Key Guide
This guide will tell you all you need to know about the different keys in Runescape. It will tell you where to find them, what quest they are from, and whether or not you should keep them after you have completed the quest.If you are having troubles identifying a key, hover the cursor over the icon to preview its examine text and compare it to the examine text of a key in game. Dashes under "Keep?" means it's up to you whether you want to keep the key or not.
| Key Name | How it's Used | Where to Obtain | Keep? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opens the two doors in the western part of the Waterfall Dungeon. (Waterfall Quest) | Search a crate in the Waterfall Dungeon. | ❌ | |
| Freeing Elena from a basement in West Ardougne. | Searching in a crate upstairs of a boarded up building in West Ardogune. | ❌ | |
| Opens the false wall in Seers Village. Allows access to the Elemental Workshop. | Using a knife on a battered book. | ➖ | |
| Opens a cage to get Glarial's Pebble. (Waterfall Quest) | Search a crate in the dungeon under Tree Gnome Village. | ❌ | |
| Used in the Tourist Trap Quest to steal blueprints from Captain Siad. | Obtained from Al Shabim. | ❌ | |
| To obtain a Golden Bowl in the Legends Quest, or to open Rashiliyia's dungeon in the Shilo Village Quest. | Use a chisel with a bone shard. | ➖ | |
| Open the door of a hut west of the Cooking Guild. The hut is the second entrance to Edgville Dungeon. | Respawns near the giants in Edgeville dungeon. | ✔️ | |
| Opens a cell door in the Tourist Trap Quest. | Steal it from the room upstairs of the cell. | ❌ | |
| Opens the cell door where Godric is held in the Troll Stronghold Quest. | Steal it from Twig who is in Troll Stronghold. | ❌ | |
| Opens the cell door where Eadgar is held in the Troll Stronghold Quest. | Steal it from Berry who is in Troll Stronghold. | ❌ | |
| Opens Red Beard Frank's chest. | Pirate's Treasure Quest. | ❌ | |
| Opens the chest in the Dig Site. Loot is unidentified powder. | A worker in a winch shaft. | ❌ | |
| Opens the door that contains the Rubber Tube used in the Ernest the Chicken Quest. | Dig on the compost pile in Draynor Manor. | ❌ | |
| Opens a chest in Taverly. Loot is uncut dragon stone and another random item(s). | Connect the two halves of a key together. | ✔️ | |
| Opens the door in the Witch's House Quest. | Found under a flower pot in Taverly, out side the witches house. | ❌ | |
| Opens the gate in Taverly Dungeon. | Buy in the Legends guild or from a man in the jail in Taverly Dungeon. | ✔️ | |
| Opens Glough's chest in his tree house. | From Anita in the Tree Gnome Stronghold during The Grand Tree Quest. | ❌ | |
| To exchange for a key that will open a cell door. | Kill a Monk of Zamorak during the Priest in Peril Quest. | ❌ | |
| Opens the treasure room in the Black Arm Gang's second hideout. (Hero's Quest) | Having a Phoenix Gang partner kill Grip with ranged or magic during Hero's Quest. | ❌ | |
| Use with Half a key (Teeth) to get a crystal key. | Rare monster drop and obtained from a strange old man random event. | ✔️ | |
| Use with Half a key (Loop) to get a crystal key. | Rare monster drop and obtained from a strange old man random event. | ✔️ | |
| To free the priest from the Priest in Peril Quest. | Swapping with a golden key. | ❌ | |
| Opens a jail in Taverly dungeon to a man that has the dusty key. | Kill the Jailer in Taverly Dungeon. | ❌ | |
| Opens the gate in the dungeon below the Observatory. | In a chest in the dungeon below the Observatory. | ❌ | |
| Opens a cage with a distiller inside. (Biohazard Quest) | Kill a mourner. | ❌ | |
| To enter the false wall in the attic in the Carnillean Mansion. | In the basement of the Carnillean mansion. | ❌ | |
| To get into the Phoenix Gang's weapon store. | From Straven at the Phoenix Gang HQ. | ➖ | |
| To open the door to the witches shed. | From the fountain in the witches garden. | ❌ | |
| There are three, used to get the Silverlight Sword. | Demon Slayer quest. See the Quest Guide for details. | ❌ | |
| Melzars Maze. There are a number of different colored ones. | Kill the enemies in Melzars Maze. | ❌ | |
| Open the cells in the Khazard Arena. | From a Khazard Guard during the Fight Arena Quest. | ❌ | |
| To gain access to Melzar's Maze. | Given by the Guildmaster in the Champions' Guild during Dragon Slayer. | ➖ | |
| To gain access to Scarface Pete's mansion in Brimhaven. (Hero's Quest) | Given by Grip during Hero's Quest. | ❌ | |
| Opens a chest in the lava maze, Wilderness. Loot is: Mithril bar, Mithril dagger, Anchovy pizza, Uncut ruby, 2 Law runes, 10 Chaos runes, 2 Death runes and 50gp. | Random drop from Chaos Dwarves. | ✔️ | |
| Allows access to the Ikov dungeon shortcut in McGrubor's Wood. | Found at the end of the Temple of Ikov dungeon during the quest. | ✔️ | |
| Opens a chest containing 9 herbs. | Kill Salarin the Twisted in the Yanille Agility Dungeon. | ✔️ | |
| Used in the Troll Stronghold Quest to gain access to the troll prison. | Obtained by killing level 113 Troll generals in Troll Stronghold. | ❌ | |
| Grants access to the mine located at the Desert Mining camp. | Quest reward from Tourist Trap. | ✔️ |
This special report was written by Hampster_Hat. Thanks to Im4eversmart, Obi-Wan, TheFrugle, Fireball0236, Beepem, and Overloser for corrections.
This special report was entered into the database on Thu, Aug 04, 2005, at 03:24:43 PM by Im4eversmart and was last updated on Sun, Aug 07, 2005, at 07:03:12 AM by Fireball0236.
