I haven’t played AO in a while, but I have been doing some small dark sea expeditions in I0 to prep for full release. Ive encountered this same structure that used to generate like… two chests… Now generates a ring of treasure everytime ive encountered it! These are just two instances below
Has anyone else seen this before, or is it some sort of bug or generation issue with the game not updating in a year? I thought id share cause ive never seen this
i think this is how it’s supposed to be
That’s pretty normal
isnt that like only on high altitudes
Aight, let me explain this. Every Dark Sea island past certain height, I’d say around Frostmill’s, is guaranteed a chest ring to generate on its highest point. Dark Sea islands are generated as a bunch of blocks stacked on top of each other, so structures on the highest block tend to be the highest point of the island, thats why you’re seeing these chest rings there. They aren’t tethered to the structure, it just happens this way
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Another few things about the ring.
The ice/sandstone/volcanic spires do count as valid spawns too, so on those island types you may want to look up
Amount of chests in the ring is always the same, but its diameter varies depending on the available area. Also, tiers of the chests depend on the height of the island, so its possible to get all golden
Archipelago-type islands, those that consist of several small islands within the same biome, only have one ring, on the highest island of the bunch, not a ring per island
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All of these formations are below the height (The first purple sky) where the 2 dark sealed chests and other smaller chests would spawn! The second image also show no dark sealed chests, so I dont think this is quite the case!
This is actually different from the height rings. Sometimes you can find rings of chests in any place that’s considered a great height, even if the ring doesn’t fit, but this is a pre-made structure that simply contains this many chests in this ring shape, you can see that it’s larger than a height ring. In both images, they’re on the same square structure, which is likely responsible for loading the chests.
Yeah, I find it weird cause this structures used to have zero chests… But now anytime at any height they seem to consistently have large rings
Not sure if the first purple sky height has anything to do with these chests
And also, sometimes Roblox just feels funny and doesn’t recognise certain parts as viable spawn points for the ring, even though they should be, so you can find islands where the highest point isn’t the one containing the chests
Im pretty sure it does! I consistently find spire rewards always above the purple clouds if the island is tall enough! I just wonder if these images are glitches cause ive never seen something like it lul
i’m pretty sure the clouds also block HEs from spawning
That might be right, all essenses I’ve found were below the cloud level
If that’s the case, that would make searching a lot more reliable lol! I should test this…
it’d be hard to test because you can’t really disprove it, but if you put out a request for people who’ve found one above the clouds and nobody answered that’d be good enough proof