All Portal Chest Locations in Borderlands 3 DLC; Guns, Love, and Tentacles

The Portal Chests in Borderlands 3‘s second DLC; Guns, Love, and Tentacles act similar to the Red Chests from the main base game because they offer quality loot and have a reset timer. However, there is a twist to these floating chests as they occasionally summon a Loot Skritaari. These badass enemies are tough to defeat, however, they do provide awesome loot and are a great source of legendary items. In this Borderlands 3 Guide, I will tell you every location and how to get to the Portal Chests on Xylorgus.

I always called them Scarab Chests as these rare chests gave me such an impression. It is fun they kinda provide the rare element of surprise by throwing a badass enemy at you just as you thought you were safe and could peacefully loot the chest. Luckily not the jumpscare in the way MIMIC chest come at you.

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How to Farm Loot Skritaari

Farming these floating scarab chests in the hopes of a Skritaati can be very lucrative as they offer quality loot, however, there is an in-game cooldown timer on these loot sources but here is something you could do to bypass that.

Note: If you are playing with a Day#1 save file, it’s possible your game is ‘Glitched’ and you don’t have this in-game timer. When that’s the case, you should go to Cursehaven and farm the wall chest that’s just around the corner and you are golden.

If your character doesn’t have that ability you can’t just easily ‘Save-Quit‘ and hop back into the game. You could mimic this by loading the backup save file from your cloud save. PC Players can set the save file to ‘Read Only’.

When both these options are not something for you; the portal chests respawn after 30 minutes of in-game time.

Portal Chests Locations

There are 9 Portal Chests hidden in the Guns, Love, and Tentalcals DLC. You can use a Snowdrift artifact to quickly get to them, such a run would take around 10 minutes.

1. Cursehaven – Withernot Cemetery

The first Portal Chest can be found in Curse Haven.

This is probably the quickest Portal Chest you can find without much effort. Use the fast travel station and go to ‘Cursehaven – Withernot Cemetery’ on Xylourgos. Run around the corner and you will find your first portal chest hanging on the wall.

If these chests are always open for you, then this is the best location for you to quickly farm these portal chests.

2. Cursehaven – Olmstead Square

The second portal chest in Cursehaven can be found between ‘Olmstead Square’ and ‘Vow’s Cast’.

You probably recognize this as the alley you went through after the Ceremony between Vincent and Eleanor. Since you probably already went through the DLC, you can use the exit as an entrance and quickly make your way to this portal chest.

3. Dustbound Archives – Cold Case Part 2

The 3rd portal chest can be found in the Dustbound Archives.

When you enter this map, go past the receptionist’s desk to the next room. Take a right in the hallway, when you continue through the door, you will enter the room with the invincible walls.

Since you don’t have the Seventh Sense quest weapon, you will have to navigate this blindly. You can see the walls slightly but it isn’t too hard to navigate. Halfway through the maze, you will stumble upon the portal chest.

4. Dustbound Archives – Public Library

The 4th portal chest can also be found in the Dustbound Archives.

When entering this map, go past the receptionist’s desk and go to the holographic chamber. Take a right and go up the stairs to the public library. At the end of this section, you will have to go to the upper floor. There is a switch hidden in the skull that’s sitting in the bookcase. When you press the button, a hidden area will be revealed as the bookcase starts moving.

5. Dustbound Archives – Den of Inquiry

The 5th portal chest can also be found in the Dustbound Archives.

When entering this map, go past the receptionist’s desk and go to the holographic chamber. This time you go straight ahead and go through The Forbidden Stacks. Keep going straight ahead and you will reach the Den of Inquiry as it is the next area. On the right side of this room, there is a balcony. You can use the objects in the environment to reach it.

6. The Cankerwood – Sweetfruit Village

The 6th portal chest can be found in The Cankerwood.

Go through the woods as you normally would. Once you reach the next New-U station, go over the bridge towards Sweetfruit Village. The portal chest is located behind one of the buildings. So you want to move towards the next location but once you go through the gate you need to make a sharp left and go round the fence. Here you will not only find the portal chest but also an easter egg.

7. Negul Neshia – Xenocardiac Containment

The 7th portal chest can be found near the end of Negul Neshia.

You want to visit Kukuwajack, who is an Occult Hunt crew challenge, on the Dahl spaceship. Travel past its chamber because as in the next room, you will find another portal chest against the wall.

8. Heart’s Desire – What Beats Beneath

The 8th portal chest can easily be accessed by traveling to the map ‘Heart’s Desire’ by using the ‘What Beats Beneath’ fast travel station (This location is also a great place to farm legendaries).

When you spawned into that room, you can press a button and an elevator will come down. You can use this to go up and backtrack the map. Because once you make your way up there will be a portal chest in the room with you.

9. Heart’s Desire – The Carrion Tunnels

The 9th portal chest is located near the end of the Heart’s Desire map.

When you move through The Carrion Tunnels you can find the final portal chest before the elevator going up. It’s located next to the Mancubus Statue.