Ancient chest

Ancient Chest

A rune reliquary, nothing like a boss's iron chest: dark stone on a wide plinth, four obelisks with turquoise crystals floating on their tips, a verdigris band, a carved rune on the front and a crystal shard hovering over the lid. Its lid lifts off by magic, floats up while it tips back, and settles standing behind the chest.

What it gives

A stat bonus past the last level of one of your maxed weapons.
If no maxed weapon can take one: one level of a passive item that is not maxed (never Skull O'Maniac).
If neither can: a meal that heals 30 HP.

Where it is

About 35% of the structures with a chest spot hold one.
A cleared zone leaves one on its dais, with 2 diamonds (see the zone bosses).
The first one you open in a run holds 2 diamonds (a zone's chest is not one of them).
Opens when you walk within 3.5 studs of its middle.
Every chest in the game: the Chests page.

Ancient Chest

What it gives

Where it is

Structures with a chest spot26

Fort

Temple

Tower

Rocks

Camp

Gate

Windmill

Graveyard

Well

Market

Church

Chapel

Angelcourt

Opentomb

Mausoleum

Witchhut

Dock

Mosstree

Tavern

Forge

Townhall

Clocktower

Geode

Mine

Shrine

Spire