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  1. #1
    MaachaQ
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    Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I've looked everywhere I can to find info on this and gotten no definite answers...

    Will a Chest or Coffer move if it has not been opened for a while?

    Specifically, I want the Treasure Chest in Sacrarium, but it always seems to be inside the Mission room, which I can't get into unless I bring a large group with me to get the keys needed to open the door. I have been making circles around this area for at least an hour now and the chest remains where i cannot get to it...

    I just want some idea of how long I may need to wait for this thing to move, or if I should beg more people to come to the Sacrarium to farm keys and help me get into that blasted mission room...

  2. #2
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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    Chests only respawn if opened or if a THF fails the pick

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I've always thought that they respawn after a maintenance or being picked. Besides that, they just chill until you open them.

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I've always thought that they respawn after a maintenance or being picked. Besides that, they just chill until you open them.
    I think I can confirm this, after looking for the Sacrarium chest myself for weeks. I looked several times each week, but it was always in the Reliquiarium. I went after maint though and it changed spots. :D

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    Quote Originally Posted by Starblaster
    I've always thought that they respawn after a maintenance
    They do, I just thought it was common knowledge that, you know, everything respawns after a maintenance.

  6. #6
    MaachaQ
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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    /sigh

    I guess I need to make my Swift Belt group kill Keremet for me so I can have the 2nd key for this then... the other key drops like water while we kill fomors for hate and subligars. I can easily bring my husband's chara and have him use the 2nd key if I have the permanent key, or vice versa.

    Good to know for things like Garliege Coffers too, if it's behind gate 2 and nobody ever goes there, it won't move to gate 3 no matter how long you wait... unless there's a maintenence

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    Also nice for getting the "Beaucedine" Eldieme coffer, especially on weekends when people are popping the other ones left and right.

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I can confirm that chest/coffers move after a certain amount of time. I was soloing in newton next to a coffer and after hours and hours of soloing the coffer just went puff.

  9. #9
    MaachaQ
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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I know that chest stayed in the Reliquarium for many many hours, because I made so many circles around that zone as the only one there that I know nobody else popped it. 20 hours later (after sleep and Dynamis) I return to Sacrarium and find 2 chests in a little over an hour in positions outside of that room. I don't know if someone finally popped it or if it moved though... so the speculation remains...

    I too have heard of chests / coffers moving if not being opened, but only found breif sniffets about it and no hard facts about how long it would stay in any one place upopened... I guess a simple way to test would be a low lvl dungeon noone cares about chests in, but I have so many things going on I doubt I'll have time for such a test anytime soon ^^;

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    IIRC there are also like 4 terratotaurs in that room with the chest in Sacrarium, so you'll have to deal with those too. It probably isn't a big deal if you bring a swift belt group though, unless they spam mortal ray. Personally, I just waited until right after maintenance to get my Sacrarium map.

  11. #11
    Ridill
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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I'm almost certain they do eventually move randomly, at least certain ones do.


    There's places in like ugga where the coffer would sit for weeks if it didn't ever move on its own.

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I was soloing up in Sky the other week, and was right next to a coffer, but had forgotten my coffer key in MH. I went down to get it, but was called into party for an LS event and never made it back that evening. The following morning I grabbed my key and went back up to do some more soloing. The coffer was right where I had left it the night before - had probably been there in the same spot for at least 16+ hours. I popped it and became 15k richer.

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I have actually watched a coffer despawn on 2 different occassions, once in Ifrits Cauldron and once in Boyahda Tree. I have no idea what causes it to despawn or exactly how long it takes but (at least these 2) will eventually move.

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    Quote Originally Posted by Narualu
    I think I can confirm this, after looking for the Sacrarium chest myself for weeks. I looked several times each week, but it was always in the Reliquiarium. I went after maint though and it changed spots. :D
    I had the same issue, checked the Sacrarium chest probably 10 times before it finally showed up elsewhere. It seems unlikely to me that every time I went there, it just happened to be in the same place if it periodically despawns. But obviously, others have seen coffers despawn. Maybe coffers respawn and chests don't?

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    Mining Points and Harvest Points also move.

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I'd think that sky coffers would move around a decent amount, since the keys drop from Despot PHs. Also, linkshells usually nag people to lot/pass the key if people need the sky map. Maybe people just toss them, I dunno.

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    I'm not sure if you can trade it, but you can target the Sac chest from the otherside of the wall. The closest you can get is 4.5 and I think coffers are usually 5? Went through there today for Ovens Lost and clicked it and it told me I needed the key, if you couldn't trade it from that side of the wall, I would assume I would have gotten the "Too far away" message.

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    Re: Treasure Chest/Coffer moving if unopened?

    The reason you often see the chest in the same place is that everybody else has the same idea. They all go for the easy chest so that when the chest is ever up for a set period of time, it's usually at the crappy spot. They definitely spawn/despawn.

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