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: 1,528 Sacrifice: 6,112
Weight	0.005 kg
Examine
The loop end of the mysterious crystal key. Can you find the other half?
Grand Exchange
Exchange	10,289 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

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

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Abyssal savage	111	1	Uncommon
Augmented Sunspear (magic)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Augmented Sunspear (melee)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Augmented Sunspear (ranged)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Barrows	N/A	1	Rare
Casket	N/A	1	1/128
Columbarium key	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Crystal chest Taverley	N/A	1	Common
Crystal chest Prifddinas	N/A	1	Common
Crystal impling jar	N/A	1	Common
Crystal impling	95	1	Common
Gnome Restaurant	N/A	1	Rare
Magpie impling jar	N/A	1	Rare
Magpie impling	65	1	Rare
Mahogany casket	N/A	1	Rare
Motherlode Maw	N/A	1	Common
Mystery box	N/A	1	Very rare
Oak casket	N/A	1	54/1355
Rare drop table		1	1/128
Rare drop table		1	5/64
Rare drop table		1	Uncommon
Shiny columbarium key	N/A	1 (noted)	Uncommon
Sorebones	49	1	Rare
Sunspear (magic)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Sunspear (melee)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Sunspear (ranged)	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Sunspear	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Teak casket	N/A	1	38/1159
Treasure chest (player-owned port)	N/A	1	Rare
Triskelion Treasures	N/A	2	1/3
Vyrelady	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Vyrelord	N/A	1 (noted)	Rare
Vyrewatch	49; 70; 72; 75; 78; 86; 91; 97	1 (noted)	Unknown
Wingstone	N/A	1	Uncommon
Wythien	N/A	1	Rare

Disassembly

Loop half of a key
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
Common materials
Simple parts	99/100
Rare materials
Variable components	1/100

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - 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.