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I would be interested to hear if anyone has done the experimentation to confirm what effect breaking the treasure chest has on nearby map generation…
Yes, as I indicated in my previous post in this thread it seems to have no effect.
After discovering that chests from neighboring ruins/shipwrecks tended to have the same maps I changed my strategy and only looted as many chests as it took to find a map, sailed off to dig up and destroy the treasure chest and returned to the ruin field to loot the rest and found those maps tended to be the same as the first. I also created two worlds with the same seed and found the same maps in the same places even when first approaching the area from different directions in an attempt to load different chunks.
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