12/9/2023 0 Comments Lockpicking tools![]() ![]() So it seems that you can have exciting methods of lockpicking or historically accurate methods of lockpicking – but you can’t have both. And this went on before and after the Middle Ages, all the way until the modern period when new tech finally appears. Fancy locks are simply warded locks with more complex wards, which doesn’t necessarily make them more difficult to pick, it just makes them… fancier. Most of the lockpicking tools and tutorials you’ll find around here are about the Yale lock.Īs far as I can tell, if you use the Middle Ages as your starting point for available technology in your setting, the warded lock really is the standard, most common lock around. This goes on for a while, until 1848 when the Yale lock is invented – the modern pin-and-tumbler that we all know and love, and is widely used to this day. Then padlocks and warded locks appear in Rome and in China and in between, they’ll eventually end up like this.Īnd then crickets, until the late 18th century, when you begin to have all sorts of new locking mechanisms (and patents) in Britain and the US. Here’s a video that demonstrates how they worked. They’re not like the modern ones, they look like this: So let’s dive into Historical Lockpicking (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Inaccuracy)Įvery history of locks I’ve seen follows the same pattern: the Sumerians use rudimentary pin tumbler locks from 4000 BCE, and then the Egyptians improve them a bit. If anyone knows otherwise, gimme your sources and I’ll give you cookies.) Coiled springs have no business whatsoever inside a medieval or even early modern lock. □īut I must disagree with your assessment: unless Oblivion takes place after (an equivalent of) the Industrial Revolution, it didn’t know at all what it was doing. Thank you so much, I’ve been trying to tackle this for ages.
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