Looting is more important than ever before in Fortnite’s Treasure Hunters mini-season, as there are lots of freebies up for grabs this time around, including access to everything in the shop if you get really lucky. Because of this, you may be searching for a way to keep track of how many chests you’ve opened.
Finding and opening chests is the only way to get your hands on quite a few rare items this season, so keeping an eye on all of the work you’ve put in is a helpful tool for tracking progress. It can be tricky to find on your own, though, so here’s how to check how many chests you’ve opened in Fortnite.
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How to track how many chests you’ve opened in Fortnite
You can keep track of how many chests you’ve opened in Fortnite Treasure Hunters from the Quests tab. This helpful mechanic can be easy to miss, as there are quite a lot of missions to tackle listed in this section. Here’s how to find it.
- Load up Fortnite.
- Click on Battle Royale.
- Select the Quests tab. It can be found in the top bar, right between the Passes and Compete options, as long as you have the Battle Royale game mode selected.
- Scroll down to the Treasure Chest Hunt section.
- View the listed numbers on each of the three tracked types of chests.
- The “Open Treasure Chests” goal tells you how many standard chests you’ve opened.
- The “Open Rare Chests” goal tells you how many blue Rare Chests you’ve opened.
- The “Open Sprite Chests” goal tells you how many Sprite Chests you’ve opened.
Each of the chest quests listed here tracks your progress across five stages. As you hit each of the five milestones for these bonus goals, you earn extra XP, and the listed maximum number of chests being tracked increases.
These missions only track chests up to 1,000 for each type, so once you hit this number in each of the three categories, your total opened chests will no longer be displayed. This means you can only check your opened chests for the season up until you hit this cap.
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Does opening more chests increase Pirate Shop Access odds in Fortnite?
The number of chests you open does not directly affect your odds of finding the Pirate Shop Access or other special loot drop items. The loot odds and drop rates are completely unrelated to how many chests you open, as this system is completely based on RNG, which means it comes down to random luck and chance.
Although opening more chests doesn’t directly increase your odds of finding Pirate Shop Access and other loot items, the more you loot, the more shots you have at potentially finding something. This system can be a bit confusing to fully understand, but a good way to conceptualize it is to compare the loot system to a bag of marbles.
Think of all the special loot items as rare, colored marbles in a big bag of grey ones. Each time you open a chest, you’re pulling a marble out. If the marble is grey, it goes right back in. If it’s colored, it stays out.
Your odds of pulling a colored one, which is a special loot item, don’t increase over time, as the grey marbles, or standard loot items, always go back into the pool. At the same time, the more you reach into the bag by opening chests, the more shots you have at finding items.
Although you can’t boost your odds of finding rare drops by opening more chests, you can help the process along by attending special events that feature boosted odds for these rare items. Treasure Hours are the best time to go looting for these assets.
