Frozen key

This article is about the item used to unlock the Frozen Door. For other uses, see frozen (disambiguation).

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Frozen key
Release																				10 January 2011 (Update)
Members																				Yes
Quest item																				No
Properties
Tradeable																				No
Stacks in bank																				No
Equipable																				No
Stackable																				No
Disassembly																				No
Noteable																				No
Destroy																				This key is very fragile and will break if dropped.
Examine																				A small, cold key.
Options
Backpack																				Check-uses, Destroy
Values
Value																				20,000 coins
Alchemy																				Not alchemisable
On death																				Always kept outside dangerous area
Weight																				0.04 kg
Advanced data
Item ID																				20120
Links																				MRID • recipe

The frozen key is used to open the frozen door in the God Wars Dungeon. Behind the door is the Ancient Prison, containing Zaros' followers and their leader, Nex. The key is combined from four parts, each one dropped by a combatant of the other four gods within their respective camps in the God Wars Dungeon. Combatants fighting in the main central area do not drop a key piece. This makes level 70 Strength, Agility, Ranged, and Constitution necessary to obtain the key. None of the stats can be boosted. Completion of The Dig Site quest is also required for putting the key together.

Once created, the key has 10 charges, and it can hold up to 100. A charge will be used each time the frozen door is opened, and the key will end up in a degraded state once all charges have been used. The key can be repaired by Bob in Lumbridge for a cost based on the Smithing level. The cost of repairing one charge varies from 49,200 coins at level 1 Smithing to 10,000 coins at level 99 Smithing, with 400 coins saved per Smithing level. Players can also repair it on an armour stand in a player-owned house, where the cost will work in exactly the same way.

Upon destroying the key, new pieces can be gathered and assembled into a new one with 10 charges.

This key cannot be put onto the steel key ring.

The frozen door and the Zaros killcount required to access the bank area can be bypassed permanently by purchasing the ability from Ashuelot Reis for 10 million coins, as well as a set of ancient ceremonial robe outfit and a frozen key. This completes the achievement Gielinor's Most Expensive Doorstop.

Frozen key pieces

The frozen key pieces are dropped by any follower within each god's camp inside the God Wars Dungeon. There are four frozen key pieces, one for Armadyl, Bandos, Saradomin, and Zamorak. If all four pieces are combined they will become a frozen key, which can be used to open the door to the Ancient Prison. It is not possible to have more than one of each of these pieces at a time.

The frozen key pieces do not always trigger a loot beam and do not show up in area loot, so players should be careful to manually check their drops if they are attempting to obtain them. However, they will show up as a stack pop-up and when a monster drops its loot and show up in area loot.

• Frozen key piece (Bandos) is dropped by any follower within Bandos's Stronghold (70 Strength).
• Frozen key piece (Zamorak) is dropped by any follower within Zamorak's Fortress (70 Constitution).
• Frozen key piece (Saradomin) is dropped by any follower within Saradomin's Encampment (70 Agility).
• Frozen key piece (Armadyl) is dropped by aviansie, spiritual mages, spiritual warriors, and spiritual rangers within Armadyl's Eyrie (70 Ranged).

Creation

Requirements
Members			Yes
Ticks			1 (0.6s)
Other requirements
Completion of The Dig Site
Material			Quantity	Cost
	Frozen key piece (Armadyl)		1	N/A
	Frozen key piece (Bandos)		1	N/A
	Frozen key piece (Saradomin)		1	N/A
	Frozen key piece (Zamorak)		1	N/A
Total cost
Output			Quantity	Cost
	Frozen key		1	N/A

Products

For an exhaustive list of all products, see here.

Product		Members	Using	Skills	Experience	Materials	GE price	GE volume
	1 × Gielinor's Most Expensive Doorstop		Ashuelot Reis	None	None	10,000,000 ×  Coins 1 ×  Ancient ceremonial mask 1 ×  Ancient ceremonial top 1 ×  Ancient ceremonial legs 1 ×  Ancient ceremonial gloves 1 ×  Ancient ceremonial boots 1 ×  Frozen key	N/A	N/A

Achievements

• Gielinor's Most Expensive Doorstop ( 10) – Have Ashuelot Reis permanently open the doors to Nex for you.

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Update history

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• ninja 26 October 2020 (Update):
  • You may now unlock the ability to access Nex without the usual item requirements from Ashuelot Reis.
    • This costs one set of Ancient Ceremonial Robes, 10 million coins and a frozen key.
    • Doing so will award an Achievement.

• patch 4 July 2016 (Update):
  • This key and the arcane capacitor necklace will now no longer be automatically destroyed on death.

• ninja 29 February 2016 (Update):
  • This key now holds up to 100 charges, instead of 10.

• patch 19 April 2011 (Update):
  • This key will no longer get destroyed when running out of charges. It will need recharging before it will unlock the frozen door again, however.

• update 10 January 2011 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The key looks identical to the ragged elemental key from the Elemental Workshop III quest and similar to the lever key from the Buyers and Cellars quest except for the colour. The key pieces also have the same inventory icons as the mask parts from the mask of Dragith Nurn.
• During the Wild Weekends: Double Drops (19–21 May 2012) and Winter Weekends: Double Drops (1-3 December 2012), all the keys could be found in duplicate, but you could only pick one, making the other useless.