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Darkest Dungeon Cove Curios: Provision Table

Darkest Dungeon Cove curios table: find the provision to use, its stated result, and the bare-hand risk for every mapped coastal Curio interaction.

Cove Curio answers at a glance

The Cove has several high-impact tool answers. Use the lookup before opening a chest, touching coral, or searching a carcass: it reports what the cited data lists for the provision and what the hand interaction can still do.

Choose an area, then search by object or the supplies you have left. The four regular regions include shared Curios; Courtyard uses its own object pool.

17 matching records

Crate

Shared

By hand 75% Heirloom

Without item
25% empty

Discarded Pack

Shared

By hand Loot (60%) or scouting (20%)

Without item
20% empty

Sack

Shared

By hand 75% gold

Without item
25% empty

Sconce

Shared

By hand Torch

Without item
No harmful result listed

Stack of Books

Shared

Leave it / by hand Mixed quirk, journal, scouting, stress, or nothing

Other item interactions
  • Torch: +100 Stress; avoid burning the books
Without item
Stress, a negative quirk, or -25 light are possible

Eldritch Altar

Shared

Holy Water Remove one random negative quirk

Without item
40% stress +25; otherwise a quirk removal or nothing

Heirloom Chest (either variant)

Shared

Skeleton Key Best listed chest reward for its hidden variant

Other item interactions
  • Antivenom: Heirloom variant only: heirlooms ×3; not a guaranteed answer for the other hidden variant
  • Shovel: Other variant only: 2/3 chance of loot ×2, 1/3 empty; Skeleton Key works on both variants
Without item
Bleed and blight traps are possible

Unlocked Strongbox

Shared

By hand 75% any loot ×2

Without item
25% blight

Barnacle Crusted Chest

Cove

Shovel Any loot ×3

Without item
25% bleed or 25% nothing

Bas-Relief

Cove

Leave it / by hand Mixed quirk outcomes

Without item
Negative quirk or random disease are possible; Shovel causes stress +100

Brackish Tide Pool

Cove

Antivenom Heal 5 HP or stress -6

Without item
25% random disease; otherwise a resistance buff

Eerie Coral

Cove

Medicinal Herbs Remove one random negative quirk

Without item
Stress +25 or nothing are possible

Fish Carcass

Cove

Medicinal Herbs Gem / trinket, gold / gem, and supplies

Without item
Disease, blight, bleed, or nothing are possible

Fish Idol

Cove

Holy Water +18% DMG until camp

Without item
DMG / ACC or DODGE debuffs

Giant Oyster

Cove

Shovel Gold / trinkets ×3

Without item
40% bleed or 20% nothing

Ship's Figurehead

Cove

By hand Stress -25 to -30 or +20% DMG and +4 SPD

Without item
No harmful result listed

Object and provision names remain in official English so they match the in-game prompt.

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The Cove’s strongest item pairings

A Shovel opens Barnacle Crusted Chest and Giant Oyster safely, while Medicinal Herbs turn Eerie Coral and Fish Carcass into controlled interactions. Antivenom purifies Brackish Tide Pool. Holy Water changes Fish Idol from a debuff roll into an offensive buff.

Bas-Relief is a useful exception to memorize: the data records stress +100 for using a Shovel, not a reward. Ship’s Figurehead is another exception because its listed hand outcomes are favorable. These distinctions are why the table describes each object instead of applying a generic “always use a tool” rule.

Data boundary

The entries are condensed from the Curio data module and were reviewed September 14, 2026. Verify any changed in-game prompt before acting.

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