Death Trash – how to pick locks

In its design, Death Trash takes a number of cues from the older, pre-Bethesda Fallout games, from its interface and top-down view to its particular quirks of character-building. Part of that character-building process is putting points into particular skills, and one of those particular skills happens to be lockpicking. No matter what kind of apocalypse it is, be a nuclear one or a supernatural one, there’s always locks to pick. Here’s how to pick locks in Death Trash.

Much like in Fallout, your ability to pick locks in Death Trash is determined by your character’s lockpicking stat. The higher your lockpicking stat, the better chance you have at opening a locked container or door. Some containers are so tricky, that you need a lockpicking stat of a particular level just to take a swing at them. The act of picking a lock is simple: just walk up to a locked object and interact with it, and if you’ve got the stats, you’ll pick it open. However, before you can pick a lock, you need a lockpick.

How to Pick Locks in Death Trash

Lockpicks can be obtained either as loot from killed enemies or loose containers, or purchased from vendors you encounter. Your best source of lockpicks, though, will be the ol’ DIY department. As long as you have the materials handy, you can craft as many lockpicks as you want for free. In order to craft a lockpick, you’ll first need the lockpick crafting recipe, which can be obtained from vendors or, if you’re lucky, looted from containers. 

You’ll also need access to the crafting system, which you unlock by reading a particular book that grants you crafting knowledge. This book can be found in a cave located in the northern section of the Festering Gorge. You’ll know you have the right cave when you find a bandit standing guard over a body. Dispose of the bandit, and you can loot the book from the body. If you’re especially lucky, the body might also have a lockpick recipe on it. Either way, read the book, and you can start crafting, and by extension, making and using lockpicks.