Don't worry about resting too often in Baldur's Gate 3⁠—except when a quest tells you otherwise (2024)

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Don't worry about resting too often in Baldur's Gate 3⁠—except when a quest tells you otherwise? ›

Sleeping can trigger scenes related to the main quest, but what we've found is that the quests themselves rarely advance without your input, unlike the notoriously time-limited companion quests of Baldur's Gate 2. There are exceptions: Sometimes characters will tell you that there's a time limit on their offer.

You can long rest as often as you'd like, provided you have the resources. However, long rests move "time" forward and may affect the outcomes of quests, the availability of NPCs, etc.

A lack of rest can be disastrous, leading to a swift end to the campaign. However, the resting mechanic may confuse those new to the Baldur's Gate franchise, leading to an underutilization of the feature.

When you're low on HP or Spell Slots in Baldur's Gate 3, you'll need to rest. Resting is split into two types: Short and Long Rests. Short Rests are more useful for a quick break between fights, while Long Rests will send you back to camp and allow you to have some evening chats before tucking yourself into bed.

You are able to take a short rest twice per day. Taking a Long Rest will reset your available Short Rests back to the maximum of two.

Taking a long rest passes the night, and costs 40 (80 in tactician or honour difficulty) camp supplies. If the party lacks the required supplies, they may instead take a partial rest, which restores the following: Restore hit points up to half of their maximum.

Baldur's Gate 3 - 44 ADVANCED Tips to Master! Letting Astarion bite you is an easy way to get approval with him. The simple answer is yes, as the only downside is gaining the Bloodless debuff, while Astarion gains the Happy buff and his approval rating of you increases.

Your new eye gives you +1 on intimidation, but a disadvantage on perception checks and attacks against hags. Perception is an important stat in Baldur's Gate 3, so it depends on whether or not your party can pick up the slack or not.

Simply put, nothing happens if you ignore Astarion. If you walk away from his offer or simply never approach him to begin with, you can always find Astarion in the same spot on the beach, even after you leave for Act 2 without him.

1: Yes, going evil will have some companions leave you (specifically Karlach, Wyll, and Gale... though I think you can persuade Gale into staying.). In return you do get a couple evil companions. 2: While it is entirely possible to do an evil playthrough, doing so cuts out a massive portion of the game's content.

What is the worth of a single mortal life in BG3? ›

The question is unanswerable by mortals as a life's worth is determined by the individual and all those who were affected by the life of the individual, and we don't have the weights on those factors. Of the available options I lean towards the infinite value one.

Alternatively, players can choose to Long Rest at an inn later in Baldur's Gate 3's story. This will avoid using Camp Supplies but will cost gold instead. Wherever they choose to rest, players should also be aware that some quests and events have time-sensitive elements.

When focusing on the main objectives, Baldur's Gate 3 is about 68 Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 160 Hours to obtain 100% completion.

Using a Short Rest is the best way to recover hit points and Spells to continue with your adventures and engage in new fights without needing to retreat from the area. You can only use 2 Short Rests before using a Long Rest after which all uses of Short Rest will be restored.

Don't worry too much. With a few exceptions, you can long rest as much as you want. Something I found out about long rests as well. If you have any free 1st level spell spots on casters with the Good Berry spell, make sure you use them up for free and easy Camp Supply food.

Short rests:

Can be done at any point out of combat or dialogue. Reset or refuel certain limited-use "short rest" class or race abilities (check their descriptions). Allows every character to regain half their maximum HP. Allow Warlocks only to regain spell slots.

The story isn't timed but some side quests are, they'll only trigger the countdown when you get near them so like with that burning building you have to go up towards the Gnoll area to trigger it's countdown, the Druid Grove does have a timer but it's like somewhere around 15 long rests before it closes off.

* From the wiki: "Although Rescue Orin's Victim appears to be time-sensitive - it is not. The party can take an infinite amount of Long Rests without Orin killing her kidnapping victim. The companion's life is only at risk once Orin is spoken to in the Temple of Bhaal."

If you rest more than three times at the camp: Karlach mission is failed and the grove gets sealed.

None of the main story has time limits, some side quests do but im not sure if any in act 2 do, time limits only start once you get within proximity of the quest giving event so if you're struggling early on then you're not gonna hit any of them and will be fine.