Dungeon Chests

Dungeon chests are locked, trapped treasure chests that spawn hidden at fixed spots inside dungeons. Finding, revealing and cracking them is a complete treasure-hunter game loop: Detect Hidden, Lockpicking and Remove Trap all play a part.

Chest types

There are six chest levels, color-coded with the metal resource hues:

Where a chest of which level can spawn depends on the area: shallow dungeon areas spawn mostly level 1–2 chests, mid areas level 1–4, and deep areas level 3–6 (with level 5 and 6 chests being rare finds even there). The newbie dungeon only spawns level 1 chests.

Finding a chest — Detect Hidden

Dungeon chests spawn invisible. Use the Detect Hidden skill near a suspected spawn spot to reveal them:

When you reveal a chest, it becomes visible only to you — other players still cannot see it until it is picked open.

Lockpicking

Picking the lock is a Lockpicking pin-based mini-game: each chest has 2–5 pins that must be picked in the right order. You can stay hidden while picking (the picking sounds can still be heard by others). On a failed pick:

• there is a 10% chance to trigger the chest's trap, which also reveals you;
• if you stay hidden, there is a small additional chance to slip and reveal yourself (reduced by Luck).

When the lock is picked, the chest becomes visible to everyone and fills with loot.

Traps

• While locked, the chest carries a random Explosion or Poison trap with a power of 13 x chest level, which can go off on failed picking attempts.
• The trap cannot be defused while the chest is still locked.
• The Telekinesis spell only affects level 1 chests; on all higher levels it has no effect. The Unlock spell never works on dungeon chests.
• Once the lock is picked, a final Explosion trap with a power of 18 x chest level arms on the chest. Remove it with the Remove Trap skill (or eat the damage):

Looting

What's inside

Contents scale with the chest's level (1–6):

• Gold — roughly 90–180 at level 1, up to 540–1080 at level 6
• Magic scrolls, a few potions and several pieces of magic equipment
• A handful of gems and a small stack of crafting resources, better material but smaller stacks the higher the level
• Levels 3–6 only: a chance at a special item. It is a fair chance at level 3 and climbs steadily with the chest level, plus a small bonus from Luck

The special item table

When any chest rolls its special item, the outcome depends on the chest's tier. Treasure map and SOS chests use this same table.

Luck shifts these odds slightly toward the rarer entries. The prizes themselves:

• Skill scrolls — raise one skill's cap by +1, up to 120
• Skill cap increase balls — raise your total skill cap by +1, up to 720
• Pigments — special dye colours, Uncommon through Legendary
• Mastery gems and souls — for Skill Masteries

Looting rights

Only the player who picked the lock has looting rights. Anyone else who loots the chest commits a criminal act and turns grey. The picker can loot while hidden; other players are revealed when they loot.

Decay

An opened chest decays after 15 minutes, or 5 minutes once it has been emptied — loot it before it crumbles.

Chest destruction

• Only the player who picked the lock may destroy the chest.
• Single-click (or right-click) the opened chest and choose Destroy from the context menu. All items still inside are lost.
• There is a very small chance that instead of being destroyed, the chest appears in your backpack as a "Treasure Chest" container in the same color hue (iron, shadow, copper, bronze, verite or valorite) — a nice collectible.

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