What “rotated items” actually means
The phrase shows up in search. It does not show up as a system name in the 1.0 notes. Three neighbouring systems do. Shops and drops are rolled for the run, not published as a weekly menu. The workbench has one-time unlocks that pour a whole family into later runs. Banish grows from 3 slots to 6 to 12 so you can kick items out of the pool. I would rather describe those three than invent a Monday reset.
The 1.0 notes put the catalogue above 110 weapons and items, with 16 new items: Rubber Band, Shield Generator, Hammer, Lottery Ticket, Hand Mirror, Cogwheel, Plasma Hand, Ripped-Out Eye, Teleporter, Ghost Sheet, Throwing Knife, Electrolyte Drink, Secret Sauce, Ice Cube, Uranium, and Tesla Coil. The table below is the subset with a written effect. It is not a promise that 110 rows exist in public.
Neighbours, merges, and the shady stop
Items take backpack cells. Effects care about what sits beside them. Duplicates merge into a higher rarity. That rule is in the 1.0 notes and both wikis. The Shady Merchant is a separate stop: the notes and one wiki say it appears in the rear car about half the time at a merchant, and that from day 4 a route guarantees one visit. Cursed goods named in the notes include Ripped-Out Eye, Ice Cube, and Uranium.
Magnet (+150% pickup), Robot Arm, WLAN Repeater, War Drum, and Fork are written up on the German Early Access wiki. I keep the “EA” mark on those rows. A 1.0 retune of the same item would not be visible from those pages.
Rarity values are not published in the cited item records; filter by the documented type instead.
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| WLAN Repeater | Transfers any effects applied to itself onto marked items; the marked item must be able to receive the effect | Loot drop (EA-era) | single source (EA wiki) |
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| Magnet | +150% loot pickup range; a second Magnet marking cancels the effect | Loot drop | single source (EA wiki) |
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| Robot Arm | Counts as additional hands for equipping weapons | Loot drop (EA-era) | single source (EA wiki) |
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| Fork | +1 bullet/projectile for marked ranged weapons | Loot drop (EA-era) | single source (EA wiki) |
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| Duct Tape | Permanent unlock currency at the base: survivors, Costume Shop and workbench systems | Boss/Reaper/achievement rewards | two sources |
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| Tesla Coil | Fires an electrocuting projectile every 3 s; marked lightning items gain extra bounces only with an even number of marked electric items | Loot drop | three sources | |
| Cogwheel | When one marked triggerable triggers, all other marked triggerables trigger too, each once per chain | Loot drop | three sources | |
| Hammer | At the end of the day, upgrades all marked items by one rarity, but not past the Hammer's own rarity | Loot drop | three sources | |
| Lottery Ticket | Chance of a free reroll, free repair, or crafting without an ingredient; destroyed on death and can revive once | Loot drop | three sources | |
| Shield Generator | Restores 1 armour every 10 s; taking damage resets the timer | Loot drop | three sources | |
| Ghost Sheet | Longer invincibility after a hit; while looting you turn see-through and are hidden from zombies | Loot drop | three sources | |
| Teleporter | On use, teleports to an unlooted loot spot; at night, once all fuel is collected, teleports to the bus | Loot drop | three sources | |
| Plasma Hand | Counts as unlimited extra hands for equipping weapons | Craft-only | three sources | |
| Ripped-Out Eye | Marked weapons get +100% crit chance and -75% range | Shady Merchant | three sources | |
| Secret Sauce | Lowers the fuel required each day and lets the bus start faster; adds poison to marked weapons/items but deactivates marked food | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Uranium | Marked hits can set off a small nuke, but can also mutate the hit zombie into a titan | Shady Merchant | two sources |
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| Ice Cube | Increases movement speed and dash distance; you slide for a moment after stopping or dashing | Shady Merchant | two sources |
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| Rubber Band | Longer range and faster triggers for marked throwables | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Hand Mirror | Effects that hit a marked item are copied onto the marked item opposite it | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Throwing Knife | On a timer and when triggered, throws a knife in a straight line at a nearby enemy | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Electrolyte Drink | Faster stamina recovery | Loot drop | two sources |
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| Coffee | Longer day, movement speed and loot speed for the next run | Coffee stand (base) | two sources |
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| War Drum | Grants the War Drum ability: increased attack and reload speed; 30 s cooldown; needs a free ability slot and is not equipped if 4+ powerup slots are filled | Loot drop (EA-era) | single source (EA wiki) |
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| Banana Costume | Changes appearance; the 1.0 wiki states the banana is a costume, not a survivor | Find in base after first apple | two sources, role conflict |
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| Knabe Kola | Präsident Knabe's exclusive fizzy item; exact in-game effect is not documented in the accessible sources | Collaboration code | single source (official PR) | |
| Item Workbench | Crafts recipes that do not drop; one-time upgrades add whole item families to future runs; 1.0 list sorts by what you can craft and shows missing ingredients | Base feature | three sources |
Questions
Are items randomized?
Shops, merchants, and loot are seeded per run. Recipes are not. There is no published weekly rotation.
What are item packs?
One-time workbench unlocks that add a family of items to future runs. The 1.0 notes say names, conditions, and prices changed. The new prices are not listed in the notes I read, so the cells stay empty.
Is there a weekly item rotation?
No official weekly list turned up. The search phrase maps onto seeded loot, item packs, and banish.
Sources
- Steam news — 1.0 — checked 2026-11-02
- deadlydaysroadtripgame.wiki — checked 2026-11-02
- deadlydayroadtrip.wiki items — checked 2026-11-02
- Fandom — WLAN-Repeater (EA) — checked 2026-11-02
Limitation: public sources can omit conditions or change after the date shown; source counts and disagreements are recorded below.