Secret chest in dawnstar? Whys it there?

Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:58 am

Whys it even there? I'm really curious, and are there any other "secret" chests I don't know about?
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Melanie Steinberg
 
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:02 am

Apparently it's the travelling Khajit (sp?) merchant's chest. Probably a game mechanic, though why the devs had to make an invisible chest beats me.
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:18 am

its there cause it is and i would assume there is a lot of chests you have not found :nod:
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:32 pm

Every merchant in the game has a chest hiddeon out of bounds that their inventory spawns in.
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:10 am

Apparently it's the travelling Khajit (sp?) merchant's chest. Probably a game mechanic, though why the devs had to make an invisible chest beats me.

Its there because the traders have to store their goods somewhere there player cant pickpocket it.
That this particular trader's chest is accessible by the player is a bug, or glitch.
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:02 am

Every merchant in the game has a chest hiddeon out of bounds that their inventory spawns in.
But this ones not out of bounds
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Post » Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:32 pm

But this ones not out of bounds
But game designers also make mistakes, so there is a chance that it was left someplace accessible. What is in the chest?

Also, what is the exact location of it? I'm in the CK in Dawnstar now, found the Caravan merchant chest, but it appears to be underground. Still looking.
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:38 am

But game designers also make mistakes, so there is a chance that it was left someplace accessible. What is in the chest?

Also, what is the exact location of it? I'm in the CK in Dawnstar now, found the Caravan merchant chest, but it appears to be underground. Still looking.

Go to the mine in Dawnstar...

Face the entrance...

Now look to the west to see a pile of rocks...

Scour over those rocks or go look it up on YouTube. :P
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:12 am

if its the merchant's chest, does that mean at some point they stop by to restock?
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:14 am

All merchants have those chests, you can use platers to glitch through walls and take their stuff
This will show you how to do it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzoiqNkyNF0&feature=related
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:06 am

if its the merchant's chest, does that mean at some point they stop by to restock?

Perhaps, the normal means of restock is waiting 48 hrs in front of the Khajitt.... and you can fill the chest up twice on the first go around if you empty the chest first and then go to the Khajitt to restock it. Only on the first visit though.

If you visit the merchant first, you'll have to wait 48 hrs for it to restock like normally.

I've never witnessed the Khajitt travel to the chest, I wait the afformentioned 48 hours.
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:10 am

Ok I found it in the CK.

It's not invisible, it's just underground but close enough to the surface that you can access it. Like I said, it was just a mistake by the developers, who forgot to lower it enough.

if its the merchant's chest, does that mean at some point they stop by to restock?

Things like that aren't actually done by the merchants. The chests refill the same way any other resetting chest in the game does. If it has been altered, it will restock after so many days (2 I think), provided you don't load the cell it is in in that time. When it resets, it empties everything from the chest and then reloads what is supposed to be in the chest. As there are several levelled and randomized lists in the container, it chooses one random item on that list to represent that list, which is why the items change over time.
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:24 am

I edited my post cause their was better information
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