Key Holder

Reward rooms contain great loot that will helpshape your character, but to get the key you have to face the key holder - a unique situation designed to test your character. It is always possible to get the key from a key holder, though sometimes it is more difficult than others.

Key Holder	Description	Depths	Frequency
Secret Room	Key on an altar in a secret room.	1-26	1
Throwing Tutorial	Toss an item onto the pressure plate to retract the cage and reveal the key.	1-4	10
Flammible Barricade in the Doorway	Burn the wooden barricade to enter. Either Incendiary darts or a potion of incineration are always generated on the level.	1-5	8
Fun With Fire	Trigger the fire trap and coax the fire over to the wooden barricade surrounding the altar and key.	3-10	10
Flood Room	Key on an altar in a room with pools of eel-infested waters; take key to flood room with shallow water.	3-26	10
Collapsing Floor Area	Key on an altar in an area; take key to cause the floor of the area to collapse.	1-26	13
Pit Traps	Key on an altar, room full of pit traps.	1-26	10
Levitation Challenge	Key on an altar, room filled with chasm, potion of levitation elsewhere on level, bridge appears when you grab the key.	1-13	10
Web Climbing	Key on an altar, room filled with chasm, spider at altar to shoot webs, bridge appears when you grab the key.	7-26	10
Lava Moat Room	Key on an altar, room filled with lava, levitation/fire immunity elsewhere on level, lava retracts when you grab the key.	3-13	7
Lava Moat Area	Key on an altar, surrounded with lava, levitation/fire immunity elsewhere on level, lava retracts when you grab the key.	3-13	3
Poision Gas	Key on an altar; take key to cause a poison gas vent to appear and the door to be blocked; there is a hidden trapdoor somewhere.	4-26	7
Explosive Situation	Key on an altar; take key to cause a methane gas vent to appear and a pilot light to ignite.	7-26	10
Burning Grass	Key on an altar; take key to cause pilot light to ignite grass in room.	1-7	10
Statuary	Key on an altar, area full of statues ; take key to cause statues to burst and reveal monsters.	10-26	10
Worms in the Walls	Step on trigger region to cause underworms to burst out of the walls.	12-26	7
Mud Pit	Key on an altar, room full of mud, take key to cause bog monsters to spawn in the mud.	12-26	10
Haunted House	Key on an altar; take key to cause the room to darken, ectoplasm to cover everything and phantoms to appear.	16	10
Gauntlet	Key on an altar; take key to cause turrets to emerge.	5-24	10
Boss	Key is held by a boss atop a pile of bones in a secret room. A few fungus trees light up the area.	5-26	25