Treasure Chest (container)

This article is about the Container Chest. For Gold Hoarders Treasure category, see Treasure Chests.

The Treasure Chest, also previously known as Collector's Chest, is one of the Container Chests in Sea of Thieves, which is indicated by the shining white glint of Treasure Chests. Treasure Chests can be used to carry and transport smaller Treasure Items. Treasure Chests can be found all over The Sea of Thieves, sometimes empty, sometimes with Gold and 0-3 Treasure Items inside. Treasure Chests can be dug up by solving any Riddle Map. An empty Treasure Chest can be sold to either the Merchant Alliance, Gold Hoarders, Order of Souls, Reaper's Bones or The Hunter's Call for a handful of Gold but no Reputation or Emissary Value.

Where to find

Treasure Chests can be found in the following locations:

Dug up as a Riddle Map reward
Dug up as a Wayfinder Voyage reward
Randomly spawned buried on the shores of or submerged in the coasts surrounding any Island, excluding Outposts, Seaposts and Forts
Chance to find between the floating Barrels of Plenty
Random chance to spawn in Shipwrecks
Random chance to appear in Skeleton Ships
Random chance to appear in Skeleton Fortress Vaults
Random chance to be dropped by a Megalodon or Kraken
Guaranteed to spawn in the Fort of the Damned Vault with Treasure and Gold
Possible reward for defeating an Ashen Lord
Guaranteed spawn at Sea Forts

Treasure Chests can contain up to three Artefacts or Bounty Skulls along with Gold that can be collected without going to an outpost.
Between 50 - 2,000 can be retrieved from a single Treasure Chest (not counting the value of contained Treasure).
An empty Treasure Chest can be sold to any Trading Companies for 250 - 520 , but no Reputation or Emissary Value.
An Ashen variant of the Treasure Chest can be dug up during Riddles in the Devil's Roar. They should not be mistaken for Ashen Chests which give Doubloons when sold.
Not all Treasure Chests have items or Gold inside and may spawn empty.
An empty Treasure Chest can store up to three smaller Treasure Items, such as Artefacts, Bounty Skulls, Mermaid Gems, Dark Relics, Keys or Treacherous Plunder.
An empty Treasure Chest can also store most Tall Tale Quest Items.
A Treasure Chest hides the glow and quells the sounds of the Treasure Items inside, however the Chest itself can be seen from far away by a white glint typical to Treasure Chests.
Items inside of container Chests must be taken out and placed individually on a ship in order to boost an Emissary Grade.

Container Chests were added with the Anniversary Update along with various redesigned versions acquired during Tall Tales.
Treasure Chests were initially called Treasure Chests in-game, however this was changed to avoid confusion with the Treasure Chest Item. After a while, their name was returned back to Treasure Chest again.

2.6.1 (September 1, 2022)
- Players will no longer be able to delete items that are placed inside Collector’s Chests while holding another Captain’s Logbook.

2.4.1 (January 20, 2022)
- Taking items from a Treasure Chest while holding a Map Bundle should no longer cause the items to disappear.

2.0.14 (April 22, 2020)
- Selling to any Trading Company will now only reward gold.

2.0.10 (December 11, 2019)
- An empty Treasure Chest can now be sold to the main Outpost Trading Companies for Gold and Reputation.

2.0.9 (November 20, 2019)
- Can now spawn with Gold and Treasure inside.
- Added as possible rewards for Riddle Maps.

2.0.1 (May 8, 2019)
- Opening a Collector’s Chest while holding it can no longer cause the items inside to ‘pop’ out.
- Items stored inside Collector’s Chests should now always be visible and collectable when moving and reopening the chest.