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Dec 19, 2023

Where to find a shovel in Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur’s Gate 3 offers a huge world where you can interact with all sorts of characters, objects, and landscape features. Sometimes, you’ll come across mounds of dirt. They clearly are points of

Baldur’s Gate 3 offers a huge world where you can interact with all sorts of characters, objects, and landscape features. Sometimes, you’ll come across mounds of dirt. They clearly are points of interest, but to interact with them, you’ll need the right implement. Here is our guide telling you where to find a shovel in Baldur’s Gate 3.

To dig through dirt mounds, you need a shovel. Fortunately, you don’t have to advance very far in the game to find one. The first shovel you can find is located along the northern portion of the Overgrown Ruins, at the Chapel Entrance.

Screenshot by PC Invasion

When you begin playing, you find yourself on the Mindflayer ship. Once you clear that initial area, you crash land on a beach. Head north along that beach to find Shadowheart, and potentially join up with her (if you figured out how to rescue Shadowheart in the previous area). Continue along the beach from there until you reach the Ancient Door. It’s locked, but there is a waypoint just ahead of it that you want to activate.

A rock archway grants access to a path that leads southwest from the waypoint. Follow it until you reach a man named Astarion, who stands along the hillside. Recruit him if you like and then travel northeast past the unstable rune. Proceeding in that direction, you’ll soon reach the southern edge of the Chapel Entrance.

Climb the steps and pass through the opening to trigger a scene involving Gimblebock and other treasure hunters. You can either fight them or talk them out of making trouble for you. Then you should proceed north toward a door at the back side of the ruins (past some vines that grab at your feet). Just ahead of the door and to the right, you’ll find the Shovel lying on the ground. The map screenshot above shows its precise location.

With the shovel now in your possession, you can dig up any dirt mounds you might encounter.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is available on Steam.