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Shadowheart's Mysterious Artefact got bound to a chest in the prision in the Druid grove and she can't get it back.

Mol reported her to the guards for hitting children and she got sent to the druid groves prison. I escaped the prision out the back but then noticed a Fugitive icon attached to her picture. Then noticed that the icon had a countdown timer. So I went back to the prison and waited for the timer to finish. When it finished I went to the chest in the prison area and all her stuff was in there. I did a Take All and she got everything back accept her Mysterious Artefact. I tried to take it but won't let me and then noticed the description of the arfefact says Bound. So it looks like it is permanently bound to the chest. The chest is not destructible, that didn't work. No other team member can take it either. Tried exiting the game and coming back but nope. Any suggestions?

Ooh, nasty! I’m afraid I’ve never had a character holding the box arrested, but it does sound as though the functionality that’s meant to stop you stealing the box from Shadowheart is preventing you removing it from the chest.

Have you been to the goblin camp yet? I’m wondering if you haven’t and you go there without SH it might jump to you in the cutscene that happens first time you go.

Maybe it was a shapeshifter 😅 but yeah, nasty bug indeed.


That would be an interesting experiment!

In the meantime, I would keep the file and send a feedback using the form on the website : https://larian.com/support/baldur-s-gate-3#modal

To follow up Melivy's suggestion - if you can send them your save file, including the thumbnail (so both files in the folder), so the issue can be observed directly, that's a big help along with the report ^.^

Yes that's happened to me as well in patch 8

The workaround was leaving the map area to trigger the vid encounter... The D20 just showed up

Solution, I guess. The very next time I went to camp there was a cutscene where I now mysteriously had the artifact in my possession. When I interact with the artefact it seems to behave with me in the same manner as it did with Shadowheart. I guess this is working as intended?

Well, it’s good that it sounds like the game has defensive programming to make sure you can't lose the box and it will jump to a character who needs it. But still, your problem shouldn't have happened in the first place!

Normally, if you enter the goblin camp without SH the artefact jumps to you, so I guess this is similar. And in that case you can have a chat with her back at your camp about it and ask if she wants it back. I'd be interested to know if you get this conversation option with her in the new permutation you've found?

Next time I went to camp I interacted (USE) with the Artefact. When I choose the DROP IT choice. It jumped back to my hand and then Shadowheart chimed in, "there's no getting rid of it"

I was arrested today in the Goblin Camp and have the same bug, only that I had the Mysterious Artifact in my possession before. I had jumped over the destroyed bridge near the Githyanki in the northwest, you then land above the Goblin Camp. Shortly thereafter the cutscene was triggered, where I was entrusted with the Mysterious Artifact.


Resting at Camp or dropping the Artifact from the evidence chest onto the ground so that it lands in my inventory again does absolutely nothing... The Artifact remains in the chest...


By the way, Shadowheart should no longer have any animations showing her desperately trying to open the Artifact, since it had been out of her possession for a while when the artifact came into our possession....

so you triggered the cut sence then got arrested by gobbos?
have you tried to distroy the chest or have someone pick it up to send to camp? [not that it matters because the D20 doesn't do anything]

Nope, I reported it and got a response from Raze that it was a known issue that should be fixed with a future update.

I then simply had another character captured instead of the MC to workaround it. Fortunately, you keep your inventory when you are captured by Priestess Gutt.... This would have been much more annoying.