WHY is there a chest here?

cyclonus11

Na-Totambu in Alik'r.

Just when I think I've figured out a way up and around to get to it - an INVISIBLE CEILING/WALL APPEARS!!

Me: OK there it is! Woohoo! *drops down*

*thud*

Nooooooooooooo!!!

cyclonus11

It's completely blocked by invisible walls/floors all the way around. ZOS!!!!! *shakes fist*

phaneub17_ESO

I like the super easy to reach chest in Bangkorai but its wedged between two cliff faces so its always "out of range" even if you're standing right on top of it.

phantasmalD

There are many (nearly-)inaccessible chests, like ones that are buried in the ground or in unreachable places like this.
Most likely remnants of earlier map builds when those locations weren't blocked off but later on someone added more props and walls to the landscape and didn't make sure that all spawn points were still reachable.

Until they added the treasure chest perk in Greymoor it was pretty much impossible to even know these were there but now there a blue highlight drawing attention to them.

There are other type of unreachable harvestables as well, for example, in Malabal Tor you can see an ore node behind the door to Treehenge that you can never actually get to.

jaws343

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

I like the super easy to reach chest in Bangkorai but its wedged between two cliff faces so its always "out of range" even if you're standing right on top of it.

That chest used to be reachable until they added in the new dungeon right next to it. If it's the one I am thinking of

SeaGtGruff

During the recent Tribunal event I was in Clockwork City running through the canyon to get back to the Brass Fortress when I decided to walk up this large piece of a broken bridge that's leaning at an angle. I walked up to the very tip of it and was close enough to the broken bridge above it to see the steamy glow of a treasure chest on the broken bridge. I don't think there's any way to jump or grapple over to it, because it's at a higher elevation and the Clockwork City DLC predates the introduction of the grappling hook mechanic, so I spent the next half hour trying to figure out how to reach the northern point of the bridge, but couldn't find any way to climb the side of the canyon to access the bridge. I'm not sure if there's a way to get that treasure chest or if it's just there to tantalize us, but I never would have known it's there if I hadn't walked up to the highest tip of that broken piece and hadn't had the passive skill that makes treasure chests glow.

Iarao

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

I like the super easy to reach chest in Bangkorai but its wedged between two cliff faces so its always "out of range" even if you're standing right on top of it.

i have noticed over the years that the world moves. things start to get swallowed up some. like bags, barrels, chests, etc.

Dagoth_Rac

There is a delve in Eastmarch. Stormcrag Crypt? There is a chest in the boss room that is against a wall, under some wooden stairs. But every time I click on it: "This item is out of reach," or some wording like that. And it is not at a weird angle or hard to reach corner. It looks like a million other chest locations that you can easily loot.

Athan1

DreamyLu

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

There is a delve in Eastmarch. Stormcrag Crypt? There is a chest in the boss room that is against a wall, under some wooden stairs. But every time I click on it: "This item is out of reach," or some wording like that. And it is not at a weird angle or hard to reach corner. It looks like a million other chest locations that you can easily loot.

I got that one yesterday! Yes, it's Stormcrag

Fischblut

I used to report inaccessible chests, long time ago. It was done when my character was standing right on top of them/as close to them as possible, so that my location and map coordinates were easily seen in every bug report.

Sadly, none of those chests was ever fixed - so I no longer report them

zaria

phantasmalD wrote: »

There are many (nearly-)inaccessible chests, like ones that are buried in the ground or in unreachable places like this.
Most likely remnants of earlier map builds when those locations weren't blocked off but later on someone added more props and walls to the landscape and didn't make sure that all spawn points were still reachable.

Until they added the treasure chest perk in Greymoor it was pretty much impossible to even know these were there but now there a blue highlight drawing attention to them.

There are other type of unreachable harvestables as well, for example, in Malabal Tor you can see an ore node behind the door to Treehenge that you can never actually get to.

I once found an chest in an group dungeon who had clipped into a rock. That would be impossible to see without the glowing chest passive. Also an chest inside an rock near an Alk'ir dolmen.
I suspect its clipped into the rock the way the delivery chest for alchemy writs sometimes clip into the box it sit on.

I find this weird, i don't think they use in game gravity to settle static items?

ApoAlaia

In Thukhozod's Sanctum (Wrothgar) there is a chest in the corner on top of some scaffolding in the 'main room' (where the delve 'boss' spawns) that I have never been able to reach.

Is as if someone forgot to include or decided to remove the ramp that leads to that platform.

VDoom1

To mess with us. To trolls us, to be a big tease.

A serious answer: I think the spawn chest system sometimes goes a little koko. Like it's had to much to drink or such, it's a little tipsy.

Coatmagic

Even before the blue shiny perk, if you turn down your draw distance, the chests that are 'under the world' will draw before the landscape xD

*Many of the chests can still be opened if you find the 'sweet spot' >^^<