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Clockwork Key  
 

Lore Item No Trade Quest Item
WT: 0.8 Size: TINY
Class: ALL
Race: ALL

Item Lore:A key with movable teeth
Item Type:Keyv1
Stackable:No
Lucy Entry By:Ormus - TR
Item Updated By:SwiftyMUSE
Source:Live
IC Last Updated:2022-11-27 19:16:57
Page Updated:Thu Oct 9th, 2008

Expansion: Secrets of Faydwer Secrets of Faydwer


Rarity: Common
Level to Attain: 75

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Lore:
This key, once configured, unlocks the entrance to Meldrath's Majestic Mansion.

Once activated this key unlocks the achievement, Configured Clockwork Key, removing the need for you to store the physical key.

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Zone Name
Dragonscale Hills
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System
# May 10 2021 at 10:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Here's the system that worked for me. Right click on the key to change between inserted / removed. Wait a few seconds and it will move on to the next tooth. Once you click the door it sets you back to Tooth 1, but your inserts stay.
  • Set all teeth to IN
  • Click on the door to the mansion and see how many teeth you have wrong
  • Write down 1 - 8 on a piece of paper
  • Change tooth 1 to Removed (Out)
  • Click on the door again. If the count of teeth you have wrong went down, write Out or Removed beside the #1. If the count of teeth you have wrong went up, write In or Insterted beside the #1.
  • Continue on to the next tooth, making sure to set the previous teeth to their correct position. Eventually you will have a key that works.


My pattern was I-I-O-I-O-I-O-I but it seems to change all the time.
my key different too
# Dec 27 2009 at 10:15 PM Rating: Default
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Mine turned out to be:

1 IN
2 OUT
3 IN
4 OUT
5 IN
6 OUT
7 IN
8 *? at this point I zoned in so it could be IN or OUT


* On the seventh setting I clicked door to see how many wrong remained and I zoned in.
Interesting
# Nov 05 2009 at 8:43 PM Rating: Decent
Frustrating at first, until I figured out a good system to work it down. Just remember each time you click on the door to test it, it reset back to Tooth 1, and you gotta do it again. I didn't realize this until quite awhile after.

But once you start remembering/writing down the right in or out for each tooth, it's very easy to work down the incorrect numbers down until you get it right. Good luck.
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# Oct 25 2008 at 9:04 PM Rating: Decent
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Easymode
# Oct 04 2008 at 11:52 AM Rating: Decent
Set them all to removed, check door. If ONE is wrong, work your way through till you zone.


Took me all of 3 minutes to figure the key out this way.
Key Setting
# May 28 2008 at 5:46 AM Rating: Decent
This key is kinda annoying to work with, I found this way made it faster to set. After every tooth change you need to pause 5 seconds to get to the next tooth, if you click faster you change the (In/Out) setting of the tooth. You need to check with the door to go back to tooth 1. *** What I did I set all the teeth to inserted. Then I clicked the door and was told 5 were wrong, knowing there are only 8 teeth 5 need to be removed. Only change 1 tooth at a time and click the door. EX: remove tooth 1 then click door, if that gets you another wrong one that one needed to be (In)- so round 2 put that one back in and remove 2 repeat until you see the zone message.. Also take notes as you go.. no one seems to have the same key combo so do not waste time trying to match yours to a post you see here you have to do it yourself. **Fun idea -- ANNOYING process -- GL all have fun in MM.
Key config
# Mar 27 2008 at 3:06 AM Rating: Decent
ok The key has 8 teeth total. To enter the Mansion for the first time, you must correctly set them. Teeth can be either inserted or removed. You select teeth and choose whether they should be inserted or not by right clicking on the key in a open inventory slot. Clicks close together will insert or remove a tooth. Clicks further apart counting to 5 will allow you to move to the next tooth. this is the oder that worked for me

1 removed
2 removed
3 removed
4 removed
5 inserted
6 removed
7 inserted
8 removed

hope this helps 8 )
Master Validdar of Luclin
Key config
# Apr 01 2008 at 10:09 AM Rating: Decent
i think it may change its trail and error what worked for me was
1 removed
2 inserted
3 removed
4 removed
5 removed
6 removed
7 removed
8 inserted
Key config
# May 12 2008 at 10:39 AM Rating: Decent
Mine turned out to be

1 IN
2 OUT
3 IN
4 OUT
5 IN
6 IN
7 OUT
8 IN

Jesus christ
# Mar 08 2008 at 3:38 PM Rating: Decent
What a ***** it is, to get the key in the right combination jesus...
Lots of teeth :)'
# Feb 25 2008 at 10:41 AM Rating: Decent
ok here is how this works - will take you maybe 10 mins tops to configure your key.

Think of your key as one of the old fashioned deadlock Type keys that have a barrel shaped handle and a square/rectangular tab at the end. Now think of the tab being divided into 8 paralel teeth.

When you get your key the teeth are all set in a middle position - none are stcking out or are pulled back.

Have the key in an empty slot in your inventory (its easier that way) and right click once it will say inserted or removed. now your tab end has the first tooth sticking out (inserted) or pulled back (removed) - now click on the door -if the message is that you have more teeth incorrectly placed then previously , then that first tooth is in the wrong position (each time you click on the door it resets your key) so - right click your key again - for instance if it was wrong and it was previously inserted you now need to remove the tooth, (clicking again quickly will reverse the tooth position) wait 5 secs and the next tooth in line will set when you right click the key. click the door again, message is less teeth incorrectly placed than previously means that the second tooth is also correct, rinse and repeat for each key.

Hope this helps need to get in game now - raid time :)'
3 teeth
# Feb 02 2008 at 4:30 PM Rating: Decent
how in the name of hell do you get the key to work? keeps saying i got 3 teeth missing
3 teeth
# Feb 17 2008 at 12:17 AM Rating: Decent
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The key has 8 teeth in total. To enter the Mansion for the first time, you must correctly set them. Teeth can be either inserted or removed. You select teeth and choose whether they should be inserted or not by right clicking on the key in your inventory. Clicks close together will insert or remove a tooth. Clicks further apart (I was counting to 5) will allow you to move to the next tooth.

And yes, this is just as frustrating as it sounds.
Question
# Nov 27 2007 at 6:56 AM Rating: Decent
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is this part of a series to gain access to the Mansion?
Quest reward
# Nov 15 2007 at 9:21 AM Rating: Good
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Quest reward for turning in three silver items to Gimblefixx in Dragonscale Hills.
Quest reward
# Dec 17 2007 at 11:17 PM Rating: Decent
actually this is the key to enter Maldrath's Magestic Mansion,
the key from the silver items has this same name and picture, but when identified item lore is: A clockwork key made of fine silver
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