Wedge towers influence rng overworld chest loot drops! Req for Magic Feathers!

[Taki]

TLDR: Wedge Tower Completion impacts overworld random chest loot which includes the availability of Magical Feathers required for the High Performance Jetpack, Devil Wings and Angel Wings.

Sharing this tidbit because I've opened about 400 chests in the overworld biome trying to get the magic feathers to make angel wings... Checking the wiki yielded nothing, patchnotes informed me that the drop rate for magic feathers in overworld chests had been increased in 2024 which lead me on a taxing box busting crusade with no yield. JP wiki has pre-seamless info and doesn't even have patchnotes updated past 2022 so that was no help... Steam community searches lead me to the poison biome and beyond overworld chests..

Out of desperation ~4 irl days and ~400 chests later, I joined the discord to try to crowdsource an answer and like every civilized netizen, I searched for the answer first. I found that the more towers you have completed, the higher the likelihood the feathers will drop due to the loot boost they secretly apply.

Without knowing the wedge towers increase loot, they're just glorified waypoints that reveal no longer needed regional resources and are just waypoints in my eyes, so I only bothered to complete five of them out of items on hand convenience. 5/10 towers either has less than 0.2% droprate or is simply disabled until more are unlocked.

Posting this before completing the wedge towers then opening like 50 chests and repeat until one drops so we have an idea how many towers are required for 1/50 chests to yield feathers. Made sure to leave plenty of searchable terms in this post for anyone else hit by the roadblock of finding wedge towers pointless. XD

[Taki]

Seriously first chest in the poison biome when I was 6/10 gave a magic feather... -_-'

[Taki]

63. I was going to just crack 50 but my first box had a feather and the next 49 did not so the game was trolling me. I got my second feather at 63 boxes which confirms the laws of the universe apply: If you're luck is bad, complain about it first and it will happen, and then it will inconvenience you harder. XD

Assumption: Magical Feathers have about a 1/30 drop rate in the poison biome when 6 wedge towers are constructed and less than 1/400 or disabled when 5 or less wedge towers are constructed.

I'm probably immune to this poison after dredging through the swamp for so long but it still makes a mess. I'mna take a shower and wash it off and then go to bed. -_-'

[Taki]

4/40 at 7 towers so 10% chance. Ran out of chests and gave up on opening 50, lol. I also note finding bags of gold coins at 1/20 chance which hasn't dropped for me before. -refuses to sell and stuffs in treasury-

[Taki]

Just got a magical feather from a sakura biome chest so my intel on the poison biome is wrong or only applies to 6/10 towers.

[zero254]

I guess towers do buff those instead of just revealing them

[Taki]

Yeahh, otherwise I'd still find them pointless, lol. At all towers, I got 7 magical feathers from one chest...XD

[zero254]

Originally posted by Taki:

Yeahh, otherwise I'd still find them pointless, lol. At all towers, I got 7 magical feathers from one chest...XD

Yeah, I can confirm the same, it basically buffs the area for their resources