Fallout 3 keys

==General information==
Keys in Fallout 3 open specific doors or containers, some of which are inaccessible otherwise. Some keys can be found in the game world, some are in the possession of non-player characters and can be pickpocketed while a few can only be retrieved if their owner has been killed.
===Legend===
==Base game==
===A - F===
Name	Opens	Found / in possession of	Related quest 	Form ID
 	
* Nothing	
* Abraham Washington 	 	
 	
* Agatha's ammo box in Agatha's house	
* Agatha 	Agatha's Song 	
 	
* Door to Allistair Tenpenny's suite in Tenpenny Tower	
* Allistair Tenpenny
* Guard outside Tenpenny's suite.
* Gustavo
* On a table in Tenpenny Tower's penthouse suites	 	
 	
* Opens the stash behind refrigerator in cellar of the Anchorage Memorial	
* In a utility closet on a shelf in the service entrance of the memorial (the same that holds The Tenderizer)	 	
 	
* Door to basement in the Smith's house in Andale	
* Jack Smith
* In the Smith's house in Andale	Our Little Secret 	
 	
* Door to garden shed behind the Wilson's house in Andale	
* Bill Wilson
* In the Wilson's house in Andale (2 keys)	Our Little Secret 	
 	
* The sewer grate on top of the AntAgonizer's lair	
* AntAgonizer 	The Superhuman Gambit 	
 	
* Store inventory of New Urban Apparel	
* Anthony Ling 	 	
 	
* Rivet City armory and the lockers within	
* Harkness
* Lana Danvers
* Smiling Jack	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Potomac Attire	
* Bannon 	 	
 	
* Door to Bannon's room in Rivet City	
* Bannon 	 	
 	
* Store inventory of The Muddy Rudder	
* Belle Bonny 	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Bessie Lynn's store	
* Bessie Lynn (only if the ghouls have taken over Tenpenny Tower)	 	
 	
* Store inventory of the Brass Lantern
* Jenny Stahl's store inventory in front of the Brass Lantern	
* Jenny Stahl (only if Leo Stahl is dead as well)
* Leo Stahl (only if Jenny Stahl is dead as well)	 	
 	
* Footlocker in small room in the back of The Muddy Rudder	
* Brock 	 	
 	
* Store inventory of A Quick Fix in Rivet City
* Footlocker in the Cantelli room in Rivet City	
* Cindy Cantelli (only if Paulie Cantelli is dead as well)
* Paulie Cantelli (only if Cindy Cantelli is dead as well)	 	
 	
* Door to Cantelli room in Rivet City	
* Cindy Cantelli
* Paulie Cantelli	 	
 	
* Two personal footlockers on a dock southeast of the Citadel	
* On a sunken boat southeast of the Citadel	 	
 	
* Supply fridge in Carol's Place	
* Greta 	 	
 	
* Various doors in the Chryslus Building	
* Leveled super mutant in Chryslus Building Lower Offices	 	
 	
* Cabinet in Moriarty's Saloon	
* Nobody/nowhere 	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Craterside Supply in Megaton (2 containers)
* Moira Brown's store inventory in Underworld (if she becomes a ghoul)	
* Moira Brown 	 	
 	
* Crazy Wolfgang's pack-brahmin
* Crazy Wolfgang's inventory at Uncle Roe's house in Canterbury Commons	
* Crazy Wolfgang 	 	
 	
* Crow's pack-brahmin
* Crow's inventory at Uncle Roe's house in Canterbury Commons	
* Crow 	 	
 	
* Store inventory (2 containers) of Cutter's clinic in Paradise Falls	
* Cutter 	 	
 	
* A footlocker in Bridge tower	
* Lana Danvers 	 	
 	
* Herbert Dashwood's safe in his room at Tenpenny Tower	
* Herbert Dashwood 	A Manhandled Manservant 	
 	
* Dave's safe in The Republic of Dave
* Door in Fort Constantine bomb storage that leads to T-51b power armor	
* Dave () 	You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head	
 	
* Enclave-controlled deathclaw cages	
* Certain Enclave officers	 	
 	
* Footlocker in a room on the Midship Deck of Rivet City	
* Diego 	 	
 	
* Doc Hoff's pack-brahmin
* Doc Hoff's inventory at Uncle Roe's house in Canterbury Commons	
* Doc Hoff 	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Doctor Banfield's clinic in Tenpenny Tower	
* Doctor Banfield 	 	
 	
* Store inventory of The Chop Shop in Underworld	
* Doctor Barrows 	 	
 	
* Door to Doctor Li's room in Rivet City
* Footlocker in her room	
* Doctor Li 	 	
 	
* Nothing	
* Dominic D'Ellsadro
* Machete	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Rivet City clinic	
* Doctor Preston 
* Since Preston is essential, these conditions mean the key can never actually be obtained	 	
 	
* Door to Doctor Preston's room in Rivet City	
* Doctor Preston
* In Doctor Preston's room	 	
 	
* Personal footlocker inside an upturned truck between Corvega factory and Rock Creek Caverns	
* Under an empty whiskey bottle under a milk crate, next to a skeleton lying prone upon a rock in front of the truck's driving cab	 	
 	
* Door in Fort Constantine Launch Control Bunker	
* Cherry ()
* Dukov () 	You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head	
 	
* Citadel Lab armament locker in the Citadel armory	
* Knight Captain Durga 	 	
 	
* Eclair's store inventory in Little Lamplight	
* Eclair 	 	
 	
* Encrypted terminal in Drainage Chamber near Broadcast Tower KT8 (origin of Signal Sierra Romeo)	
* On a desk in the drainage chamber	 	
 	
* The slave pen at Evergreen Mills	
* One of the raiders
* In a locker inside the northeastern guard house	 	
 	
* Footlocker in a room on the Midship Deck of Rivet City	
* Father Clifford 	 	
 	
* Store inventory, cabinets and ammo boxes in Flak 'N Shrapnel's in Rivet City	
* Flak (only if Shrapnel is dead as well)
* Shrapnel (only if Flak is enslaved or dead)
* Since Shrapnel is essential, these conditions mean the key can never actually be obtained	 	
 	
* Door to Flak and Shrapnel's room in Rivet City	
* Flak
* Shrapnel
* Inside Flak and Shrapnel's room	 	
 	
* Door to weapons storage in Fort Independence Lower Level	
* In a footlocker in Fort Independence Lower Level	 	
 	
* Doors to Fort Independence
* Fence gate outside of Fort Independence	
* Protector Casdin
* Defender Morgan
* Defender Rockfowl	 	
 	
* A box of pulse grenades in the robot repair center	
* Behind a terminal in the robot repair center	 	
 	
* Main gate of Republic of Dave	
* Derek Pacion
* Flower
* Mary
* Rachael
* Ralph	 	
===G - M===
Name	Opens	Found / in possession of	Related quest 	Form ID
 	
* Gallo's storage closet	
* In a footlocker near Gallo's bed in the County sewer mainline	 	
 	
* Red's cell in the Germantown Police HQ	
* A super mutant within the Germantown Police HQ	Big Trouble in Big Town 	
 	
* A locked model house inside the Gibson house	
* Gibson in the Capitol Post office	 	
 	
* Grady's safe in Marigold station	
* A special firehose box titled "Grady's Fire Hose Box"	Grady's Package 	
 	
* A dumpster behind the Dot's Diner	
* Pass a speech check or have Child at Heart when talking to Bryan Wilks	 	
 	
* A gun cabinet in the Museum of Technology's Copernicus Planetarium	
* In a safe in the museum's security office	Jiggs' Loot 	
 	
* Doors to Rivet City marketplace at night	
* Rivet City security 	 	
 	
* Two footlockers in Rivet City's common room	
* Tammy Hargrave 	 	
 	
* Ammo box and footlocker in Rivet City's Bridge tower (on the level patrolled by Private Jones)
* Door in Rivet City's marketplace (near Gary's Galley, leading outdoors to the front of the ship)	
* Harkness 	 	
 	
* Door to Billy Creel's house in Megaton	
* Billy Creel 	 	
 	
* Door to Jericho's house in Megaton	
* Nobody/nowhere 	 	
 	
* Door to Lucas Simms' house in Megaton
* Door to Megaton armory	
* Lucas Simms 	 	
 	
* Door to Lucy West's house in Megaton	
* Lucy West 	 	
 	
* Door to Mister Burke's house in Megaton	
* Nobody/nowhere 	 	
 	
* Door to Nathan and Manya's house in Megaton	
* Manya Vargas
* Nathan Vargas	 	
 	
* Personal footlocker, safe and storage room door in Fort Bannister	
* Commander Jabsco 	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Porter's Café in Canterbury Commons	
* Joe Porter 	 	
 	
* Opens an ammo box in the northwest corner of Scrapyard	
* John's corpse in the random encounter "More Than Just Scrap"	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Karl's shop in Meresti Metro station	
* Karl 	 	
 	
* Nothing	
* Andy Stahl 	 	
 	
* Nothing	
* Confessor Cromwell
* Mother Maya	 	
 	
* Door to Craterside Supply in Megaton	
* Nobody/nowhere 	 	
 	
* A door in the Museum of Technology	
* In a safe inside the Museum of Technology	 	
 	
* Door to Vault 92 Data Storage	
* In Vault 92 Living Quarters, next to Jon Adiglio's body in the Male Dorm closet	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Boutique Le Chic in Tenpenny Tower	
* Lydia Montenegro 	 	
 	
* Grandma Sparkle's store inventory at Wilhelm's Wharf	
* Grandma Sparkle 	 	
 	
* Door to Oasis from Capital Wasteland
* Door to Harold's area from Oasis	
* Tree Father Birch 	 	
 	
* Door from Harold's area to Damp Caves
* Door from Oasis to Oasis Caverns	
* Branchtender Cypress 	Oasis 	
 	
* Store inventory of Red's clinic in Big Town	
* Red 	 	
 	
* Door to Warrington station from Tenpenny Tower exterior (Tower "basement")	
* Chief Gustavo (after player has learned about basement)
* Herbert Dashwood () (after player has learned about basement)	Tenpenny Tower 	
 	
* Store inventory of Souvenir shop in Little Lamplight
* Door to Souvenir Shop	
* Knick Knack 	 	
 	
* Desk in Megaton's Water processing plant	
* Leo Stahl 	Leo's Drug Habit 	
 	
* Safe in the CEO office of L.O.B. Enterprises	
* In the CEO office in the East Wing of L.O.B. Enterprises	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Lock and Load in Paradise Falls	
* Pronto 	 	
 	
* Lucky Harith's pack-brahmin
* Lucky Harith's inventory at Uncle Roe's house in Canterbury Commons	
* Lucky Harith 	 	
 	
* Cell door, cash register and safe in Evergreen Mills bazaar's brothel	
* Raider in the brothel (Madame)	 	
 	
* Terminal on the upper level in the Food Distribution area in Mama Dolce's	
* Huang, the Chinese remnant captain in Mama Dolce's Food Processing Plant	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Café Beau Monde in Tenpenny Tower	
* Margaret Primrose 	 	
 	
* Fence gates to MDPL-05 power station	
* In a toolbox inside the fenced area	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Megaton clinic	
* Doc Church 	 	
 	
* Footlocker in Rivet City's common room	
* Mei Wong 	 	
 	
* Two doors in Farragut West Metro station	
* In first aid kit in the station, near one of the doors it opens	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Michael Masters' shop	
* Michael Masters (only if the ghouls have taken over Tenpenny Tower)	 	
 	
* Footlocker in Rivet City's common room (smaller chamber)	
* Mister Lopez 	 	
 	
* Cabinet in Moriarty's Saloon in Megaton (contains Moriarty's terminal password)	
* Colin Moriarty
* Gob 	Following in His Footsteps	
 	
* Store inventory of Gob/Moriarty's Saloon in Megaton	
* Gob 	 	
 	
* Nothing	
* Belle Bonny
* Brock
* Trinnie	 	
 	
* Door to small room in the back of The Muddy Rudder	
* Nobody/nowhere 	 	
 	
* Murphy's footlocker and first aid box in Northwest Seneca Station	
* Barrett 
* Murphy 	 	
 	
* Door to My Megaton house	
* Lucas Simms 
* Harden Simms (if Lucas Simms is dead)	The Power of the Atom 	
 	
* Doors to Tenpenny Tower suite	
* Mister Burke 	The Power of the Atom 	
===N - S===
Name	Opens	Found / in possession of	Related quest 	Form ID
 	
* Store inventory of The Ninth Circle in Underworld	
* Ahzrukhal 	 	
 	
* Overseer's Office in Vault 101	
* Overseer ()
* In the Overseer's/Amata's apartment	Escape! 	
 	
* Opens slave pens and the Box in Paradise Falls	
* Eulogy Jones
* Forty
* Slaver guard in Eulogy's Pad
* On a table in Eulogy's Pad	Rescue from Paradise 	
 	
* Research Department safe in the Nuka-Cola plant	
* Milo 	The Nuka-Cola Challenge 	
 	
* Benson house, Gibson house, Gillian house and Zane house in Minefield	
* Arkansas 	 	
 	
* Storage room, several containers in the storage room as well as a safe in Tepid Sewers	
* Rocksalt 	 	
 	
* Nothing	
* Uncle Roe 	 	
 	
* Door to Roosevelt Academy's Roosevelt Library	
* Super mutant inside Roosevelt Library	 	
 	
* Safe in Jury St. tunnels (in the room where you encounter Ryan Brigg)	
* Ryan Brigg 	 	
 	
* Safe on upper level of Bethesda ruins' Bethesda Offices East	
* Raider leader (the one with a flamer/missile launcher and skill book)	 	
 	
* Door to Saint Monica's Church and donation box within	
* Diego
* Father Clifford	 	
 	
* Personal footlocker on top level of ruined barn east of Reclining Groves Resort Homes	
* Under the wrecked bus behind the barn	 	
 	
* Store inventory, footlockers, cabinet and toolbox in Rivet City Supply	
* Seagrave Holmes 	 	
 	
* Seagrave Holmes' room in Rivet City	
* Seagrave Holmes
* Inside Seagrave Holmes' room	Council Seat 	
 	
* Encrypted terminal on upper level of robot repair center, near exit to the Mechanist's Forge	
* In a safe near the terminal	 	
 	
* Recently built shack in Grayditch	
* Fred Wilks 	Those! 	
 	
* Store inventory of Federalist Lounge in Tenpenny Tower	
* Shakes 	 	
 	
* Door to Sister's room in Rivet City and footlocker within	
* Sister 	 	
 	
* Smiling Jack's store inventory in Evergreen Mills bazaar	
* Smiling Jack 	 	
 	
* Door to ant tunnels in Springvale school Lower Level	
* Raider leader in Springvale Elementary school, topmost level	 	
 	
* Door in the back of the library in Springvale Elementary school, topmost level	
* Raider miniboss in Springvale Elementary school library	 	
 	
* Store inventory and refrigerator in Gary's Galley in Rivet City
* Refrigerator and footlockers in Staleys' room in Rivet City	
* Angela Staley (only if Gary Staley is dead as well)
* Gary Staley (only if Angela Staley is dead as well)	 	
 	
* Door to Staleys' room in Rivet City	
* Angela Staley
* Gary Staley	 	
 	
* Storage room in Evergreen Mills Foundry	
* In a desk on the top floor of the Evergreen Mills Foundry, in a room on the right side	 	
 	
* Door to storeroom in Temple of the Union	
* Caleb Smith
* Hannibal Hamlin	 	
 	
* Door to pharmacy in Super-Duper Mart	
* Inside a metal crate in Super-Duper Mart	Wasteland Survival Guide	
 	
* Sydney's store inventory in The Ninth Circle in Underworld	
* Nobody/nowhere 	 	
===T - Z===
Name	Opens	Found / in possession of	Related quest 	Form ID
 	
* Footlocker in Rivet City's common room (smaller chamber)	
* Ted Strayer 	 	
 	
* Basement door inside the CO Quarters in Fort Constantine	
* Ted Strayer () 	You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head	
 	
* Door to Temple of the Union	
* Alejandra Torres
* Bill Seward
* Caleb Smith
* Hannibal Hamlin ()
* Simone Cameron	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Gustavo's armory in Tenpenny Tower	
* Chief Gustavo 	 	
 	
* Nothing	
* Anthony Ling
* Doctor Banfield
* Edgar Wellington II
* Herbert Dashwood
* Lydia Montenegro
* Margaret Primrose
* Michael Hawthorne
* Millicent Wellington
* Susan Lancaster	 	
 	
* Two safes in Red Racer factory CEO Offices
* Stefan's cage door	
* The Surgeon 	 	
 	
* Footlocker in small room in the back of The Muddy Rudder	
* Trinnie 	 	
 	
* Store inventory of Underworld Outfitters	
* Tulip 	 	
 	
* Sword cabinet in Vance's room in Meresti Metro station	
* Vance 	 	
 	
* Door to room in the area where Stanley Armstrong and Andy are encountered during Escape!	
* Stanley Armstrong (during Escape!)	 	
 	
* Doors to Overseer's Office in Vault 106	
* At the right of a terminal in the Lab
* At the very bottom end of the Vault	 	
 	
* Store inventory, refrigerator and cash register in Weatherly Hotel	
* Mister Buckingham (only if Vera Weatherly is dead as well)
* Vera Weatherly (only if Mister Buckingham is "dead" as well)	 	
 	
* Door to Vera Weatherly's room in Weatherly Hotel	
* Vera Weatherly 	 	
 	
* Door in basement of Fort Constantine's bomb storage	
* Tara (dead in Fort Constantine Bomb Storage)	You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head	
 	
* Jail door to weapons cache in Hamilton's hideaway	
* Three Dog 	Galaxy News Radio 	
 	
* Container upstairs in the Brandice's house in Grayditch	
* William Brandice (dead in Marigold station)	 	
 	
* Door to Young's room in Rivet City	
* Christie Young
* C.J. Young
* Henry Young	 	
 	
* Door to Zimmer's room in Rivet City and two footlockers within	
* Armitage
* Dr. Zimmer
* Victoria Watts	 	
==Operation: Anchorage==
No keys are added by Operation: Anchorage.
==The Pitt==
Name	Opens	Found / in possession of	Related quest	Form ID
 	
* Lord Ashur's safe in Haven	
* Ishmael Ashur 	 	
 	
* Friday's store inventory in The Pitt Downtown	
* Friday 	 	
 	
* Harris' store inventory in The Pitt Downtown	
* Harris 	 	
 	
* Manhole to Underground in The Pitt's steelyard	
* Wernher 
* On a table in Wernher's hideout	Free Labor 	
 	
* Slave pen door near train tunnel entrance	
* Ramsey () 	Into The Pitt	
==Broken Steel==
Name	Opens	Found / in possession of	Related quest 	Form ID
 	
* Door to the Citadel Armory (after Citadel has been destroyed)	
* Dead Brotherhood of Steel Initiate	Who Dares Wins 	
 	
* Crate with flamer fuel in west-northwest corner of Adams Air Force Base	
* Adams Air Force Base scientist, located in the hangars	 	
 	
* Door inside Mobile Base Crawler, Launch Platform Base	
* Two security officers inside the Mobile Base Crawler, Launch Platform Base	 	
 	
* Suitcase in La Maison Beauregard (only present if related quest has started)	
* Lag-Bolt 	The Sorrowful Suitor	
 	
* Cellar door to Holy Light Monastery in Springvale	
* Brother Gerard () 	Holy Water 	
 	
* Aqua Pura crates in front of Rivet City and Jefferson Memorial	
* Specific Rivet City security	 	
==Point Lookout==
Name	Opens	Found / in possession of	Related quest 	Form ID
 	
* Nothing	
* Tobar 	 	
 	
* Safe in Marcella's tent at Disaster relief outpost	
* Marcella 	 	
 	
* Locker at Pilgrim's Landing	
* In a luggage case in room 1D of the Homestead Motel	The Velvet Curtain 	
 	
* Store inventory of Haley's Hardware	
* Haley 	 	
 	
* Door to reward vault in underground lab (door opens automatically once Calvert is dead though)	
* Desmond Lockheart 	A Meeting of the Minds	
 	
* Store inventory of House of Wares	
* Panada 	 	
 	
* Door to room 1G of the Homestead Motel	
* In the motel office of the Homestead Motel	 	
 	
* Door to room 1K of the Homestead Motel	
* In the motel office of the Homestead Motel	 	
 	
* Door to wrecked seatub	
* Nadine 	Hearing Voices 	
==Mothership Zeta==
No keys are added in Mothership Zeta.
==Keycards==
* Fort Constantine CO keycard, a cut keycard intended to be used in Fort Constantine.
* Pass card, Red and Blue key cards that can be used in place of Metro tickets with security Protectrons in the Washington, D.C. Metro.
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