There are 4 separate "hatches" on the island :
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You have to power it up with manure which you have to get from the farmer near the secret hatch to Mordred's Hideout
There are no sewers in Arturus. The locked hatch is Mordred's secret underground lab. (see related question for the key)
The key doesn't go to the saucer. It goes to Mordred's secret laboratory. (see related question)
It opens Mordred's secret underground hideout which is beneath the hay bales near the farm. Separate them to reach the locked hatch. (see related question)
Go to the hay bales and push them apart. The key opens the hatch to Mordred's underground laboratory.
Push the two bales together, then stand on top and move to the middle of them. They should spread to reveal the locked hatch to the underground chamber.
The locked hatch to Mordred's underground lab is opened by a key from the secret society that meets under the fountain. Take the secret message from the Maid's room and go to the second floor inside the Mill. The girl will give you the Cosmic Symbols password card. Press each of the symbols, then the Sun, on the fountain plaque. Enter to get the key.
On Astro Knights Island, the small key opens the locked hatch beneath the bales of hay on the farm near the mill. Push them apart to use the key, and you can enter Mordred's secret underground laboratory. (Use the mechanical mouse to lure the robot owl back into the lab.)
You go all the way to where those hay things are by the Ye Olde Rumour Mille. You have to get in between those hay stacks. Push one left, then push one right. Then you will see a metal hatch. That metal hatch is what you use the key on.
There is nothing you can do about the robot invader. Collect the sheese and pull the switch that opens the rear hatch in the cell. When you follow the tunnel from Mordred's laboratory, you enter the back of the cell, and you will need the owl to recover what is left of the robot.
You need a key to open the hatch to Mordred's underground lab (beneath the hay bales). You get the key from a member of the secret order that meets under the village fountain. Get the Princess's secret message from the Maid's room (castle first floor left) and take it to the loft of the mill. The girl in black will give you the Cosmic Symbols card. Go to the fountain plaque and press the three symbols, and the center Sun.
The locked hatch leads to Mordred's underground laboratory. To get the key: - take the secret message from the Maid's Room (castle first floor left) to the girl in the second story of the Mill - use the Cosmic Symbols password to open the secret entrance under the village fountain (near the museum): press the three symbols and the center Sun - go to the pimply guy at the far right, who has the key.