What’s the deal with chests

candy-box

I've been playing Candy Box today and I found a chest at the end of one the quests! It had a wonderful pair of boots and lots of candies inside. Now I want to find more chests. The problem is, I haven't found one since. So are chests random or is there a specific way to trigger them? Can they only be found during questing? Basically, tell me everything you know about chests.

Best Answer

They're random. In the peaceful forest, each tree has a base 1/100 chance to be a chest instead. Each chest you find reduces the chance to 1/150, 1/200, 1/250, etc. On Mount Goblin the base chance is 1/50, which decreases in the same way. The basic chest always drops a key to the lollipop farm if you don't have it, and has a 1/3 chance to drop each of the boots, map to swamp, and map to hut, as well as 300 + d500 candies.