What's new

Every version and what it changed, newest first. The app updates itself.

1.2.0 (2026-11-11)

Treasure hunt

• Season card in Treasures: next Treasure Hour with a countdown, this week's prizes (checked off when you get them), 14-day timer for the pirate token, end of the season.
• Your chances now count Treasure Hour boosts, leave Ranked out (no treasures there) and work week by week.
• Squad chance: your teammates' chests count too, only those opened near you (the replay sees no further).
• Notifications: 10 minutes before each Treasure Hour, and when a match gives you a treasure.
• The calendar updates itself from the website: no new version needed for new Treasure Hours or prizes.

Overlay

• Last match line: its chests, its length and the time of the last update, still shown during the next match.
• Treasure Hour banner while one is on, or when one starts within 12 hours.
• Choose the blocks shown, hide it during matches, move it to a corner in one click.

App

• The 3D island stays smooth (60 fps), even with Fortnite open; it can also be turned off.
• Export and import your history (backup, another PC).
• Shorter texts everywhere.
• On first start, the replays still on disk are read again for the squad chance (about 2 minutes).

1.1.1 (2026-11-10)

• The 3D island no longer stutters for a few seconds when the app opens.
• About: credit to Ayman Studio, with a link to @ayman_studioo on X.
• Licence: the code is MIT, but the exe includes a GPL-3.0 replay decompressor, so the exe is distributed under the GPL-3.0. Its full text is now in the licences (About → Licences).

1.1.0 (2026-11-10)

• New name everywhere: the app is now FortniteChestTracker.exe. An installed 1.0.x copy updates itself as usual, then renames itself; your history, settings, "open with Fortnite" and shortcuts carry over on their own.
• Website: fortnite-chest-tracker.com, also shown under the HUD and on the share image.
• The overlay preview (settings and home) now sits on a blurred island picture instead of the drawn plain.
• Licences of the bundled parts are one click away in About.
• Removed: the HTML recap, the CSV export and the command-line options. Everything is in the interface.

1.0.3 (2026-11-10)

• The HUD plays "+N" when a match is counted: Fortnite's replay can only be read once the match is over, so that is when the chests arrive, all at once. (The "+1 for each chest during the match" announced before could not happen: the replay is encrypted until the end. The README, the website and its HUD demo now say how it really works.)

1.0.2 (2026-11-10)

• Small windows (1280×720, 1366×768): nothing cut any more (chest types, treasures list, older matches estimate); one notice at a time with "+N" for the others.
• Big screens (1920 wide and up): the interface scales up instead of looking tiny.
• Without a graphics card (software rendering): the 3D island and the animations switch to a light mode so the PC and the page stay responsive.
• Keyboard: windows keep the focus, Escape closes the share window, visible focus on the tabs.
• Polish: Spanish numbers always grouped, plurals, wording, icons, an empty Statistics page message, "Reinstall" when another copy is installed, the matches tab says when only the latest 300 are listed.

1.0.1 (2026-11-10)

• About a third less memory while the counter waits between matches.
• A treasure that did not come from a golden chest is shown as "Treasure (gizmo or reward)": the replays do not say which one it is (same generic grant for both). Your luck is computed on all treasures together in that case.

1.0.0 (2026-11-10)

First release of Fortnite - Chest Tracker.

Counting

• Reads the replays Fortnite saves after each match (read-only): chests opened or destroyed, treasure hunt prizes (golden chests with their prize id, every treasure received with the chest it came from), ammo boxes and other containers apart. Battle Royale only; several accounts on one PC get their own profiles.
• Safe history: data.json flushed to disk with the previous version kept as .bak (used if the file is broken or missing); a locked file is retried; a timeout or a locked replay is tried again later instead of being marked unreadable.
• Match times stored as UTC (they were shown one hour off in France).
• Replay archive (optional): a copy of every counted replay, before Fortnite deletes it.

Web interface (local page, http://127.0.0.1:5317, updates by itself)

• Five tabs: Home, Matches, Statistics, Treasures, Settings (keys 1–5). Fortnite-like look with its own colours, Anton titles, calm animations, Kenney cursors. First-launch setup in the page.
• Home: total and time played, the treasure goal (pirate token by default, any treasure, or Auto) with Epic's drop rates and Treasure Hours boosts, the last match, and a 3D island (three.js, Kenney models) where a miner digs towards the treasure while a pirate who gave up sits in the old tunnel. Characters and animals react to clicks.
• Matches: per match, chests by type, eliminations, duration and the looting timeline (chests per minute, first chest, chests in the first 5 minutes).
• Statistics: average, best match, best day, Victory Royales, chests per day, chest types, do chests help you win? (placement by number of chests opened) and milestones, announced when reached.
• Treasures: rates, your chance and the expected count for each (weekly treasures at most once a week), your luck so far ("luckier than X% of players").
• Share picture (stats + the island, goal of your choice), to download or copy.
• Older matches estimate (fortnite.gg or fortnite-api.com × your own average per mode), can be added to the total.
• Tray icon instead of a console window; "Open with Fortnite" starts the tracker with the game and closes it after.
• Install on this PC (optional, offered at first launch): Start menu and desktop shortcuts, an entry in Windows' installed apps, clean uninstall (your data is kept).
• Local server hardened: Host header checked, secret token and same origin for every command, bounded requests, strict CSP.

In-game HUD

• A floating, per-pixel transparent HUD (no window frame): chests of the last match (counted once the match is over), the goal chance and dig bar, total / session / treasures. Full or Compact layout, size and opacity, edit mode (drag, padlock), Ctrl+Shift+O / Ctrl+Shift+L, sharp on every screen (per-monitor DPI), light on the game (no allocation per frame, 30 fps animation). The OBS page and the previews show the same picture.

Website https://fortnite-chest-tracker.com/ — FR/EN/ES pages, live 3D island, HUD demo, odds

calculator, gallery, FAQ.

Updates and build

• Updates from this repository's releases only, with the SHA-256 digest checked; offered, automatic or off. A failed update puts the previous exe back.
• xUnit tests (119, 3 of them on real replays via FCT_TEST_REPLAYS); GitHub Actions tests every push and publishes the exe for v* tags.

Other guide: Fortnite pirate token odds