Assassin’s Creed Mirage has 30 Gear Chest Locations. Finding all Gear Chests is required to get 100% completion in all districts for the Explorer trophy & achievement (fully explore all territories). They unlock new Weapons, Outfits, and Upgrade Schematics.
Each territory has a different gear set in its chests. There are 3 chests per set. The first chest you open is always the base weapon / outfit, the chests you open after that have Upgrade Schematics. For example, the same 3 chests will always give a part towards Zanj Uprising Outfit, but which ones give the base outfit and which the upgrade schematics depends on the order you open them. Chests usually require solving little environmental puzzles, breaking into locked buildings, or finding specific keys.
Some collectibles are gated behind story progress. In particular, the chest in The Bazaar of Karkh districts is in a building that only opens near the end of the story. It’s best to finish the story first and collect everything afterward. Nothing is missable, everything can still be collected after the story.
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Harbiyah
Gear Chest #1: Zanj Uprising Outfit / Upgrade Schematic
On the ship at the harbor. Enter the captain’s cabin, there will be a shelf that blocks the path. Turn right and climb over the two stacked boxes. Now push the shelf from the entrance forward all the way, towards the Gear Chest. Then pull the right shelf towards you. Now the path on the left is open, take the left path then the right path behind the right shelf. This leads to another shelf, pull it towards you. Now take the path behind that shelf. Pull the next shelf towards you. Then backtrack to the entrance and the path to chest will be open.
Gear Chest #2: Zanj Uprising Outfit / Upgrade Schematic
On the roof of Khurasan Gate Guardhouse. Easiest way to get up there is to approach the gate of the Guardhouse from the south (from Round City district). Facing the big gate from the south, you can jump from the rooftops to the wall (restricted area with enemies). From the wall you can climb up some boxes to the roof. On the roof, the chest is in a gated area.
Outside the gate, in the right corner are some vases you can destroy by melee-attacking them. Behind the vases are two shelves you can push. Push the left shelf forward, leave the right shelf where it is. Now aim through the opening between the two shelves to see another vase and throw a throwing knife to destroy it (a throwing knife can be found at the gate to the chest, just left of the shelves).
Now that the vase is gone you can push the right shelf forward, then destroy another set of vases and slide through the opening to reach the chest.
Gear Chest #3: Zanj Uprising Outfit / Upgrade Schematic
Inside the Prince’s Palace, on the ground floor. You can enter through the front door.
Gear Chest #4: Zanj Uprising Sword / Upgrade Schematic
Inside the restricted area called “Metal Factory”. In the little guard building you can climb up the ladder, the chest is on the top floor. The building is accessible from the street.
Gear Chest #5: Zanj Uprising Sword / Upgrade Schematic
On the south side of Damascus Gate Prison, outside the main prison. The chest is downstairs in a locked room. The door to it is east of the chest it’s locked, to open it you must throw a Throwing Knife at the door lock. Go west of the chest, aim through the opening and hit the lock on the back of the door with a Throwing Knife. Now you can go through the door.
Gear Chest #6: Zanj Uprising Sword / Upgrade Schematic
In a restricted area called Soap Boiler’s District. In one of the guard houses, go inside the house from street level and look up to see a destructible ceiling made of wood. You must throw a Throwing Knife at the ceiling (the reticle will turn red to indicate it can be destroyed, it’s directly underneath the chest). Then you can climb up the wooden wall to get to the room above where the chest is.
Abbasiyah
Gear Chest #7: Zanj Uprising Dagger / Upgrade Schematic
This chest is inside a locked building. The door on the north side requires a key. First, you must pickpocket the key from a guy standing in building in the north-east corner of The Four Markets area, upstairs in the building.
Then return to the building with the chest, use the key on the front door. This leads to the storage room where you find an explosive keg.
Carry it to the back of the locked building, there are destructible walls, throw the explosive keg at those walls to break them ( 
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to throw).
There is a breakable ceiling in this room. You can either grab another explosive keg from the storage and throw it at the ceiling, or up the outside wall and throw a Throwing Knife at the explosive keg upstairs.
Now push the shelf from the right side of the room to the middle and you can climb upstairs to the chest. (Alternatively, if the guy with key doesn’t spawn, you can fully upgrade the Noisemaker to Level 3 and select the upgrade that turns it into a grenade to explode walls, then you can blow up the wall with the Noisemaker and skip getting the key/explosive vase).
Gear Chest #8: Abbasid Knight Sword / Upgrade Schematic
This is upstairs in a locked building of Scholar’s Estate. The chest itself is locked and requires the “Scholar’s Estate Chest Key”. So first, head to the building in the south-east corner of Scholar’s Estate and grab the key from the ground floor (the backdoor is open).
Now go back to the building with the chest. Climb halfway up the building and there’s a destructible window (it will show in red when scanning with Dpad Left). Simply melee attack the window or throw a dagger at it to break it.
Then climb through. There are two shelves in front of the chest, pull the right shelf towards you (if it’s stuck you must wiggle it a bit to the right and then pull it forward). This reveals the chest which can now be opened with the key.
Gear Chest #9: Zanj Uprising Dagger / Upgrade Schematic
Found inside the Hammam in a locked room. First, go to the north-west corner outside the Hammam and break the destructible window (it will be highlighted red when scanning with Dpad Left). You can melee the window or toss a knife to break it.
Climb inside, destroy the vases blocking the movable shelf, then pull the shelf to open the exit. From the same room pick up an explosive keg, carry it to the south-west corner of this building and toss it at the destructible wall there. The chest is found behind the destructible wall.
Gear Chest #10: Abbasid Knight Sword / Upgrade Schematic
In the Scriptorium area, in the building in the south-east corner, upstairs.
Gear Chest #11: Abbasid Knight Sword / Upgrade Schematic
In the rooftop tower of the House of Wisdom. The door is locked and you need the key. The key must be looted from an NPC on the roofs in the north-east of the House of Wisdom (roughly 50 meters north-east of the chest icon on map). When you are near this NPC and scan with 
he will show a white magnifying glass icon over his head. If pickpocketing doesn’t work you must kill him and “collect” it from his corpse.
Then open the door with the key. The upper floor is blocked by a destructible ceiling. To open this, climb the north side of the tower to almost the top (not the very top). There’s an open window, you must throw a Throwing Knife through it at the chandelier hanging from the celing, this will make it fall down onto explosive vases that will blow up the ceiling.
Now you can head back into the room and climb up to the chest.
Gear Chest #12: Zanj Uprising Dagger / Upgrade Schematic
On the roof on the east-side of The Great Bimaristan, in a locked tower. The door to it is barred. Go to the other opposite side of the tower (the north side), climb on the railing and toss a Throwing Knife through the open window to break the door lock (must be standing on railing to see the lock). Now the door is open, head inside, pull the shelf to reveal the chest.
Karkh
Gear Chest #13: Abbasid Knight Outfit / Upgrade Schematic
In a building in the north of Monastery of the Virgins, ground floor, hidden behind a shelf. You must push the shelf to the left to reveal the chest.
Gear Chest #14: Abbasid Knight Dagger / Upgrade Schematic
On top of The Great Garrison main gate. Enter the Great Garrison through the opening in its south-west wall, there’s a space where you can crouch under.
Inside the Garrison, climb the ladder to get up the west wall. Go towards the chest, destroy the vase left of the movable shelf, then move the shelf left. This leads to the chest with an enemy guarding it, defeat the enemy and open the chest.
Gear Chest #15: Abbasid Knight Dagger / Upgrade Schematic
This Chest is only reachable after finishing Main Quest: Gilded Butterflies, which is near the very end of the story. Finish the main story first, then the door will be open.
The chest is found in the north-east corner of The Bazaar. The doors are barred. You will unlock the door in Main Quest: Gilded Butterflies (it’s not possible before this).
Then the chest is upstairs in the locked room. You go there to assassinate a main story target. You can come back afterward at any time. the door remains open.
Gear Chest #16: Abassid Knight Outfit / Upgrade Schematic
Inside the Tax Collector’s Mansion, upper floor. The door on the balcony above the front entrance is open, enter through there.
Gear Chest #17: Abassid Knight Outfit / Upgrade Schematic
In Officer’s Club area, outside, guarded by two enemies standing in front of the building (not inside the building).
Gear Chest #18: Abbasid Knight Dagger / Upgrade Schematic
In the restricted area “Qasr Salih”, you can enter this area by climbing through the wall of Round City. The chest is in a locked tower on a rooftop. Behind the tower are two explosive red kegs. Pick one up, then jump up the crates next to the wall while carrying the keg to bring it to the roof.
In the middle of the roof is a destructible floor, throw the explosive keg at it to blow it up. Then you can drop down into the room with the chest.
(Alternatively, you can also throw a Throwing Knife through the open window to hit the door lock and then enter through the door)
Round City
Gear Chest #19: Hidden One Outfit / Upgrade Schematic
In Mazalim Courts, in the tower on the rooftop. Destroy the breakable window by throwing a Throwing Knife at it (the window will be highlighted red when scanning with Dpad Left).
Then climb through and drop down into the room with the chest.
Gear Chest #20: Hidden One Outfit / Upgrade Schematic
On the roof of Shurta Headquarters, guarded by an enemy. There are spikes along the roof but you can climb up the south-west corner where the spikes are missing.
Gear Chest #21: Hidden One Outfit / Upgrade Schematic
Inside Al-Jahiz’s House. The door / windows are barred. To get inside you must blow up the roof by throwing an explosive vase at it. Start on the rooftop, there is a locked door and an explosive red vase opposite the door (it’s highlighted red when scanning with Dpad Left). Pick up the explosive vase, carry it to the two movable shelves at the north-end of the roof. Place the explosive vase on the ground with 
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. Now move the right shelf all the way right, to the grass/small palm tree. Now pick up the explosive vase, climb onto the grass, from there jump to shelf, and to the balcony above shelf.
Then turn left and walk across the rope.
Now throw the explosive at the destructible floor and drop down.
Inside the house you will find a Historical Site (upstairs) + Gear Chest (downstairs).
Wilderness
Gear Chest #22: Hidden One Dagger / Upgrade Schematic
In Anbar, north of Winter Palace, inside a locked tower. You must climb to the tower wall, then throw a Throwing Knife through the window at the crane (scan for it with Dpad Left to highlight it in red color).
This will make the crane drop down onto some explosive vases, which blows open the entrance to the tower. Now you can enter the tower from the north, climb up inside to find the chest.
Gear Chest #23: Hidden One Dagger / Upgrade Schematic
In the cave under Dur-Kurigalzu. Jump down from the viewpoint to land in the water, then follow the path.
On the left there’s a movable block of stone, destroy the vases next to it, then push the block to the right. Behind the shelf is a red explosive vase, pick it up.
In the next room you can throw it at a destructible wall.
Then follow the path until you reach the chamber with the chest, it’s guarded by enemies.
Gear Chest #24: Hidden One Dagger / Upgrade Schematic
Found in Water Mill area, in a locked chest. First you need the key to unlock the chest. The key is found in the water just a few meters south-east of the chest icon on the map, near where the big water wheel is. Scan for it with Dpad Left, it will show a white key icon when near it. Dive down in the water to grab the key from the floor.
Then head to the chest, pull the shelf that’s blocking the entrance, then unlock the chest with the key.
Gear Chest #25: Hidden One Sword / Upgrade Schematic
Inside Abandoned Caravanserai building. You must blow up the back wall with an explosive vase. Approach through the main entrance from the east. On the right of the yard is a movable shelf, move it all the way to the left. Pick up the explosive red vase, climb onto the movable shelf, jump to the rope and run up to the balcony (carrying the vase).
Jump down the wooden sticks on the walls, then throw the explosive vase at the destructible wall on the back of the building. This reveals the chest.
Gear Chest #26: Hidden One Sword / Upgrade Schematic
Found at Southern Camp, south-east of the city. It’s sitting out in the open, guarded by a few enemies.
Gear Chest #27: Hidden One Sword / Upgrade Schematic
In Spymaster’s Camp, on a tree house. Use the nearby tree branch to jump over to it.
Gear Chest #28: The Samsaama
Dive down Northern Oasis to reach a hidden chamber. You must use the Mysterious Shard Collectibles to open the 3 chests here. They cost 10 shards total (2 shards + 3 shards + 5 shards). This one is on the left for 2 shards.
Gear Chest #29: Shamshir-e Zomorrodnegar
Dive down Northern Oasis to reach a hidden chamber. You must use the Mysterious Shard Collectibles to open the 3 chests here. They cost 10 shards total (2 shards + 3 shards + 5 shards). This one is on the right for 3 shards.
Gear Chest #30: Milad’s Outfit
Dive down Northern Oasis to reach a hidden chamber. You must use the Mysterious Shard Collectibles to open the 3 chests here. They cost 10 shards total (2 shards + 3 shards + 5 shards). This one is in the middle for 5 shards.
That’s all of the Gear Chests in AC Mirage. For all other collectible types refer to Assassin’s Creed Mirage Collectible Guide.
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