How to use the Crossbones Isle chest map

The Crossbones Isle map plots 979 chest records reported by Crisis from the v43.00 game files: 870 regular, 40 rare and 69 buried. Open a chest icon to see its source and record your search. The map also shows seventeen named locations, their chest totals and your personal pins.

What the map is

• An illustrated Crossbones Isle atlas with sharper tiles as you zoom. Switch to Game reference to see Epic's build 43.00 map artwork at the same position.
• Seventeen named locations taken from the build's own location records: twelve named POIs and five landmarks.
• 979 reported chest records across the island, including 490 outside named locations. Zoom to level 7 to see individual chest icons and select a record. Chests at the same position sit side by side above one shared dot.
• A chest spawn-point count on every marker, split into regular, rare and buried, with the list sorted densest first.
• A per-match search state for each location, saved in this browser.
• Personal pins for a chest you actually found, an area you still want to check, or a route stop.

Reading the number on a marker

The badge counts spawn points: places a chest can appear in that location. It is not the number of chests you will open there. The same source counts 870 regular chest points across the island but says only 280 chests always spawn, so the rest are chance rolls that a given match will not fill. Treat a badge as a ranking signal, not a promise.

Across the seventeen named locations that is 425 regular, 27 rare and 37 buried points, or 489 in total. The Chest has 5 regular, 1 rare and 34 buried records. Fortune's Fort leads the combined regular-and-rare table at 52. Switching the chest type filter to Buried shows the 69 reported buried records across the island and the three named locations that contain 37 of them.

What the map is not

The source describes game-file extraction, but this site has not independently audited that extraction in game. Positions retain the source's integer map pixels, registered to the matching game-reference crop. Original world coordinates, heights, floors and individual spawn probabilities are unknown. Repeated source records are kept without assuming that they represent different floors. Use Game reference to compare terrain; atlas scenery is illustrated.

The locations on Crossbones Isle

Some coverage uses different names for the same place, such as Lantern Lanes for Lantern Landing or Fort Fortuna for Fortune's Fort. The map accepts those as search aliases but always shows the in-game label, because the in-game label is the one you will see on the battle bus map.

A search routine that survives contact

1. Pick a landing cluster with two or three named locations close together, not one famous POI. The list is already sorted densest first, so scan the top of it for neighbours rather than dropping on the single highest number.
2. Clear outward from the drop, marking each location as you finish it rather than at the end of the match.
3. Use nothing there when you searched a place and found no chest, so you do not re-check it later.
4. Turn on Hide searched before you rotate, so the map shows only what is left.
5. Start a new match with Reset current match; your pins stay, the search states do not.

The routine is deliberately boring. It removes the two ways a hunt usually fails: re-checking a building you already cleared, and leaving an area half-searched because you lost track of which side you entered from.

Why the map and the tracker stay separate

Marking a location as checked does not add a chest to the Token Tracker. Checking a spot is not the same event as opening a chest: you may find nothing, or find a chest someone else already opened. Keeping the two records apart means the tracker's chest count stays a count of chests you actually opened.