Baldur’s Gate III – Optional Things to Do in Act I

In this Act I Things To Do guide for Baldur’s Gate III guide, we’ll list as many of the optional things you can do during Act I that we come across. I say as many because this game is huge! We’ll also link things to our other guides if you need some more info where it makes sense to do so. Happy Adventuring!

**PLEASE NOTE** – We will be playing a borderline hero character making mostly good or neutral decisions so the guides will be tailored to that at first.

• Side Quests
  • Nautiloid Crash Region
  • Druids’ Grove
  • Githyanki Creche
  • Underdark Quests
• Nautiloid
  • Temporarily recruit Us
  • Free and Temporailry recruit Shadowheart
  • Defeat Commander Zhalk and loot the two-handed Everburn Blade off of him
• Beach
  • Recruit Shadowheart
• Wilderness
  • Investigate the Scuffed Rock in a hidden cave west of the crash site (X:143 Y: 283)
  • Recruit Astarion west of the Nautiloid wreckage
  • Speak with the injured Mind Flayer in the Nautiloid wreckage
  • Recruit Gale near the Roadside Cliffs Ancient Sigil Circle
  • Recruit Lae’zel
• Druids’ Grove
  • Save Nadira from the bugbear to get a Soul Coin
  • Stop by Arron’s shop in the Hollow
  • Speak to the squabbling tieflings in the Hollow
  • Recruit Whyll
  • Spare a few words for the kids in the Hollow at Asharak’s request
  • Show Guex the proper way to swing a sword in the Hollow
    • If you choose and pass the Athletics option, Gale / Lae’zel / Shadowheart will approve
  • Talk to Okta to get some food in the Hollow
  • Talk to Auntie Ethel and tell her about your affliction in the Hollow
  • Check out Dammon’s smithy in the Hollow
  • Talk to Aradin in the Hollow
  • Deal with the Barth/Meli situation in the Hollow
  • Visit Sazza the Goblin locked in her cell
  • Talk with Doni along the path leading to the Inner Grove
  • Talk to Mattis on the path leading to the Innder Grove
  • Speak with Volo at the Sacred Pool
  • Talk with Rath in the Emerald Grove
  • Talk to Kagha in the Emerald Grove
  • Speak with Mol in the Tiefling Hideout
    • Donate 35g to the new Thieves Guild
  • Make a wager with Lakrissa reachable via a ladder in the Secluded Chamber (where Zevlor is)
  • Visit the beach east of the Sacred Pool
  • Heal Pandirna of her paralysis
• Dank Crypt
  • Loot a Soul Coin from a sarcophagus
  • Loot The Watcher’s Guide from a sarcophagus
  • Examine the Book of Dead Gods
  • Meet Withers
  • Loot Withers sarcophagus for a Soul Coin
• Underground Passage
  • Defeat the Goblins and save Findal
• Forest
  • Deal with Brynna, Andrick and Edowin
    • Accept or Reject the tadpole
  • Fight the Owlbear in its nest
  • Open the Gilded Chest in the Owlbear Nest
    • Be sure to bring Shadowheart along
  • Help out Scratch
• Blighted Village
  • Rescue the Gnome
  • Look for the Cellar
    • Explore the Whispering Depths
  • Make friends with the Ogres
  • Check out the barn just north of the city
• The Risen Road
  • Open the vault door and explore the vault
  • Interviene in the fight between the pack of gnolls and the men in the cave
• Waukeen’s Rest
  • Help the man trapped in the burning building
• Goblin Camp
  • Catch the chicken
  • Be cleansed through pain with Abdirak
  • Free Liam
  • Rescue Volo
• Underdark
  • Pull the sword from the stone!
  • Visit the Myconid Colony
  • Check out the Arcane Tower
  • Defeat the Spectator
  • Visit the Sussur Tree
  • Obtain all three pieces of a broken staff and put them back together
• Underdark – Grymforge
  • Talk with Stonemason Kith about the architecture
  • Find the Harper Key and Stash Locations
• Mountain Pass
  • Speak with Lady Esther
  • Locate the Ceremonial Weapons at the Monastery
  • Visit the Creche
  • Check out the Classroom in the Creche

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