Mafia Wars Gift Safe House

With the recent Mafia Wars holiday update came the addition of the Gift Safe House. At the Gift Safe House, you can give and receive presents to and from your friends. After doing the limited time "Bring the Family Together" job for the first time, you are greeted with this message:


Your Gift Safe House can hold up to 50 gifts from your friends. However, getting gifts is a bit backward this time - you have to send a request to your friends, asking for them. When your friends accept your request, you will get a gift. Since you can only send out 20 gift requests per day, you will not be able to get more than 20 gifts per day.

Make sure you pick who you send requests to carefully; your friends have to accept your gift request in order for you to get your gift, so make sure you pick well!

How it Works

You can ask your mafia for gifts (send in game requests found on the Gift Safe House page). When they respond, your gifts will appear in the Safe House. You can open up 50 gifts total - 25 on the 5th and 5 more each day until the subsequent gifts are open. Alternatively, you can pay 2 godfather points to open up each gift early. There is also a link posted in the comments section of the blog post below this one that will let you open gifts for free, but do that at your own risk.

It really gives no advantage to open up your gifts early - you can't open more gifts if you open them early, you just get them earlier.

When you accept a gift request from your friend (i.e. send them a gift), you will get the option of selecting one of three bonuses:


The XP is variable based on your level. On multiple accounts I have seen 50 energy and 10 stamina though (but others have reported different numbers). What I do know is, is that if you are a high level like me, a 427 XP bonus is really sweet. I can get a few extra levels each day thanks to that! For me, this XP bonus is certainly much better than any free gift I could get.

Bonus Item

If you open up 10 gifts from friends, you can get a gift wagon (vehicle; 18 attack, 29 defense):


Not really worth anything, but it is something to do while we patiently wait for Mafia Wars Bangkok!

Gift Contents

Gift contents are completely random and the loot pool it draws from seems to very large. I would guess it would be close to 50 gifts since you can open up up to 50 gifts. I ended up getting an Impression from my first gift (35 attack 15 defense), which was originally from the Moscow Loot Preview event over the summer!


Here is a list of items people have found so far in boxes from this forum post, let me know if you have anything to add:

Fruitcake
Dragunov
El Tigre
Nunchucks
Garza 12 Shotgun
Pretty Boy Floyd's .45 Cal.
Economy Pack of Socks
Tora Assault Rifle
Liger
Galea
Cooked Goose
Gravity Gun
Lump of Coal
Food Coma
Gladius
Ornamental Tommy Gun
Balloon Boy
Low Rider
Kamas
PPSH 41 Submachine Gun
Samurai Sword
ATV
Lever Action Rifle
GrowPet
Bobble Head
Saturday Night Special
10 Gallon Hat
Impression
Nail Gun 28/12
Sawed off Double Barrel Shotgun 35/15

New Items

There are a few new items that have been found so far:

GrowPet (27 attack, 12 defense)
Fruitcake
Economy Pack of Socks
Lump of Coal (22 attack, 14 defense)