A single item in Baldur’s Gate 3 can cause complete chaos. It’s quite funny in battle – but sometimes also dangerous.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, there are plenty of strange items, and many of them are overlooked more or less. Some items can be combined into new items, and others have a special “Use” effect. One of these items is the Iron Flask.
How do you get the Iron Flask? You can get the Iron Flask relatively early in the game, specifically during Act 1. Some Zhentarim have barricaded themselves in a cave and are fighting against gnolls. If you intervene and defeat the gnolls, you can take the chest from the Zhentarim. You can either convince them to hand over the chest or simply knock them unconscious and steal the contents of the locked chest afterward (Difficulty 20).
What does the Iron Flask do? Should you open the flask – whether in a dialogue option or by throwing it at an opponent – a creature will break free: an Observer.
You probably know Observers mainly from the Underdark, because you have to fight one of them there. Like the colleague from the depths, the Observer in the flask also possesses powerful spells and is a rather chaotic being – it is automatically hostile to all nearby creatures.
The Observer likes to scare and stun all enemies (and also your party members) nearby, so you should be careful where you unleash it. It also flies and thus likes to change its position.
What can you do with it? Basically, you can keep the Iron Flask as a “last resort spell” and only use it when you believe you cannot survive a battle otherwise.
Especially in some of the fights with many participants – for example, during an attack on the goblin camp – the Observer can cause a lot of chaos. Because the Observer is not only hostile to all other beings, but it also tends to draw threats towards itself. In the face of a giant, flying eye monster, your hero group doesn’t seem so intimidating anymore.
Alternatively, in a multiplayer round, you can keep the Iron Flask and then surprise your friends with the large beast at some point. That should cause a lot of confusion and panic when the Observer suddenly stands in your camp and threatens your dog.
Finally, you can also give the flask to Gale – he really likes magical items.
This Observer, by the way, leaves no loot, so killing it just for that brings no advantage.
If none of that appeals to you, you can of course also sell the Iron Flask to a vendor to get some gold pieces. But who would really miss out on the fun of this chaos?
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