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Curios

By Squirting Elephant

Quickly shows what curios are worth looting and what/when items to use.
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Squirting Elephant
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Category: Loot

Languages: English

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Updated

6 Jun, 2015 @ 6:15am

2 Feb, 2019 @ 3:52am

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Guide Index

Overview

Always loot (no negative effects)

May cause bleed/blight (open with tank)

Always Loot (by using item)

miscellaneous

NEVER loot

Credits and such

Comments

Always loot (no negative effects)

Text between brackets means that you must use that item to get the effect. Example: [Torch] 100% Bleed means that if you use a torch on that curios, it will always cause bleed to the character that opened it. http://s21.postimg.org/85x09vn8n/guide.png

Crate

75% Loot (1x Heirloom)
25% Nothing

Sack

75% Loot
25% Nothing

Sconce

100% Loot (1x torch, any item)

Large Strongbox

100% Loot (2x Gold/Gems/Trinket)

Altar of Light

[Holy Water] 100% +30% DMG
100% +20% DMG

Holy Fountain

[Holy Water] 100% -20 Stress, +12 HP
50% Loot (Gold/Gems)
50% -10 Stress, +5 HP

Suit of Armor

12.5% Quirk (Ruins Adventurer)
12.5% Quirk (Ruins Tactician)
75% +10% PROT, +10% DODGE

Ancient Coffin

50% Loot (2x Gold/Heirloom)
8.3% Quirk (Weald Explorer)
8.3% Quirk (Weald Adventurer)
33.3% Nothing

Pristine Fountain

[Holy Water] 100% -30 Stress
100% -20 Stress

Bone Altar

100% +15% DMG, +10 ACC, +5% CRT, Cure

Sleeping Pod

50% Loot (2x Gold/Heirloom)
50% Nothing

Healing Coral

60% Cure
20% -6 Stress
20% Remove negative quirk (random)

Ship's Figurehead

66.67% Buff: +20% damage, +4 speed until next Camp.
33.33% Stress Heal.

Ancestor's Knapsack

100% Gold/Gems, Ancestral trinket x1

Ancient Artifact

[Key] 100% Special Trinket/Puzzling Trapezohedron x3
100% Gold/Gems x2.5

May cause bleed/blight (open with tank)

Heirloom Chest

[Key]: 100% Loot (3x heirloom)
75% Loot (2x heirloom)
12.5% Bleed
12.5% Blight

Unlocked Strongbox

75% Loot (2x Any)
25% Blight

Locked Strongbox

[Key] 100% Loot (3x Any)
[Shovel] 66.6% Loot (2x Any), 33.3% Nothing
50% Loot (2x Any)
25% Blight
25% Bleed

Alchemy Table

[Herbs] 100% Loot (2x Gold/Gems)
[Torch] 100% +100 Torch
25% Loot (1x Gold/Gems)
50% Blight
25% Nothing

Locked Sarcophagus

[Key] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Heirloom/Trinket)
[Shovel] 100% Loot (1x Gold/Heirloom/Trinket) (reduced amount)
50% Blight
50% Bleed

Locked Display Cabinet

[Key] 100% Loot (2.5x Gold/Gems/Heirloom)
[Shovel] 100% Loot (2x Gold/Gems/Heirloom)
50% Blight
50% Bleed

Old Tree

[Antivenom] 100% Loot (3x Any)
50% Loot(2x Any)
25% Blight
25% Nothing

Left Luggage

[Key] 100% Loot (3x Any)
[Antivenom] 100% Loot (3x Any)
50% Loot (1x Any)
50% Blight

Mummified Remains

[Bandages] 100% Loot (2x Gold/Trinket)
40% Loot (1x Gold/Trinket)
40% Blight
20% Nothing

Rack of Blades

[Bandages] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Gems/Food)
40% Loot (1x Gold/Gems/Food)
40% Effect (Bleed)
20% Nothing

Barnacle Crusted Chest

[Shovel] 100% Loot
50% Loot
25% Bleed
25% Nothing

Giant Oyster

[Shovel] 100% Loot
[Dog Treats] 100% Dodge Buff
40% Loot
40% Bleed
20% Nothing

Always Loot (by using item)

Always Loot (with item)

Heirloom Chest
[Key]: 100% Loot (3x heirloom)

Locked Strongbox

[Key] 100% Loot (3x Any)
[Shovel] 66.6% Loot (2x Any), 33.3% Nothing

Alchemy Table

[Herbs] 100% Loot (2x Gold/Gems)
[Torch] 100% +100 Torch

Locked Sarcophagus

[Key] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Heirloom/Trinket)
[Shovel] 100% Loot (1x Gold/Heirloom/Trinket)

Locked Display Cabinet

[Key] 100% Loot (2.5x Gold/Gems/Heirloom)
[Shovel] 100% Loot (2x Gold/Gems/Heirloom)

Decorative Urn

[Holy Water] 100% - Loot (2x Gems/Trinket)

Confession Booth

[Holy Water] 100% -30 Stress

Iron Maiden

[Herbs] 100% Loot (2x Any)

Beast Carcass

[Herbs] 100% Loot (2x Food)

Shallow Grave

[Shovel] 100% Loot (3x Gems/Heirloom)

Troubling Effigy

[Holy Water] 100% - Quirk (Random positive)

Old Tree

[Antivenom] 100% Loot (3x Any)

Eerie Spiderweb

[Bandages] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Gems/Trinket)

Left Luggage

[Key] 100% Loot (3x Any)

Mummified Remains

[Bandages] 100% Loot (2x Gold/Trinket)

Moonshine Barrel

[Herbs] 100% +30% DMG

Pile of Bones

[Holy Water] 100% Loot (2x Any)

Pile of Scrolls

[Torch] 100% Remove negative quirk (random)

Rack of Blades

[Bandages] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Gems/Food)

Dinner Cart

[Herbs] 100% Loot (2x Gold/Food/Trinket)

Eldritch Altar

[Holy Water] 100% Remove negative Quirk (random)

Makeshift Dining Table

[Herbs] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Supply/Food)

Treasure Chest
[Key] 100% Loot (5x Gold/Gems)
[Shovel] 100% Loot (4x Gold/Gems)

Foreign Idol

[Holy Water] 100% Quirk (Clotter)

Whale Carcass

[Bandages] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Gems/Trinket)

Brackish Tidepool

[Antivenom] 100% Heal Stress or Heal 5 HP + Cure.
75% +33% Resist Blight, Bleed, Disease & Debuff until next Camp.
25% Disease (Random)

Fish Idol

[Holy Water] 50% +18% Damage until next Camp, 50% +10% Damage, +5 Accuracy until next Camp.

100% Curse (Vulnerability)

Giant Oyster

[Shovel] 100% Loot
[Dog Treats] 100% Dodge Buff
40% Loot
40% Bleed
20% Nothing

Giant Fish Carcass

[Herbs] 100% Loot x3
50% Nothing
16.67% Gold or Gems or Supplies
16.67% Disease (Red Plague)
11.16% Bleed
5.5% Bleed

Eerie Coral

[Herbs] Removes Negative Quirk
75% to either:
* 66.67% -10 Stress
* 33.33% +25 Stress
25% Nothing

miscellaneous

Curios that may be worth looting even though they (may) have negative effects.

Confession Booth

[Holy Water] 100% -30 Stress

25% Loot (Gold/Trinket)
50% +15 Stress
25% Remove negative quirk

Shambler's Altar

[Torch] 100% Summons a single big tough creature (Grotesque Shambler).
When defeated, drops an ancestral trinket.

Does nothing without using a torch on this curio.

NEVER loot

These curios give (without using an item) negative quirks / stress / disease / or just only negative.

Stack of Books

[Torch]: 100% +100 stress
13.3% Quirk (Random negative)
26.7% +25 Stress
13.3% -25 Torch
26.7% Random positive quirk
?? % Journal Pages

Sarcophagus

60% Loot (2x Gold/Heirloom)
20% Quirk (Thanatophobia)
20% - Nothing

Decorative Urn

[Shovel] 100% Quirk (Guilty Conscience)
44.4% Loot (1.5x Gems/Trinket)
22.2% - Nothing
22% Blight
7.4% Disease (Creeping Cough)
3.7% Disease (Random)

Bookshelf

25% +15 Stress
25% Scouting
25% Nothing
16.7% Quirk (random positive)
8.3% Quirk (random negative)

Iron Maiden

[Herbs] 100% Loot (2x Any)
40% Loot (2x Any)
20% Quirk (Claustrophobia)
13.3% Disease (Tetanus)
6.7% Disease (Random)
20% Nothing

Beast Carcass

[Herbs] 100% Loot (2x Food)
42.9% Loot (1x Food)
14.3% Quirk (Zoophobia)
28.6% Disease (Rabies)
14.3% Nothing

Shallow Grave

[Shovel] 100% Loot (3x Gems/Heirloom)
50% Blight
50% Disease (Random)

Traveller's Tent

12.5% +25 Stress
37.5% Loot (2x Gold/Supplies/Heirloom)
37.5% Scouting
12.5% Nothing

[Holy Water] 100% - Quirk (Random positive)18.7% Quirk (Random positive)18.7% Quirk (Random negative)18.7% Bleed9.4% +15 Stress9.4% Blight)25% Nothing[/th]

Eerie Spiderweb

[Bandages] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Gems/Trinket)
40% Loot (1x Gold/Gems/Trinket)
10% Quirk (Slow Draw)
10% Quirk (Slow Reflexes)
40% Nothing

Occult Scrawlings

[Holy Water] 100% -20 DODGE
33.3% Quirk (Random positive)
16.7% Quirk (Random negative)
25% +25 Stress
25% Nothing

Moonshine Barrel

[Herbs] 100% +30% DMG
33.3% Loot (1x Food/Gold/Supply)
11.1% Quirk (Alcoholism)
33.3% Blight
22.2% Nothing

Pile of Bones

[Holy Water] 100% Loot (2x Any)
25% Loot (2x Any)
25% Quirk (Bloodthirsty)
25% Disease (Random)
25% Nothing

Pile of Scrolls

[Torch] 100% Remove negative quirk (random)
11.1% Quirk (Random positive)
5.6% Quirk (Random negative)
16.7% +15 Stress
33.3% Scouting
33.3% Nothing

Sacrificial Stone

12.5% Quirk (Warrens Explorer)
12.5% Quirk (Warrens Scrounger)
50% +50 Stress
25% Remove negative quirk (random)

Dinner Cart

[Herbs] 100% Loot (2x Gold/Food/Trinket)
25% Loot (1x Gold/Food/Trinket)
25% Blight
25% Disease (Random)
25% Nothing

Eldritch Altar

[Holy Water] 100% Remove negative Quirk (random)
25% +50 Stress
33% Quirk (Random positive)
16.7% Quirk (Random negative)
25% Nothing

Makeshift Dining Table

[Herbs] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Supply/Food)
25% Loot (1x Gold/Supply/Food)
25% Blight
25% Disease (Random)
25% Nothing

Treasure Chest
[Key] 100% Loot (5x Gold/Gems)
[Shovel] 100% Loot (4x Gold/Gems)
50% Blight
50% Bleed

Wrecked Lifeboat

40% Loot (1.5x Gold/Supplies/Heirloom)
20% +25 Stress
40% Nothing

Foreign Idol

[Holy Water] 100% Quirk (Clotter)
25% Quirk (Clotter)
25% Quirk (Random negative)
25% Bleed
25% Nothing

Whale Carcass

[Bandages] 100% Loot (1.5x Gold/Gems/Trinket)
20% Loot (1x Gold/Gems/Trinket)
13.3% Bleed
6.7% Blight
60% Nothing

Pile of Tablets

16.7% Quirk (Random positive)
8.3% Quirk (Random negative)
12.5% +25 Stress
12.5% -6 Stress
37.5% Scouting
12.5% Nothing

Bas-Relief

[Shovel] 100% +100 Stress
66.67% Quirk (Random positive)
33.33% Quirk (Random negative)

Credits and such

Some images and stats where taken (and modified) from:
http://darkestdungeon.gamepedia.com
Which uses the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.

The rest was taken from the gamefile: "..\DarkestDungeon\curios\curio_type_library.csv" and from other gamefiles.

Before reporting missing effects from curios, please double-check it before posting. Most of the posts about missing effects were in the guide. Just CTRL+F and make sure to search for multiple hits! It could be in another category.

61 Comments

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Ghostwish 10 May, 2023 @ 3:49pm

I was about to say, who the fudge popsicle is commenting on a 4 year old- oh. LOL

All Thriller No Philler 9 May, 2023 @ 1:50am

A liiiittle late but thanks Ghostwish, only...4 years later haha

Squirting Elephant [author] 20 Apr, 2022 @ 9:53am

I can't remember exactly but I believe that when I read my own description after all this time it means that you should never use the shovel + decorative urn combination but always use the holy water + decorative urn combination.