Lockboxes

Lockboxes can be found everywhere in X4: Foundations. They consist of a box with multiple locks on them (anywhere from 1 to 10 locks). The only thing you need is to shoot at the lock directly and precisely. Lockboxes offer many goodies such as crafting materials, illegal wares and more rare and expensive items.

Opening a lockbox requires a balance of light (a single Pulse Laser I blast will be enough) firepower and enough shielding to protect from traps that opening the lockbox will subject you to. A scout ship with Mk. 3 shields using a single Pulse Laser is fine for opening lockboxes and might take damage to hull if hit by a trap but should survive to be repaired.

Firstly, failing to properly open the lock box might damage the lockbox which can then cause it to explode, damaging or destroying your ship if it is too close.

Secondly, even if you fully open the lock box they can sometime contain not only the loot but (often four) Tracker Mines as well. Even if you are not all that close to the lockbox when you open it, they will lock on to your ship and follow it at some speed. Being hit by all four of these Tracker Mines will take a Small Fighter below half hull even with Mk. 3 shields so it is advised you attempt to open a lockbox with a fully-repaired ship and if the lockbox is still in space, you can shoot the locks from a good distance (100-200m) away.

A list of what can be found in lockboxes is below
 * AGI Heuristic Core
 * AGI Neural Network
 * AGI Processor
 * Advanced Targeting Module
 * Argnu Steak
 * Bandages
 * Basic Engine Fuel Injector
 * Basic Seminar (Management)
 * Basic Seminar (Piloting)
 * Basic Shield Generator Coil
 * Basic Ship Nanoweave
 * Basic Weapon Chamber
 * Carbon Filter
 * Crystal Bit
 * Hallucinogenics
 * Herbicide
 * Hydraulic Pump
 * Interface Unit
 * Light Dumbfire Missile Mk 1
 * Majaglit
 * Mixed Fruit
 * Modular Trigger
 * Nividium Crystallite
 * Nividium Oxide
 * Programmable Field Array
 * Rapid Sand Filter
 * Remote Detonator
 * Salvaged Electronics
 * Secure Container
 * Security Bypass System
 * Security Decryption System
 * Security Slicer
 * Sedative
 * Spacefly Eggs
 * Tuning Software