Locked Chest.

I was exploring on a new game and i'm about in full iron gear now well.. i stumbled around and found a sky island... you see harpies seem to spawn a lot more quickly now so i died about ten times trying to climb the island and grab the chest...

Thirty minutes later... i built a hollow tunnel up to the island and was about to loot the chesty goodness when i noticed its locked .... with no idea how to even obtain keys or why theres a locked chest outside the dungeon is beyond me so I google it with no remotely useful information to tell me how i can open this chest and be on my merry way... so do any of YOU know?

Anyone who suggested locked chest or keys of any sort of any kind there is no middle finger big enough for me to show you. i do not enjoy getting trolled on my own game.

Google it, or search the wiki.

He said that he did google it.
You find keys matching the chest. I still don't know where to find them though.

what is the icon when you put it your cursor over it?

its a key a gold one

I wonder if you use same gold key from dungeon slimes to open them.

so you need a gold key which are obtained for wooden dungeon chests dungeon slimes dungeon mobs and jars inside the dungeon

Thank you i guess ill just mine the island then leave it for now

You get keys from the new enemy Dungeon Slimes. They drop either a gold key, or a shadow key.

Actually shadow key is found inside dungeon gold chests.

this is messed up, cuz this means that we have to first destroy skeletron in order to get on the floating islands.

Sounds reasonable to me. Floating islands are part of endgame, not something everyone can go for with their wooden shortswords.

You find island chest keys in dungeon slimes, and the Shadow key is for all the chest in the underworld.

hmmm... I guess the harpies should make it end game content, but it's too easy and reachable compared to the dungeon, hell and the jungle... But I guess it's okay