If you have spent any time in the Corruption of Champions 2 (CoC2) community—whether on Fenoxo’s official forums, the Subreddit, or the Discord server—you have likely seen the phrase "chest puzzle patched" floating around. New players are frantically searching for a solution to a locked chest in the Old Forest, while veteran players are arguing about whether an exploit or a bug has been "fixed."
Have you encountered a different puzzle or a new bug in CoC2's Old Forest? The best place to report issues is the official Fenoxo forums or the game’s GitHub issue tracker. Happy adventuring, and keep your wits about you—the Deepwoods are watching. corruption of champions 2 chest puzzle patched
For players who relied on old guides: You need to update your bookmarks. The community wiki now includes a disclaimer: "The solution to the Old Forest chest is no longer universal. Please use the logic guide below." If you have spent any time in the
The primary reasons for these claims were: In earlier builds (pre-1.3.0), the chest puzzle solution was hard-coded to a single, easily shareable answer. In a later QoL (Quality of Life) patch, the developers—Fenoxo and the writing/coding team—implemented a seed-based randomization . This means the solution is now generated at the start of a new game and remains consistent only for that specific save file. Happy adventuring, and keep your wits about you—the
The puzzle typically involves a sequence of levers, colored gems, or animal symbols (depending on the build version, as CoC2 has seen UI updates). The player must input the correct sequence based on clues found in environmental flavor text or previous encounter logs. The reward for solving it is usually high-tier loot for the early/mid-game: a random selection of potions, a piece of magical equipment (like the Barding of the Stallion or a Shield of the Watcher ), and a substantial amount of gold.
Because the puzzle is static (the solution does not change per playthrough once seeded), players quickly datamined or brute-forced the solution. For years, the solution was widely posted as: Left, Center, Right, Left (for the lever version) or Red, Blue, Green, Red (for the gem version). Rumors of a patch began circulating around two specific update cycles (late 2023 to mid-2024, coinciding with the public builds 1.4.0 to 1.5.0). Several forum threads popped up with titles like "Chest Puzzle Broken?" and "Old Forest chest solution not working anymore."
This was patched. As of the current stable build (v1.5.48+), failing the puzzle locks the chest for a specific amount of in-game time (roughly 24 in-game hours) or until a major scene transition. Simply save-scumming no longer works. Because this exploit was removed, many players incorrectly say the "chest puzzle was patched" meaning "the easy exploit was patched out." A more serious bug existed briefly in Build 1.4.2. Using a specific interaction between the chest puzzle and the Storage Chest in the Wayfort , players could duplicate high-value items. The steps were complex (involving opening the puzzle chest, moving items to storage, triggering a specific failure state, then looting again), but it allowed infinite copies of rare materials like Corrupted Essence and Mana Potions .