Overview
Duckov has mysterious merchants. They can be found in two locations: the battlefield known as Area Zero and Farm Town. They sell rare items that cannot be obtained through normal means.
You can only buy from the mysterious merchants with cash. Bring cash with you, or bring items you can sell to them. Sell those items to the mysterious merchant first, then make your purchase.
Note to Readers
This article has been machine-translated from the original Japanese. For the most accurate content, please refer to the Japanese version.
The Mysterious Merchant of Area Zero
The mysterious merchant of Area Zero can be found on a small hill in Area Zero. They sell miscellaneous goods needed for early quests and are quite useful.
Products for Sale (Random)
- Low-to-Medium Rare Firearms
- Low-to-Medium Rare Custom Items
- Healing Items
- Food
- Miscellaneous Goods
- Cippo
- Toilet Cleaner
- Propane
- Tires
- Binoculars
- Thermite
- Books
- Shopping Cart
- …
The initial map also sells exceptional items like the MP5. More noteworthy, however, are the miscellaneous goods. Many of these are required for quests and prove surprisingly useful.
Additionally, if you sold all your Cippo and toilet cleaners because they’re used in fishing quests, this merchant is a good option. I’ve summarized fishing quests in the article below, so please take a look if you’re interested.
Open-air vendors in the warehouse area
There are no mysterious merchants in the warehouse area, but instead there are street vendors. You can enter the street vendors through the orange trapdoor marked in the image. However, you will need three items to enter here.
Required Items
- Key: Basement Key
- Key: Basement Fork Key
- Head: Gas Mask
The basement is a single path, but there is one fork that branches off toward the upper part of the screen. Beyond it, on the other side of the locked fence, is the “Street Vendor.”
Sales Items (Fixed)
- Blueprint: Incendiary Bomb
- Enhanced Small Energy Projectile
- Storm Work Helmet
- Storm Work Suit
- Blueprint: MP155-ULTIMA
- Cube Collector
- Rocket Shell Lv1
- Recipe: Cola
- Recipe: Something Sticky
The items sold by the vendor are fixed as listed above. Recommended items are the Cube Collector and the MP155-ULTIMA blueprint. The MP155-ULTIMA is a high-tier shotgun that fires rapidly and deals high damage, making it very powerful. It can be crafted using the lower-tier shotgun, the MP155, as material.
The Cube Collector is a bag with an additional one-slot inventory specifically for Blue Cubes, the main material for the “Suspicious Modification” also provided by the vendor.
Suspicious modification
- Attribute Damage Reduction
- Other Status Boosts
Suspicious modifications can be upgraded using Blue Cubes as the main material.
The Mysterious Merchant of Farm Town
On the hill below the Farm Town dock, near the “orange star mark,” there is a mysterious merchant. Nearby is Memo #20, which reads as follows:
Memo 020: Sighting Report of the Mysterious Merchant
There’s a mysterious merchant wearing a purple cloak nearby. He says he has some fine goods, but I didn’t bring any cash, so I couldn’t buy anything. Should I come back later with money?
Products for Sale (Random)
- High-Rarity Custom
- High-Rarity Ammunition
- High-Rarity Firearms (e.g., Desert Eagle)
- J-Lab Level 1 Access Credential
- J-Lab ID Cards
- Rare Keys
The mysterious merchant in Farm Town stocks ultra-rare items. While the selection is random, it includes weapons and custom bullets ranging from the highest quality down to about two tiers below. Prices are also on the lower side, with rarity 4 firearms (like the StG77A3) selling for around $4,000, and rarity 5 firearms (like the AK105) going for around $10,000 (Rarity 6 is the highest).
J-Lab Level 1 Access Authorization
Regarding probability, we also sell a key called “J-Lab Access Level 1.” This card is required in a quest where you need three copies, making it quite a hassle to collect. Using this mysterious merchant significantly eases that difficulty.
Additionally, though they come at outrageous prices, we also sell J-Lab-related ID cards and mysterious keys. You’ll have to see these for yourself. If I cover these at all, I’ll save it for a separate article.
The mysterious merchant can be defeated.
Just a quick tip: You can defeat the Mysterious Merchant. However, it seems to have absurdly high HP, making it quite difficult to defeat using normal methods. Players confident in their skills should definitely give it a try.
There appears to be a slightly underhanded way to defeat it. However, since it doesn’t seem like a legitimate method (it might be a bug or glitch), we won’t cover it in this article. If you’re curious, feel free to look it up yourself.