CS2 Weekly Drop Pool: What You Can Get Right Now (November 2026)

The CS2 weekly drop pool consists of five containers right now: the Sealed Dead Hand Terminal, Sealed Genesis Terminal, Kilowatt Case, Revolution Case and Dreams & Nightmares Case. Skins drop from the Harlequin, Achroma, Ascent, Boreal and Radiant collections. Since September 2026, Chicken Eggs and Chicken Feed have appeared as items. You need to have Prime status to receive drops, and they reset every Wednesday at 01:00 GMT.

Below you will find everything in the active drop pool, what each item is worth on Tradeit this month, when the weekly drops reset, and which two items to pick from your care package.

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What Is in the CS2 Weekly Drop Pool Right Now

The active drop pool contains cases and terminals, as well as skins from the current weekly collections. Valve does not publish the list or the odds of items. The containers and chances listed below are what players and drop trackers have recorded.

The chance is the share of container drops each one makes up, based on community tracking. It does not tell you how likely you are to get a container in the first place.

The Genesis and Dead Hand collections are not on this list because they do not drop their skins. You can get those items through terminals instead.

Terminals work differently from cases. You do not need any key. When you unseal a terminal, the Arms Dealer will offer you a random skin from that collection at a set price. You can choose whether you want to buy it or not. You can turn an offer down and then see another one. If you turn all offers down, the terminal disappears. The Dead Hand Terminal may also offer one of 22 new gloves, which Valve added as its rare special items.

Chicken Eggs and Feed in the Weekly Care Package

Since the Rush Hour update on 22 September 2026, chicken eggs and chicken feed can be among your four choices. If you take either one, it uses both of your picks for that week. You can have a maximum of one pet on your account at a time. The eggs and the feed are untradable items, so their price cannot be seen on the market. Feed comes in 4 lb, 8 lb and 16 lb bags, and it keeps your chicken fed for longer. Valve’s own notes only mention pets indirectly, for example, the eggs in lobby nests and the tricks your chicken can do. Don’t take an egg to sell it later for profit. Take it if you want a pet. Our CS2 pets guide explains how to hatch it and every breed.

How CS2 Weekly Drops Work

Each week, the CS2 Weekly Drop comes in the Weekly Care Package. You need to be a Prime Status member to get one. You unlock this package at your first profile level-up of the week, which takes 5,000 XP. You will not receive another package if you rank up again in the same week. The package contains four items. You can choose any two.

Only official Valve matchmaking counts, so community servers and third-party platforms give no XP. In Competitive and Premier modes, you earn XP for rounds won, so winning is the fastest way to level up. Casual, Deathmatch and Arms Race are slower modes. Weekly missions also award XP. Once you have earned 11,166 XP in a week, you reach XP Overload, and your XP gain will decrease. You can read about the fastest way to level up in CS2 and XP Overload in our guides.

When Do CS2 Weekly Drops Reset?

CS2 weekly drops reset every Wednesday at 01:00 GMT (UTC). It is Tuesday evening in the US. If you live in a country with daylight saving time, the reset will occur an hour later in local time during summer.

For Sydney, the seasons are the other way round. 12:00 applies from October to April and 11:00 from April to October.

Weekly Drop Chances

Valve does not reveal weekly drop odds. When players track their care packages, it appears that the Dead Hand Terminal makes up about a third of the container drops, and the other four containers make up about a sixth each. For skin drops, the most common are Consumer or Industrial Grade, and a Classified skin is rare. The wear of a skin drop is random. Community tracking gives the following rates:

What to Pick From Your Care Package

Your four options change every week, so make sure to check out the items you can choose from. Here is what each of the available options is worth on Tradeit this month:

In case you spot a Classified skin, grab it, since it’s the best drop in the pool right now. Restricted items have a value between $0.37 and $2.25, so compare them with the Dreams & Nightmares Case, the most valuable container. The Dead Hand Terminal is next. Low-grade skins are nearly always worth less than any case. If you don’t want to keep your drops, you can sell CS2 skins on Tradeit or check their market value on our CS2 inventory value checker. The price on the Steam Market is higher, but you can only spend the money there. Weekly drops are the main way to get free CS2 skins, so it is worth claiming your package every week even if you sell it.

Renting Cases vs Opening or Selling Your Drops

Valve introduced the case rental system on 23 May 2024, first for the Kilowatt Case only. Since 27 November 2024 you can rent from all the older CS:GO weapon cases as well. When you open a case with a key, you can rent a whole collection of items for a week instead of just getting one item. Rare items, such as a knife or gloves, are not included in the rental. Weapon rentals can’t be traded, sold, changed with stickers or name tags, and they go back to the stock skin when the week ends.

So, with a weekly drop case, you have three choices. You can sell this case and get its price straight away. This item can be opened with a key, which costs $2.49 in the US and gives you one random skin. You can also rent this collection for a week for the same key. Renting is the best choice if you just want to play with the skins for a while. Opening cases is fun and exciting, but you should do it only if you are hoping to get something rare. For many players, selling a case is the best option. Terminals cannot be rented, because they do not use a key. If you are thinking about opening cases, our list of the best cases to open in CS2 compares them.

What Is Not in the Weekly Drop Pool

Knives and gloves will never drop directly. The only ways to get one from a weekly drop are to open a case with a key and hit the rare special item, or to get gloves offered by a Dead Hand Terminal. Armory items are also separate from the rest of the items. The Gallery Case and Fever Case came to the Armory, not care packages. Collections from the game which Valve had removed in January 2026 (Safehouse, Dust 2, 2018 Nuke, 2018 Inferno) no longer drop either.

The rare drop pool is also gone. The chance of getting a discontinued case, such as the Operation Bravo Case, was only about 1%. Since around 18 December 2025, players have stopped seeing these cases. Valve never announced the change, but nobody has reported a rare pool drop since then.

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