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Introduction

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.

Keys

Name of Key Image How It Is Used Where to Obtain
A Key A key Opens a cage to get Glarial's Pebble. (Waterfall Quest) Search a crate in the dungeon under Tree Gnome Village.
A small key A small key Freeing Elena from a basement in West Ardougne. Searching in a crate upstairs of a boarded up building in West Ardogune.
Battered key Battered key Opens the false wall in Seers Village. Allows access to the Elemental Workshop. Using a knife on a battered book.
Bedabin copy key Bedabin copy key Used in the Tourist Trap Quest to steal blueprints from Captain Siad. Obtained from Al Shabim.
Bone key (Legends and Shilo Village) Bone key 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.
Bone key (Ghost Ahoy) Bone key (Ghost Ahoy) Opens the gate upstairs in the Ectofuntus. Dropped by Necrovarus when you show him the petition.
Brass key Brass key 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.
Cavern key Cavern key Opens a gate in Creature of Fenkenstrain Quest. Kill the Level 51 Experiment with a girls head.
Cell door key Cell door key Opens a cell door in the Tourist Trap Quest. Steal it from the room upstairs of the cell.
Chest Key (Pirate's Treasure) Chest Key (Pirate's Treasure) Opens Red Beard Frank's chest. Pirate's Treasure Quest.
Chest key (Dig Site) Chest key (Dig Site) Opens the chest in the Dig Site. Loot is unidentified powder. A worker in a winch shaft.
Chest key (Ghosts Ahoy) Chest key (Ghosts Ahoy) Opens chests in the pirate ship. Get it from old man on the pirate ship after giving him a toy ship.
Closet key Closet key Opens the door that contains the Rubber Tube used in the Ernest the Chicken Quest. Dig on the compost pile in Draynor Manor.
Colored keys Colored keys Melzars Maze. There are a number of different colored ones. Kill the enemies in Melzars Maze.
Crystal key Crystal key Opens a chest in Taverly. Loot is uncut dragon stone and another random item/s. Connect the two halves of a key together.
Crystal-mine key Crystal mine key Used in the Haunted Mine Quest. Kill Treus Dayth in the Haunted Mine.
Display cabinet key Display cabinet key Opens the cabinet in the museum. The Golem Quest.
Door key Door key Opens the door in the Witch's House Quest. Found under a flower pot in Taverly, out side the witches house.
Dusty key Cell door key Opens the gate in Taverly Dungeon. Legends Guild Shop (1gp) or from a man in the jail in Taverly Dungeon.
Dwarven key Enchanted key Opens a chest which contains plans. Pickpocketed from Drorkar during the Perils of Ice Mountain quest.
Enchanted key Enchanted key Used for locating treasures during Treasure Hunting. Obtained during the Making History and Meeting History quests.
Frozen key Frozen key Use with a range to defrost. In Rellekka, in the Seer's house.
Glough's Key Glough's key Opens Glough's chest in his tree house. From Glough's girlfriend.
Golden key Golden key To exchange for a key that will open a cell door. Kill a Monk of zamorak during the Priest in Peril Quest.
Half a key (Loop) Half a key (Loop) Use with Half a key (Teeth) to get a crystal key. Rare monster drop and obtained from a strange old man random event.
Half a key (Teeth) Half a key (Teeth) Use with Half a key (Loop) to get a crystal key. Rare monster drop and obtained from a strange old man random event.
Iron key Iron key To free the priest from the Priest in Peril Quest. Swapping with a golden key.
Jail key Jail key Opens a jail in Taverly dungeon. Kill the Jailer in Taverly Dungeon.
Keep key Keep key Opens the gate in the dungeon below the Observatory. In a chest in the dungeon below the Observatory.
Key (Biohazard) Key (Biohazard) Opens a cage with a distiller inside. (Biohazard Quest) Kill a mourner.
Key (Carnillean) Key (Carnillean) To enter the false wall in the attic in the Carnillean Mansion. In the basement of the mansion.
Key (Phoenix) Key (Phoenix) To get into the Phoenix gang weapon store. From Straven at the Phoenix Gang HQ.
Key (Witch's Shed) Key (Witch's Shed) To open the door to the witches shed. From the fountain in the witches garden.
Keys Keys To break into the Mayor's House. Given by Ali the Operator in the Feud Quest.
Khazard Cell Keys Khazard cell keys Open the cells in the Khazard Arena. From a Khazard Guard during the Fight Arena Quest.
Lighthouse key Lighthouse key Opens the Lighthouse. From a Barbarian in the Barbarian Outpost.
Maze Key Maze Key Allows entry to Melzar's Maze south of the Crafting Guild. Legends Guild Shop (1gp) or from Oziach during Dragon Slayer quest.
Muddy key Muddy key 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.
Seers' key Seers' key To leave the Seers' house in Rellekka. Defrost the frozen key.
Shed key Shed key Opens the shed in Fenkenstrain's Castle. Fenkenstrain's Gardener.
Silverlight key Silverlight key There are three, used to get the Silverlight Sword. Demon Slayer quest, See the Quest Guide for details.
Sinister key Sinister key Opens a chest containing 9 herbs. Kill Salarin the Twisted in the Yannile Agility Dungeon.
Shade keys Shade keys Opens chests which have a random prize inside. They come in different Metal and Color conbinations. The higher the type of metal the better the prize. Get the remains of special Shades found in Mort'ton. With the remains, you burn them using special Pyre Logs and in return you get money or a shade key.
Steel key ring Steel key ring Allows you to store some important keys on it. Complete the One Small Favour Quest.
Storeroom key Storeroom key To enter the troll Storeroom to obtain the goutweed. Get it from a drawer in the troll kitchen.
Zealot's Key Zealot's Key From the Haunted Mine Quest, used to start the water valve. Pickpocket the Zealot.
Ancestral key Ancestral key Used to open the first double doors in the water spirits' cave in the Spirits of the Elid quest. Found on a table in Shiratti the Custodian's house in Nardah.

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Keys to Keep

These keys are keys that you should keep in your bank or store on your steel keyring.

  • Dusty key
  • Brass key
  • Shiny key
  • Wrought iron key
  • Battered key
  • Maze key
  • Key (Phoenix)
  • Crystal-Mine key
  • Enchanted key

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This Special Report was written by Hampster_Hat. Thanks to Im4eversmart, LogGamer, Obi-Wan, TheFrugle, Fireball0236, Beepem, Overloser, Alfawarlord, and Kate for corrections.
This Special Report was entered into the database on Thu, Aug 04, 2005, at 03:24:43 PM by Im4eversmart, and it was last updated on Mon, Aug 20, 2012, at 07:13:22 PM by Greg.

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