Oquilla’s Eye has a treasure chest event that occurs every 3 hours. For the cost of a Silver Key, you can obtain rare ship materials.
Oquilla’s Treasure Chests
- 4 different grades of treasure chests arrive on the beach every 3 hours
- each chest is opened with 1 Silver Key (obtained via fishing)
- chests come up from a waterspout in the center of Oquilla’s Eye
- the waterspout can kill you, if you are in the water (no death penalty occurs)
- there are three large explosions from the waterspout
Chest Decorated with Gold
WARNING: all treasure chests disappear after 1 minute! Bring your fastest class and Movement Speed buffs.
Oquilla’s Eye Message: Something Strange
You will see the message “Something strange is going on at Oquilla’s Eye.” Wait a little while for the chests to arrive.

Oquilla’s Eye Chests
There are 4 different grades of treasure chests that will appear.
- T1: Wooden Chest
- T2: Chest Decorated with Bronze
- T2: Chest Decorated with Silver
- T2: Chest Decorated with Gold
Some of the chests give Coin trade items. These are the least valuable, but they are usually given in multiples of 2 to 3.
Wooden Chest
Wooden Chest is a T1 chest.
Wooden Chest Reward Item |
Wooden Chest Reward Info | |
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Ancient Bronze Coin | Trade Item: 5,000 Silver |
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Ancient Gold Coin | Trade Item: 30,000 Silver |
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Ancient Iron Coin | Trade Item: 3,000 Silver |
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Ancient Silver Coin | Trade Item: 10,000 Silver |
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Lost Low Quality Trade Goods | Press RMB You’ll randomly get one barter item. |
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Ruddy Manganese Nodule | Material for Black Dragon Prow, Stratus Wind Sail |
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Tear of the Ocean | Material for Epheria Carrack |
Chest Decorated with Bronze
Chest Decorated with Bronze is a T2 chest.
Chest Decorated with Bronze Reward Item |
Bronze Chest Reward Info | |
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Ancient Bronze Coin | Trade Item: 5,000 Silver |
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Ancient Gold Coin | Trade Item: 30,000 Silver |
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Ancient Iron Coin | Trade Item: 3,000 Silver |
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Ancient Silver Coin | Trade Item: 10,000 Silver |
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Lost Low Quality Trade Goods | Press RMB You’ll randomly get one barter item. |
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Lost Medium Quality Trade Goods | Press RMB You’ll randomly get one barter item. |
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Ruddy Manganese Nodule | Material for Black Dragon Prow, Stratus Wind Sail |
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Tear of the Ocean | Material for Epheria Carrack |
Chest Decorated with Silver
Chest Decorated with Silver is a Tier 3 chest.
Chest Decorated with Silver Reward Item |
Silver Chest Reward Info | |
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Lost High Quality Trade Goods | Press RMB You’ll randomly get one barter item. |
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Lost Low Quality Trade Goods | Press RMB You’ll randomly get one barter item. |
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Lost Medium Quality Trade Goods | Press RMB You’ll randomly get one barter item. |
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Ruddy Manganese Nodule | Material for Black Dragon Prow, Stratus Wind Sail |
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Seaweed Stalk | Material for Epheria Cog, Epheria Caravel, Black Dragon Prow, Stratus Wind Sail |
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Tear of the Ocean | Material for Epheria Carrack |
Chest Decorated with Gold
Chest Decorated with Gold is a Tier 4 chest.
Chest Decorated with Gold Reward Item |
Gold Chest Reward Info | |
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Lost High Quality Trade Goods | Press RMB You’ll randomly get one barter item. |
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Lost Medium Quality Trade Goods | Press RMB You’ll randomly get one barter item. |
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Ruddy Manganese Nodule | Material for Black Dragon Prow, Stratus Wind Sail |
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Seaweed Stalk | Material for Epheria Cog, Epheria Caravel, Black Dragon Prow, Stratus Wind Sail |
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Tear of the Ocean | Material for Epheria Carrack |
Oquilla’s Eye Chest Locations
Look for Curio <Head of the Otter Merchants Union>
Located on the southern part of the island.
The chests spawn all along the beach near where Curio is.

Sources & Additional Info
- Info searches on bddatabase.net
- Great Expedition Guide Google Doc – Thank you to BDO family name: Airie (SEA), Akiri (Global-Lab), Discord: Kiri Airie#6217
- Official BDO The Launch of a Great Expedition
- Official BDO The Great Expedition Update
- BDO Sailing/Vell Discord – talk and chat web app for everything Sailing