Mit Guide To Lockpicking

[Theodora Andy]

TheBuccaneer's Strongboxes near Rachet in The Barrens respawn after a few seconds, so even two rogues can skill up there at the same time without trouble. They are inside the ship at the location marked on the map below.

Go to Badlands - Angor Fortress. You will find two kinds of footlockers there. You will need a lockpicking skill of 175 to open the Dentened Footlocker. Don't bother trying to Pick Pocket the mobs, the boxes are too low level, and they won't give any skill points.

Once you pick all 4 locks, go out, then reset the instance by right-clicking over your own portrait, then click the "Reset all instance" button. You can only do 5 instance runs in an hour, which means you can only get 20 skill points in an hour, but if you pickpocket a bunch of mobs during each run, then you will have enough Strong and Heavy Junkboxes to reach 300. Or you can just simply wait until you can go inside again.

Long story short: owning lock picking tools and learning how to pick locks is perfectly legal and ethical as long as you do so without nefarious intent. Just be a decent human being. For a summary of lock picking laws across the country, see here.

Keep applying that slight pressure on your tension wrench. I use my left hand for that. With your right hand, scrub or rake the inside of the plug with your pick. As you pull the pick back, simultaneously lift up in order to apply pressure on the pins. It looks sort of like this motion:

You may run across locks that require a little bit more finesse by picking each pin set one at a time. In these trickier locks, you may need to get more methodical by looking for the pin stack that resists the most and picking it first and then repeating the process until all the pins are successfully picked.

Your best bet is a lock picking set that includes a tension wrench a set of rakes. My favorite is the set from SEREPick. In a pinch, you could fashion some lock pics with a paper clip, bobby pin, or even windshielder wiper blades. In my experience, picking a lock with a paperclip is much more difficult because the paper clips have a tendency to break in the lock.

Depends on which country or state you live in. In most instances, as long as you're picking a lock and don't have criminal intent, you're fine. y In some states, owning a set of lock picks is prima facie evidence of criminal intent and things get more complicated. Be sure to check local laws before buying a lock pick set.

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No prior experience is necessary, and this guide will take you through everything step-by-step with clear explanations, illustrations, and animations. You'll be amazed at just how easy it is to pick a lock once you understand the basic concepts.

Lock picking can be defined as a non-destructive method of bypassing locks without using a key. It is accomplished by mimicking the function of the key by lifting and setting the lock's pins into the proper positions needed to allow the lock to open.

It is also often believed that picking locks is difficult and requires some Zen-like focus. That you must sit quietly in some candlelit room for hours upon hours to find any success at picking a lock.

Lock picking is easy to learn and apply, and in a short amount of time, you can learn all the basic lock picking concepts and techniques. While some locks are more difficult to pick than others, a fundamental understanding of lockpicking can help you pick the majority of the locks used today.

There are many different types of locks utilized today, but all are based on fairly simple concepts. For the purpose of this lock picking 101 tutorial, we will be focusing on the most basic and commonly used lock, the pin tumbler lock.

The pin tumbler makes up about 90% of the locks used today and is what you will find on nearly every deadbolt, door lock, and padlock. They are extremely simple in their design and essentially 6,000-year-old technology and in a few minutes, you'll truly understand how they can be manipulated with lock picks!

The "cylinder" of the lock is nothing more than a little container that houses the rest of the components. This part is typically what slides into a door or padlock. It has a sequence of holes called pin chambers that hold a series of pins (called pin stack). More on these "pins" in a moment. Everything silver (or grey) in the image above is a part of the lock's cylinder.

The "plug" of a lock is a smaller cylindrical core that contains the lock's pins. It can rotate independently within the larger cylinder of the lock, creating a rotational shear line.

Only when the shear line has been cleared of any obstructions will the plug once again be able to rotate freely. The shear line is one of the most important concepts to understand when it comes to lock picking! Don't worry; we'll come back to the shear line in a moment.

The "driver pins" are the upper set of pins whose job is to obstruct the shear line. When no key is present, they sit in both the plug and the cylinder and restrict the plug from rotating, thus keeping the lock closed.

Last up are the "springs," and they have two jobs. Their first job is to force everything down into the plug and keep the driver pins at the shear line when there is no key in the lock.

As you can see, when the key is inserted into the plug, it pushes upward on the key pins. Because the bitting of the proper key and the lengths of the key pins have been cut to match, the key pins will rise flush with the shear line causing the driver pins to exit the plug fully.

During the production of the plug, the key pin chambers are drilled down an imaginary centerline so that they are lined up perfectly with each other. But again, nothing is perfect. Each hole drilled has some variation from both the true center-line and from each other hole.

There is a concept that we lock pickers call "binding." Imagine sticking a screwdriver into the keyway of a lock and trying and rotate the plug like it was a key. But because the driver pins are still at the shear line, they will stop the rotation of the plug and, in the process, become bound between the housing and the plug. This is binding.

However, because of inaccurate drilling, some pins will bind before others. The furthest pin off-center in the direction of rotation will be the first pin to bind and stop the rotation of the plug. This pin that is the first to bind is what we call "the binding pin."

Key Takeaway: Because perfection is impossible, the pin chambers on the plug are drilled off-center. This creates a binding defect when the plug is rotated. Because there is a binding defect, one pin will bind before the rest and with more force. This pin is called the binding pin.

If you have to, read through this section once more and be absolutely certain that you understand the concept of the binding pin, and maybe check out our dedicated article on binding order. As you'll see in a moment, the binding pin is the literal key to lock picking!

Hooks are narrow and pointy types of lock picks that are very pinpoint and precise within the lock. This precision makes them ideal weapons for single pin picking, where you are required to locate and manipulate one pin at a time.

Rake picks are basically the opposite of the hook. They are typically erratic looking and are designed with a ton of humps and bumps that helps them manipulate as many pins as possible in the shortest amount of time. This makes them ideal for raking, where you rapidly and randomly pull them across the pins with the goal of setting multiple pins at once.

Because the plug slightly rotates when the driver pin passes the shear line, there is a small ledge that is produced by the plug that the driver pin can set on. This is called "setting a pin," and as a result, the driver pin stays above the shear line and out of the plug!

While not always necessary, we sometimes need to determine in which direction the lock opens. To accomplish this, apply pressure to the tension wrench clockwise and then counterclockwise. The plug should turn both ways slightly before it stops.

As you rotate the plug both ways, focus on how the tension wrench feels as it stops. If it feels stiff and has little give, this is likely the wrong direction of rotation. Whereas the right direction of rotation will feel mushy and give a little more. Something else to keep in mind is some cheaper locks will open in whichever way you rotate the plug, such as the majority of padlocks.

A general rule of thumb when using the tension wrench is to use one finger and start with the slightest touch, increasing pressure as you find it necessary. As we apply slight tension to the plug, the binding pin will begin to bind. The next step is to find this pin and push it above the shear line.

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