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Details about the Santa's Gift containers.

New Year's Eve is approaching and the traditional Santa's Gift containers are returning to World of Warships.

Each Gift contains a deserved reward for your achievements throughout the past year. The available rewards include Doubloons, Coal, days of Warships Premium Account, camouflages, signals, or one of 134 ships. You have specific chances to obtain rare ships, as well as Tier X ships.

Santa's Gift container includes one of the following rewards (the percentage indicates the drop chances of each group of items):

• A Premium or special ship, including rare and Tier X ships, with a Port slot and a 10-skill-point Commander — 2.5% (of them: Tier V–VII ships — 2%, Tier VIII–IX ships — 0.4%, and Tier X and rare ships — 0.1%)
• 500 Doubloons — 5%
• 2,500 Coal — 7%
• 30 days of Warships Premium Account — 1%
• 5x New Year or "Type 3 — New Year" camouflages — 10%
• 4x New Year Sky camouflages — 11.5%
• 4x camouflages of the same type (Winter Strands, Frosty Fir Tree, or New Year Streamer) — 15%
• 5x special signals of the same type (Dragon, Red Dragon, Wyvern, Hydra, Ouroboros, Basilisk, Scylla, or Leviathan) — 8%
• 50x signals of the same type (Zulu, Papa Papa, Zulu Hotel, or Equal Speed Charlie London) — 40%

Santa's Big Gift container includes one of the following rewards (the percentage indicates the drop chances of each group of items):

• A Premium or special ship, including rare and Tier X ships, with a Port slot and a 10-skill-point Commander — 9% (of them: Tier V–VII ships — 7%, Tier VIII–IX ships — 1.5%, and Tier X and rare ships — 0.5%)
• 1,500 Doubloons — 5%
• 7,500 Coal — 7%
• 90 days of Warships Premium Account — 1%
• 15x New Year or "Type 3 — New Year" camouflages — 12%
• 12x New Year Sky camouflages — 16%
• 12x camouflages of the same type (Winter Strands, Frosty Fir Tree, or New Year Streamer) — 18%
• 15x special signals of the same type (Dragon, Red Dragon, Wyvern, Hydra, Ouroboros, Basilisk, Scylla, or Leviathan) — 32%

Santa's Mega Gift container includes one of the following rewards (the percentage indicates the drop chances of each group of items):

• A Premium or special ship, including rare and Tier X ships, with a Port slot and a 10-skill-point Commander — 16% (of them: Tier V–VII ships — 12%, Tier VIII–IX ships — 3%, and Tier X and rare ships — 1%)
• 2,500 Doubloons — 5%
• 12,500 Coal — 7%
• 180 days of Warships Premium Account — 1%
• 5x Spring Sky, Asian Lantern, or Mosaic camouflages — 6%
• 25x New Year or "Type 3 — New Year" camouflages — 6%
• 20x New Year Sky camouflages — 10%
• 20x camouflages of the same type (Winter Strands, Frosty Fir Tree, or New Year Streamer) — 9%
• 30x special signals of the same type (Dragon, Red Dragon, Wyvern, Hydra, Ouroboros, Basilisk, Scylla, or Leviathan) — 40%

The chances of obtaining a particular reward from a group are the same for all items in the group. If a container drops an item from the Ships group, you will receive a ship that you do not already have. The chances of obtaining a ship from a certain type of container (for example, Santa's Big Gift) never change—if you already have all the ships of a particular group, the drop chances of this group are distributed between the groups of ships that you do not already have in your collection.

If you already have all the ships from the list and the Santa's Gift container drops an item from the Ships group, you will receive the following compensation:

• 250 steel for Santa's Gift container.
• 750 steel for Santa's Big Gift container.
• 1,250 steel for Santa's Mega Gift container.

The contents of each container are determined randomly at the moment it is opened on the basis of the chances indicated above. The stated drop chances do not precisely represent how many containers you need to open to get the items you want.

However, Santa's Gift, Santa's Big Gift, and Santa's Mega Gift containers have the guaranteed drop mechanic applied: If an item from the Ships group does not drop after you open a fixed number of containers of a certain type (for example, Santa's Big Gift), you are guaranteed to find an item from this group in the next container of this type.

The guaranteed drop mechanic is triggered if an item from the Ships group does not drop after opening the following number of times, depending on the container:

• 99 Santa's Gift containers.
• 26 Santa's Big Gift containers.

• 14 Santa's Mega Gift containers.

The guaranteed drop count of a particular group resets after an item from this group is dropped. The drop chances of the items are indicated without taking this mechanic into account because it simply forces a certain item to drop, regardless of the random factor.