Baldur’s Gate 3 players warned about missing loot bug you probably didn’t notice

Baldur’s Gate 3 players are warning others about a missing loot bug that most people probably haven’t noticed yet.

As with most role-playing games, loot in Baldur’s Gate 3 counts as a significant part of the overall experience. Thus, searching dead enemies, barrels, and so on offers players a chance at finding gear to further boost their characters.

Loot ranges from armor and weapons to camping supplies and magical items. But the system isn’t as fine-tuned as some may think.

According to one eagle-eyed player, Baldur’s Gate 3 is suffering from a glitch that will cause users to miss out on looted items.

Baldur’s Gate 3 player calls attention to a missing loot bug

Over the weekend, Reddit user jixxor posted a PSA for the Baldur’s Gate 3 community to warn fellow players about a troublesome bug. Apparently, a loot glitch won’t allow loot to appear until the player manipulates whatever contains the presumed items.

The Redditor explained, “there’s a bug that makes loot not show up until you’ve manipulated the contents of a loot container (be that a chest, a corpse, you name it) by taking out a single item, or by adding a single item if the entire loot stays hidden.”

PSA: You might be missing loot and not even notice it.
by u/jixxor in BaldursGate3

This issue was brought to the user’s attention while playing co-op. After slaying over a dozen foes, they noticed that each body showed “empty loot windows.” Double-checking each one revealed this to be false.

Jixxor continued, “the easiest way to detect it is by holding down ALT and checking whether or not a corpse or container is marked as ’empty.’ If you hold down ALT and read ‘Dead Mindflayer’ instead of ‘Dead Mindflayer – empty,’ there is loot inside that the ‘Loot All’ button will not catch.”

Several other Baldur’s Gate 3 players chimed in to say they’ve experienced the loot bug as well. And it’s not just a co-op error; those who are deep into single-player say they’ve also run across this hiccup. Hopefully, this marks one issue that Larian Studios can patch relatively soon.