There is someone over the past couple of days that has actually been streaming a level 1 Bard solo challenge (mostly consisting of the guy luring different groups of NPCs into combat against each other, I believe he was attempting to get the Waukeen's Rest clerics and archers to beat up the Githyanki patrol for him and he got decently close the last time I checked), and I ended up learning about a lot of chest locations that I had not known of previously through watching that.
Here's the guy's videos if you're interested.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Xyfiel/videosI'm not interested enough in continuing my own playthrough in order to update this thread, but yeah, even if you fail a perception check to notice the hole, you can just... Manually dig up the chest anyway.
