Loot keys

Kill a player - anywhere - and their lost items don't hit the ground: they're sealed into a loot key placed in your inventory. Bring it home to cash in.

How keys work

• Each key is a single inventory item labelled with the victim's name. Check a key to see its sealed contents in chat.
• No key cap - carry as many keys as your inventory has room for. With a full inventory, further kills drop loot on the ground the normal way.
• Everyone can see your keys. While you carry keys, your skull shows them - keys hanging under it above your head (the display caps at five, however many you carry). The more keys, the bigger the target on your back.
• Losing the key item doesn't lose the loot - ::lootkeys lists your keys and re-issues any missing handles.

Claiming - the Loot Chest

The Loot Chest sits just east of the Lumbridge market rows. Opening it shows your oldest key's sealed loot - the label at the top names the victim and how many keys you're holding. From there:

• Withdraw / Bank an item - right-click any item in the grid to take or bank just that stack
• Withdraw all to inventory - claim the whole key to your backpack
• Withdraw all to bank - send the whole key straight to your bank
• Item / Note - choose whether inventory withdrawals arrive as items or bank notes

When a key is emptied it crumbles to dust and the chest moves on to your next key.

The risk

Unclaimed keys are always lost on death. They occupy no keep slot, Protect Item doesn't save them, and it doesn't matter where you die - wilderness or not. When you fall, your keys are destroyed and their contents spill into your lost loot. This applies to PK bots too.

That's the whole tension of the system: every key you carry deep in the wild is a bounty on your head. Bank your winnings or gamble them on one more fight.

What counts

• Every player kill mints a key - real players and killable PK bots alike, in the wilderness or in safe zones. Kill the goblin-camp bandit on the road and its kit seals into a key for you, same as a deep-wild PK.
• If no key can be minted (your inventory is full), the loot drops on the ground the normal way instead.