Treasure Chests are large locked containers that can be found across Tamriel. Treasure chests spawn in fixed locations in the world. Each time they spawn, they have a random difficulty of lock—ranging from Simple to Master. They typically contain a variety of valuable items and gold. Most chests have the same generic look, as seen in the image on the right. Treasure chests found in Group Dungeons often look different.
UnlockingEdit
Unlocking a chest requires at least one lockpick, which themselves can be acquired from the world or bought from General Goods Merchants. Interacting with a chest will open up a lockpicking mini-game where the pins must be aligned in order to open the lock. Alternatively, you can try to force the lock open. The chances of forcing a lock depends on its difficulty, but this chance can be improved by adding points to the Locksmith skill in the Legerdemain skill tree.
Successfully unlocking a chest grants you a small amount of leveled experience, as well as Legerdemain experience. If all the loot is taken, the chest disappears for a short time and eventually respawns.
LootEdit
Treasure Chests can contain the following items:
- Leveled amount of gold
- Treasure maps
- Chapters from selected crafting motif books associated with the zone where the chest was found (e.g. Sapiarch motifs in Summerset).
- Armor or weapon Overland Set pieces associated with the zone where the chest was found.
- Antiquity Leads for:
Skills and PerksEdit
There are various passive skills related to treasure chests:
- Locksmith in the Legerdemain skill line — Improves the chances of forcing a lock (10% / 25% / 45% / 70%)
- Keen Eye: Treasure Chests in the Excavation skill line — Treasure Chests emit a glow when you are close, making them easier to see.
- Fortune's Favor in the green Craft tree (Champion System) — Increases the amount of gold you find in treasure chests and safeboxes by 10% per stage.
- Treasure Hunter in the green Craft tree (Champion System) — Increases the quality of items you find in treasure chests.
AchievementsEdit
There are four Achievements related to Treasure Chests.
| Achievement | Points | Description | |
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Treasure Chest Spotter | 5 | Loot any 10 Treasure Chests. |
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Treasure Chest Seeker | 5 | Loot any 50 Treasure Chests. |
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Treasure Chest Stalker | 5 | Loot any 100 Treasure Chests. |
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Treasure Chest Hunter | 5 | Loot any 1000 Treasure Chests. |
NotesEdit
- You must loot the entire contents of a chest in order to get credit for the above achievements. Picking out the stuff you want and leaving behind the junk will not count.
- Looting the contents (again, all them) of a treasure chest will earn you
10/
1 Rapport with Mirri Elendis is she is your active companion. (The 10 points can occur once per hour, but you get 1 point for each chest after that, with no cooldown.) - Some chests are already unlocked when you find them - notably those found by following Treasure Maps or found at the end of incursion type events such as Dark Anchors. These can contain the same types of items, as well as some exclusive to their specific types. They don't give experience or Legerdemain skill, but they do count as Treasure Chests for the purposes of achievements, and for Mirri's Rapport.
See AlsoEdit
GalleryEdit
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A chest from the Imperial City
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The reward chest from a completed Dark Anchor
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An Altmer style chest
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An Argonian style chest
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An Ayleid style chest
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A Dwemer style chest
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