A desperate player does not understand what could be so heavy in his barely filled inventory that it completely overloads him. The answer and solution is quite simple, yet he is not alone in his confusion – even MeinMMO editor Caro only understood after 500 hours in Baldur’s Gate 3 that she was making the journey much harder for herself.
What is the player desperate about? The player and Reddit user ErrorqTheGlitch reaches out to the Baldur’s Gate 3 community with a cry for help, as he is struggling with a problem that he cannot solve without a hint. He has put away everything except for his savings, a few bags, healing potions, and his equipped gear, yet he can still only move with limitations due to weight.
He believed that it might be the heavy armor and axe of his tiefling fighter, but those had not caused him issues before. Additionally, with a strength value of 20, he should not have problems with a filled inventory.
What the player overlooks, however, are the items that, due to constant picking up and their passive use, hardly get noticed. For when they accumulate, these can also reach a hefty weight.
We are talking about his gold and his supply pouch.
I cannot and do not want to blame the player at this point; that would be utterly hypocritical – for I also only realized after hundreds of hours in the game that my food does not have to accompany me on my travels.
Here you see the animated short film for Patch 8 of Baldur’s Gate 3:
You don’t have to carry your entire pantry with you
Why do so many players overlook the weight of these items? Gold and supplies are essential, yet also passive items in Baldur’s Gate 3. You find them scattered throughout the game and usually pick up everything you can. After all, you know that both will be needed over and over again.
At the beginning of the game, the weight of gold and supplies hardly stands out; at this point, it is really equipment and weapons that are the heaviest items in the inventory. However, as you collect more and more, the weight can quickly skyrocket.
To accurately see what is heaviest in an inventory, you can also adjust the sorting, which would have saved the player (and me) a lot of time when sorting out other items. Maybe it also depends on the choice of race, so from tiefling to tiefling. Who knows.
Why should you send all supplies to camp? I only realized in my 5th or 6th playthrough that it is best to send all supplies from the inventory to the camp. I had never thought about that before; after all, you need food every night for a long rest. But where do you rest? Exactly – at the camp!
You do not need to have your supplies stored in the character’s inventory to access them. You can send all your supply packs, bottles of wine, and other foods to your chest in camp. When selecting supplies, they are also recognized in the chest, and you are considerably lighter on the go, able to carry more weapons, items, or the bodies of your enemies.
The experience of the player and mine are proof that one should perhaps look more closely at what is really hiding in one’s inventory. There are indeed many things in Baldur’s Gate 3 that players only notice after hundreds of hours. Another player experienced a similar realization when he found the solution to a puzzle that was right under his feet – literally: Player discovers after 600 hours in Baldur’s Gate 3 a detail that makes a tricky test much easier
