Baldur’s Gate 3 player creates Astarion “skin” straight out of The Last of Us
Larian StudiosA Baldur’s Gate 3 player managed to create a mushroom zombie Astarion skin that looks like something from The Last of Us.
The vast number of options for completing Baldur’s Gate 3‘s various quests opens up the door for lots of strange possibilities.
Those who know the game well have found creative ways to manipulate the game’s mechanics to create unique and interesting results.
One player has even found a way to give Baldur’s Gate 3 companion Astarion a spore-covered zombie form that look like something from the world of The Last of Us.
Baldur’s Gate 3 player kills Astarion to create “Zombified” version
Reddit user femboty shared an image of their work on the BG3 subreddit and explained how they managed to turn The Pale Elf into some kind of pseudo-Clicker.
The spores came from recruiting the Myconid Sovereign Glut as a temporary companion and having him use Animating Spores on Astarion’s corpse.
Animating Spores only works on corpses and cannot be used on party members. This means that the player killed Astarion before recruiting him, carried his body around for most of Act 1, killed him again after Glut reanimated him, and used Revivify on him before asking him to join the party.
When recruited, Astarion kept the spores on his body and the Spore Servant condition, creating an otherwise inaccessible “skin” of sorts.
Given how this was done, theoretically, you could do this to any companion, provided they can be killed and revived before recruitment.
Though it definitely takes some work – and means missing out on most of Act 1 with the companion or companions in question – this zombie Astarion does have some players considering if their next Baldur’s Gate 3 playthrough will involve Circle of Spores Druids.
However, femboty has cautioned others against zombifying their own Astarions, saying “the interactions are wacky, sometimes Astarion is in my party, but only if Glut is in it, and sometimes he is by himself, sometimes he’s not in the party, but companions think he is.”