Joel Burgess tweeted this informative thread about why wild foxes lead you to treasure in the video game Skyrim. He is the Studio Director of Capybara Games and has also worked on Watch Dogs Legion, Fallouts 3/4/76, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, Oblivion, Aeon Flux and Bloodrayne 2. Anyway it’s weird because seemingly no one programmed this behavior into the game yet it is indeed happening. So they did some digging find out why. Turn out the foxes aren’t leading you to treasure, but the way they behave is leading them to areas that tend to have treasure. Here’s why:

Source: Joel Burgess

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Did you know about this? I was today years old when I learned that this is a thing in Skyrim with foxes, let alone why. I’m off to load up my old characters and check it out! Let us know what you think in the comments below!