# Cursed gnome dropped vault key, but no shards
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/cursed-gnome-dropped-vault-key-but-no-shards/73429
**Category:** Bug Reports
**Created:** [December 19, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/cursed-gnome-dropped-vault-key-but-no-shards/73429 "2021-12-19T10:36:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Rhissa](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rhissa)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 10:36am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/cursed-gnome-dropped-vault-key-but-no-shards/73429/1 "2021-12-19T10:36:50Z")
Title says it all. A guild mate of mine found her first cursed gnome today morning after countless hours of intensive farming… and got a vault key and no shards.
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### Author:  [@kamosloki](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/kamosloki)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/cursed-gnome-dropped-vault-key-but-no-shards/73429/2 "2021-12-19T12:01:50Z")
Not a bug. Any gnome except verse gnomes can drop a vault key instead of their normal rewards. It’s more likely during vault event but possible any time
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### Author:  [@Rhissa](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rhissa)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/cursed-gnome-dropped-vault-key-but-no-shards/73429/3 "2021-12-19T14:32:59Z")
Thanks for your personal opinion, I know how ordinary gnomes work, and this bug report is about cursed gnomes, not the drop table of other gnomes.
Music gnomes also don’t drop vault keys, only verses. And given the extreme rarity of cursed gnomes a vault key drop is - contrary to all “normal” gnomes - a downgrade, not an upgrade.
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### Author:  [@Dust\_Angel](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Dust_Angel)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/cursed-gnome-dropped-vault-key-but-no-shards/73429/4 "2021-12-19T14:59:15Z")
It’s rather a feature request, at this point.
> [@Make Cursed Gnomes work like Pet Gnomes](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/make-cursed-gnomes-work-like-pet-gnomes/73380):
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> If a player beats a pet gnome. At the very least they get pet food. But also, if lucky enough, they get a vault key. This is the brilliance of the dev who designed pet gnomes and had the awareness to realize (at the time) pet gnomes were the exclusive way to get pet food for free. (also counting the actual pet rescue for argument purpose). Unfortunately that designer was terminated or too busy working on PQ3. Therefore, asap, please make it so players get Cursed Runes no matter what. And then…
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### Author:  [@Noumenonsoul](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Noumenonsoul)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/cursed-gnome-dropped-vault-key-but-no-shards/73429/5 "2021-12-19T16:25:42Z")
Same here. Key. No runes.
Same.old.bs
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### Author:  [@kamosloki](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/kamosloki)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/cursed-gnome-dropped-vault-key-but-no-shards/73429/6 "2021-12-19T22:29:44Z")
Sure but that still makes it a request for change as Dust Angel says, not a bug