Keycards

Keycards
Details
Usage	Opens different types of locked doors and lockers.
Item Type	Keycard
Item Limit	3
Spawns in	Standard Locker Light Containment Zone Heavy Containment Zone Entrance Zone
Spawns on classes	Scientists, Facility Guards, Mobile Task Force, Chaos Insurgency
ID	0 (Janitor) 1 (Scientist) 2 (Research Supervisor) 3 (Zone Manager) 4 (Guard) 5 (Private) 6 (Containment Engineer) 7 (Sergeant) 8 (Captain) 9 (Facility Manager) 10 (Chaos Device) 11 (O5-Level)

Keycards are a group of items in SCP: Secret Laboratory, which are used to gain access to various utilities within the facility and access to different segments of the facility that would otherwise be locked off.

In-Game

Keycards must be equipped to be used. When equipped, doors can be opened as long as the keycard used has the correct privileges and access levels. A keycard's access levels can be seen by opening the inventory and hovering over the keycard's inventory icon.

Keycard Access

An O5-Level Keycard, with maximum access, obtained after processing a normal card in SCP-914.

Each keycard has a unique set of the following ten access privileges, with a large range of some having only one or two privileges while others have nearly all ten. The total amount of keycards is 13.

Tiers	Tier Icons	Privileges
Containment Chamber Tier 1		Access to SCP-914's chamber.
Containment Chamber Tier 2		Access to SCP-330's, SCP-106's, SCP-079's, and SCP-096's chambers.
Containment Chamber Tier 3		Containment Chamber Tier 3 does not unlock anything.
Armory Tier 1		Access to the Light Containment Zone Armory, the small cabinets on the Weapon Locker Type 21, and the Ammunition room in the Heavy Containment Zone.
Armory Tier 2		Access to the armory at SCP-049's chamber, the large Cabinets on the Weapon Locker Type 21, the MTF-E11-SR Racks and unlocking Generators.
Armory Tier 3		Access to the "Micro H.I.D." (Micro H.I.D Storage) room.
Checkpoints		Opens the Checkpoints in the Light Containment Zone to the Elevator Systems and between the Heavy Containment Zone to the Entrance Zone.
Intercom		Allows access to the Intercom Room.
Exit		Allows access to open the large blast doors of Gate A and Gate B inside Entrance Zone.
Nuke		Allows access to the Alpha Warhead button inside the nuke room on the Surface.

Keycard Access Levels

This list of the available keycards and their access levels.

Name	Card	Containment Access Tier	Armory Access Tier	Gate Access?	Warhead Access?	Checkpoint Access?	Intercom Access?
Janitor		Tier 1	None	No	No	No	No
Scientist		Tier 2	None	No	No	No	No
Research Supervisor		Tier 2	None	No	No	Yes	No
Containment Engineer		Tier 3	None	No	No	Yes	No
Facility Guard		Tier 1	Tier 1	No	No	Yes	No
MTF Private		Tier 2	Tier 2	No	No	Yes	No
MTF Sergeant		Tier 2	Tier 2	Yes	No	Yes	No
MTF Captain		Tier 2	Tier 3	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Zone Manager		Tier 1	None	No	No	Yes	No
Facility Manager		Tier 3	None	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chaos Insurgency Access Device		Tier 2	Tier 3	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
O5		Tier 3	Tier 3	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Obtaining

Spawning In

Most of the human classes begin the round and respawn with some form of keycard with various levels of access granted to them from the start.

Class	Keycard	Icon
Class-D	No Keycard
Scientist	Scientist Keycard
Facility Guard	Facility Guard Keycard
MTF Cadet	MTF Cadet Keycard
MTF Sergeant	MTF Sergeant Keycard
MTF Captain	MTF Captain Keycard
Chaos Insurgency	Chaos Insurgency Access Device

Room Locations

Keycards can be found in different rooms and places throughout the facility, some randomly and some guaranteed. Detailed below is a list of possible keycard locations:

• Light Containment Zone
• Heavy Containment Zone
• Entrance Zone

Light Containment Zone

In the Light Containment Zone, low level keycards are scattered throughout and often in high numbers to help the high volume of Class D and Scientists escape from the facility.

• The Washrooms (Labeled WC-00) has a chance to hold a Scientist or Janitor keycard in one of four places. In the men's side sink or floor. It also has a chance to hold a COM15 Pistol. In the women's side a keycard can possibly be found on the sink or toilet.
• SCP-330's containment chamber (Labeled #012) always holds a Zone Manager Card.
• The PC Workroom (Labeled PC-15) always holds a Scientist keycard, which is randomly placed on one of the desks inside.
• The following rooms may have a Locker within the room which can be opened to find various low-level keycards:
  • SCP-372's containment chamber (Labeled GR-18)
  • SCP-173's containment chamber (Labeled PT-00)
  • The PC Workroom (Labeled PC-15)
  • VT-00

Adrenaline can be used to create Janitor keycards in SCP-914, but only on very fine and even then there is only a very slim chance of a keycard being created.

Heavy Containment Zone

Heavy Containment Zone has a moderate density of keycards and predictable locations but holds the only natural keycards that can open the Gates to the surface.

• The Server Room always holds a Scientist keycard, though it is placed randomly between the top floor behind some of the servers, or on the lower floor jammed between two of the servers in the back.
• The Alpha Warhead room always holds a Facility Guard keycard on the bookshelf in the middle of the room.
• SCP-096's containment chamber now always has a Lieutenant keycard, although it is locked behind a door.

Entrance Zone

The Entrance Zone has the least amount of keycards throughout the facility, with the possibility of gaining one relaying purely on the possible locker spawns found within the large room with the staircase, or office room with multiple tables, that is if they even provide a keycard in the first place. In previous game versions, it was possible for a commander card to spawn in the entrance zone. This was removed sometime between 2019 and 2018.

Upgrading Keycards

The most common method of getting higher access keycards is by upgrading them at SCP-914 in Light Containment Zone.

Very Fine is not recommended as it is a gamble of luck

To upgrade a keycard, you must leave a keycard in the intake side on the Fine or Very Fine setting. [Very Fine has about a 50% chance of destroying your card, but your card would be upgraded much further.]

Using the 1:1 setting will exchange it for something of equal value (Scientist card -> Zone Manager card -> Guard card).

Using Rough or Coarse will destroy or downgrade your card.

SCP-914 is contained at an area marked by "#914" above the door leading to it. Any keycard will allow you to enter. Below are a few keycard upgrade diagrams.

Here is are diagrams for the keycard upgrade paths for "Fine", "Coarse", and "1:1".

Coarse	1:1	Fine
Coarse + 1:1 + Fine

Gallery

• Current
• Legacy Keycards

O5 Keycard

Facility Manager Keycard

Containment Engineer Keycard

Research Supervisor Keycard

Scientist Keycard

Zone Manager Keycard

Chaos Insurgency Device (keycard)

Captain Keycard

Sergeant Keycard

Private Keycard

Guard Keycard

Janitor Keycard

Older image of the O5 Keycard, its has a blue hue.

Older image of the Facility Manager Keycard, its has a blue hue.

Older image of the O5 Keycard, its has a blue hue.

Older image of the Zone Manager Keycard, its has a blue hue.

Older image of the Scientist Keycard, its has a blue hue.

Older image of the Captain Keycard, its has a blue hue.

Older image of the Sergeant Keycard, its has a blue hue.

Older image of the Guard Keycard, its has a blue hue.

Older image of the Janitor Keycard, its has a blue hue.

An unused and very early version of the Chaos Insurgency's keycard.

A different version of the Janitor Keycard that was only used for the Removed Customization Screen

Previous appearance of the Captain Keycard.

Previous appearance of the Guard Keycard.

Previous appearance of the Private Keycard

Previous appearance of the Researcher Supervisor Keycard

Related Achievements

• Access Granted: As a Class-D, kill a Scientist holding a keycard.
• Friendship!: As a Scientist, successfully upgrade your keycard with a Class-D.
• Overpowered!: Pick up an O5-Keycard.

Trivia

• The QR code on all the keycards gives binary that when converted to text says "Secure Contain Protect".
• Each keycard (excluding O5 keycards) presents its name on the face of the card in text, with "Access Card" at the end.
  • The Chaos Insurgency Access Device is the only "keycard" to not follow this commonality and even has a completely different model with a chip-like design along with changing the text that does not show all the text at once.
• The Research Supervisor keycard and its model used to have conflicting names, with the model showing it as the "Major Scientist Access Card".
  • The MTF Cadet keycard also had a conflicting model and in-game name, with the model having the text "Senior Guard Access Card".
• Bulletproof Lockers are the only locker type that requires more than one type of keycard access level.
• The fastest route to O5 from janitor/scientist is: janitor/scientist 1:1 zone manager fine facility manager fine O5, any other card will need additional steps