History of Loot Caches

Overview

Loot Caches are faction-themed chests found in public patrol zones. Their designs reflect enemy factions such as the Fallen, Hive, Vex and Lucent Hive. Anyone can open them without restriction, and each player claims their own rewards until the chest disappears.

Location

Caches spawn at set spots within the sectors of a patrol zone, and the game picks among those spots at random. Tracking Ghost Mods show a waypoint once a cache is nearby, with detection ranges from 20 meters to 75 meters depending on the mod.

Rewards

Each opened cache gives Glimmer plus a planetary material or reputation that depends on the destination:

• Cosmodrome: Spinmetal Leaves
• Derelict Leviathan: Crown of Sorrow vendor reputation
• Dreaming City: Baryon Bough
• European Dead Zone: Dusklight Shard
• Europa: Glacial Starwort
• Moon: Helium Filaments
• Nessus: Microphasic Datalattice
• Savathun's Throne World: Throne World Rank reputation

Distinctions

Strike end-of-activity chests reuse the cache model but give different rewards. Raid Calus's Gift chests also reuse the Cabal model, but they are locked and need keys. Public Event chests have a single model, and only participants can claim them.