Fortnite: How to Open the Temple Vault at Stone Sanctum

Stone Sanctum looks like a normal loot run until you notice the water sitting under the statue in the middle of the POI. That water is the lid on a sealed chamber, and the only way to move it is a small pickaxe-and-key puzzle spread across the temple rooftops.

Quick answer: Smash the small stone pillars on Stone Sanctum’s rooftops until you have two Temple Vault Keys, then place one key in each of the two stone dials at the center of the POI. The water under the statue drains and you can drop straight into the vault.

Temple Vault requirements in Stone Sanctum

Nothing here needs a weapon sacrifice or an NPC. You only need your pickaxe, a little rooftop climbing, and two free inventory slots.

Requirement	Detail
Location	Stone Sanctum, centered on the temple statue
Item needed	Temple Vault Key (Epic rarity)
Quantity	2
Where keys come from	Small stone pillars on the POI’s rooftops
Tool	Pickaxe
Unlock action	Insert one key into each of the two stone dials

How to find Temple Vault Keys on the Stone Sanctum rooftops

Land at Stone Sanctum and get on top of the buildings rather than inside them. Use the tall structure in the middle of the POI as your reference point so you can circle the rooftops without losing track of where you started.

The tall flaming tower at the middle of Stone Sanctum highlighted by yellow corner markers — The flaming tower at the heart of Stone Sanctum is the landmark to orient on before you start clearing rooftops. Image: Epic Games

Look for the small stone pillars dotted along the roofs. They are short, plain, and easy to walk past, so scan each roofline before moving to the next building.

Break each pillar with your pickaxe. Some of them contain a Temple Vault Key, which drops on the ground with an Epic-rarity pickup prompt. Keep smashing pillars around the POI until you are holding two of them.

Temple Vault Key pickup prompt with the swap option selected in Fortnite — The Temple Vault Key appears as an Epic pickup, so you may be asked to swap an item out to carry it. Image: Epic Games

Tip: the keys take up inventory space. Drop a spare consumable before you start breaking pillars so you are not forced to swap out a weapon mid-run.

Turning the stone dials to drain the water

Carry both keys to the middle of Stone Sanctum, at the base of the central statue. Two stone dials sit here, and each one accepts a single key.

Interact with the first dial while holding a key. The key is consumed in the exchange, so there is no way to reuse one on both dials.

Stone dial at the base of the central Stone Sanctum statue ready to accept a Temple Vault Key — Each stone dial at the center of the POI takes one Temple Vault Key. Image: Epic Games

Repeat on the second dial. The moment both keys are placed, the water beneath the statue drains away and exposes an opening into the chamber below. Drop in and you are inside the vault.

The drained water is your confirmation. If the pool is still there, the puzzle is not finished, no matter how many pillars you have broken.

Temple Vault loot and cheat codes for Sprites

The chamber holds chests and floor loot, which is reason enough to make the trip early. The bigger draw is the cheat codes stored down there, which unlock Sprites and make Stone Sanctum one of the fastest places to build a collection before the rest of the lobby catches on.

Extraction site with glowing Sprite chests and an in-progress Extract a Sprite objective — Sprite chests glow at extraction sites while the Extract a Sprite objective is active. Image: Epic Games

Codes are redeemed at an input panel, where you enter the arrow sequence shown on screen. Get it right and the matching Sprite is unlocked for you.

Glowing input code panel prompting the player to enter an arrow sequence — The glowing input code panel is where the arrow-sequence cheat code gets entered. Image: Epic Games

Common reasons the vault stays closed

Almost every failed attempt comes down to one of three things.

Only one dial has been filled. Both need a key before the water moves.
You searched at ground level. The pillars sit on the rooftops, not inside the temple.
You ran out of inventory space and left a key on the ground while looting.

Because the whole sequence takes place out in the open on the rooftops and at the center of the POI, expect company if anyone else dropped nearby. Clearing pillars quickly and heading straight for the dials is the safest way to run it.