Silver Key: Open the Northwest Hollowgrave Door

Where is the Silver Key?

The Silver Key is inside the Orc Chieftain’s private chest in the Orc Camp. The chief first drops a different key that opens that chest. The developer’s answer separates these two items: obtain the chest key, open the private chest, then carry the Silver Key back to the northwest Hollowgrave Tunnels door.

The diagram shows the order of objectives. It is not an in-game map, a screenshot or evidence of a playtest.

How do you reach the camp and open the door?

If you are circling Fangroot’s western pits or the caves without finding the key, follow the developer’s route clarification. It points farther down, past the spider boss, to a southern passage leading into the Orc Camp. Once there, check the chief and his private chest as separate steps.

1. Descend to the spider boss. The reply describes this as the route toward the camp, not a requirement to search every earlier corner again.
2. After the spider boss, take the southern passage into the Orc Camp. The source does not give tile coordinates or a complete combat route.
3. Defeat the Orc Chieftain and inspect the dropped key. Its role is to open his private chest.
4. Open that private chest in the camp. The Silver Key is inside; do not assume the chief’s drop already completed this step.
5. Return to the northwestern door in Hollowgrave Tunnels and use the Silver Key there. The useful completion check is that the intended door opens, not merely that an unidentified key appeared in inventory.

For navigation notes, use the automap guide. Keep the item name and the object you intend to open in the same note, so a chest key and a door key do not become one vague “key found” marker.

What should you check if you are still stuck?

Start with the last confirmed step instead of repeating all cleared caves. The player who received the answer reported missing the private chest, then thanked the developer. Another player described a map annotation covering that chest’s area. Neither report establishes that every missing-key case has the same cause.

There is no verified recovery sequence here for a genuinely missing item or a changed patch. For other local mechanisms, the secrets and puzzles guide explains how to separate observations from guesses; the quest overview keeps broader choices separate from this specific key route.

What if the chest is open but the Silver Key is missing?

A later player report, posted November 6 at 09:21 UTC, says the player defeated the Orc Chieftain, received the achievement and opened a chest but found no second key. The captured thread does not contain a verified repair for that report. Its chest identity and inventory state have not been independently checked.

Keep the save and record which chest was opened, the visible inventory, installed version and reproduction steps in the original discussion. The developer route above is still useful, but it does not guarantee that every save or chest state works as described. Do not repeatedly farm the chief, delete the save or apply an invented reset as though an empty chest had a known universal fix.

Which version and sources does this answer cover?

This is the released-game discussion for Rake in Grass’s Underkeep. The original post was created November 5, 2026 at 13:12 PST; the developer’s route and key replies followed at 13:34 and 13:39 PST. Those times fall on November 6 in UTC+8. We checked the full thread on November 6, rather than treating its latest activity as a new publication date.

The poster explicitly says they are playing the full game, and the developer account is marked as such on Steam. No exact build number is supplied. These documented steps are not a claim of our own gameplay test, a full dungeon map or a guaranteed fix for every later version.

• Developer: route after the spider boss
• Developer: chest key, Silver Key and northwest door
• Player: the missed chest was the missing step