PC Dead Man's Chest not detected by Metal Detection

[Jatopian]

Steam or GOG

Steam

Single Player/Multiplayer

Multi

Operating System

Windows 7

Terraria Version

1.4.0.5

Controls Used

Keyboard/Mouse

Dead Man's Chest was not detected by Cell Phone. Dead Man's Chests are real chests which contain real loot, so they should be detected as treasure.

This might or might not apply to spelunker potion highlighting also.

Curiously, I couldn't reproduce this later, so there might be more conditions for the issue to occur. Sorry about that.

 

[CongratsIsTrash]

Perhaps the Metal Detector was detecting something higher up on the detection list than the Chest? e.g. Life Crystal, Hardmode ores.

Also, Spelunker Potion does correctly highlight the Dead Man's Chest.

 

[Jatopian]

No, this was pre-Hardmode and I knew about Life Crystals as the only pre-Hardmode thing to supersede chests.

 

[CongratsIsTrash]

Hmm, that's rather interesting. Though the fact that you can't reproduce it makes me think it might not be a bug, maybe some one-time quirk. *shrugs*

 

[Sigma90]

I tried placing a Dead Man's Chest in an empty area ("No treasure nearby") and the Cell Phone picked up "Chest detected nearby!" If it happens again, it would be good to know if the Cell Phone is detecting something else instead.