PUBG Secret Rooms Explained: A Beginner’s Guide

Secret rooms are locked loot locations in PUBG: Battlegrounds. The basic process is to identify your map, find the appropriate key, locate a room and open it to check what is inside.

The details differ by map, so a useful starting point is to check the relevant map guide rather than assume every entrance works the same way.

How to use a secret room

1. Identify your map

Before searching, establish which map you are playing and use that name when looking for a guide. A general introduction can explain the sequence, but it cannot give you a reliable route to a particular door.

The patch notes describe secret rooms on Taego, Vikendi, Erangel, Rondo and Miramar. The descriptions come from different updates, so check the update named in a map guide as well as its markings. This guide does not establish exact room locations or how many rooms are on each map.

Browse the secret room maps section for map-specific material. Use a marked guide for the map you are actually playing, and check its notes before treating a marker as a route. A map can help with the entrance search, but it is separate from finding the item needed to unlock the door.

2. Find the access item

The patch notes name keys as the access items for the five maps described here. On Taego, Console Update 13.1 said players could find a key on the map and use it to open a secret room. Update 21.2 called Vikendi’s world-spawned access item a Security Key.

Update 26.1 described Erangel’s world-spawned Secret Room Keys. Update 38.2 named a Secret Room Key for Rondo, and Update 41.2 described world-spawned Secret Room Keys for Miramar.

“World-spawned” tells you the item can appear in the game world; it does not give you a fixed location or tell you how often it appears. The available descriptions also do not confirm whether a key works across maps or whether using it consumes it. For a more focused introduction, see how secret room keys work on each map.

3. Locate an entrance and open the door

Once you have the access item, use the map-specific guidance to look for a room. Update 26.1 described Erangel’s secret rooms as accessible through underground entrances. Update 41.2 described Miramar’s approach as underground passages leading to locked doors.

Those descriptions help distinguish the approach on those maps, but they are not precise directions. Finding a key does not identify a door’s location, and knowing the type of entrance does not establish the route to it. Keep both parts of the search in mind when consulting a marked map.

Match type is another detail to check. Vikendi’s Update 21.2, Erangel’s Update 26.1 and Miramar’s Update 41.2 each listed their secret rooms for Normal and Custom Matches. Those descriptions do not confirm availability in other match types or establish that the same availability applies to every map.

4. Check the loot and the update

After entering, look through the items rather than expecting a particular loadout. Console Update 13.1 described Taego’s rooms as places to loot top-tier gear; Update 21.2 described valuable items on Vikendi; Update 38.2 described rare items on Rondo; and Update 41.2 described high-value loot on Miramar. Those labels are descriptions of the rooms, not guarantees of a specific item.

Contents can change. Update 42.2 changed Taego’s secret-room shelving layout and made items that previously did not spawn there able to spawn. When reading an older guide, check which update its loot description refers to. The loot guide by map is a place to continue reading the patch-note descriptions.

A closer look: Rondo’s four doors

Rondo has a door rule worth knowing before you search. Update 38.2 said its secret rooms had four doors, and opening any one of them unlocked all four. The effect is therefore not limited to the door used to open the room.

That detail does not provide the doors’ precise locations or establish an equivalent rule for other maps. It is a reason to read the Rondo-specific access notes alongside a marked map, rather than transfer the rule to another room.

Secret room checklist

• Identify the map and check the relevant marked guide.
• Note the name of the access item for that map.
• Search for the key as well as the entrance; they are separate steps.
• Check the match type against the map’s available information.
• Read loot descriptions as possibilities, not a promised loadout.
• Check which update a guide describes before relying on its details.

Related reads

For more introductory articles, browse the Start Here guides. For changes to room details over time, visit Updates & History.