The Oedon Tomb Key, likely the first meaningful key item players collect.
Key Items are a type of item in Bloodborne.
Description[]
Key Items are important items that players can find throughout exploration, fulfilling questlines, slaying of bosses, or in other multiple ways.
They cannot be dropped and can fulfill multiple purposes. By reading the description of these items, one might get a hint of what their use is.
List of Items[]
Badges[]
Badges allow players to expand the merchandise available for purchase, whether through the common currency of Blood Echoes, or the far more rare currency of Insight.
- Cainhurst Badge
- Cosmic Eye Watcher Badge
- Crow Hunter Badge
- Firing Hammer Badge
- Old Hunter Badge
- Powder Keg Hunter Badge
- Radiant Sword Hunter Badge
- Saw Hunter Badge
- Spark Hunter Badge
- Sword Hunter Badge
- Wheel Hunter Badge
Keys[]
A Key will unlock new paths and areas. Some are quite obscure on how to unlock them, but reading its description will provide a helpful hint. Not all Keys in this list resemble the traditional key that one might be accostumed to.
- Astral Clocktower Key
- Balcony Key
- Cainhurst Summons
- Celestial Dial
- Eye of a Blood-drunk Hunter
- Eye Pendant
- Hunter Chief Emblem
- Iron Door Key
- Lecture Theatre Key
- Lunarium Key
- Oedon Tomb Key
- Orphanage Key
- Tonsil Stone
- Underground Cell Inner Chamber Key
- Underground Cell Key
- Upper Cathedral Key
Messenger Hats[]
Simple decorative hats for the Messengers. Find these and then look for a tree stump behind the Workshop in the Hunter's Dream. Equip the hats there by talking to the Messengers in the stump, afterwards, whenever the player approaches a Lamp, their Messengers will always display that particular decoration.
- Black Messenger Hat
- Bloody Messenger Head Bandage
- Messenger Head Bandage (cannot be acquired, pre-order item only)
- Messenger Top Hat
- Messenger Urn Festival
- Red Messenger Ribbon
- White Messenger Ribbon
- Worn Messenger Top Hat (cannot be acquired, pre-order item only)
- Yharnam Messenger Hat (cannot be acquired, pre-order item only)
Workshop Tools[]
These allow the Hunter to prepare himself against the adversities that might be found in Yharnam or the Chalice Dungeons.
Quest Items[]
Items necessary to complete NPC quests.
Miscellaneous Items[]
These are miscellaneous items that serve only a lore purpose or have no category that they could fit in.
Notes[]
- Badges and Messenger Hats carry over to further playthroughs.
- Keys and Quest items do not carry over to further playthroughs.
- The Ring of Betrothal and Yharnam Stone carry over to further playthroughs.
Trivia[]
- The Short Ritual Root Chalice is the only Chalice to not be filed under Chalices. Instead, it is a Key Item.
- Both the Ring of Betrothal and Yharnam Stone are useless. They do not do anything.