Seemingly Useless "Resident Evil Village" Items Quiz

Answer: Bolt Cutters

Almost as soon as you arrive in the Old Town, you'll end up investigating the creepy, seemingly-abandoned homes there in an effort to make sense of where you are and what you can do, and it won't be long before you're met with your first fight against a Lycan. Once this is done, you'll have no way to progress without busting through one of the locked gates in the yard, and to do that, you'll have to grab the Bolt Cutters sitting in the pantry behind where you, just recently, found a man hiding from the evil foes. Though only used once, it's absolutely necessary for this first, linear part of the game.

Answer: Screwdriver

When Ethan encounters Luisa's house early on in his visit to the village, he'll end up dealing with a group of locals who are helpless to save one of their own from being turned into a Lycan. To escape, his best option is to locate the Truck Keys in one of the kitchen drawers and use it to bash through the front of the house (though this plan will fail).

In a pouch on the keychain, Ethan can investigate to find a little Screwdriver and that can be used to unlock the latch on the shrine outside. This is especially important since it contains the Demon Crest. Along with the Maiden Crest, he'll need these to access Castle Dimitrescu.

Answer: Maroon

Although this may seem like it's not a noteworthy find, it's both the mandatory pickup and the inevitability of its use that makes it useful. After escaping Lady Dimitrescu and her daughters for the first time (after they leave him hung up in their chambers), Ethan will find his way into a corridor hidden behind an unused fireplace, and the only way out the other end is by claiming the Maroon Eye Ring to open a statue and a secret passage beyond.

Looking closely at the ring will enable you to remove the outer container for it, giving just a Maroon Eye, a gemstone needed to unlock a door with the face of a woman on it on the second floor of the castle.

Answer: His own

As Ethan finds his way around the labyrinth that is Castle Dimitrescu he'll inevitably end up descending into the dungeons and come face to face against the lady of the manor. He won't be able to defeat her, but the goal is to keep her at enough of a distance to survive the encounter. Unpredictably though, that encounter will start with Ethan not noticing her arrival; she'll have the upper hand (ha) of surprise when she slices his hand clean off with her razor-sharp claws as he tries to hold down a door lever.

Ethan will be able to grab his own hand during the battle, then reattach it when he makes it back to ground level to find a First Aid Med bottle. The miracles of modern science!

Answer: Lockpick

Returning from previous games, the Lockpick is a consumable item that he needs to find throughout his trip to the village in order to unlock a series of otherwise inaccessible desk drawers, cabinets, and locks that he'll come across (and for a man with weaponry, this shows colossal amounts of restraint!). Once the Lockpick is used once, it's consumed, and while there's enough for all the locked containers in the game, he'll need to make sure he's using them sparingly to spread them out at the right times. Generally, locked containers will contain treasures or ammo.

Answer: A ladder

There are six wells found throughout the village and its surrounding paths, and while most of these will contain stockpiles of weapons/explosives or pieces of treasure, one, found near the exit of Castle Dimitrescu, will contain a ladder. Naturally, descending into the well is the only solution here, and if you can complete the deadly puzzle inside, you'll get a valuable treasure.

The Well Wheel is found in a house locked away by the Iron Insignia Key (it's in West Old Town, where you fight the Armored Lycan for the first time).

Answer: Film

Once Ethan is locked into the basement chambers of House Beneviento he'll have to complete a series of escape-room-like puzzle tasks that start with breaking apart a life-sized wooden doll of Mia. The Film is found inside Mia's mouth, but Ethan will need a pair of Tweezers to grab it.

These Tweezers are only found inside the Music Box in the storage room, and that won't operate without the Winding Key found inside another part of the doll.

Answer: Fuse

The escape room that is Donna's basement in House Beneviento will culminate not only in a hide-and-seek game against a hallucinated monstrosity, but a descent into a well beneath the house that will allow Ethan to get his hands on a Breaker Box Key, and this will get him into the control panel for the lift.

The problem is that he'll still need to locate a fuse in a cupboard deeper in the basement, but once he has it he can slot it in, avoid getting caught by the creature lumbering around the halls, and ascend to face Donna and Angie upstairs.

Answer: Starting the windmills

Although it appears there have been many needs for a Crank in this part of the mountain, the Crank Ethan grabs-- a sturdy one from the second windmill-- is first used to make the windmills spin to power up the Reservoir's control room. Later on, it takes on more uses and becomes a necessary key item in the game, being used to raise and lower drawbridges, open locked doors, and more.

Answer: Twenty

A series of rare and hard-to-find collectibles, the Goats of Warding appear in virtually all regions of the map and are only characterized by a small rattling sound that will appear whenever you happen to be close-by. All of these just need to be shot and destroyed and there are twenty in all. If you shoot one, it won't appear in any other save files in the game-- once is enough.

Of all the items in this quiz, this one is actually useless...unless you're achievement hunting. You'll get an achievement for shooting one and another for the whole set of twenty.