Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 Guide: Best Sprite Chest Locations and Farming Routes

Chasing down a companion drop without a plan wastes entire matches, so here's the fastest way to actually find one.

Fortnite Runners built its whole companion system around a chest variant most people are going to walk right past if they don't know what they're looking for. Sprite Chests guarantee a companion alongside your normal loot, and you can pick them out by the blue glow and the pink crystal sitting on the lid. They're not hiding in plain sight exactly, but they're also not shouting for attention the way a legendary drop usually does.

The catch is that spawn rate isn't guaranteed. These things rotate through a pool of fixed coordinates every match, which means you can run the exact same route twice and come away with a completely different haul. I spent a stretch of sessions cross checking which locations actually produce results consistently enough to be worth your drop, and there are three routes that hold up.

Fix Your Settings Before You Land

None of this matters much if you're playing blind. Flip on Visualized Sound Effects in your audio menu before you queue up. It throws a directional marker onto your HUD the second you're near a chest, which means you can find one buried behind a wall or tucked under floorboards instead of wandering a building hoping to get lucky.

Run these routes in Zero Build if you can stomach it. The current sandbox hands out a rechargeable Shockwave Grenade every 30 seconds in that mode, and that's the difference between casually gliding down a mountain slope and actually scaling one fast enough to stay on schedule. Skip custom bot lobbies for this though. A quiet hotfix locked bot matches to basic Water, Fire, and Earth companions only, so if you're hunting for anything rarer than that, you need real matches with real stakes.

The Southern Coastline Loop

This is the route to run if you just want volume without burning half the match crossing the map. Everything sits close together along the south coast, and the whole loop covers somewhere around 13 to 14 potential spawns without asking you to backtrack once.

Start at Sinister Strip. It's got the densest concentration of chests on the island, four separate potential spawns in one landing zone, so clear it fast before the area fills up with company you didn't invite. From there, push west along the shoreline to Heatwave Harbor for three more possible spawns, close enough that you won't lose your rhythm getting there.

Keep heading south into Sunken Shores next. Two reliable spots sit almost on top of each other here, the Wettest Bones Research Facility and the Crashout Estates outpost, so you can hit both without much of a detour. Swing east after that toward Cluster Coast. It's only one spawn, but it's directly on your natural path anyway, so there's no real reason to skip it.

Finish at Shaken Sanctuary, which carries three more possible locations. This spot tends to sit near where the early storm circles form, which means finishing your loop here also puts you in decent position to hold ground against whoever else lands nearby.

The Northern Mountains and the Vault

If you'd rather lean on launch pads and ski lifts than sprint the whole map on foot, the north offers a route built around exactly that kind of vertical movement, and it includes the one spot on the island with a guaranteed drop attached.

Drop onto the standalone launch pad south of Lifty Lodge, right before the extraction pad. There's a chest sitting next to the machine itself, so grab it before you glide north toward the ski lift structures, where a second potential spawn sits on the lift building's roof. From the lodge area, cut down the western slope to a second mountain launch pad and use it to glide straight into the top right window of the main lodge building for a third shot.

Once you're clear of the lodge, head east toward The Bus Stop, a small ruined house compound. There's a chest possibility on the outside of the easternmost building, but the real prize is in the basement of the green house. That basement holds a locked room, and it needs a standard key to open, but cracking it guarantees a chest drop rather than leaving it up to the spawn table. That's worth knowing on its own, since it means this is the one stop on either route where showing up with a key turns a maybe into a for sure.

From there, push southeast toward Collider Corridor Beta, the building next to the main tunnel entrance, and check the roof. Head up the hill after that toward the Battlewoods sign and walk behind the tree in the center of the lettering for a hidden spawn most people never think to check. Wrap the run by climbing the snowy summit east of the corridor for one more launch pad spawn, then glide toward the transformer outpost southwest of Wonkeeland and check the perimeter wall for your last shot of the route.

What Actually Happens When You Land One

I pulled one for my own locker eventually, and I'm not shelving it anytime soon. Landing a bottomless magazine mid boxfight is the kind of swing that makes the whole chaotic, unreliable spawn system worth tolerating, even on the matches where it decides not to show up at all.

If you do manage to secure a companion early, don't get greedy trying to finish your whole route. Head straight for an extraction terminal and log it into your collection. These are locked to the match otherwise, and there's nothing worse than pulling a rare companion drop only to lose it to a squad that rotated in from the wrong direction ten seconds later.