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I admit what I did was tricky but not an exploit in any way. I suspect it is an actual bug. I had my scoundrel scout alone (he can sneak better than the others) on an infiltration down the fiery road. I used his speed and shadow ability to get past the lava monster without too much problem. When I got to the portal for that area the portal activated Ok, however, there is evidently either a star or blood stone which flashed but did nothing else. The pyramid on the screen glowed but I could not activate it as my party was not together. I teleported back to my party and rejoined it then teleported to Homestead there was no new room. I can't believe someone has not run into this before as scouting is very much a valid tactic.

Is the homestead currently under attack? It is by design that new portals do not open while that is going on.

Where is Zixzax, at the entrance of the homestead, by the statue or the weaver? Does he have his normal dialogue or is he encouraging you to enter a portal?

The last portal opened, did you get the conversation with the spirit or demon, and return to the main section of the homestead using the portal?

If you have any unused blood stones, does Zixzax react to their use?


If Zixzax is at the start of the homestead urging you to check out a portal, try approaching each of the remaining inactive portals and see if that triggers a conversation with Zixzax and gets the portal activated.

If he is at the start but just has his normal dialogue, try killing him, and see if that resets his status. Teleporting him may also help (though neither will if the issue is with the NPC in the last opened portal).

The best way to kill Zixzax, if you are a high enough level (about 13, depending on party build), is to first make sure he doesn't have any help nearby; teleport him a couple times if he is close to the weaver. Spread your characters out on all 4 sides of him, so he can not fireball everyone at once, and then have them take turns attacking him, so you get his health down as much as possible before triggering combat. Summons help absorb some damage (he prefers attacking party members, if he has a clear line of sight), but the weaker ones don't do much damage if he isn't stunned or knocked down (which is he is fairly resistant to, though is susceptible to tripping).


If that doesn't help, please email supportdos@larian.com, with a description of the problem and the report.zip file generated by the D:OS support tool (for the PC version). The report will contain system and game information, as well as your saved games. To reduce the file size, you can delete all but your latest save. Actually, at this point I don't know if the system and game information would be terribly useful, so you could just zip your latest save and email it.

Each save is a folder in the '..\Documents\Larian Studios\Divinity Original Sin\PlayerProfiles\<ProfileName>\Savegames' folder. In Windows Explorer, right click on the save folder and select 'Send To | Compressed Folder' to zip it.

No homestead is fine and Zixzax is waiting by the portal to hall of heroes which is the only room open so far. I have only found two stones. The one in the murder room and the healing stone in the clinic. My characters at the time were level 5. Thanks I will file a bug report.

In the hall of heroes, did you talk to someone sitting at the dining table, about half way down, on the north side? After that you need to return to the main room using the portal (not Rift Travel and return to the End of Time); that will finish unlocking the hall of heroes, and Zixzax should run over beside the weaver, or to the next portal, if you've found more inert stones.

Thank you. Although I went back to an earlier game save I ended up the same problem when I acquired my first blood stone. I will now go back and try the fire lane one again. BTW - I had thought to wait to talk to Astarte until I was at a higher level because of her "your so weak remark." I thought if I waited she might join my team.

if Zixzax is standing right by the portal, then you haven't entered the portal yet. you can use all the star/blood stones, but the portal is opening one by one -- you enter one, and then proceed to the next. if you never enter the first one, the second one won't open.

You get conversations with Astarte or another character in each portal that you open. Avoiding talking to them (where it is not automatically triggered) will just delay that room being completely open, so no new portals will be activated.