The Floral Expanse Beyond region in Where Winds Meet is small, but its chest tracking is notoriously unforgiving. Many players stall at 4/6 or 5/6 chests with Treasure seeker active and no clear pointer to what is missing.
The catch: several chests in and around this area do not behave like regular open-world loot. Some are buried in mud or water, one sits on a boat close to the world border, and Treasure seeker does not reliably highlight all of them. That combination makes 100% completion feel bugged even when it is not.
How chest tracking works in Floral Expanse Beyond
The exploration tracker for Floral Expanse Beyond counts six chests. Hitting 100% requires opening all six that the region expects, even if they sit at the edge of a neighboring zone like Bodhi Sea.
Two design decisions complicate the process:
- Treasure seeker is not universal. The skill description in-game notes that Treasure seeker will not detect every chest. Objects tied to encounters, quests, hidden caves, or special environmental triggers can sit outside its detection range.
- Mud and water hide interact points. Several chests are literally buried. You see bubbling mud or water, but no chest model. Interacting at the right spot surfaces the chest, and only then does it count.
Because of this, you can stand almost on top of a missing chest, fire Treasure seeker, and still see nothing. The exploration counter remains stuck until you manually uncover these hidden containers.
The two underwater or mud chests near Bodhi Sea
For most players stuck at 4/6 chests, the problem is a pair of hidden containers near Bodhi Sea on the Floral Expanse Beyond side. They sit below the surface in mud or shallow water and are easy to run past.
Each of these chests is marked only by bubbles rising from the ground. There is no visible chest until you interact.
How to reveal the mud or underwater chests
Step 1: Move along the transition between Floral Expanse Beyond and Bodhi Sea, watching the swampy and muddy patches rather than the dry paths. Take your time; the visual cue is subtle.
Step 2: Look for small bubble plumes coming out of the mud or water. They resemble the bubbles used elsewhere in the game’s swamp mechanics, not large geysers or vents.
Step 3: Stand directly on top of the bubbling spot and use the interact prompt when it appears. The chest will emerge from the mud or water and can then be opened like normal.
One of these spots may be guarded by a crocodile. If the enemy keeps you from safely standing on the bubble animation, deal with it from a distance first.
Step 4: Use ranged skills to kill the crocodile from a safe distance, then approach the bubbles again. Once the area is clear, the interaction zone becomes much easier to access, and the chest can be opened without interruption.
Both mud chests must be surfaced and opened for the exploration tracker to move from 4/6 to 6/6 if you already collected the more obvious ones. Several players have reported immediately hitting 100% once they interacted with these previously overlooked spots.
The boat chest near the world border
Another common blocker is a chest placed on a small boat at the very edge of the map, near the world border. It can be linked to the Floral Expanse Beyond or nearby Bodhi Sea completion, depending on your position, which makes it confusing when you are already certain you checked the shoreline.
The main problem is not finding the boat visually, but staying on it long enough to open the chest. Move a little too far, and the game pushes you back from the border with a force-reset, which interrupts any attempt to loot.
How to open the world-border boat chest
Step 1: Travel toward the edge of the map in the direction of the Puppeteer World Boss. Scan the water for small boats; more than one may be visible, and not all carry a chest that counts for Floral Expanse Beyond.
Step 2: Identify the correct boat by its relative distance to Puppeteer. Players report success with the boat that sits closer to the Puppeteer World Boss, not the one further away along the boundary.
Step 3: Approach the boat cautiously, using movement skills in short bursts rather than long glides. The goal is to reach the deck without triggering the world border’s auto-kick.
Step 4: As soon as you are in interaction range, stop moving. Do not edge further toward the open water. Trigger the interact button immediately to open the chest before any border reset forces you away.
If you are consistently being pushed back before the interaction prompt appears, adjust your angle of approach. Coming from a slightly different direction can keep you within the “safe” zone while still getting close enough to loot.
Why Treasure seeker misses chests in this area
Many players assume their run is bugged because Treasure seeker shows no remaining chest icons while the region still reads 4/6 or 5/6. In Floral Expanse Beyond and its border with Bodhi Sea, that is expected behavior, not a glitch.
The game itself explains that Treasure seeker does not flag every chest. Containers linked to certain side activities, environmental puzzles, or hidden triggers can be excluded. In this region that effectively means:
- The mud and underwater chests do not consistently appear as Treasure seeker markers.
- Boat-adjacent chests near the world border can behave more like encounter or special chests than standard map loot.
The result: Treasure seeker is great for sweeping obvious treasure, but it is not a guarantee that you have cleared every chest counted toward exploration. When your count is stuck, visually scanning for bubbles in mud and checking edge-case locations like boats becomes essential.
Using community tools when you are still missing one chest
Even after grabbing the two hidden mud chests and the boat chest, some players report being stuck at 5/6 with 98% exploration in Floral Expanse Beyond. In those cases, the missing chest is often a standard container that was looted long ago in another play session or one tied to an encounter that was easy to overlook.
Interactive maps created by the community can be useful for these last cases. The typical workflow is simple.
Step 1: Open an interactive map that supports Where Winds Meet and load the Floral Expanse Beyond region. Make sure the map allows filtering by collectible type.
Step 2: Enable only the chest layer so the map is not cluttered with other icons like quests, bosses, or shrines. This isolates the specific points that affect the 6-chest counter.
Step 3: Compare each chest marker on the map with your in-game knowledge. For every location, travel there and confirm whether a chest is present or already looted. Mark mentally or by notes which ones are clearly done.
Step 4: Prioritize any chest close to borders, caves, side encounters, or environmental puzzles. These are the likeliest to be half-forgotten or skipped during normal exploration.
Once the last chest is opened, the exploration percentage should snap to 100% without a reload or relog. If it does not, double-check that every mud, water, and boat chest in the broader Floral Expanse Beyond/Bodhi Sea transition has actually been interacted with and not just seen from a distance.
Floral Expanse Beyond feels deceptively simple, but its chest logic leans heavily on hidden triggers and edge-of-map placements. The two bubble-marked mud chests near Bodhi Sea, combined with the finicky boat chest by the world border, make up the bulk of completion problems. Once you deliberately clear those three and verify the remaining standard chest locations, the jump from 4/6 or 5/6 to full completion is straightforward.
