# All Chest Locations and Best Chest Farming Routes

All 1,559 treasure chests in Palworld mapped by region, what each region's chests actually pay and how often, ten farming loops ranked by chests per minute with every stop's coordinates, the 109 elemental-sealed chests, and how chest and loot cache respawns really work.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/guides/all-chest-locations
Updated: 2026-08-25

Palworld hides **1,559 treasure chests** across the world and marks exactly none of them on your in-game map, so most players open maybe a tenth of them by accident and never find the rest. This guide has all of them split by region, what each region's chests actually pay and at what rate, and ten farming loops with the coordinates of every single stop.

## All Chest Locations at a Glance

Chests are not spread evenly. Just under half of them sit in three regions — the Desiccated Dunes, the Forest and Feybreak — and the payout ladder tracks the region's danger almost perfectly, from 700 Gold a chest in the Grasslands to 7,000 in [the World Tree](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-find-sakurajima-island). Every row below opens our [Palworld interactive map](https://palworld-db.com/map) with that region's chest layer already switched on, so you can plan a loop before you fly.

| Region | Chests | Always inside | Best thing it rolls | Open on the map |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Desiccated Dunes** | **263** | [Emerald](https://palworld-db.com/item/Eemerald) + 1,700-2,300 Gold | [Hyper Sphere](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSphere_Tera) at 75.8% | [Desert chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_desert) |
| **Forest** | **247** | [Sapphire](https://palworld-db.com/item/Sapphire) + 1,200-1,600 Gold | [Medical Supplies](https://palworld-db.com/item/Medicines) at 62.5% | [Forest chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_forest) |
| **Feybreak** | **201** | [Diamond](https://palworld-db.com/item/Diamond) | [Futuristic Technical Manual](https://palworld-db.com/item/TechnologyBook_G3) at 28.7% | [Feybreak chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_feybreak) |
| **Snowfields** | **178** | [Diamond](https://palworld-db.com/item/Diamond) + 2,000-2,500 Gold | [Futuristic Technical Manual](https://palworld-db.com/item/TechnologyBook_G3) at 46.2% | [Snowfields chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_snowfields) |
| **Grasslands** | **177** | [Ruby](https://palworld-db.com/item/Ruby) + 700-1,000 Gold | [Mega Sphere](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSphere_Mega) at 87.0% | [Grasslands chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_grasslands) |
| **Mount Obsidian** | 137 | [Emerald](https://palworld-db.com/item/Eemerald) + 1,500-2,100 Gold | [Bellanoir Libero's Slab Fragment](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSummon_NightLady_Dark_Parts) at 81.8% | [Mount Obsidian chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_mountobsidian) |
| **Elemental-sealed** | 109 | 10-15 [Dog Coin](https://palworld-db.com/item/DogCoin) | 10-20 elemental organs in one grab | [Elemental chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_elem) |
| **Sunreach Isle** | 76 | 3,500-4,000 Gold + [Training Manual (XL)](https://palworld-db.com/item/ExpBoost_04) | [Ancient Sphere](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSphere_Ancient_2) at 75.8% | [Sunreach Isle chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_sunreachisle) |
| **Sakurajima** | 68 | 2,500-3,500 Gold + [Training Manual (XL)](https://palworld-db.com/item/ExpBoost_04) | [Legendary Sphere](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSphere_Legend) at 39.7% | [Sakurajima chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_sakurajima) |
| **Ruins** | 48 | Rolls the Forest table | [Bellanoir's Slab Fragment](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSummon_NightLady_Parts) at 50.0% | [Ruins chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_ruins) |
| **World Tree** | 38 | [Glistening Ancient Relic](https://palworld-db.com/item/WorldTreeRelic_05) + 7,000-7,500 Gold | 1-3 [Ancient Civilization Core](https://palworld-db.com/item/AncientParts2), guaranteed | [World Tree chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_worldtree&region=tree) |
| **Wildlife Sanctuaries** | 17 | Rolls the Forest table | The only chests behind a wanted level | [Sanctuary chest layer](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=chest_hiddenspots) |

Two rows are worth reading twice. The **Snowfields** are the sweet spot for mid-game players: a [Futuristic Technical Manual](https://palworld-db.com/item/TechnologyBook_G3) shows up in 46.2% of their chests, which is the highest rate anywhere on the map and the fastest legal way to buy out the late tech tree — see [how to get more technology points](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-technology-points) for what those manuals are worth. The **World Tree**'s 38 chests are the richest per open in the game, guaranteeing a [Glistening Ancient Relic](https://palworld-db.com/item/WorldTreeRelic_05), 1-3 [Ancient Civilization Core](https://palworld-db.com/item/AncientParts2) and over 7,000 Gold every single time, but you need to be level 74+ to survive the walk between them.

## Best Chest Farming Routes

A route is only worth running if the chests are packed tight enough that you never stop flying. The table below ranks every fast travel statue by how many chests sit within a short hop of it — roughly 550 m in any direction, which is about fifteen seconds on a fast mount. Ancient Ritual Site and Lake Center top the list because the Ruins chests cluster harder than anything else in the game, and both are reachable in the twenties. Everything below Duneshelter is a level-55-plus route.

| Start from | Coordinates | Chests in range | Mostly | Alpha next door | Why run it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Ancient Ritual Site** | -14, -292 | **53** | Ruins | [Vaelet](https://palworld-db.com/pal/vaelet) Lv. 27 | Densest chest cluster on the whole map, and the Ruins pool pays [Bellanoir's Slab Fragment](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSummon_NightLady_Parts) half the time |
| **Lake Center** | 16, -212 | **52** | Ruins | [Vaelet](https://palworld-db.com/pal/vaelet) Lv. 27 | Same cluster from the other side — run both statues back to back for 100+ chests |
| **Frostbound Mountains Summit** | 167, 45 | **50** | Forest | [Beakon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/beakon) Lv. 37 | 50 Forest chests in a 1.5 km loop, each one a guaranteed [Sapphire](https://palworld-db.com/item/Sapphire) and 1,200+ Gold |
| **Free Pal Alliance Tower Entrance** | 34, -308 | **50** | Ruins | [Elphidran](https://palworld-db.com/pal/elphidran) Lv. 30 | Chest loop and a tower boss on the same warp |
| **Land of Absolute Zero** | -238, 495 | 45 | Snowfields | [Frostallion](https://palworld-db.com/pal/frostallion) Lv. 60 | Best [Futuristic Technical Manual](https://palworld-db.com/item/TechnologyBook_G3) farm in the game at 46.2% per chest |
| **Rayne Syndicate Tower Entrance** | 118, -423 | 44 | Grasslands | [Chillet](https://palworld-db.com/pal/chillet) Lv. 11 | The starter route — 44 chests you can clear at level 15 with no gear |
| **Duneshelter** | 356, 349 | 40 | Desert | [Tetroise](https://palworld-db.com/pal/tetroise-) Lv. 55 | Chests, a merchant town and the densest [Leezpunk](https://palworld-db.com/pal/leezpunk) spawns for Copper Keys, all on one statue |
| **Moonflower Tower Entrance** | -601, 216 | 35 | Sakurajima | [Lyleen](https://palworld-db.com/pal/lyleen) Lv. 58 | Stacks onto the [Moonflower Tower XP farm](https://palworld-db.com/guides/moonflower-tower-xp-farm) you are already running |
| **Farcry Marsh** | -325, -1414 | 33 | Sunreach Isle | [Snock](https://palworld-db.com/pal/snock) Lv. 65 | [Ancient Sphere](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSphere_Ancient_2) and [Giant Pal Soul](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalUpgradeStone4) on nearly every chest |
| **Stone Pillar Cave Entrance** | -896, -1014 | 29 | Feybreak | [Nitemary](https://palworld-db.com/pal/nitemary) Lv. 60 | Feybreak schematics and [Gold Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey03) drops in one tight canyon |

> **Tip.** Bring a fast flying mount before you commit to any of these. Chests sit on ledges, rooftops and cliff shelves constantly, and a ground mount turns a two-minute loop into ten minutes of pathfinding. Everything below is written assuming you can hover.

### Early Route: Rayne Syndicate Tower Entrance

This is the first chest loop you can realistically clear, and nothing in it hits harder than a level 20 Pal. Warp to Rayne Syndicate Tower Entrance at **118, -423**, then run the twelve stops in order — the whole circuit is about **1.7 km** and ends close enough to the statue to warp out and reset. Every one of these is a Grasslands chest, so expect a guaranteed [Ruby](https://palworld-db.com/item/Ruby) and 700-1,000 Gold from each, a [Mega Sphere](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSphere_Mega) 87% of the time, and a [Copper Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey01) from roughly one chest in five.

| Stop | Coordinates | Stop | Coordinates |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 110, -402 | 7 | 64, -367 |
| 2 | 135, -380 | 8 | 58, -361 |
| 3 | 159, -350 | 9 | 43, -362 |
| 4 | 134, -335 | 10 | 41, -338 |
| 5 | 90, -312 | 11 | 55, -330 |
| 6 | 87, -348 | 12 | 76, -397 |

### Mid Route: Frostbound Mountains Summit

Fifty chests sit within range of this one statue, which is more than any other Forest cluster in the game. Start at **167, 45** and work south down the ridge — the twelve tightest stops come to about **1.5 km**, and there are another 38 in the surrounding valleys if you want to keep going. Forest chests are the best mid-game gold per open outside the endgame regions, and they pay [Medical Supplies](https://palworld-db.com/item/Medicines) 62.5% of the time and [Recovery Meds](https://palworld-db.com/item/Potion) 37.5%, which basically solves healing for the rest of your run. [Beakon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/beakon) patrols the north end at level 37, so clear it or fly high.

| Stop | Coordinates | Stop | Coordinates |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 174, 46 | 7 | 157, -57 |
| 2 | 163, 33 | 8 | 123, -29 |
| 3 | 187, 19 | 9 | 115, -1 |
| 4 | 189, -5 | 10 | 87, -19 |
| 5 | 174, -4 | 11 | 82, 11 |
| 6 | 178, -28 | 12 | 62, 40 |

### Late Route: Land of Absolute Zero

This is the one to run on repeat once you are past level 55. The twelve stops below cover roughly **1.3 km** — the tightest loop of the three — and Snowfields chests carry the highest [Futuristic Technical Manual](https://palworld-db.com/item/TechnologyBook_G3) rate anywhere at 46.2%, on top of a guaranteed [Diamond](https://palworld-db.com/item/Diamond), 2,000-2,500 Gold, a [Large Pal Soul](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalUpgradeStone3) 71.4% of the time and a [Gold Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey03) from 28.6% of them. Slab fragments for both [Bellanoir Libero](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSummon_NightLady_Dark_Parts) and [Blazamut Ryu](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalSummon_KingBahamut_Dragon_Parts) show up at 50% each, so this doubles as raid-summon prep. [Frostallion](https://palworld-db.com/pal/frostallion) is the only real threat and it sits off the route to the south-west.

| Stop | Coordinates | Stop | Coordinates |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | -248, 504 | 7 | -243, 570 |
| 2 | -264, 498 | 8 | -243, 542 |
| 3 | -280, 521 | 9 | -232, 528 |
| 4 | -280, 546 | 10 | -216, 504 |
| 5 | -263, 555 | 11 | -203, 478 |
| 6 | -270, 576 | 12 | -183, 478 |

## Elemental Treasure Chests and Where They Are

There are **109** of these scattered across four regions, and they are a completely different animal from a normal chest. Each one is sealed with an elemental lock, so you need that element in your party to crack it — and the seal is rerolled every time the chest comes back, with Fire, Water and Electric each getting an equal share, so the pin you cleared as a Fire chest last week can be a Water chest today. Plan on carrying one Pal of each of the three.

| Seal | Always inside | The bulk pull | Also pays |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Fire** | 10-15 [Dog Coin](https://palworld-db.com/item/DogCoin) | 10-20 [Flame Organ](https://palworld-db.com/item/FireOrgan) at 82.6% | [Silver Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey02), plus Fire skill fruits at ~2.5% each |
| **Water** | 10-15 [Dog Coin](https://palworld-db.com/item/DogCoin) | 10-20 [Aquatic Pal Fluids](https://palworld-db.com/item/PalFluid) at 87.0% | [Silver Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey02), plus Water skill fruits at ~2.5% each |
| **Electric** | 10-15 [Dog Coin](https://palworld-db.com/item/DogCoin) | 10-20 [Electric Organ](https://palworld-db.com/item/ElectricOrgan) at 82.6% | [Silver Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey02), plus Electric skill fruits at ~2.4% each |

Nothing else in the game hands you twenty organs in a single interaction, which makes these the fastest fix when an ammo or armour recipe is gated on [Flame Organ](https://palworld-db.com/item/FireOrgan) and you do not feel like grinding kills. The [Dog Coin](https://palworld-db.com/item/DogCoin) payout is the quiet other half — 10-15 per chest with no fighting attached, and 20-30 on the Sunreach Isle ones. **47** of the 109 sit on Sakurajima, **32** in the Desiccated Dunes, **22** in the Forest and **8** on Sunreach Isle. The World Tree spawns them too, mixed into its normal chest pins: those 38 spawners roll a standard chest four times out of five and an elemental one the rest of the time, and a World Tree water-sealed chest is a guaranteed [Gold Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey03).

## Wildlife Sanctuary Chests

Seventeen chests sit inside the three Wildlife Sanctuaries, and they are the only chests in Palworld that come with a wanted level attached — setting foot on the islands makes you a criminal, and the guards do not care why you came. They roll the Forest table, so the loot itself is nothing special; you go for the [sanctuary-exclusive Pals](https://palworld-db.com/guides/wildlife-sanctuary-pals) and clear the chests while you are already there and already wanted.

| Sanctuary | Chests | Chest coordinates | Launch from |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **No. 1** (north) | 5 | 24, -705 · 30, -680 · 57, -677 · 63, -661 · 83, -698 | The north coast — it is a long open-water flight either way |
| **No. 2** (west) | **7** | -675, -103 · -667, -77 · -660, -113 · -658, -78 · -654, -138 · -640, -92 · -638, -129 | **Isle of Silence** at -543, -29 |
| **No. 3** (south-east) | 5 | 627, 655 · 643, 623 · 668, 665 · 677, 602 · 683, 657 | **Seaward Passage** at 322, 662 |

Sanctuary No. 2 is the one to bother with — seven chests inside a 40-unit box, the shortest crossing of the three, and it sits next to a hack terminal and an elemental chest. Fly in low, take the seven, and warp out to drop the wanted status rather than fighting the guards for loot they do not carry.

## Caverns Are Denser Than the Surface

There are **170 dungeon entrances** on the map and every cavern behind them draws on the same chest pool as the region it sits in — so a cavern is just the surface route compressed into a corridor with no flying between stops. Feybreak Cavern and Astral Mountains Cavern are the two worth memorising, because their pools are the ones paying [Futuristic Technical Manual](https://palworld-db.com/item/TechnologyBook_G3) and [Gold Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey03). The level bands below are what actually spawns inside, boss chamber included.

| Cavern | Levels inside | Entrances | Chest pool it shares |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Hillside Cavern](https://palworld-db.com/guides/hillside-cavern) | 5-40 | **48** in the Grasslands | Grasslands |
| [Ravine Grotto](https://palworld-db.com/guides/ravine-grotto) | 5-40 | **48** in the Grasslands | Grasslands |
| Isolated Island Cavern | 5-40 | **48** in the Grasslands | Grasslands |
| [Mountain Stream Grotto](https://palworld-db.com/guides/mountain-stream-grotto) | 20-58 | 30 in the Forest | Forest |
| [Cavern of the Dunes](https://palworld-db.com/guides/cavern-of-the-dunes) | 5-40 | 15 in the Desert | Desert |
| [Volcanic Cavern](https://palworld-db.com/guides/volcanic-cavern) | 32-38 | 15 on Mount Obsidian | Mount Obsidian |
| [Astral Mountains Cavern](https://palworld-db.com/guides/astral-mountains-cavern) | 10-50 | 15 in the Snowfields | Snowfields |
| [Cherry Blossom Cave](https://palworld-db.com/guides/cherry-blossom-cave) | 38-52 | 15 on Sakurajima | Sakurajima |
| [Feybreak Cavern](https://palworld-db.com/guides/feybreak-cavern) | 20-58 | 30 in the Viking ruins | Feybreak |
| [Sunreach Skies](https://palworld-db.com/guides/sunreach-skies) | **63-69** | 1 on Sunreach Isle | Sunreach Isle |

Note how lopsided the entrance counts are. The Grasslands alone hold 48 of the 170, which is why the early game feels like it is drowning in caverns and the late game feels like it has none — Sunreach Isle and Yakushima have exactly one entrance each. If you are hunting a specific cavern, the entrances rotate: a cleared dungeon closes behind you and a different one opens elsewhere, so the practical move is to keep three or four entrance pins in the same region and cycle them.

## Locked Chests and Keys

Some chests come sealed with a copper, silver or gold lock, and you need the matching key in your bag — you cannot break them open. Keys weigh 0.1 each and stack to 9,999, so carry every one you find. The short version is below; [our full keys guide](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-keys) has every source and the fastest farm for each colour.

| Key | Fastest source | Rate | Chests that pay it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Copper Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey01) | Kill or catch [Leezpunk](https://palworld-db.com/pal/leezpunk) | **100%** | Grasslands chests, 21.1% |
| [Silver Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey02) | Forest, Desert and Mount Obsidian chests | 28.6-29.4% | Every elemental-sealed chest, 16.7-33.3% |
| [Gold Key](https://palworld-db.com/item/TreasureBoxKey03) | Kill a Black Marketeer | **100%** | Snowfields, Sakurajima, Feybreak and Sunreach Isle chests, 28.6% |

The pattern is worth internalising: **the region tells you the key colour**. Everything from the Grasslands pays Copper, the mid-game regions pay Silver, and every endgame region pays Gold. So if you are sitting on a stack of Copper Keys and no locks to use them on, you have out-levelled your farming route and should move the whole loop north.

## How Chest Respawns Work

Treasure chests do not come back quickly. Pocketpair has never published the interval, but in practice a looted chest takes about ten in-game days to refill, which is why a route you cleared this session will look empty if you fly it again an hour later. The fix is to keep two or three of the routes above in rotation rather than hammering one.

The **loot caches** are the opposite, and most players ignore them. These are the visible piles of items lying on the ground rather than chests you open, and there are **8,371** of them — five times as many as there are chests. Each one comes back **60 minutes** after you take it, with a 50% chance of actually reappearing on that tick, so a cache route is genuinely repeatable inside a single play session.

| Loot cache field | Caches | Open on the map |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Feybreak** | **3,588** | [Feybreak caches](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=cache_feybreak) |
| **Grasslands** | **2,362** | [Grasslands caches](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=cache_grasslands) |
| **World Tree** | 690 | [World Tree caches](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=cache_worldtree&region=tree) |
| **Sunreach Isle** | 574 | [Sunreach Isle caches](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=cache_sunreachisle) |
| **Desiccated Dunes** | 429 | [Desert caches](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=cache_desert) |
| **Sakurajima** | 347 | [Sakurajima caches](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=cache_sakurajima) |
| **Mount Obsidian** | 219 | [Mount Obsidian caches](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=cache_mountobsidian) |
| **Snowfields** | 162 | [Snowfields caches](https://palworld-db.com/map?layers=cache_snowfields) |

> **Tip.** Feybreak carries 3,588 loot caches on top of its 201 chests, which is 43% of every cache in the game crammed into one landmass. If you are level 60+ and want a farm you can run every hour instead of every ten in-game days, that is the answer — turn on the cache layer, not the chest layer.

## The Short Answer

If you only take one thing: run **Ancient Ritual Site** and **Lake Center** back to back in the twenties for 100+ chests in one sitting, switch to **Frostbound Mountains Summit** around level 37, and settle on **Land of Absolute Zero** from level 55 onward for the [Futuristic Technical Manual](https://palworld-db.com/item/TechnologyBook_G3) rate. Then stop hunting chests entirely once you unlock Feybreak, and farm its loot caches on the hourly respawn instead.

## Related Guides

**Hubs:** [Palworld Interactive Map](https://palworld-db.com/map) · [All Palworld Guides](https://palworld-db.com/guides) · [All Items](https://palworld-db.com/items)

**Loot and farming:** [How to Get Keys: Copper, Silver, and Gold Key Locations](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-keys) · [How to Farm Gold Fast](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-farm-gold) · [All Legendary Weapon Schematic Locations](https://palworld-db.com/guides/legendary-weapon-schematic-locations) · [How to Get More Technology Points and Ancient Points](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-technology-points) · [How to Get and Use the Ancient Relic Recycler](https://palworld-db.com/guides/ancient-relic-recycler)

**Places worth the flight:** [All Fast Travel Point Locations](https://palworld-db.com/guides/all-fast-travel-point-locations) · [All Wildlife Sanctuary Pals and Locations](https://palworld-db.com/guides/wildlife-sanctuary-pals) · [Rayne Syndicate Test Drilling Rig: Location and Loot](https://palworld-db.com/guides/rayne-syndicate-test-drilling-rig) · [Sunreach Island Location and Loot](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-to-sunreach-island) · [Tides of Terraria Islands: All 7 Locations and Loot](https://palworld-db.com/guides/tides-of-terraria-islands)

**Caverns:** [Feybreak Cavern Guide](https://palworld-db.com/guides/feybreak-cavern) · [Astral Mountains Cavern Guide](https://palworld-db.com/guides/astral-mountains-cavern) · [Cavern of the Dunes Guide](https://palworld-db.com/guides/cavern-of-the-dunes) · [Volcanic Cavern Guide](https://palworld-db.com/guides/volcanic-cavern) · [Hillside Cavern Guide](https://palworld-db.com/guides/hillside-cavern)


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