Sometimes the effort a player puts in is simply astounding. Someone has presumably collected every single barrel in Baldur’s Gate 3 Act 1 and transported them to a storage area to blow a few unsuspecting goblins to bits. Is that clever or just chaotic evil?
This is the effort:
- Baldur’s Gate 3 offers the possibility to solve everything in every conceivable way.
- This openness invites many players to unleash their creativity.
- Player Okoii, for example, painstakingly gathered dozens of barrels to stack, chain, and ignite – for one minute of fireworks.
This is the explosion: Okoii set up dozens of barrels filled with gunpowder and oil in a storage area full of goblins in Act 1 – explosive barrels, as known from almost every game.
The barrels are positioned so that they can ignite each other. A single bottle of Alchemist’s Fire is enough to set the entire storage area ablaze:
It’s hard to say if these are all the barrels available in the act. According to his own statements, the player spent 8 hours preparing the explosion and editing the corresponding video.
The explosion lasts just over a minute, accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s Overture 1812, which is actually played with real cannons as instruments. You can find the whole video on YouTube, including four halfling barbarians in their underwear.
If the halflings are a bit disturbing, here’s instead some sex between a vampire and a bear:
“It’s… beautiful”
Okoii posted his video on both YouTube and the clip on Reddit. Within a few hours, he received thousands of upvotes and hundreds of comments from users celebrating the video.
The biggest plus besides the obvious fireworks: the revival of “Barrelmancy.” This is a school of magic developed by fans that focuses on causing as much damage and mischief with barrels as possible.
Barrelmancy actually comes from Divinity, the predecessor game by developer Larian. The idea here is to either make barrels as heavy as possible and then throw them, or, as in this case, cause chaos with explosions.
Baldur’s Gate 3, however, takes the possibilities one step further. Players use not only barrels and crates for Barrelmancy but also simply their own druids directly:
