As you play Disco Dodgeball, you'll randomly collect various items that can be equipped as optional cosmetic items or crafted into better ones. This guide explains how this process works and provides details on which items are available.

Your Disco Dodgeball items are fully integrated with your Steam Inventory. This means that you can trade Disco Dodgeball items with friends for items from Disco Dodgeball or any other game (e.g. TF2 Hats, CS:GO Weapon Skins, Game Coupons, Trading Cards, Steam Emoticons, etc.)

You can also buy and sell your items on the Steam Community Market. Prices for items are set by players, usually based on how rare and desirable the item is.

Junk or Common-quality items will randomly drop as you play. There are some thresholds that determine how often items drop, and simply idling will not cause items to drop or qualifying playtime to accumulate.

You can accumulate qualifying playtime and find item drops during both multiplayer and singleplayer modes. Winning or losing will not affect your drop rate.

Most of the Junk items that will drop are base crafting ingredients - see below for more detail on how crafting works.

Every once in a while a Common-quality, ready-to-use cosmetic will drop. These can include decals, sunglasses, and faces.

Other items can only be obtained from crafting, or as special trophies from community events.

Crafting provides a way to recycle items into scrap and combine them for a chance at an even better item.

To craft an item, go to Profile / Inventory and select an item. If it can be crafted into another item, the item detail panel will show what other ingredients are required, if any, and what the target crafting item will be.

Most of the items that drop during gameplay are Basic Crafting Parts:


Collect a full set of 5 Basic Parts and you can craft them into one random Advanced Part:


If you collect a full set of Advanced Parts, you can craft them into one random cosmetic item. These items will be of Uncommon Quality or greater, meaning there is a chance to craft a Rare or Epic quality item from a set of Advanced parts.

Your items are stored securely on Steam's servers, and the game downloads the information when it runs. Sometimes the item servers have connection issues, even if you're able to access Steam just fine. This means the game may open and all your items appear to be missing. Rest assured, they are intact - and you can browse your inventory through the Steam client to confirm.

You should get a pop-up notification when the game starts notifying you of this situation. It is usually a very temporary problem.


Very rarely, you may notice that your inventory appears to be intact, except it's a slightly older version than what you can browse in your Steam Client (i.e. is missing a few items).

A related problem is that you are able to receive item drops, but not craft anything. It just says 'Craft Failed'.

This happens if you lose connection to Steam's item server, but the game is able to use a temporary cached copy in userdata\\[steamid]\\inventorymsgcache. You will be able to see from the modify dates on those files if you're only able to retrieve stale items.

This is also usually a temporary issue and should resolve itself within an hour.