Minecraft Dungeons:Key Golem

"KEY GOLEM – You'll find these cute little mobs hiding throughout the world. You must carry them on your back to a locked door, as they're too afraid to go alone. If you take damage while carrying one, it will scurry back to where you found it."

- Guide to Minecraft Dungeons: A Handbook for Heroes

A key golem is a small passive golem that can be found within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons.

Appearance
A gold key golem is a small golden golem resembling a key with a small face and legs.

Spawning

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Behavior
If the hero reaches a locked door while wearing a key golem, it disappears, the lock turns yellow, and the door opens.

Key golems can be picked up by certain mobs. If the mob gets killed, a key golem returns to the closest rug.

Key golems start off asleep.
 * Sleeping

Key golems wake up when the hero approaches it.
 * Alert

Key golems attempts to evade the hero in any way that it can. The hero must hit it to collect it, at which point it gets strapped to the hero's back.
 * Run

Key golems squirm and yell in fear while on the hero's back. If the hero is damaged while wearing the key golem, the key golem escapes and flees back to its original location, but if another entity hits it, that entity gets the key golem on its back.
 * Panic

Diamond key golem
A diamond key golem is a key golem variant that can be found within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons.

Appearance
A diamond key golem is a blue variant of the key golem resembling a key with a small face and legs.

Behavior
Diamond key golems behave exactly like their gold counterparts except that the lock that it opens turns blue and the door opens.

Fake diamond key golem
A fake diamond key golem is a small passive that can be found within the various missions of Minecraft Dungeons.

Behavior
A large amount of fake diamond key golems appear in the same map structure, they have the same health as the real diamond key golem but cannot be acquired by heroes when hit them. There is only one real diamond key golem hidden among them.

Gold key
The following sound files are named "babyKeyGold", but never used by the gold key golem in the game.

Data value

 * In the game files, the two key golems are listed internally as being categorized under the name.
 * In the game files, the key golem is referred to internally by the name.
 * In the game files, the diamond key golem is referred to internally by the name  and the name.
 * The key golem has 9 animations. Except for the idle animation, all other animations have a variant named . but there is no difference between the two animations.

Trivia

 * Technically, getting a key golem by a hero or mob actually kills them, then spawns a panic key golem on the back of the heroes or mobs.
 * So the hero gets the soul when takes a key golem.
 * When hit with a weapon enchanted with Exploding, an explosion is triggered where the key golem was hit.
 * A Twitter post was released highlighting that key golems always run away.

Known issues

 * Eyes rotating weirdly sideways when idling key golem blinks in game, this may be a glitch.