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Darkest Dungeon: The Ultimate Curios Cheat Sheet Guide

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Every dungeon features a list of interactive curios that require specific provision items to give you the best loot and buffs.

Curios are interactive objects that form one of the most important gameplay systems of Darkest Dungeon. They can either turn the tide in your favor or doom your party.



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Every time you come across a curio, a prompt will appear to choose an item from your inventory. Using the correct item here will reward you with gold, gems, trinkets, positive quirks, or buffs. Using the wrong items, however, will trigger negative effects that may prove costly even if your heroes manage to complete the current dungeon run.


With close to a hundred different curios, it is impossible to remember which items to use in every case. This is why buying the best provisions for each location is important. If you know what curios a location spawns, you can save a lot of gold by only buying specific provisions from the Caretaker.

Hence, you need a cheat sheet that lists all curios and how to cleanse them in Darkest Dungeon. Keep this list open while playing the game because removing the curios prompt is the same as using no items, which has a chance of triggering negative effects.

All the curios below are ordered alphabetically for your convenience. That being said, pressing
Ctrl + F
in your browser to search for a curio would be much faster.


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Curios Found in All Dungeons

Curio

Provision

Cleansing Effects

Non-Cleansing Effects

Crate

  • Heirlooms (75%)
  • Nothing (25%)

Discarded Pack

  • Gold, Gems, or Supplies (60%)
  • Scouting (20%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Eldritch Altar

  • +25 Stress (40%)
  • Purge a Negative Quirk (10%)
  • Nothing (50%)

Heirloom Chest

  • Heirlooms x3
  • Heirlooms x4
  • Heirlooms x2 (75%)
  • Bleed (12.5%)
  • Blight (12.5%)

Sack

Sconce

Shambler’s Altar

Stack of Books

  • Stress +25 (22.2%)
  • Positive Quirk (66.67%)
  • Negative Quirk (11.1%)
  • Light -25 (11.1%)
  • Journal Entry (16.7%)
  • Nothing (16.7%)

Unlocked Strongbox

  • Loot x2 (75%)
  • Blight (25%)

The aforementioned common curious can only be found in the four starting locations of
Darkest Dungeon
: Ruins, Warrens, Weald, and Cove.

Curios Found in the Ruins


Curio

Provision

Cleansing Effects

Non-Cleansing Effects

Alchemy Table

  • Blight (50%)
  • Gold or Gems (25%)
  • Nothing (25%)

Altar of Light

Bookshelf

  • Scouting (20%)
  • Stress +15 (20%)
  • Positive Quirk (13.3%)
  • Negative Quirk (6.7%)
  • Journal Entry (20%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Confession Booth

  • Stress +15 (50%)
  • Gold or Trinket (25%)
  • Purge a Negative Quirk (25%)

Decorative Urn

  • Gems or Trinket
  • Guilty Conscience Negative Quirk
  • Gems or Trinket (44.4%)
  • Blight (22.2%)
  • Creeping Cough Disease (7.4%)
  • Random Disease (3.7%)
  • Nothing (22.2%)

Holy Fountain

  • Stress Heal 20
  • Health Heal 12
  • Cure Status Effects
  • Stress Heal 10, Health Heal 5, Cure Status Effects (50%)
  • Gold or Gems (50%)

Iron Maiden

  • Loot (40%)
  • Negative Quirk (20%)
  • Tetanus Disease (13.3%)
  • Random Disease (6.7%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Locked Display Cabinet

  • Gold, Gems, or Heirlooms x2
  • Gold, Gems, or Heirlooms x3

Locked Sarcophagus

  • Gold, Gems, or Heirlooms x1
  • Gold, Gems, or Heirlooms x2

Sarcophagus

  • Gold or Heirlooms (60%)
  • Thanatophobia Negative Quirk (20%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Suit of Armor

  • Dodge +10, Prot +15% Until Camp (75%)
  • Ruins Adventurer Positive Quirk (12.5%)
  • Ruins Tactician Positive Quirk (12.5%)

Some of the
worst afflictions in
Darkest Dungeon

will force heroes to interact with curios automatically. This can be troubling in the case of Bookshelves, which you should generally try to avoid.


Curios Found in the Warrens

Curio

Provision

Cleansing Effects

Non-Cleansing Effects

Bone Altar

  • Damage +15%, Accuracy +10, Critical +5% Until Camp (100%)

Dinner Cart

  • Food x3, Gold, or Trinket
  • Food x1, Gold or Trinket x1 (37.5%)
  • Blight (25%)
  • The Black Plague Disease (12.5%)
  • Nothing (25%)

Makeshift Dining Table

  • Food x2, Gold, or Trinket
  • Food, Gold, and Trinket (25%)
  • Blight (25%)
  • Tapeworm Disease (25%)
  • Nothing (25%)

Moonshine Barrel

  • Food, Gold, or Supplies (33.3%)
  • Blight (33.3%)
  • Tippler Negative Quirk (11.1%)
  • Nothing (22.2%)

Occult Scrawlings

  • Random Positive Quirk (33.3%)
  • Stress +25 (25%)
  • Random Negative Quirk (16.7%)
  • Nothing (25%)

Pile of Bones

  • Loot x2 (25%)
  • Random Disease (25%)
  • Bloodthirsty Negative Quirk (25%)
  • Nothing (25%)

Pile of Scrolls

  • Scouting (28.6%)
  • Stress +15 (14.3%)
  • Journal Entry (14.3%)
  • Random Positive Quirk (9.5%)
  • Random Negative Quirk (4.8%)
  • Nothing (28.6%)

Rack of Blades

  • Food x1, Gold or Gems x1 (40%)
  • Bleed (40%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Sacrificial Stone

  • Stress +50 (50%)
  • Purge a Negative Quirk (25%)
  • Warrens Explorer Positive Quirk (12.5%)
  • Warrens Scrounger Positive Quirk (12.5%)


The Warrens has several curios that let you remove negative quirks for free. There is also a chance to gain an
excellent positive quirk
at the same time.

Curios Found in the Weald

Curio

Provision

Cleansing Effects

Non-Cleansing Effects

Ancient Coffin

  • Gold or Heirloom x2 (50%)
  • Weald Adventurer Positive Quirk (8.3%)
  • Weald Explorer Positive Quirk (8.3%)
  • Nothing (33.3%)

Beast Carcass

  • Food x1 (42.9%)
  • Rabies Disease (9.5%)
  • Random Disease (19%)
  • Zoophobia Negative Quirk (14.3%)
  • Nothing (14.3%)

Eerie Spiderweb

  • Gold, Gems, Trinket x1 (40%)
  • Slow Reflexes Negative Quirk (10%)
  • Slowdraw Negative Quirk (10%)
  • Nothing (40%)

Left Luggage

  • Loot x4 (50%)
  • Blight (50%)

Mummified Remains

  • Gold or Trinkets x1 (40%)
  • Blight (40%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Old Tree

  • Loot x2 (50%)
  • Blight (25%)
  • Nothing (25%)

Pristine Fountain

Shallow Grave

  • Blight (50%)
  • Random Disease (50%)

Traveler’s Tent

  • Gold, Supplies, or Heirlooms (37.5%)
  • Scouting (37.5%)
  • Stress +25 (12.5%)
  • Nothing (12.5%)

Troubling Effigy

  • Random Positive Quirk (18.8%)
  • Random Negative Quirk (18.8%)
  • Bleed (18.8%)
  • Blight (9.4%)
  • Stress +15 (9.4%)
  • Nothing (25%)


Curios Found in the Cove

Curio

Provision

Cleansing Effects

Non-Cleansing Effects

Barnacle Crusted Chest

  • Loot x2 (50%)
  • Bleed (25%)
  • Nothing (25%)

Bas-Relief

  • Random Positive Quirk (66.7%)
  • Random Negative Quirk (22.2%)
  • Random Disease (11.1%)

Brackish Tide Pool

  • HP Heal 5 (50%)
  • Stress Heal 5 (50%
  • Blight, Bleed, Disease, Debuff Resistances +33% Until Camp (75%)
  • Random Disease (25%)

Eerie Coral

  • Stress Heal 10 (50%)
  • Stress +25 (25%)
  • Nothing (25%)

Fish Idol

  • Damage -25%, Accuracy -10 Until Camp (50%)
  • Dodge -12 Until Camp (50%)

Fish Carcass

  • Gold, Gems, Supplies, or Trinkets x2
  • Gold, Gems, Supplies, or Trinkets x1 (16.7%)
  • The Red Plague Disease (16.7%)
  • Blight (11.1%)
  • Bleed (5.6%)
  • Nothing (50%)

Giant Oyster

  • Dodge +25 Until Camp
  • Gold or Trinkets x3
  • Gold or Trinkets x2 (40%)
  • Bleed (40%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Ship’s Figurehead

  • Stress Heal 30 (66.7%)
  • Damage +20% and Speed +4 Until Camp (33.3%)


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Curios Found in the Courtyard

Curio

Provision

Cleansing Effects

Non-Cleansing Effects

Bloodflowers

  • Holy Water
  • Shovel
  • The Blood
  • Stress +15
  • Gems, Heirlooms, or Loot x2
  • Nothing
  • Stress +15 (38.5%)
  • Scouting (23.1%)
  • Loot x2 (15.3%)
  • The Blood (16.7%)
  • Tetanus Disease (5.1%)
  • Random Disease (2.5%)
  • Nothing (15.3%)

Damned Fountain

  • Bleed (60%)
  • Crimson Curse Disease (20%)
  • Loot x2 (20%)

Disturbing Diversion

  • Stress +25 (40%)
  • Random Positive Quirk (15%)
  • Random Negative Quirk (15%)
  • Loot x2 (10%)
  • The Blood x2 (16.7%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Forgotten Delicacies

  • Food x2, Gold or Supplies x1
  • Gold or Supplies x4 (20%)
  • The Blood (25%)
  • Stress Easter Negative Quirk (20%)
  • Blight (20%)
  • Crimson Curse Disease (13.3%)
  • Random Disease (6.7%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Hooded Shrew

  • Stress +15 (42.8%)
  • Loot x1 (28.5%)
  • Random Disease (7.6%)
  • Nothing (14.2%)

Pile of Strange Bones

  • Loot x1 (50%)
  • The Blood (16.7%)
  • Summon a Supplicant, Sycophant, and Esquire
  • Bleed (50%)
  • Loot x2 (20%)
  • The Blood (16.7%)
  • Crimson Curse Disease (10%)
  • Nothing (20%)

Throbbing Coccoons

  • Summon a Supplicant, Sycophant & Esquire (75%)
  • Loot x3 (12.5%)
  • The Blood (16.7%)
  • Nothing (12.5%)

Thronging Hive

  • Loot x3
  • The Blood (16.7%)
  • Loot x2 (75%)
  • The Blood (20%)
  • Bleed (25%)

Wine Crate

  • Stress Heal 30
  • Firewood (For Camp)
  • The Blood x2, Loot x1, Gold or Supplies x4 (41.7%)
  • Tippler Negative Quirk (16.7%)
  • Crimson Curse Disease (16.7%)
  • Scouting (8.3%)
  • Bleed (8.3%)
  • Nothing (8.3%)

Wizened Shrew

  • Random Disease (7.6%)
  • Scouting (50%)
  • Random Reward (33%)
  • Nothing (25%)


Darkest Dungeon
is one of the
hardest indie games out there
. The Courtyard takes this difficulty ceiling up by another notch. Make sure to bring healing supplies.

Curios Found in the Farmstead

Curio

Provision

Cleansing Effects

Non-Cleansing Effects

Corrupted Harvest

Fresh Harvest

  • HP Heal 90% of Maximum Health

Gleaming Shards

Mildred

  • Mildred’s Locket (First Encounter)
  • Trinkets and Shards (Following Encounters)

Miller’s Hearth

Plentiful Bounty

  • HP Heal 65% of Maximum Health (Party)

Rotted Flare

Stockpile

  • Food x12, Supplies, and Trinkets
  • Food, Medicinal Herbs, or Laudanum (66%)
  • Nothing (33%)


The Farmstead relies more on its unique shard mechanics than curios to shift the tide in your favor. You will need a
good team composition for the Farmstead
in order to survive the endless horrors.

Darkest Dungeon

Released
January 19, 2016

Developer(s)
Red Hook Studios

Publisher(s)
Red Hook Studios


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