Dexter's Chest — Location, Lock Setup & Solution

Where the chest is

Dexter runs the thieves in the Old Camp market. His chest sits in his market area, near the stalls, so you can walk straight to it once you are inside the camp. No quest is required to reach it, but you do need a lockpick in your inventory. If you are short, Dexter himself sells lockpicks, which makes this a convenient first chest in more ways than one.

Pick a quiet moment. Lockpicking does not pause the game in Gothic 1 Remake, and getting caught in the middle of the market is a real risk. Save first; if the pick breaks, reload instead of buying a new one.

The lock: four plates

Dexter's chest uses a four-plate lock, the smallest size in the game. Each plate carries one pin, and the lock opens when every pin sits on the center notch — hole 4 on the in-game dial, position 0 on the solver's rail.

The couplings are few but real. Turn plate 1 and plate 2 follows it in the same direction; turn plate 4 and plate 3 moves the opposite way. Plates 1 and 4 only move when you turn them yourself. Read the matrix below as columns = the plate you turn, rows = the plate that reacts.

The configuration printed here comes from the site's chest registry, the same data that powers the preset picker on the home page. Load the preset and the solver shows the same numbers you see in the table.

Edge-safe unlock sequence

Computed with Fewer Plate Switches: six turns in total, three plate switches, and no move ever pushes a pin into the wall. Follow the order exactly.

Step 1 — turn plate 1 2 times to the left.

Step 2 — turn plate 2 2 times to the right.

Step 3 — turn plate 3 once to the right.

Step 4 — turn plate 4 once to the left.

The sequence is generated by the solver on this site (mode: Fewer Plate Switches, edge-safe) and re-verified by running the same input again.

A reported variation of this lock

Community sources do not fully agree on this chest. The most detailed published guide for Dexter's chest reports the pins starting at holes 1, 1, 7, 7 (positions -3, -3, +3, +3) and lists a fifteen-turn sequence for that version. The two reports trace back to the same fan-tool ecosystem, so neither independently checks the other, and we could not confirm which layout the shipped game uses.

This chest is therefore marked community-reported and conflicted, per the site's verification policy: nothing here is official. If your lock does not match the starting holes in the table, you are likely looking at the alternate layout. Enter what you actually see and solve again — the solver works from the state you type in, not from this page.