Rare Chest

The Rare Chest, is a type of Chest in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was introduced in Chapter 2: Season 1.

Functionality
Like all other chests, the Rare Chest can be interacted with by the player, or destroyed, to produce a variety of items. These items for a standard chest, will always be at least one Weapon alongside its respective ammo, 30 of one type of Material, and two consumable items, one of which being a healing item. Rare chests can also drop Bars.

Chests can be located by the distinctive noise they make when nearby.

Loot
The Rare chest can spawn loot ranging from to. It will not spawn weapons that are below rarity.

Location
Rare Chests can be found almost anywhere, in set spawn locations across the Battle Royale Map. They have a very small chance to replace a Standard Chest.

Strategy Guide

 * To locate a Rare Chest, listen out for its unique sound it makes when close-by. This sound is different to Standard Chests.
 * To quickly loot a Rare Chest, place a structure, such as Pyramid, over the area. This will instantly break the chest and spawn all the loot dropped from it.

History
Each season the loot table of Rare Chests is adjusted. This has not been included.

Chapter 2: Season 1

 * Update v11.00: Introduced Rare Chests, these have a chance to replace a Standard Chest, meaning the chance of Standard Chest appearing is now less than 100%
 * The spawn rate of any chest is still 100%.

Chapter 2: Season 4

 * Update v14.00: Reduced the spawn rate of Chests to 50%, meaning a Rare Chest is harder to locate.

Trivia

 * Rare Chests take the appearance of a Level 3 Chest in Fortnite: Save the World.
 * However there was a time during Chapter 2: Season 8, where they incorrectly shared the appearance of the Level 1 Chest.
 * Rare Chests will replace 100% of the chests in the Solid Gold LTM, and its respective variants.