Ever since Bethesda's open-world fantasy game came out in 2011, players have wondered whether the foxes lead players to treasure.

Skyrim's myth of the treasure fox finally explained

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2022-01-15 00:30:10

Ever since Bethesda's open-world fantasy game came out in 2011, players have wondered whether the foxes lead players to treasure.

"I heard if you follow a fox, it will take you to a place you have not discovered yet or to some treasure? Is this true?" asked GameFaqs user echo007 nine years ago.

Now, nearly a decade after Skyrim came out, the treasure fox myth is finally explained - and the truth is, it's sort of right, and sort of wrong.

Hot on the heels of 14-year Bethesda veteran - and now solo indie developer - Nate Purkeypile's wonderful development anecdote about Skyrim's iconic cart ride getting catapulted into space by a bee, fellow Bethesda veteran Joel Burgess, who worked on Skyrim as a level designer and now heads up Grindstone developer Capybara Games, took to Twitter to detail the treasure fox.

As Burgess explains, shortly after Skyrim came out, the developers saw players report that if they followed foxes they would lead them to treasure. This wasn't intentional, so they investigated.