When playing Mafia Wars, there are some free items that you can send to and receive from your Mafia. The more you accumulate them, the more items you have in your loot. Here are newest ways to collect the vital items, points, energy, stamina, and health.

Mystery Bags

Mystery bags are free gifts you can send and receive to your friends. Instead of creating a request for these bags, you can send them from the free gifts section. To receive mystery bags, you simply accept them in the friend request tab. You can get a collection of mystery bags plus godfather points for free aside from loot pieces. Gift options include an item from your wish list (special and limited edition of Huey vehicle, 1 godfather point for free, collection items from Chinese New Year, 5 to10 skill points for free, and different kinds of loot pieces).

Gift for Respect

A new Mafia Wars feature, Respect works alongside the Gift Safe House. This allows you to ask for gifts from your group, in which they have the option to send you respect or disrespect. Do not spam your Mafia in order to avoid receiving disrespect. You can also send this gift to your group as well. Your respect meter increases by ten percent every time you open a gift and goes down by five percent if your present has disrespect in it. The goal is to hit one hundred percent respect, after which you will receive an item. You can use upgraded items to fill your respect levels more.

Once you finish the first stage of Respect, you will be rewarded one Switchblade, a limited edition 14 attack and 16 defense loot items. The feature of Switchblade may be quite poor, but it is worth its high level respect pieces.

Generally, the concept behind Respect is similar to other gift safe houses, in which you ask for gifts from your Mafia and you get a present in your safe house if your friends accept. Moreover, you also get a gift if your Mafia sends you a ten percent gift on your Love Meter.

The difference in the Respect from other safe houses is that it comes in various respect stages. For instance, your respect level moves up to 1 when you receive 10 present from 0, aside from receiving a reward.

Once you complete the first level, you will be rewarded still with the Switchblade. The more you level up, the more rewards you can get. Among the items you will receive upon finishing different levels include Grach (a 20 attack and 10 defense weapon level 2), Puggio (a 17 attack and 23 defense weapon level 3), zip gun (a 17 attack and 23 defense weapon level 4), Samurai Helmet (a 12 attack and 28 defense armor level 5), Ma Barkers machine gun (a 30 attack and 20 defense weapon level 6), and Ghillie Suit (a 16 attack and 42 defense armor level 7).

Note that the items increase in quality as you level up. Sending gift requests for respect may be tough work and be answered for a measly item. However, your efforts will soon be all worth it especially if you reach level 7. Only then can you expect to receive better rewards.

Chop Shop

The Chop Shop is a new feature that you earn not by buying but by building it with your free gifts. This feature enables you to remove serial numbers and other identifying marks off of stolen cars. To get started with Chop Shop, you will need 10 pieces of each 5 various items. You will also ask for help from your Mafia in building your Chop Shop, particularly in obtaining building materials scattered all over the city but are inaccessible to some in their area. Upon completion of your Chop Shop, it is now set to produce vehicles of different kinds among which include an armored limousine, Zhar-ptista Sedan and a very rare CM Dragon.

There are essentially 5 variety of items needed to build your Chop Shop. From these items, you will need to get 10 of every item from your Mafia, which totals to 50 items. These 5 items are acetylene torches, car lift, cement blocks, power tools and shipping containers. Again, you are required to gather 10 of each item. However, you can use your godfather point to purchase these items.

One thing to keep in mind is that each of your friends can only access 2 among the 5 items. In this case, you might want to gather items from three different Mafia members, three at least. To send items to your friends, search for the items under the Chop Shop tab in the free gifts section.

The feature greatly increases your love, respect, and status in Mafia Wars. You can refer to Mafia Wars game guides online to know how to play Mafia wars using these features.