Loop half of a key

The Old School RuneScape Wiki also has an article on: osrsw:Loop half of keyThe RuneScape Classic Wiki also has an article on: classicrsw:Half of a key (loop)

"Loop" redirects here. For the region within the Wushanko isles see The Loop.

"Key loop" redirects here. For the item found in Movario's base, see Strange key loop.

Loop half of a key
Release	27 February 2002 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Actions
Backpack	Assemble
Values
Value	1 coin
High alch	1 coin
Low alch	1 coin
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 1,822 Sacrifice: 7,288
Weight	0.005 kg
Examine
The loop end of the mysterious crystal key. Can you find the other half?
Grand Exchange
Exchange	13,224 coins (info)
Buy limit	100
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Advanced data
Item ID	987
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The loop half of a key is an item dropped by numerous NPCs. It was also a reward from various random events, and can currently be found in the chest in Taverley, the Barrows chest, the gnome restaurant, an evil tree reward, from cremating Vyrewatch, from Kingdom Management and from caskets. The loop half of key may be looted from magpie implings as well as its other half, the tooth half of a key.

The loop half of a key is used with a tooth half of a key to make a crystal key. Doing so will grant you 10 Crafting experience. This is used to unlock the Crystal chest, which contains a dragonstone, and other items.

Before the introduction of the Grand Exchange, both halves of the crystal key sold for the same price, at around 20,000-30,000 coins each. However, with the Grand Exchange, the tooth half of the key was perceived to be rarer than the loop half, and it became more expensive.

The Loop half of a key is confirmed to be on the rare drop table, so a large number of monsters can drop it (a list can be found on the rare drop table article).

After the release of Dragonstone armour, the price of the crystal key skyrocketed due to the high price of the armour.

Drop sources

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For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Augmented Sunspear (magic)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Augmented Sunspear (melee)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Augmented Sunspear (ranged)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Barrows	N/A	1	Rare	N/A
Casket	N/A	1	1/128	N/A
Columbarium key	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Crystal chest Taverley	N/A	1	Common	N/A
Crystal chest Prifddinas	N/A	1	Common	N/A
Crystal impling jar	N/A	1	Common	N/A
Crystal impling	95	1	Common	N/A
Gnome Restaurant	N/A	1	Rare	N/A
Magpie impling jar	N/A	1	Rare	N/A
Magpie impling	65	1	Rare	N/A
Mahogany casket	N/A	1	Rare	N/A
Motherlode Maw	N/A	1	Common	N/A
Mystery box	N/A	1	Very rare	N/A
Oak casket	N/A	1	54/1355	N/A
Rare drop table	?	1	5/64	N/A
Rare drop table	?	1	Rare	N/A
Rare drop table	?	1	Uncommon	N/A
Shiny columbarium key	N/A	1 (noted)	Uncommon	N/A
Sorebones	49	1	Rare
Sunspear (magic)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Sunspear (melee)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Sunspear (ranged)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Sunspear	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Teak casket	N/A	1	37/1145	N/A
Treasure chest (player-owned port)	N/A	1	Rare	N/A
Triskelion Treasures	N/A	2	1/3	N/A
Vyrelady	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Vyrelord	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Vyrewatch	49; 70; 72; 75; 78; 86; 91; 97	1 (noted)	Unknown
Wingstone	N/A	1	Uncommon	N/A
Wythien	N/A	1	Rare	N/A

Disassembly

Disassembly category	Default disassembly items
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Possible materials
Often
Simple parts	99/100
Rarely
Variable components	1/100

Update history

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

• ninja 26 August 2014 (Update):
  • Selecting the assemble option on crystal key parts will now auto assemble all key halves in a player's inventory.

• update 27 February 2002 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• When confirming the Loop half of a key from a random event box, it says, "Confirm: Gems" instead something similar (such as a key).
• The loop looks extremely similar to an ankh in Egyptian culture, the symbol of life.