The Gavel Trophy is a special drop in Storage Hunters: Open World that you place down before an auction to raise your chance of pulling mutated, higher-value items. It sells for a base price of $50, but its real worth comes from stacking several at once, so most players want to build up a large pile as quickly as possible.
Quick answer: Win auctions and then fully search every container inside each locker. Gavel Trophies only drop when you open and sort all the contents, so the fastest way to farm them is to win as many lockers as your money allows and open each one completely, then repeat the loop.
What the Gavel Trophy is and where it drops
The Gavel Trophy sits in its own rarity tier and carries a base sell value of $50. Its listed location is All, which means it can appear in containers regardless of which area or auction type you are working through. There is no single farm spot that guarantees it; the drop is tied to searching the loot you win, not to a fixed location.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Gavel Trophy |
| Base sell value | $50 |
| Location | All |
| How it drops | Searching containers after winning an auction |
| Main use | Placed before an auction to raise mutation chances |
Farm Gavel Trophies fast by running the full auction loop
Because the trophy only appears when you open the items inside a locker, the entire farm is built around cycling auctions as fast as you can afford them. Money in equals more lockers won, and more lockers opened equals more chances at a trophy.
Stack trophies before an auction to raise mutation odds
Once you have a stack, place your Gavel Trophies down before you start an auction. Trophies stack, and each one has a chance to buff different mutation odds, so several placed together push up your chance of pulling mutated items in the loot you win.
Mutations are where the money is. A mutated item sells for a multiple of its base value, and the multipliers climb steeply. Silver, Huge, Tiny, and Antique each apply a 2x multiplier, Gold applies 4x, Void reaches 35x, and Secret hits 50x. Higher mutation odds mean the lockers you open pay out more, which in turn funds more auctions and more trophy drops.
| Mutation | Value multiplier |
|---|---|
| Silver / Huge / Tiny / Antique | 2x |
| Spotless | 3x |
| Gold | 4x |
| Diamond | 8x |
| Void | 35x |
| Secret | 50x |
Weather also feeds into this loop. Moonlit weather raises the chance of the Moonlit and Firefly mutations, while Rain raises the chance of the Wet and Shocked mutations. Running your trophy-boosted auctions during the matching weather squeezes more value out of each locker.
Pick the best Gavel Trophy from your stack
Gavel Trophies can roll with item modifiers that raise the drop rate of specific mutated items, such as +67% Silver or +123% Gold. Since the base drop rates are hidden, you compare two trophies by scoring them against the mutation multipliers.
Multiply each modifier percentage by its mutation’s multiplier, then add the results together. A trophy rolling +67% Silver and +123% Gold works out like this.
(67 × 2) + (123 × 4) = 134 + 492 = 626 pointsThe higher the total, the more value a trophy adds when placed. Use this to decide which trophies to keep on your placement lineup and which to hold in reserve as you farm more.
How to confirm the farm is working
You know the loop is paying off when trophies start appearing in your inventory as you sort locker contents, and when placed trophies visibly sit at the auction before you bid. If trophies stop showing up, the usual reason is leaving containers unopened, since the drop only rolls once you fully search a locker.
Note: If you cross a $100,000 net worth, the Time Capsule unlocks behind the Shopping Mall and lets you apply a chosen mutation to a single item. That gives you a way to guarantee high-value mutations on top of the odds your trophies already provide, so the more trophies you farm and the faster you flip lockers, the sooner that threshold and the rare Gold, Diamond, Void, and Rainbow pulls come within reach.
