Baldur’s Gate 3 player discovers a trick to make the Dank Crypt a cake walk

The Dank Crypt in Baldur’s Gate 3 can be tough to get through, but one player figured out a neat trick to fight the onslaught of undead that rises within this dungeon.

Act One‘s Dank Crypt contains a group of enemies guarding the entrance, a trapped sarcophagus ready to explode, and a surprise attack from undead Clerics. The one good part of this area is meeting Withers, but otherwise, it’s an arduous dungeon.

Luckily, one Baldur’s Gate 3 player on Reddit shared a tip that helps take care of the undead horde. Before pressing the button near Wither’s tomb to raise the dead, this fan recommends you “light all the candles.”

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If you light each candle and brazier in the Dank Crypt, the undead Clerics will “only have a handful of HP,” as the original poster put it. The undead thrive on the darkness, so lighting up the environment will lower their HP enough to take them down easily.

Most fans in the replies were shocked by this revelation, having been unaware that lighting candles could hinder undead enemies.

In response to a reply saying they always lit up areas without knowing it changed fights, the poster explained how easy Honor Mode was after this revelation. Anyone doing a run on the game’s highest difficulty will surely find this tip helpful.

A plethora of other replies added more Dank Crypt tips, as one fan recommended you “steal all their weapons before you wake them up.” This renders them unable to attack with melee weapons, although they still have spells.

Another response mentioned the best trick for fighting this wave of undead foes: “Using improved weapon attack you can reposition them. I usually pile them up in grease then cook em.” Making enemies slip and fall on their backs is the most amusing type of countermeasure.

Speaking of new findings, another fan ended up stumbling upon an “extremely missable” NPC after playing for 1,700 hours.