Baldur's Gate 3 Player Summons Infinite Zombies For Boss Fight

Summary

• Circle of Spores Druids can summon infinite Fungal Zombies before the Ketheric fight.
• The Fungal Infestation spell doesn't cap the number of summons you can spawn, allowing this exploit to work.
• Myrkul isn't doing a good job ruling over death.

A Baldur's Gate 3 player has discovered a method of spawning an infinite number of summons before the Ketheric Thorm boss fight in Act 2. In a Reddit thread showing off their discovery, the player reported summoning 87 zombies before the fight. Another player found this exploit almost a year ago, but their post didn't get as much attention.

The method involves using the nautiloid restoration pod in the Mind Flayer Colony. As always, the pods restore health, spell slots, superiority die and so on. However, this specific area also grants the party Rejuvenating Miasma, a passive that allows you to raise thralls without nearby corpses.

In addition, the Fungal Infestation spell available to Circle of the Spores Druids doesn't have a cap on how many summons you can spawn. This was probably an oversight as Fungal Infestation operates on its own resource and Larian likely didn't consider what would happen if players could constantly refresh this resource.

The combination of this spell and the nautiloid restoration pod means the player can continuously summon Fungal Zombies. In the screenshot provided by the player, you can see a group of zombies surrounding the party as they prepare to enter the boss arena.

Arise My Fungal Army

Thorm and his patron Myrkul couldn't have anticipated an army of mycelia-addled zombies invading Moonrise Towers, but perhaps the Half-Elf can employ his infamous Double Ketheric strategy to try and compete with this new development.

A game as big as Baldur's Gate 3 is always going to have a few bugs that slip through the cracks, especially in a niche situation like a certain subclass of Druid being able to take advantage of an unlimited health restoration point. We saw a similarily niche bug a few months ago with Jaheira's Harpers having identifier tags that completely nerf them in the Shadow-Cursed Lands.

Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 was recently released, adding the modding toolkit, new evil endings and Alfira as a temporary companion, among other new additions.

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Baldur's Gate 3 is the long-awaited next chapter in the Dungeons & Dragons-based series of RPGs. Developed by Divinity creator Larian Studios, it puts you in the middle of a mind flayer invasion of Faerûn, over a century after the events of its predecessor.