significant amount at lower levels (and it’s only available via barter with Jaeger until the Flea Market unlocks).
Once the Flea Market is accessible and finances improve, priorities shift. With the need to carry raid keys and money for car extracts, players often replace some medical items with a more convenient Documents Case. This case can store keys, money, and items like Intel Folders or SSDs.
When available, the S I C C pouch often replaces the Documents Case, as it can also hold dog tags from killed players.
Players also prioritize the Injector Case when it becomes available because of its utility in combat, high value, and ability to hold nine injectors while occupying just one slot.
At any level, the Secure Container is also great for storing valuable ammo you bring into a raid to reload your magazines. This way, if you die, you’ll only lose the ammo inside the magazines and not the extra rounds.
It’s clear that if you find something more valuable or rare during the raid than what you currently have in the Secure Container, you’ll swap lower-value items to make room for it.
However, be careful! It’s not uncommon to see videos of players making disastrous mistakes while swapping items. For instance, I once saw someone remove their Documents Case from the Secure Container, get killed right after, and lose their valuable keys and other contents (a moment worthy of tears!).
Examples by Secure Container type
With an SC Alpha (4 slots), a good choice for early levels could be:
CMS (2 slots)
IFAK
CALOK-B
Later on, with an SC Alpha:
CMS (2 slots)
Injector case
Golden Star
With an SC Beta (6 slots):
CMS (2 slots)
Injector case
Golden Star
Documents case / S I C C organizational pouch
A SC Gamma (9 slots) offers much more flexibility. At level 1, it could contain:
CMS (2 slots)
Grizzly (4 slots)
CALOK-B
Aluminum splint
Ammo
At higher levels:
Surv12 field surgical kit (3 slots)
Injector case
Ibuprofen
Documents case / S I C C organizational pouch (2 slots)
Two stacks of extra ammo, or one stack of ammo and one extra Injector Case for Labs keycards.
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