Bandit camp spawns not linking key to chest?
Bandit camp spawns not linking key to chest?
Twice now I've come across an NPC bandit spawn, killed all the NPCs and found a copper key on one (and only one) of them. Alongside the spawn is always a locked wooden box. The key can't open the lockbox because the key is blank. Is this intentional?
The box is unlockable using the lockpicking skill and contains a weak trap and level 1 (or sub-level 1) loot.
The box is unlockable using the lockpicking skill and contains a weak trap and level 1 (or sub-level 1) loot.
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Re: Bandit camp spawns not linking key to chest?
The key goes to another chest. Wich then holds a key to another chest, that is the chest wich holds the key you are looking for.
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I dont know why the key is blank (an npc joke perhaps), but when there's a key it's at the prison camp spawns and the key unlocks the npc that wants to be taken somewhere...... a key never unlocks the chest..
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Aye, it's not intended to have the key unlock the chest. This may be a bug related to a camp with no prisoner spawn.
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This particular camp had a prisoner, and I'm not 100% but I think I was able to open the chains before I looted the key. I know this because I provoked the bandits onto each other, released him, saw he wanted to go to Jhelom so killed him and the bandits with an EV. It was only then that I looted the corpses, including the key, and tried to open the chest.
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This is how every bandit camp spawn I've seen is. I'm pretty sure the [blank] key does nothing whatsoever.
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They are still like this. You can unlock the chained up npc without a key. And the key to the box or chest was ALWAYS on one of the bandits in era. I remember this. But here, its just blank keys that unlock nothing.
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Any updates on this?
It feels very much like a bug to me.
Imagine running out to one of these camps advertised at the message board at the bank.
No regs, just a newbie warrior character.
Kill off all the ratmen, and there's a key on one of them.
A chest! A key!
Prisoner wants to go to Ocllo? But I ran here from Minoc!
Key doesn't work?!
*snoops prisoner*
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It feels very much like a bug to me.
Imagine running out to one of these camps advertised at the message board at the bank.
No regs, just a newbie warrior character.
Kill off all the ratmen, and there's a key on one of them.
A chest! A key!
Prisoner wants to go to Ocllo? But I ran here from Minoc!
Key doesn't work?!
*snoops prisoner*
100gp and some wheels of cheese are better than nothing!
-Bicchus Dicchus
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Not a bug, the blank key is for getting fame/karma from releasing the escort. You can still unlock them without they key but you don't get any fame/karma w/out the blank key
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I hadn't played UO in about ten years or so, so I can't remember if the key unlocked the chests or not. I have 60 lockpicking skill and can open one of the chests, but why can't I open the other one? Do I need a higher skill in lockpicking?
I like the loot I'm getting from these camps, but wish I could open both boxes. I really wish the key would unlock the second box that I can't open, that would make sense. How do you get the second box open?
I like the loot I'm getting from these camps, but wish I could open both boxes. I really wish the key would unlock the second box that I can't open, that would make sense. How do you get the second box open?
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99% sure one box uses the key and the other is just a regular dungeon type chest (loot is a teensy bit different) that can be picked or unlocked with magicshivermetimbers wrote:I hadn't played UO in about ten years or so, so I can't remember if the key unlocked the chests or not. I have 60 lockpicking skill and can open one of the chests, but why can't I open the other one? Do I need a higher skill in lockpicking?
I like the loot I'm getting from these camps, but wish I could open both boxes. I really wish the key would unlock the second box that I can't open, that would make sense. How do you get the second box open?
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I wish the key worked on either, I tried for quite a long time to use the key on both boxes (nobody around at all where I was so I took my time) and have done this in six camps now with no success. I can pick one of the locks as I have a pretty high skill in lockpicking, but the other says a weird message I can't remember, something about that I can't figure out how to unlock it. I just got magic unlock, but am building up my magery and will try that next time I get one of those chests.GleepGlop wrote:99% sure one box uses the key and the other is just a regular dungeon type chest (loot is a teensy bit different) that can be picked or unlocked with magicshivermetimbers wrote:I hadn't played UO in about ten years or so, so I can't remember if the key unlocked the chests or not. I have 60 lockpicking skill and can open one of the chests, but why can't I open the other one? Do I need a higher skill in lockpicking?
I like the loot I'm getting from these camps, but wish I could open both boxes. I really wish the key would unlock the second box that I can't open, that would make sense. How do you get the second box open?
Has anyone been able to successfully open both boxes in a bandit camp?
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Yes, when there have indeed been two chests.shivermetimbers wrote:Has anyone been able to successfully open both boxes in a bandit camp?
Yet in roughly 30-40 camps attempted, I have not found one that linked the key properly to either chest.
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