FH6 Treasure Hunt Guide — Find Every Treasure Chest
Applies to: All treasure hunts (base game + seasonal) | Covers: Clue system, map locations, rewards, timing | Total base game treasures: 15 | Seasonal per series: 2–4 | Updated: Season 4
FH6 treasure hunts are the closest thing the game has to an ARG. A cryptic clue appears on the map. A red circle narrows the search to roughly a square mile. Inside that circle, somewhere, is a chest containing credits, cars, wheelspins, or cosmetics. The clues range from obvious ("find the tallest structure in the jungle") to maddeningly vague ("where the water runs dry, look below the old guard"). This guide decodes every clue and pinpoints every location.
How Treasure Hunts Work — The Clue System
Treasure hunts appear in two forms: base game hunts unlocked through overall game progression (XP level, story completion, accolades), and seasonal hunts tied to the Festival Playlist. When a treasure hunt activates, you get a clue card with an image or text hint, and a red search circle appears on the world map. The chest is always within the red circle. The circle radius is roughly 0.5 to 1.0 miles depending on the clue difficulty. Some seasonal hunts also require you to first complete a specific challenge (e.g., "earn 3 stars at a speed trap in a Ford") before the red circle even appears.
Once you're inside the red circle, switch to drone mode (pause menu > Creative > Drone Mode). The drone flies faster than any car, clips through trees, and lets you scan the terrain from above. The treasure chest model is distinctive — a wooden crate with a gold latch and the Horizon Festival logo, roughly the size of a small car. It's visible from drone altitude. When you find it, mark it (press X on Xbox / R on PC while looking at it in drone mode), exit drone mode, and drive to the marker. Interact to claim the reward.
All Base Game Treasure Chest Locations
The 15 base game treasures unlock progressively as you level up and complete story chapters. Here's every one, with the clue and the exact location:
| # | Treasure Name | Clue | Location | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horizon Origins | "Where it all began — look near the first Horizon outpost" | Behind the main festival site, near the service road that leads to the helipad. Behind a shipping container. | 50,000 CR + Common Wheelspin |
| 2 | Jungle Canopy | "From the tallest point in the jungle, look down" | Aerodromo En La Selva (abandoned airstrip). At the top of the control tower stairs. Use the dirt path behind the hangar to reach the base. | 75,000 CR + Super Wheelspin |
| 3 | Canyon's Edge | "Where the bridge crosses emptiness, search beneath" | Canyon bridge in the northwest. Under the bridge on the east side, tucked behind a rock formation at the base of the pillar. | 100,000 CR + 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS |
| 4 | Ancient Secrets | "Beneath the temple that faces the sea" | Ek Balam ruins. The pyramid on the east coast. Chest is at the base of the pyramid's rear staircase, between two stone columns. | 150,000 CR + Lamborghini Huracan STO |
| 5 | Volcano's Heart | "Where fire meets ice — the caldera's frozen twin" | Volcan Caldera. Near the frozen lake on the west side of the volcano. South shore of the lake, under an overhanging rock. | 125,000 CR + Super Wheelspin |
| 6 | Beachcomber | "The tide reveals what the sand hides — east shore, low tide" | Playa Azul east beach. Extreme southeast corner of the map. Under a wooden pier, partially buried in sand. Easier to spot at low tide (morning in-game). | 50,000 CR + Ferrari California T |
| 7 | Trainyard Stash | "Iron horses sleep here — find the one that's different" | Trainyard west of Guanajuato. Inside a rusted red boxcar (different color from the others — southeast corner of the yard). | 75,000 CR + Wheelspin x3 |
| 8 | Hacienda Hideaway | "Wealth stays quiet. Find the silent estate, check the garden." | Hacienda (south of Guanajuato). The walled garden behind the main house, behind a large fountain. Northwest corner of the garden. | 100,000 CR + 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa |
| 9 | Sunken Treasure | "Beneath the waves, the ruins remember" | Tulum coastline. Underwater, in the sunken ruins east of Tulum. You need to drive into the water — the chest is at the base of a submerged stone pillar, ~20 feet deep. About 30 meters offshore. | 200,000 CR + Super Wheelspin x2 |
| 10 | Desert Mirage | "The old road ends. The treasure begins." | Desert in the northwest quadrant. Where the dirt road dead-ends at a dry riverbed, the chest is 50 meters east of the road's end, under a lone dead tree. | 100,000 CR + Bugatti Type 35 C |
| 11 | Dam Nation | "Power flows through concrete and steel — look beneath the flow" | Dam in the northeast. At the base of the dam on the dry riverbed side (east side). Tucked into a drainage pipe alcove halfway down. | 150,000 CR + Koenigsegg Agera RS |
| 12 | Stadium Secret | "The roar of the crowd hides a quiet prize — center field, underground" | Stadium. The chest is in the tunnel that runs under the stadium field. Entrance is on the exterior stadium wall (south side, behind bleacher stairs). Follow the tunnel to the center. | 75,000 CR + Hoonigan Gymkhana 10 Ford Focus |
| 13 | Airfield Armory | "Old war birds once rested here. Now a different kind of payload." | Abandoned airfield in the central plains. Inside the largest hangar (easternmost one), behind stacked crates in the far back corner. | 125,000 CR + 2023 Nissan Z Nismo |
| 14 | Ghost Town Gold | "The people left. The treasure stayed. Find the church." | Ghost town in the southwest desert. Inside the church (the building with a broken steeple), behind the altar. Approach the altar and interact — the chest is clipped into the back wall slightly. | 175,000 CR + Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 2020 |
| 15 | Final Horizon | "You've come far. The last prize waits where the map ends." | Southern coastline, extreme south edge of the map. At the lighthouse — base of the lighthouse, sea-facing side, behind a rock that requires breaking through a wooden fence to reach. | 500,000 CR + McLaren F1 |
Seasonal Treasure Hunts — Schedule and Strategy
Each Series (4 weeks, aligned to real-world months) adds 2 to 4 new seasonal treasure hunts. These are separate from the base game 15. They appear in the Festival Playlist and are only available during their active week. Miss the week, miss the chest permanently — unlike base game treasures, seasonal ones don't persist.
Seasonal clues tend to be more elaborate than base game clues. They often involve a two-step process: first complete a specific challenge (e.g., "win a road race in a Retro Supercar"), which reveals the red circle, then find the chest within the circle. The challenge is usually straightforward, but the chest locations are chosen to be more hidden than base game ones — inside buildings, under dense foliage, in underwater caves.
Season 4 treasures (active during this guide): "Thunder Valley" (speed trap challenge → canyon chest), "Lunar Falls" (drift zone challenge → waterfall chest), "Electric Dreams" (EV racing challenge → dam chest). Check the current Festival Playlist page for live Seasonal treasure details.
Tips for Decoding Vague Clues
- Any clue with a compass direction (north of, east of, southeast corner) — the treasure is near the edge of the red circle in that direction. The devs use cardinal directions to narrow the search area.
- "Look beneath" or "look below" — the chest is at a lower elevation than the obvious landmark. Check ravines, bridge undersides, cliff bases.
- "Where fire meets..." / elemental clues — these reference the volcano. The volcano region (Volcan) has 3 separate treasures, all with elemental-themed clues.
- Historical references ("ancient", "ruins", "temple", "old") — check the Mayan ruin sites: Ek Balam, Tulum ruins, and the smaller temple sites scattered across the jungle region.
- "The people left" / "abandoned" / "forgotten" — ghost town, abandoned airfield, or train yard. FH6 has exactly one of each.
- If the red circle is completely empty (no buildings, no roads, just wilderness) — the chest is underground or underwater. Pull up drone mode immediately and check caves, drainage tunnels, and shorelines.
Hardest Treasure Hunts and Their Solutions
Sunken Treasure (#9) — The chest is underwater. The red circle is half-ocean, which means you're searching the seafloor. Switch to the drone and fly it underwater (yes, the drone works underwater in FH6). Scan for the wooden crate model against the sandy/rocky seafloor. It's at the base of a submerged stone pillar about 30 meters offshore from Tulum.
Stadium Secret (#12) — The stadium tunnel entrance looks like a wall. From outside the stadium on the south side, look for a set of bleacher stairs. Walk behind them — there's a maintenance door that leads to the tunnel. The door has no prompt; you just walk through it. The chest is in the exact center of the stadium, underground.
Desert Mirage (#10) — The clue says "the old road ends." The issue: there are three roads that dead-end in the desert. The correct one is the longest dirt road coming from the west — follow it east until it stops at the dry riverbed. The lone dead tree is easy to miss because there are several dead trees in the area. The correct one is the only tree directly east of the road's end, not north or south.
Is Treasure Hunting Worth the Time? — Credit Value Analysis
The 15 base game treasures give a combined total of 1,925,000 credits, 6 cars (market value: ~2,100,000 CR), 8 Super Wheelspins (~400,000 CR in average drops), and 7 Common Wheelspins (~70,000 CR). Total estimated value: ~4,500,000 credits.
Time to complete all 15 with this guide: 2–3 hours. That's an hourly rate of roughly 1.5–2.25 million credits per hour — competitive with the best credit farming methods in the game, plus you get cars that can't be bought from the Autoshow. The McLaren F1 alone is worth 2+ hours of treasure hunting. Verdict: absolutely worth it. Do the treasure hunts. Don't skip them.