Key locations in Ultima VII

Unlike its predecessor, there are many keys in Ultima VII. It is very difficult to keep inventory, since the game does not have a keyring feature and some keys do open multiple doors. To make key-use more orderly, here is a complete overview, complete with notes about special properties of said keys.

All inns use the same-looking key, listed at the bottom.

The list is not complete, some keys in Despise were missed.

Towns

Trinsic

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Near Christopher’s dead body in the stables	The chest in in house in northwestern Trinsic to get further evidence	Show the key to Finnigan in order to get a clue what to do with it.
	Under a brownish rock at 129°S 3°W between the shore of the Cape of Heroes and the treeline	A nearby chest (partially hidden under a tree) with good equipment	The key also opens Mack’s shed to get the Hoe of Destruction.

Paws

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Under the blood bucket in the slaughterhouse	The chest in Morfin’s house The chest in the back room of the slaughterhouse
	Hidden beside the flower pot in Morfin's house	The back room of the slaughterhouse with much loot
	Given by Morfin after Feridwyn accuses Tobias of venom theft	Garritt’s chest in homeless shelter, marked by panpipes; take venom to solve case

Britain

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Drawer in Lord British’s study	Storeroom with spellbook on the roof	A spellbook is needed in order to win the game.
	Drawers in Sentri’s house	Backroom with lots of good equipment
	In Cynthia’s house	The first door into the Royal Mint	Other keys required to make progress
	Cynthia has it on her person	Backroom of the Royal Mint	Must kill Cynthia to get it, but need to Resurrect her to exchange the loot.
	Cynthia has it on her person	Backroom of the Royal Mint	Must kill Cynthia to get it, but need to Resurrect her to exchange the loot.
	Cynthia has it on her person	Backroom of the Royal Mint	Must kill Cynthia to get it, but need to Resurrect her to exchange the loot.
	Shelf in the Fellowship main branch	Chest in the branch with valuables

Cove

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Inside a dead trout (labeled "body") at the northern shores of Lock Lake around 2°N 48°E	Mack's shed in order to get the Hoe of Destruction	The key for the chest near Trinsic also works. Door can also be blown open.

Minoc

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Drawers of the desk in the BMC building next to the gypsy wagon	The chest in the room below	The chest contains 9 vials of silver serpent venom.
	Drawers on second floor of Gregor’s house in northwestern Minoc	The chest in the ground floor below, behind the stairs up.	Chest contains 8 magic arrows, 90 gold pieces and a Fellowship medallion.

Yew and Empath Abbey

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	On Goth’s person at the High Court, can either be killed or bribed with 10 gold pieces	Opens the cell door to the cell the Avatar gets locked in at the High Court if arrested	If you get arrested, finding the money in the cell and then bribing Goth is one way to get free.

Jhelom and the Valorian Isles

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Bag inside cave on northwesten Valorian Isle	Two chests in the same cave with good loot
	Desk in secret room on northeastern Valorian Isle	Chest in the same room with good loot
	Nightstand in De Snel’s house	Door to the backroom of the Library of Scars with nice loot

Moonglow

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Appears after solving the sign puzzle in front of Penumbra’s house	The front door of Penumbra's house	Penumbra cannot be met without it.

New Magincia

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Given by Alagner after answering the answers to life and death and asking for the notebook	Outer doors of Alagner's storehouse Door to the inner vault of the storehouse	Key is necessary to get the notebook.

Serpent's Hold and the Meditation Retreat

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Inside a dead trout in the kitchen of the Hallowed Dock (facing the other way, Denton never touches it and is labeled "body")	Chest inside the water cave on the south side of the island
	Inside the chest in the water cave on the south side of the island	The door to Sir Richter’s armoury, holding many magical weapons
	Under the clothes in Sir Richter's room	The door to Sir Richter’s armoury, holding many magical weapons	If you do not want to go the cave route, this key is much easier to use.
	Ian at the Meditation Retreat when being an actual member of the Fellowship and wearing the medallion	Allows entrance to the retreat, thus to the Cube Generator	Not essential since the magic carpet can perform same function.

Spektran

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	On the stone harpy’s dead body after killing it	The vault of Martingo, containing the Ether Ring	Defeat the stone harpy only with non-magical weapons.

Buccaneer's Den

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Given by Glenno after paying 300 gold pieces for admittance into The Baths	Opens the front door of The Baths	Access is also possible through the Buccaneer's Cave, without having to pay.
	Given by Sintag with the help of the small cube after having learned about Hook’s hideout.	Door to the Buccaneer's Cave inside the House of Games	Access is also possible by using Telekinesis to enter the backroom of the Fellowship branch that exits to the cave.
	Found in drawers in Hook's hideout	Chest in the cave with magic armour
	Inside the chest in Hook's hideout	Outside gates to the Shrine of the Codex Entrance gate to dungeon Hythloth	Necessary to enter Hythloth and win the quest.
	On Grod’s body after killing him.	Opens Sullivan’s cell
	On Grod’s body after killing him.	Opens Anton’s cell

Inns

Key	Innkeeper*	Inn**
	Apollonia	The Honorable Hound (Trinsic)
	Polly	The Salty Dog (Paws)
	James	Wayfarer's Inn (Britain)
	Pamela	The Out'n'Inn (Cove)
	Rutherford	The Checquered Cork (Minoc)
	Ophelia	Bunk and Stool (Jhelom)
	Boris	Modest Damsel (New Magincia)
	Mandy	The Fallen Virgin (Buccaneer's Den)

Once unlocked, doors will not be re-locked so the key can be discarded, if not using the Keyring Mod.
* The innkeeper will provide the key when renting the room.
** All the guest rooms in inns can be opened with the key provided by the innkeeper.

Wilderness

The Drylands

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	In the chest on the Big X in the northern Drylands	The chest in the meeting chamber of Serpent's Hold, holding many reagents
	Under a bucket full of beer at the shores near the pirate fort in the northeastern Drylands	A chest inside the pirate fort

Valarian Islands

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Small island northeast of Jhelom in hut with numerous butchered animals	Skeleton key, it can open all pickable locks and never breaks, thus replacing all lockpicks entirely	Finding this one, you only need a lockpick to solve a puzzle later on.

Cape of Heroes

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Bag in the hideout on an island of the Cape of Heroes at 162°S 8°E, in the southeastern corner of the room	One of the chests in the hideout	Can only reach the bag with the hackmover. Chest is empty.

Dungeons and Caves

Dungeon Despise, west (Shame)

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Lower part of Selwyn’s hideout, nightstand	Chest right next to it, containing reagents
	Selwyn's hideout, corpse of Selwyn after killing him	Nearby chest with good loot
	Selwyn's hideout, corpse of the fighter conspirator after killing him	Nearby chest with good loot
	Corpse of a dead mage after teleport to storehouse part of the hideout	Unlocks nearby chests with magical loot

Dungeon Despise, East

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Corpse right at the entrance	Many doors in the dungeon
	Room with mushrooms in the north of the dungeon	Nearby door directly back to the entrance
	Northern secret room after walking through invisible corridor from mushroom room	Chests on the upper floor after the teleport
	On one of the beds in the dark mage's lair	Invisible chest sitting on one of the bed in the lair
	On the floor near the room with the plants and spring	Nearby chest with magical loot
	On the floor near the room with the plants and spring	Nearby chest with magical loot

Dungeon Hythloth

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	On the dead body of woman in westernmost prison cell	A door a little further past the prison area
	On the rim of a well south of the metal walls puzzle	Doors further south
	Next to the trap teleporter at the southernmost part of Hythloth		Uncertain
	At the second teleport location of the Throne of Change, corpse and backpack behind the southern secret wall	Door to the Throne of Virtue at teleport location 3	Necessary to sit on the Throne of Virtue and thus activate teleport location 4.

Forge of Virtue

Isle of Fire

Key	Where is it found	What does it open	Notes
	Test of Truth, SW prison cell	The SE prison cell	Not needed to finish the test.
	Test of Truth, SE prison cell	The NW prison cell	Not needed to finish the test.
	Test of Truth, NW prison cell	The NE prison cell	Not needed to finish the test.
	Test of Truth, NE prison cell	Room NW of the prison cells	Not needed to finish the test.
	Test of Truth, room NW of the prison cells	Room NE of the prison cells with lever to unlock the teleporter	Not needed to finish the test.
	Test of Courage, the dark mage in the first room after the entry portal after being killed	The nearby exit door
	Test of Courage, appears after putting the nearby glass sword onto the floor tile in front of the crystal ball	The door that leads further north

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