Egg Heist keys: types, prices and where to buy them

In Egg Heist, teams compete to dig rare eggs out of nests inside the sanctum ruins. The nests sit at fixed spawn positions, and only in certain room types, such as large rooms and locked key rooms. A position isn't guaranteed to hold an egg. Each one has a chance, and the higher-chance positions are more likely to have one.

The locked rooms are what make keys worth buying. A locked key room can hold eggs, including rare chests and egg nests, and locked rooms always contain chests, with the loot depending on how rare the room is. Chest contents and item quality have their own guide on this site; here, all you need to know is that a locked room never pays out nothing.

This matters most in a Chaos run. There, almost no eggs lie in the open, so you find them essentially only in the locked key rooms. Go into Chaos without keys and you'll mostly be watching other teams open doors.

Blue keys are the ones you use on every run. Each Egg Heist map has two locked rooms, and both doors need a blue key.

Silver keys come in on the harder settings. You need them for certain doors and gates on Hard difficulty, and they open Intermediate and Hard locked doors in general.

Gold keys, called Gilded Keys, are for Nightmare. Locked doors on Nightmare difficulty Egg Heist need one. Bringing one or two Gilded Keys into each run is the usual recommendation, which tells you how often you'll run into those doors.

The Sanctum works by the same rule. Its difficulty tiers and key rooms are unlocked with keys such as rusted keys, and Nightmare key rooms there need a legendary key. Sealed reward rooms in the Sanctum need a matching Sanctum key, which you can buy in the Egg Heist shop. The difficulty tiers themselves, Chaos Mode included, have their own article on this site.

The Gilded Key price is not settled. In the shop before an Egg Heist run it is listed at 100,000. From black market vendors inside an Egg Heist it is listed at 150,000.

The practical upshot is simple. Inside the heist you pay the higher figure for convenience. If you're planning a Nightmare run, buy your one or two Gilded Keys in the shop beforehand and keep the in-dungeon vendor for emergencies.

In the shop, golden heist keys sit under the Equip section, not with the general goods.

There are five ways to get Egg Heist door keys, blue keys included:

Bring them from your inventory if you already have some.

Buy them before a run from the Egg Heist vendor's shop.

Buy them before a run from the black market dealer.

Buy them inside the dungeon from the NPC trader near the portal or side entrance.

Find them in dungeon loot boxes.

The catch is the inventory rule. A key only works if it's in your character inventory or backpack before you enter Egg Heist. A key left in storage does nothing for you once the run has started, so check your backpack before you queue. Buying inside the dungeon and finding keys in loot boxes cover you when you've forgotten, but neither is something to plan around, especially for Gilded Keys at the higher price.

05Where to start

Before every run, put a blue key in your backpack for the two locked rooms. Add silver keys for Intermediate or Hard, and one or two Gilded Keys for Nightmare, bought in the shop's Equip section at the lower price. In Chaos, keys are close to the only way you'll find eggs at all.