Keys & Keycards

Locked rooms are where the loot that's worth a trip lives, and each one has a key. Keys are small — they belong in your secure container, which is exactly what it's for.

Where keys come from#

Keys reflect what they open: military keys come off soldiers and NBC infected, the police key off police infected, town and dorm keys off anyone. Any infected can drop a chest key — a small roll from a pool of sixteen — but never a Lab card. Task rewards hand out keys too, often as a random draw from a list; the Task Board says which.

Chest keys#

Around the map are loot chests — some free to open, most behind a key. The free stashes and caches draw from Tarkov's cache tables; the keyed ones are themed on where they are, so a mine reads industrial, a dorm reads domestic and a military base reads military. The best gun a free chest can produce is capped; the keyed ones aren't. Every key below opens chests somewhere on this server — the name is the one you'll see on the item.

Keycard rooms#

A few rooms are behind a locked door rather than a chest. The six coloured cards open rooms inside the Lab — and opening one sounds an alarm that the whole server hears. The three marked rooms out on the map open silently with their own keys, and they are one of the few places the coloured cards come from.

The Lab keycards#

The white access card gets you into the Lab and is used up on entry; the coloured cards open its rooms. The Lab covers what each room holds and where the cards come from.

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The free chests#

Every weapon out of a chest arrives built — magazine, optic, the furniture it actually takes — with at most four spare magazines.