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"Chests" refer to all objects capable of holding items in Diablo II. Barrels, chests, crates, lootable corpses, hidden stashes, etc. These types of objects have different odds to drop items, and different qualities of items.
Doing chest runs in some areas with a lot of chests (especially [[Lower Kurast]]) is a very good way to find multiple high quality items, especially runes.
==Sparkly Chests==
There are a lot of "super chests" in the game, ones that can (and often do) drop multiple items at once. Most super chests are [[sparkly chests]], but not all super chests sparkle, and not all sparkling chests are super. A quote from the [[sparkly chest]] guide explains:
::There are 24 Sparkly Chests within each difficulty level –or a total of 72 on the path to Hell Baal. There are five chests with identical characteristics in the False Tal Rasha’s Tombs. The Great Marsh has two Sparkly Chests with identical characteristics. The other 17 chests are each individualistic in their drop odds as they are encountered on Normal, Nightmare (NM) and Hell (H) difficulty levels.
Read some very deep, technical explanations of how chests generate items: