Nomad Drive Items

Quick answer

The table covers every item with an English name in the game files, apart from vehicle parts, read from the demo build shown above. When the full game launches on October 20, 2026, it switches to the full game's files.

Some of the things players look for most: the Camera only turns up in the starter house, and the Rare Chest and Rare Key only at bus stops (how chests and keys work). If you are wondering where the pan is, it turns up at the starter house, watch towers, factories, wooden cabins and container areas. The Fridge is at watch towers and wooden cabins, the Tool Rack at the starter house, gas stations, watch towers, factories and wooden cabins, and the Revive Kit at four kinds of stop and in both kinds of chest. Spray paint comes in several colors, each with its own row and stops.

The developers have said Early Access adds new items, including alcohol, cigarettes and backpacks, and lets you choose how much of each kind of loot a world has (September 19 and 21, 2026). Our Nomad Drive roadmap tracks what is planned.

Food, cooking and poison

Only two foods can be cooked: Steak and Drumstick. Raw, each restores almost nothing; cooked in a pan to Cooked, Steak restores 50 food and Drumstick 40. Mid Cooked gives 30, and Burned gives nothing. Drumstick takes about twice as long as Steak to cook.

Mushrooms are poisonous: eating one poisons you, and a mushroom cannot be cooked. Potatoes cannot be cooked either, so eat them raw. Steak and Drumstick turn poisonous once they go bad, and everything in the Food group spoils over time.

A First Aid Kit restores 50 health and Pills 15, but only when you are hurt or poisoned, and both start curing poison. Our Patch Yourself Up guide covers the objective that uses them.

Drinks work by the liquid inside: water quenches thirst for each amount you drink, so what a bottle gives depends on how full it is. The containers that carry water are in the Containers group, and our coolant guide shows which ones also fill the radiator.

All items

Use the category links to jump to a group, or search by name when JavaScript is on. Each item name links to its own row, so you can share it.

How to read the table

Names are the game's own English names. Side Table and Stove appear more than once because the game has separate items with the same name. The Battery here is the small battery for flashlights and similar tools, and the Radio is the music player; the vehicle battery and the car radio are vehicle parts. The categories are this site's grouping, not the game's.

Food, Drink and Health are the points an item adds to the game's hunger, thirst and health bars, which run from 0 to 100; the game shows the bars, not the numbers. Cooked is what Steak and Drumstick give once cooked to Cooked.

Traits: Cook first means the item is worth little raw and should go in a pan. Spoils means it goes bad over time. Poisonous means eating it poisons you, and Poisonous when rotten means it does once it has gone bad.

Holds is how much a container takes, in the game's own units, and Liquids lists what can go in it; Any liquid means water, fuel, coffee, milk and the rest.

Found at lists the kinds of stops whose loot tables include the item, and Chests the chest tables that can give it. Cooked, Traits and Found at are read from the game code of the build named under the title, not from screenshots. An item in a stop's table does not mean every stop of that kind has one: each stop uses one of a few loot tables, each spawn spot picks one item, and your world seed decides both. An empty Found at cell means no loot table lists the item; the Photo Print, for example, comes from the Camera.

Guide links to our walkthrough where we have one: the treasure tools, keys and chests to the treasure guide, the Crowbar to the crowbar guide, the First Aid Kit and Pills to the Patch Yourself Up guide, and water containers to the coolant guide. Plant seeds are seeds you grow in a pot. World seeds are in our Nomad Drive seeds table. The table does not give exact spots, spawn chances or how fast food spoils.