Modern Warfare 4 Safe Codes: Every Keypad and Toolbox Code

Updated October 24, 2026: rechecked for the full launch on October 23. The campaign codes did not change. IGN updated its Stranded crate and note guides on October 24 with the same codes, and neither of the two launch updates in Infinity Ward’s launch patch notes changed the keypads. This update adds a section on DMZ keypads, where the codes do change from match to match, and links our new MW4 multiplayer guides.

Modern Warfare 4’s campaign has 13 code locks across four missions. In the launch build, every code is still fixed: the same for every player on every platform. The best-known safe code is 214, which opens the red toolbox in “Following Orders”. The Escape safe uses 8410, and the eight keypads in the open mission “Stranded” open with 0024, 0008, 0078, 8609, 0600, 1234, 0330 and 6789.

Below are all the Modern Warfare 4 safe codes and keypad codes in one table. For each one you get where the lock is, how the in-game clue works it out, and which achievement or trophy it counts toward. We checked the codes against IGN’s code guide, AllThingsHow, Game Rant, Destructoid and VGC, and rechecked them after launch. Where those guides disagree, we say so.

Quick answer

• Following Orders: red toolbox (the “red safe”) = 214. Inside are the Medicine contraband and a note.
• Assassins: door codes 5523, 7632 and 9103. Lt. Ko reads them out to you.
• Stranded: 6 shipping containers and 2 hidden bunkers: 0024, 0600, 0078, 1234, 6789, 8609 (containers) and 0330, 0008 (bunkers).
• Escape: barracks office safe = 8410. Inside are Gaz’s dog tags, which unlock Never Forgotten.
• Codes are fixed, so you can enter them without reading the clue notes. You still have to read the notes if you want Noteworthy (50 notes).
• Launch build (Oct 23): same 13 codes. No new campaign safes or keypads have been reported since launch.
• DMZ is different: story-mission keypads in DMZ get a new code every match, so you have to read yours in-game (see below).

All Modern Warfare 4 safe codes and keypad codes

Mission	Lock	Code	What it opens
3. Following Orders	Red toolbox, first house	214	Medicine (contraband) + Note From Your Friend
8. Assassins	Door after the library stairs	5523	Story progress
8. Assassins	Door past the kitchen	7632	Story progress
8. Assassins	Bunker keypad behind the statue	9103	Story progress
10. Stranded	Base Camp container (by the radio tower)	0024	Supplies + tactical map that marks the other containers
10. Stranded	Cliff Near Base Camp container	0600	Yellow Supply Crate
10. Stranded	South East Village container	0078	Yellow Supply Crate
10. Stranded	Big Sign container	1234	Yellow Supply Crate
10. Stranded	Small Island container	6789	Yellow Supply Crate
10. Stranded	South of Jamming Station container	8609	Yellow Supply Crate
10. Stranded	Farm Field Hidden Bunker	0330	Bunker notes
10. Stranded	Island Hidden Bunker	0008	Bunker notes + Yellow Supply Crate
13. Escape	Wall safe, office after the barracks	8410	Gaz’s dog tags (Never Forgotten)

Mission numbers follow IGN’s code solutions page. If you want to know how long these missions take before you start a cleanup run, our MW4 campaign length and mission guide covers the full campaign.

Following Orders red safe code: 214

“Following Orders” is the third mission. You play a North Korean soldier searching houses for a defector. The lock most guides call the “red safe” is really a red toolbox with a padlock. Destructoid describes it as a safe, while IGN, Game Rant and AllThingsHow call it a toolbox. They all agree on the code.

Where the toolbox is

In the first house, go into the first room on the right (through the sliding doors nearest the front entrance) and open the cabinet. The toolbox is inside. Game Rant notes that you can also shoot the padlock off instead of entering the code.

How the clue works

The clue is the Baekseolgi-Tteok Recipe note, in the first cabinet on the left in the kitchen. According to IGN, it lists 2kg rice flour, 5mL salt, 1L water and 4 packs of golden raisins, and adds: “Flour, then water, then raisins – skip the salt.” Drop the 5 and read the remaining numbers in order to get 214.

Everything you need in Following Orders

The toolbox is part of the No Stone Unturned achievement, which asks you to confiscate all of the contraband and read all four notes in the mission. Here is the full checklist, combining IGN’s and Game Rant’s locations:

Item	Type	Location
MP3 Player	Contraband	House 1: bathroom (left of the living room), wall-mounted medicine cabinet
Western Novel	Contraband	House 1: room behind the sliding doors next to the TV, top cabinets
Baekseolgi-Tteok Recipe	Note 1	House 1: kitchen, first cabinet on the left
Rations	Contraband	House 1: kitchen, cabinet above the recipe
Medicine + Note From Your Friend	Contraband + Note 2	House 1: inside the red toolbox (code 214)
Note From Your Neighbor	Note 3	House 3: bedroom cabinet (first door left, then second door right)
Key, then Note From Mom	Note 4	House 3: key in a cupboard by the window; it opens the kitchen floor hatch. Get the woman hiding there to come outside, then read the note in the hiding spot

Two choices matter here. First, collecting all four contraband items in the first house gives you new dialogue options with the male civilian. According to Game Rant, if you question him about each item, he gives up the defector’s location without anyone being hurt, which earns No Harm Done. Second, you have to bring the hidden woman outside rather than hide her. If you hide her, you can’t reach the last note, and Game Rant reports it also changes how the mission ends.

Assassins door codes: 5523, 7632, 9103

These three codes aren’t puzzles. Lt. Ko calls each one out over the radio as you reach the door, but if you play without subtitles they are easy to miss in the noise. In order, according to IGN:

• 5523: the door after you sneak through the library and climb the stairs.
• 7632: the locked door past the kitchen.
• 9103: the bunker keypad at the base and rear of the statue. You enter it in real time, so clear the guards first or they can catch you at the keypad.

Stranded keypad codes: all 8 containers and bunkers

“Stranded” is the 10th mission. It’s a free-roam map where Private Park explores out from a Base Camp, and it holds most of the campaign’s collectibles: 26 Yellow Supply Crates and 58 notes, according to IGN. Eight of those locks use keypads. Each one has a clipboard note listing codes that were “used before”, and the real code continues the pattern.

Lock	Map position (IGN tacmap coords)	Clue	Code
Base Camp container	644, 158, by the blue radio tower at Base Camp	Earlier codes climb in steps of 6	0024
Cliff Near Base Camp	646, 158, just north of Base Camp, next to a truck	9300, 6400, 3500 (each drops by 2,900)	0600
South East Village	652, 187, by the bridge in the southern village	0012, 0034, 0056 (+22 each time)	0078
Big Sign	634, 136, next to the large sign up north	1000, 1200, 1230 (add the next digit)	1234
Small Island	618, 132, river island near a watchtower	3456, 4567, 5678 (digits scroll left)	6789
South of Jamming Station	667, 125, northeast corner by a tower and truck	5903, 6805, 7707 (+1, -1, keep 0, +2)	8609
Farm Field Hidden Bunker	631, 127, northeast part of the river	Sum of the Logistics Station numbers: 10 + 20 + 100 + 200	0330
Island Hidden Bunker	615, 169, by a cliff face in the southeast	Total of the river outposts	0008

Three tips save time here:

• Open one container first. IGN notes that the yellow crate inside any shipping container gives you intel that marks the other locked containers on your tacmap. The Base Camp container (0024) is the obvious first stop. AllThingsHow says it holds the tactical map.
• The SAM site note gives you three codes. According to AllThingsHow, a note at the SAM site writes out the farm house (0330), river island (6789) and west island (0008) codes.
• Pick the exploring option. When you leave Base Camp with Kal, AllThingsHow recommends choosing “I’ll find my own path and look for gear and supplies” so you are free to roam.

The bunker clues read differently from guide to guide. IGN reads the Island Hidden Bunker note as “the total number of outposts along the river”, while AllThingsHow adds up the river checkpoint numbers (1 + 2 + 5). Both come to 8, so the code is the same either way.

If you see 6788 for the Small Island container on some sites, that’s a typo. The clue runs 3456, 4567, 5678, so the next code is 6789, and IGN, VGC and AllThingsHow all list 6789.

Escape safe code: 8410

“Escape” is the 13th mission, a prison break. The code is on a note called Updated Code. IGN says to reach it, wait under the overhanging bench outside the office with the large window until the guard inside takes a call and leaves, then read the note: the new safe code is 8410. AllThingsHow adds that the mission’s other note, the Confiscation Protocol Reminder, is on a desk in the office opposite Cell 40.

Carry on through the barracks. Right after you leave them, an unlocked door on the right side of the hallway leads to the office with the wall safe. Enter 8410 to take Gaz’s dog tags, which unlocks Never Forgotten (“Recover the Dog Tags in ‘Escape'”).

Did the codes change at the full launch?

No. The codes were first worked out during Campaign Early Access, which opened on October 16 for digital pre-orders. The full game unlocked on October 23, and this is what we checked on October 24 at 14:30 UTC:

• IGN updated its Stranded yellow crate guide and its note locations guide on October 24 (06:21 UTC). Between them, they still give all eight Stranded codes plus 214 and 8410. IGN’s code solutions page (last updated October 20) also gives 0024 for the Base Camp container.
• VGC’s campaign code guide (October 22) gives the same codes for Following Orders, Assassins, Escape and the six Stranded containers.
• Infinity Ward’s patch notes: the October 21 launch notes have one campaign fix (a progression blocker in the Hotel sequence of Counter Attack). The October 23 launch-day update has no campaign section at all. Neither mentions keypads, safes or codes.
• Known issues: the Campaign Known Issues list on Infinity Ward’s public Trello board was empty when we checked.

No guide we found reports a code that works for some players and not others. If one of these codes fails for you, check you entered all four digits, including leading zeros (0024, 0078, 0600, 0330 and 0008).

DMZ keypad codes: different every match

Since launch, a lot of people searching for “MW4 safe codes” actually want DMZ. DMZ works differently from the campaign. According to AllThingsHow, the keypads in DMZ story missions use a code the game generates for your match. The same keypad has taken different codes in different matches, so a number copied from a website will usually fail. Once you find your code, it stays in your objective line or HUD.

DMZ mission	Keypad	Where your code comes from
Operation Shopping Hacks	Mall Security door, NuriGO Mall underground parking	Hack the laptop at the encampment; the objective then shows “Use Code ____ to Unlock Mall Security”
Operation Iron Citadel	Armory, Chang-san Air Base Bunker (6 digits)	Three “Transfer Slip” documents around the bunker, two digits each; the HUD tracks them as Known Digits (x/3)
Operation Grid Assault	No typed code	Take two code segments from targets (Hanex Bank, Lieutenant Roze), compile on floor 10 of DBN Headquarters, upload on the roof
Heavenly Luck Casino Counting Room	Keypad + fingerprint reader	Opens with the Counting Room Vault key, not a code

New to the mode? Our MW4 DMZ beginner guide covers infil, the FOB and exfil.

Which achievements and trophies the codes count toward

MW4 has 18 trophies and achievements, all from the campaign. PowerPyx and Game Rant both report there is no Platinum on PS5, because the list is attached to the Call of Duty HQ app rather than a standalone game. These are the ones that depend on codes and collectibles:

Achievement / trophy	Requirement	Codes involved
No Stone Unturned	Confiscate all contraband and read all notes in Following Orders	214
No Harm Done	Get the defector’s location in Following Orders without hurting civilians	214 (the Medicine is one of the contraband items)
Time to Crate	Open every Yellow Supply Crate in Stranded (26)	0600, 0078, 1234, 6789, 8609, 0008 (crates behind keypads)
Noteworthy	Read 50 different notes	Several notes sit behind the Stranded keypads and the 214 toolbox
Never Forgotten	Recover the dog tags in Escape	8410
Scavenger	Repair everything in Base Camp (Stranded)	None directly; IGN says crates hold Base Camp supplies

For Noteworthy, IGN counts 64 notes in the campaign (4 in Following Orders, 58 in Stranded, 2 in Escape), and says notes from all three missions count toward the 50. Stranded is the only mission with an in-game counter: open your backpack and the note total shows as “X/58”. AllThingsHow also reports that five of the Stranded “notes” are actually Base Camp workbench repairs (Grenade Launcher, Tactical Gloves, Tactical Boots, Snow Ghillie Suit and Silenced Thermal Sniper). If that holds, working toward Scavenger also helps with Noteworthy.

Two other entries on the list affect a cleanup run. “Was It Worth It?” asks you to finish the game on Realism, a difficulty above Veteran. “Hold the Line” only needs a finish on any difficulty. For the note hunt, our MW4 notes locations guide lists all 64. If you’re still deciding whether to buy the game, see our roundup of Modern Warfare 4 campaign reviews, and Switch 2 players can read our look at MW4’s DLSS and Filmic SMAA modes on Switch 2.

After the campaign: MW4 multiplayer guides

Done with the codes? Our launch guides cover the rest of the game: every map in the MW4 maps list (including Kill Block and the Shipment date), the current meta guns in MW4 best loadouts, all 18 perks in the MW4 perks list, and FPS and visibility tweaks in MW4 best settings for PC, PS5 and Xbox.

FAQ

Are Modern Warfare 4 safe codes the same for everyone?

Yes, in the campaign. Destructoid says the Following Orders code “is the same for all scenarios”, and AllThingsHow describes the Stranded keypad values as fixed. Every guide we checked lists the same codes, including IGN’s guides updated after the October 23 launch, so you can enter them without finding the clue notes first. DMZ keypads are the exception: their codes change every match.

Did the MW4 launch patch change the safe codes?

No. Neither launch update (October 21 and October 23) mentions campaign codes, and the October 23 notes have no campaign changes. Guides updated after launch still list 214, 5523, 7632, 9103, the eight Stranded codes and 8410.

What is the red safe code in MW4 Following Orders?

214. The red toolbox is in a cabinet in the first room on the right of the first house. The recipe note in the kitchen gives you the code: drop the salt (5) from 2-5-1-4.

How many keypad codes are in Stranded?

Eight: six shipping containers (0024, 0600, 0078, 1234, 6789, 8609) and two hidden bunkers (0330, 0008). IGN’s summary lists seven because it leaves out the Base Camp container. AllThingsHow and other guides give 0024 for that one, and AllThingsHow shows it on screen using IGN’s collectibles video.

Is there a universal DMZ keypad code?

No. In DMZ story missions such as Shopping Hacks and Iron Citadel, the code is generated for your match. Read it from the laptop, the transfer slips or your objective line, as shown in the DMZ table above.

Can you shoot locks instead of entering codes?

For the Following Orders toolbox, yes: Game Rant and Destructoid both say you can shoot it open. The guides don’t mention a shooting option for the Stranded keypads or the Escape safe, so use the codes there.

Codes first checked October 17, 2026, 16:00 UTC; rechecked for the launch build October 24, 2026, 14:30 UTC. Sources: Infinity Ward (launch patch notes), VGC, AllThingsHow (DMZ keypads), IGN (code solutions), IGN (note locations), IGN (yellow supply crates), AllThingsHow, Game Rant (Following Orders), Game Rant (choices), Game Rant (achievements), Destructoid, PowerPyx.

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