FH6 Italian Exotics treasure hunt: which weeks actually had a chest

Every Italian Exotics treasure hunt, week by week

Work out which Italian Exotics week a date falls in

The reset lands mid afternoon UTC on a Thursday, so a single calendar day can sit in two different weeks. Put a date in and the board says which season owns it, and whether that week had a chest.

Next: the reset countdown converts that 14:30 UTC changeover into your own timezone, which is the part that decides whether you have tonight or already missed it.

Three things in this game are called treasure

Search results mix them constantly. One well ranked page titled "Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt Locations" is in fact a list of the nine permanent cars. They are not the same thing and only one of them rotates with this series.

Try also: every region on the map, which is the layer under all three of these.

The Autumn week ran a collectible instead

This is the part most week by week lists skip. The board above carries the two lists that establish it, so the evidence is a click away and not repeated here.

What is worth saying instead is why the empty week stays in the table. Dropping it would leave three rows and an unexplained gap in the numbering, and a reader would reasonably read that as us having failed to find something. The week is not missing from our records. It is a week the game did not put a chest in, and that is an answer to the question people arrive with rather than an absence of one.

It also changes what the series is worth. Four resets does not mean four chests, so anyone planning around 100,000 CR a week for the run of a series is planning around a number the game does not pay out.

What each week still leaves open

Summer, Nangan

We know the week and the reward for this one and not the spot. Two sources describe a Nangan chest in two different places — Game8 puts it on the shore at the east of the region near the Ford GT Treasure Car, and the write-ups we could not open are reported to put it by the warehouses north-east of the Irokawa Space Centre. Nangan may simply have hosted two hunts in different series. Until we can read both articles ourselves, guessing which one belongs to this week would be worse than leaving it blank.

Winter, Hokubu

GamesRadar’s writer put the difficulty on one detail: the big hay bale scarecrows. If you have not driven past those, the photo is just snow and a shed — which describes most of Hokubu. The chest sits by a small garage building at the car park, overlooking the snow-covered fields.

Watching someone do the Hokubu week

The Winter chest is the one with the most coverage, and it is also the one players found hardest to read from the photograph. Comments under this video run to the same theme as the threads: one player wrote that they complained when the game took them straight to the treasure and now complain that it is so tough to find.

▶Play: Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt Hokubu Region - Follow the Photo Clue to Discover the Treasure — DungG

Questions people arrive at this page with

Is there a treasure hunt every week in Italian Exotics?

No, and this is the part most week by week lists leave out. Two independent lists of the Autumn week name no Treasure Hunt at all. TheXboxHub's challenge guide for it runs to fourteen entries with no hunt among them, and a community breakdown in the same format puts a collectible, twenty Tank Lattes in Ine, in the same three point slot that the Winter breakdown fills with the Hokubu treasure hunt. That leaves 2 of the four weeks with a chest we can source. The reset is weekly. The hunt is not.

I went to the location and the treasure chest is nowhere to be seen

Players hitting this have repeatedly solved it by restarting the game rather than by moving. In the threads we read, the person who asked has more than once come back to say a restart made it appear, with one describing trying Horizon Solo first and only getting it after quitting the game entirely. We have not reproduced this ourselves, so treat it as what players report rather than as a tested fix. Before you assume you read the photo wrong, quit to desktop and come back.

Why can I not see the chest icon on the treasure map?

This is reported often enough that it looks like a bug rather than a misunderstanding. Players said the same thing in both the Winter and the Autumn breakdown threads, the chest icon missing in one week and the collectible markers in the next. We have no fix beyond restarting, and no source that explains the cause, so we are not going to invent one.

What is the photo clue text for this week?

There is not one. The clue is delivered as an image, and the only text the game itself puts on screen is the challenge title, "Follow the Photo Clue to Discover the Treasure!". Any site quoting a sentence of clue text is writing it themselves. That is also why this page gives you the region and the board gives you the location where we have one, and there is no clue column at all.

Is the Treasure Hunt the same as the Treasure Hunter achievement?

No, and this trips up enough people that a well ranked page elsewhere titled "Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt Locations" actually lists the nine permanent Treasure Cars instead of the weekly chests. The weekly hunt is one chest that rotates each Thursday. The nine Treasure Cars sit in the open world from the start of the game and never move. Finding all nine is what unlocks the achievement, and it has nothing to do with this series.

Do I keep the chest if I find it but do not smash it before the reset?

We do not know. We looked for a source that tests it either way and did not find one, in editorial coverage or in community threads. Rather than guess, the practical advice is to smash it when you find it.

Where this sits against the rest of the site

Compiled by Jim Liu from named editorial sources and community threads, with every unsourced cell left as a dash. Where a week has no chest on record, this page says so rather than filling the row.