Ashen Chest

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An **Ashen Chest** is a type of a Container Chest in Sea of Thieves, which appears locked and must be unlocked using an Ashen Key. Ashen Chests are also a type of Bilge Rats Treasure that can be sold to the Bilge Rats both locked and unlocked for 5 Doubloons. Alternatively they can be sold to the Reaper's Bones for Doubloons and Reputation instead. Ashen Chests are always guaranteed to contain at least one random Ashen Tome aside other Treasure items.

## Mechanics

Most Ashen Chests are found locked, requiring the Crew to find and use an Ashen Key to open the chest. Once opened, the Chests reveal three Treasure items. An opened Chest acts identically to any Container Chest, allowing the transportation of three small Treasure items.

Ashen Keys can be found from the following sources:

* Rewarded for solving an Ashen Key Master's Notes Quest that is dropped by Ashen Key Masters that appear during Skeleton Fort World Events or on Islands as Emergent Skeleton Captain spawns.
* Low chance to be caught with a Fishing Rod when not using any Bait.

## Where to find

**Ashen Chests** can be found from the following sources:

* 1 Guaranteed as a reward for solving an Ashen Guardian's Notes Quest, dropped by Ashen Guardians that appear during Skeleton Fort World Events or on Islands as Emergent Skeleton Captain spawn
* 1 Guaranteed inside a completed Skeleton Fort Vault
* 2 Guaranteed after defeating the Captain's Ship of a Skeleton Fleet
* Chance to find on Skeleton Ships
* Possible reward for defeating a Kraken tentacle
* Possible reward for defeating a Megalodon
* Guaranteed reward for an Ashen Chest Stash Voyage, bought from the Black Market for 50  or 65,000
* Possible reward for defeating an Ashen Lord (Unlocked!)

## Rewards

### Treasure Pool

Every Ashen Chest opened with an Ashen Key will reveal 3 Treasure items:

* 1 guaranteed random Ashen Tome
* 2 additional Items that can be the following:
	+ 5  Doubloon Pouch
	+ 1,000  Gold Pouch
	+ Ritual Skull
	+ Roaring Goblet
	+ Brimstone Casket
	+ Devil’s Remnant
	+ Magma’s Grail
	+ An additional Ashen Tome

Ashen Chests received as rewards for an Ashen Lord Battle appear already opened and are more similar to Collector's Chests in that they have Gold and 0-3 Treasure items inside. The Treasure itself can be any of the regular Ashen Treasure pool.

### Selling Ashen Chests

Ashen Chests can be sold both locked and unlocked to:

* Larinna stationed in every Tavern for Bilge Rat Doubloons
* The Servant of the Flame at The Reaper’s Hideout for Doubloons and Reaper's Bones Reputation and Emissary Value (if sailing as a Reaper's Bones Emissary)

The following is the reward chart for sold Ashen Chests (only applicable when selling to the Reaper's Bones):

 I
 II
 III
 IV
 V

## Notes

* It is recommended to sell these Chests to the Reaper's Bones as they will offer increasing Doubloon, Reputation and Emissary Value multipliers for selling these items to The Servant of the Flame as Graded Reaper's Bones Emissaries. This bonus also applies to everything inside the Chest.
* All Commendations related to Ashen Chests can also be earned by selling them to the Reaper's Bones.
* Picking up and placing an Ashen Chest on a Ship for the first time gives Emissary Grade Reputation to Trading Company Emissaries representing the Reaper's Bones.
* Just as with other Container Chests, the following applies to Ashen Chests:
	+ An empty Ashen Chest can store up to three smaller Treasure Items, such as Artefacts, Bounty Skulls, Mermaid Gems, Keys, Treacherous Plunder, small Bilge Rats Treasure or Quest Items.
	+ An Ashen Chest hides the glow and quells the sounds of the Treasure Items inside, however the Chest itself can be seen from far away by a white glint typical to Treasure Chests.
	+ Container Chests are usually used to transport three smaller Treasure Items at one time to save time on turning in.
	+ Container Chests can be caught with a Harpoon.

## Trivia

* The Skeleton Glyphs on the Chest read as *Flame* and *Resurrection*

## Commendations

* **Grade II:** 240 items
* **Grade III:** 360 items
* **Grade IV:** 480 items
* **Grade V:** 600 items
* **Grade II:** 120 items
* **Grade III:** 200 items
* **Grade IV:** 240 items
* **Grade V:** 320 items

## Pirate Chat Wheel

Here is the Pirate Chat Wheel for the Ashen Chest:

## Patch history

* **2.6.1 (September 1, 2022)**
	+ Players will no longer be able to delete items that are placed inside Ashen Chests while holding another Captain’s Logbook.

* **2.4.1 (January 20, 2022)**
	+ Taking items from an Ashen Chest while holding a Map Bundle should no longer cause the items to disappear.