ROB RUN - Keys, Tools & Barter Guide (what opens what)

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ROB RUN Keys, Tools & Barter Guide

What Opens What, Filled Items and Documented Exchanges

Before selling an unfamiliar item, check whether it opens a valuable target, progresses through use, or belongs to a barter recipe.

The most expensive mistake is often bringing the right-looking item in the wrong rarity, state, or location.

1. Four Different Types of Item

Location keys: open the safe or room named in their description.

Access tools: perform a supported interaction, such as drilling or cutting.

Accumulating items: gain progress through specified actions and become filled versions.

Barter ingredients: are exchanged, sometimes together with cash, for another item.

An item can belong to more than one category. Read its full description rather than judging by its icon.

2. Key and Card Families

Family	What to check
Safe Key	The exact safe and building in its description.
Room Key	The exact room, building, and neighbourhood.
Keycard	The specified secure room or vault.
ID Card	The named special objective, particularly Bank gold vault versus Police armory.

These families include different items sharing the same displayed name.

Community key references identify targets across hotels, stores, cafés, pharmacies, cottages, the Strip Club, the Gallery, and the Police Station.

"Keycard" is a category of displayed names, not one universal card.

3. Special Cards You Must Distinguish

Bank ID Card: identifies the Bank gold vault.

Police Armory ID Card: identifies the Police Station armory.

Gallery Keycard: identifies the Gallery vault.

Grand Hotel Keycard: identifies the hotel's secret storage.

Police Station Keycard: identifies a locked room rather than automatically granting armory access.

Some keys identify "one of" several buildings in an area. Use the item description and any target marker provided by your game.

Do not sell an ambiguous key purely because you cannot recognise the building from its icon.

4. Access Tools and Their Jobs

Tool	Purpose
Lockpick	Compatible lock interactions, including vehicle trunks.
Mini Drill	Compatible safe-lock interactions.
Drill	Bank-vault breach interaction; distinct from the Mini Drill.
Glass Cutter	The Art Gallery exhibit interaction.
Jammer	The Grand Hotel exhibition-car interaction.
Master Key	Supported protected-storage interactions, including the relevant cargo storage.
Decoder	Reduces player-structure security protection through the supported breach interaction.

Opening the first barrier does not guarantee access to every container beyond it. Inspect the full target before spending your access item.

5. Empty, Partially Filled and Full Items

Action Camera: gains progress through the specified criminal activity at its required Notoriety.

Code Tablet: gains progress through qualifying safe-cracking activity.

USB Hacking Tool: gains progress through qualifying computer hacks.

Deposit Box Keys: gains progress through qualifying deposit-box activity.

Cargo Sheet: gains progress through qualifying cargo hand-ins.

The accumulating version and filled version can have the same basic name.

Before exchanging one:

• Check its rarity.
• Check whether its progress is complete.
• Read what the recipe explicitly accepts.
• Inspect the output item before confirming.

A full green Camera is not automatically a substitute for a full purple Camera.

6. Documented Barter Recipes

These exchanges are listed in current community references. Verify the live offer before submitting items.

Receive	Give
Legendary Drill	1 full Epic Action Camera + 2 full Legendary USB Hacking Tools + $50,000 cash
Legendary Glass Cutter	3 full Epic Code Tablets
Exotic Police Armory ID Card	20 Evidence
Exotic Bank Gold-Vault ID Card	1 full Legendary Deposit Box Keys
Epic Decoder	3 Uncommon Decoders + $10,000 cash
Epic Decoder	1 full Epic Action Camera
Lieutenant's Badge	15 Sergeant's Badges — confirm the live offer because published references conflict
Legendary Electronic Fuse	1 Epic Electronic Fuse + $250,000 cash
Eviction Right	50 Epic Decoders

Where to check: Lenny's barter options and the Suspicious Door at Lenny's Motel are documented exchange points. Compare the current menus rather than assuming an older screenshot still applies.

7. Drill and Glass Cutter Examples

Drill — game item image via Wikily.

Planning for a Drill:

• Retain the correct full Epic Camera.
• Retain two full Legendary USB Hacking Tools.
• Reserve the cash payment.
• Complete the barter before travelling to the bank.

Planning for a Glass Cutter:

• Retain three full Epic Code Tablets.
• Check the Gallery exhibit's current access conditions.
• Prepare transport and space for the target reward.

Do not assume the cutter or Drill has the same usage count as another tool. Read the current item description and confirmation.

8. A Decoder Is Not a Master Key

Decoders act on player-structure security. They do not automatically open city vaults, every container, or the whole property.

A single use may reduce protection without completing the breach.

Likewise, a completed structure breach may still leave another building or protected storage object requiring its own interaction.

Check what is actually unlocked before entering. Always establish an exit route.

9. Keep, Use, Barter or Sell?

Keep an item when it completes a realistic near-term plan.

Use it when you have the rest of the equipment and can finish the objective.

Barter it when the output supports a more valuable activity.

Sell it when the cash is more useful than an uncertain future opportunity.

Business example: a full Epic Camera can contribute to a Drill or produce an Epic Decoder through a listed exchange. Spending it on one route removes it from the other.

Opportunity cost means the value of the best alternative you give up.

Found items therefore still have a cost when you consume them.

10. Common Reasons an Interaction Fails

• The item opens a different building or container.
• Its rarity does not match the requirement.
• It is not fully filled.
• You brought a Mini Drill instead of a Drill.
• The first access stage is complete, but another remains.
• Your role or the current target state prevents the action.
• The recipe changed in an update.

Read the displayed error before buying a replacement. A rejected interaction does not necessarily mean your item is broken.

Share Corrections

If a recipe differs, post a screenshot showing the input items, quantities, rarity, and output. Include the date or game version.

Gulf City community guide. Reviewed 9 November 2026. Recipes are documented community findings and should be checked against the live barter screen.
Barter recipe reference
Additional barter reference
Key and room reference