# \[Fixed\] Cursed gnomes still dropping keys **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [December 24, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506 "2021-12-24T07:57:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ahayzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Ahayzo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ahayzo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/21 "2021-12-27T03:29:10Z")
Ending this week 17 runes short of soulforge level 20. Considering the 2 vault keys I got from cursed gnomes just tonight doing E12s, I almost certainly should have made it. The compensation will probably be almost nothing too. 20 cursed runes to everybody or something dumb. ---
**Author:** ![canadademon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@canadademon](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/canadademon)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/22 "2021-12-27T07:34:04Z")
Just wanted to throw in my two cents here: As I was doing GAP testing on Cursed Gnomes, they always dropped runes as expected. I did my testing with the Steam version, so this might be a platform-specific issue. (Unless I got really lucky) ---
**Author:** ![Dust\_Angel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/dust_angel/32/35256_2.png) [@Dust\_Angel](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Dust_Angel)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/23 "2021-12-27T07:49:34Z")
You got truly lucky. I pulled a handful of vault keys on Steam while my brother got quite a bit more of that. ---
**Author:** ![Maisie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Maisie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Maisie)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/24 "2021-12-27T08:17:45Z")
Seconding “lucky”; I played mostly on Steam and had plenty of GaP Cursed Gnomes drop keys instead of runes. Not every gnome, and not even every GaP, but often enough to be noticeable and annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Starlite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/starlite/32/43018_2.png) [@Starlite](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Starlite)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/25 "2021-12-27T11:52:34Z")
I also got a Vault Key from a Cursed Gnome, about 15 minutes before reset, while running Gnome-a-Palooza. ---
**Author:** ![Kafka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kafka/32/33529_2.png) [@Kafka](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kafka)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 12:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/26 "2021-12-30T00:04:06Z")
Hey folks, I’m following up with the team on this issue now. Sorry for the delay over the public holidays. ---
**Author:** ![Maisie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Maisie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Maisie)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/27 "2021-12-30T02:38:09Z")
Could the team also consider running a make-up Vault day as compensation? A lot of us lost out on a lot of Cursed Runes because of this. ---
**Author:** ![Kafka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kafka/32/33529_2.png) [@Kafka](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kafka)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/28 "2021-12-30T02:41:35Z")
Hey, Follow up from earlier: The Vault Event increases the chance of a Vault Key from dropping, so even though the Cursed Gnome has 0% chance of dropping a Vault Key, the event’s vault key chance increase was applying to it. We are putting in a change so prevent this from applying to the Cursed Gnome in future Vault Events. We will not be running an extra Vault event, but there’ll be plenty of future Vault events in future 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OzZiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@OzZiggy](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/OzZiggy)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/29 "2021-12-30T02:57:52Z")
So any way of trading in my NINE vault keys I got from Cursed gnomes for runes? or am I just out of luck? ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506/30 "2021-12-30T14:00:54Z")
Additional chance instead of multiplicative chance? Are you kidding me? I can program better in my sleep, for real. And no extra vault event, why am I not surprised. Not that it matters to me personally since I’m barely paying attention. (Evidence to the contrary, I know.) [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/fixed-cursed-gnomes-still-dropping-keys/73506.md?page=1)