How To Get & Use Lockpicking Tools In Palworld

Lockpicking Tools are items you can get and use to unlock Treasure Chests in Palworld through a small mini-game. However, you need to meet certain requirements before you can craft these items among other resources at your base. Some of the strongest items you can find are located within chests, so you'll want to take the time to study which prerequisites to achieve to gather a container's powerful loot.

The normal Technology Tree for basic items does not include Lockpicking Tools, meaning you have to look elsewhere for their blueprints. Lockpicking Tools are part of the Ancient Technology Tree menu, which progresses when you gain Ancient Technology Points. These points are earned from various sources, like defeating Alpha Pals and Tower Syndicate bosses or reading the Ancient Technical Manual in Palworld.

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Reach Ancient Technology Levels And Spend The Right Resources

There are three versions of Lockpicking Tools ranked by strength, with each requiring you to reach a higher tier of the Ancient Technology Tree to unlock them as a craftable item. All Lockpicking Tools can be crafted at a High Quality Workbench once their blueprints have been unlocked. Stronger Tools can open rarer chests, so you'll want to obtain the recipes for every version at some point.

Lockpicking Tool Ancient Technology Level Ancient Technology Points Required Crafting Recipe Lockpicking Tool V1 16 1 10 Ingots, 10 Paldium Fragments Lockpicking Tool V2 28 2 20 Ingots, 20 Paldium Fragments, 10 Nails Lockpicking Tool V3 51 3 30 Ingots, 30 Paldium Fragments, 20 Nails

The Production Assembly Line at your base can easily craft any of the Lockpicking Tools, but only if you have the Ingots, Paldium Fragments, and Nails necessary. Those with the right farming Pals in Palworld should have ways to gather these resources quickly through different Pal passive skills. Once you make a Lockpicking Tool, it shows up automatically in your "Key Items" section of the inventory.

Lockpicking Tools never break as you try to unlock chests, so only make one of each type to conserve resources as you reach the required levels on the Ancient Technology Tree.

Break Through Different Kinds Of Locked Chests

Chests come in Copper, Silver, and Gold, each corresponding to a type of Lockpicking Tool. V1 Tools open Copper Chests, V2 Tools open Silver Chests, and V3 Tools are the only ones that can open a Gold Chest. Anyone looking to get loot without a matching color key in Palworld can use a Lockpicking tool by selecting "Lockpick" as an option as they interact with a chest.

Stronger Lockpicking Tools can open the type of containers they correspond to and any chest with a weaker lock. For example, a V3 Lockpicking Tool can open Gold, Silver, and Copper chests due to its strength. No matter what tool you use, you have to complete a mini-game by twisting two parts of a lockpick to rotate a chest's locking mechanism to the right in a clockwise direction.

If the lock doesn't move, continue to twist the Lockpicking Tool parts until it begins to move once more. You have unlimited attempts to pick a chest's lock, so don't worry about the Tool being used up during the process. Once you get the strongest available Lockpicking Tool in Palworld, you can use it as often as you want to get rare treasures from even the most secure chests.