Locked myself inside first palisade

[deante]

Perhaps this is a bug, or this is just me being a complete noob.

How this happened:
While fishing I got a random metal lock (useful) and I stashed it for later use. Upon completing my palisade I immediately take and slap my metal fishing lock on my interior gate. I got no master key when I performed this action, it didn't fall to the ground, my inventory had 10 open spots. I'm now locked inside my palisade. I already had the locks and bolts skill before installing the lock, didn't have it when I fished up the lock. Now I have enough water inside (thankfully) to bash the gate down. But I wanted to ask, did I do something stupid or misunderstand the brodgar wiki?
If I bash my interior gate down do I have to worry about the cascade damage?
Respectfully a Laurel-head

[Tokmicz]

did you check if the lock was already attuned to another key? if I remember right it does tell you that when you hover over it - if that's the case, you installed a lock that already had a key assigned to it, which is why you didn't get the master key, it was simply not a brand new lock.

[deante]

did you check if the lock was already attuned to another key? if I remember right it does tell you that when you hover over it - if that's the case, you installed a lock that already had a key assigned to it, which is why you didn't get the master key, it was simply not a brand new lock.

Unfortunately not, I had never even considered the game would hand me a lock (which I had assumed came from a random drop table) to already have a key bound to it.

[Tokmicz]

(which I had assumed came from a random drop table)

as random as it is, it was still a lock that some player has thrown into the water - meaning it's not the game that "made" the lock, it was a player who has gotten rid of it (or someone got rid of it for him). I'm 99% sure that this was indeed the case of the lock already being attuned, so best check the description of the lock next time

on another point, putting metal locks on palisade is a bit of a waste - since palisades cannot be lockpicked as such, almost everyone uses the wooden lock. if it's a good quality metal lock, you're far better off using it on a chest or other, lockable container.

[deante]

(which I had assumed came from a random drop table)

as random as it is, it was still a lock that some player has thrown into the water - meaning it's not the game that "made" the lock, it was a player who has gotten rid of it (or someone got rid of it for him). I'm 99% sure that this was indeed the case of the lock already being attuned, so best check the description of the lock next time

on another point, putting metal locks on palisade is a bit of a waste - since palisades cannot be lockpicked as such, almost everyone uses the wooden lock. if it's a good quality metal lock, you're far better off using it on a chest or other, lockable container.

yep, bad assumptions. Thanks for the time and explanation...welp the cascade took out my entire airlock and 30% of my walls. Learning experience for certain. Have a good one.