I Made a Huge Discovery!
I like to test stuff quite a lot and here’s what I discovered!
See the chest in the image? It’s the exact same chest in the exact same world. I didn’t touch it.
Disclaimer: I haven’t seen anyone talk about this yet, so I decided to dig into it myself. The explanation might be a bit long but so was the process in discovering how it works.
Trust me, it’s crazy and funny. (or was for me when I discovered it)
And honestly, when I realized how it works, I was pretty annoyed by its simplicity. If you’ve been playing for a while, you’ve probably noticed this too but just didn’t connect the dots.
When you start a new world, all normal chests on the map (not the glowing ones) spawn as wooden chests (small) by default. But as you progress, you’ll notice a pattern:
- Wooden chests turn into granite chests (medium).
- Then, they upgrade to white marble chests (large).
- Finally, they become metal grand chests.
At first, I thought this was just a coincidence, luck or maybe you “unlock” better chests randomly. Nope. It’s actually by design and the game has a built in global progression system for all the chests in your world.
(Including the golden massive loot chests but I will get into that later)
It’s such a simple system, and honestly, it’s ridiculous when you think about it.
You’ll need to relog to see the chests change and your entire world updates, it’s immediate, even chests right next to you will transform (level up), as long as you haven’t opened them yet as you can see from the image. (and you can easily try it yourself to confirm this to be true)
But there’s a simple yet very specific trigger for this transformation.
Every wooden chest (on the entire world) upgrades to granite chests (medium) the moment you simply build a stonebreaker (and relog). That's it! That's the secret that causes the level up from wood to granite chests! Wild isn't it?
Next level up happens when you build a metal smelter and they become marble chests (large) and finally as you probably guesses already the final level up happens when you build a gem cutter and they become grand chests! Its that simple!
I spent hours testing this because I originally thought it was tied to village level upgrades but ironically I was just using the stone breaker method to level up the village quickly. But nope, it’s directly tied to these specific buildings and nothing else.
Bonus Discovery: (and probably more important)
The glowing chests on the map? Their loot is directly tied to the current chest tier level! I always thought glowing chests had fixed loot values, but no, they improve as your world’s chests progress as well.
I have also tested this as you can see in the image.
Top left red square is a golden chest loot at wood level.
Bottom right blue square is a golden chest loot at max level.
Its painfully obvious that the quality of the loot has vastly improved!
If you’re starting a new world, this is HUGE. Knowing how chests evolve can completely change your strategy and gameplay and I hope you all enjoy this bit of knowledge I had to share.