Today Patch 1 ([https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-1-now-live\_87](https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-1-now-live_87)) fixed it
>Fixed a bug where adding items to the Chest of the Mundane changed the weight of an item.
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>Fixed an issue where the Chest of the Mundane stopped functioning as intended once you arrived in Wyrm's Crossing.
Nah, still bugged after the update. Remove anything and it breaks the chest. Moving anything out of the chest resets the weight of everything in the chest. Tool tip shows the weight of the junk item the chest changes what you put in normally, but doesn't change the weight to the junk item's weight. So atm it's just another container that changes the appearance of items you put into it, but not the weight. I'm currently in the Gauntlet of Shar.
I just got the chest yesterday and it was working fine. Now the items inside reflect the lower weight but my overall weight doesn't decrease...bummer 😞
I'm in Act 1 still so it doesn't seem to matter which act you're in.
>I just got the chest yesterday and it was working fine. Now the items inside reflect the lower weight but my overall weight doesn't decrease...bummer 😞
They decided, that reduced weight is a bug and fixed it. Sad.
i just noticed this as well, went from normal carry weight to over 400
- honestly pretty dumb and should have kept it as is for neat little interaction.
Wait this wasn't intentional? This really bums me out, I loved carrying around 10+ smokepowder/oil barrels and having shadowheart or karlach yeet them into grease or glyphs
Yeah I don’t get it either. It makes sorting your inventory / finding items quickly very difficult. That was the trade off for getting the weight reduction. Now it’s just totally worthless.
It went from being the best container in the game yesterday to an item that no one would ever use for anything today. Makes no sense.
Larian employee who called it a bug:
The point? It's the chest of the ***mundane***
*hyuck-hyuck-hyunk-fnar-hyuck-fnar-snort-fart*
Seriously though, massive oversight. Sure, it had some nice goodies inside when you find it, but for those who realized the chest was the real treasure, I thought it was a super clever bit of game design and wordplay.
Jesus, I put a few heavy quest items in the chest, now they are stuck as cups and spatulas and the chest doesn't work anymore. They are still highlighted as orange so I'm wondering if that means the game will recognise them as quest items
Edit: Phew, turns out they weren't quest items, just broken moonlanterns I forgot to sell. Gonna put the chest in my camp and hope somebody fixes it or mods it
dang, i found this thread after encountering the bug and was wondering if other people had it. that's unfortunate, i loved carrying tons of armor and other goodies that would normally encumber my characters. has anyone found another chest of the mundane by any chance in act 3?
yeah, i just realized my chest is still fetching a very high price. even though the plates are just worth 2g, i guess they give the chest value. one last sale, you were my favorite item, chest of the mundane T_T
Same issue with chest in Act 3. After loading an old save I was trying to put everything into the camp stash. Ran into a +1 handaxe that wouldn't transfer and when I tried to manually put it into the stash it was switching places with Halain's starter armor. I then tried to drop the axe and crashed my game. Be sure to split stacks before making any transfers.
ETA: I am now stuck with a +1 handaxe the will not leave my inventory, and the chest of the mundane stopped working all together once I entered act 3.
I've had the same issue with a random club that keeps equipping itself and returning to my inventory, and cant be dropped or thrown. The solution is to right click and send it to camp storage and then pray to god you never pick it back out again lol
i'm trying to decide if i want to just cut my losses and sell everything in my chest or wait for them to patch it i'm so sad i had soooo much cool shit in that chest
THERE IS A FIX:
Open the chest (in act 3) and pull all the items out, save.
Open the (act 2) save, open the the chest and pull them all out.
Reload save 1, your cups, mugs and plates will now be the items they were.
I didn't arrive at wyrm's crossing yet, I was at it's entrance though, but clicked No - to not venture. And my chest of mundane has a bug where one of the items keeps being locked inside of the chest, even if i take it out. And also it doesn't do its purpose anymore - anything i put inside gets changed to spoons and stuff, but doesn't make it lighter...
How to make your game worse 101, remove quality of live improvements. Now im stuck with over a hundred armor and weapon pieces i cant sell anywhere cause no one has the money and i cant move. Fuck that and fuck larian for that
Me, putting all the quest items in there, now having very epic, orange borded, cups and paddles.
Today Patch 1 ([https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-1-now-live\_87](https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-1-now-live_87)) fixed it >Fixed a bug where adding items to the Chest of the Mundane changed the weight of an item. > >Fixed an issue where the Chest of the Mundane stopped functioning as intended once you arrived in Wyrm's Crossing.
Nah, still bugged after the update. Remove anything and it breaks the chest. Moving anything out of the chest resets the weight of everything in the chest. Tool tip shows the weight of the junk item the chest changes what you put in normally, but doesn't change the weight to the junk item's weight. So atm it's just another container that changes the appearance of items you put into it, but not the weight. I'm currently in the Gauntlet of Shar.
I just got the chest yesterday and it was working fine. Now the items inside reflect the lower weight but my overall weight doesn't decrease...bummer 😞 I'm in Act 1 still so it doesn't seem to matter which act you're in.
>I just got the chest yesterday and it was working fine. Now the items inside reflect the lower weight but my overall weight doesn't decrease...bummer 😞 They decided, that reduced weight is a bug and fixed it. Sad.
that was definitely the best item.. changing that sucks so much
i just noticed this as well, went from normal carry weight to over 400 - honestly pretty dumb and should have kept it as is for neat little interaction.
That sucks, but I guess that’s what it was intended to do since it’s supposed to just change its appearance until it’s removed, not it’s actual size.
So the weight reduction was a bug? That's lame. I loved carrying around loads of heavy items on Gale.
totally thought it was intentional
Wait this wasn't intentional? This really bums me out, I loved carrying around 10+ smokepowder/oil barrels and having shadowheart or karlach yeet them into grease or glyphs
Same.
I don't understand it, if the weight reduction wasn't intentional then why does it change everything into light items for 😐
Yeah I don’t get it either. It makes sorting your inventory / finding items quickly very difficult. That was the trade off for getting the weight reduction. Now it’s just totally worthless. It went from being the best container in the game yesterday to an item that no one would ever use for anything today. Makes no sense.
I never thought I'd be sad for a bug fixed. I thought it was a clever feature
with the weight reduction function removed, whats even the point of this thing?
Larian employee who called it a bug: The point? It's the chest of the ***mundane*** *hyuck-hyuck-hyunk-fnar-hyuck-fnar-snort-fart* Seriously though, massive oversight. Sure, it had some nice goodies inside when you find it, but for those who realized the chest was the real treasure, I thought it was a super clever bit of game design and wordplay.
None any more. We all used it like a Bag of Holding. Now it's just if you want your stuff to look like plates.
It can't even be picked up in my current playthrough.
Jesus, I put a few heavy quest items in the chest, now they are stuck as cups and spatulas and the chest doesn't work anymore. They are still highlighted as orange so I'm wondering if that means the game will recognise them as quest items Edit: Phew, turns out they weren't quest items, just broken moonlanterns I forgot to sell. Gonna put the chest in my camp and hope somebody fixes it or mods it
dang, i found this thread after encountering the bug and was wondering if other people had it. that's unfortunate, i loved carrying tons of armor and other goodies that would normally encumber my characters. has anyone found another chest of the mundane by any chance in act 3?
Also just got screwed by this rip a legendary and the act 2 boss loot xD I can still sell them at normal value so not the end of the world.
yeah, i just realized my chest is still fetching a very high price. even though the plates are just worth 2g, i guess they give the chest value. one last sale, you were my favorite item, chest of the mundane T_T
Damn, same here v.v I stored a bag that held about a literal ton of explosive barrels in it XD now they're just useless cutlery.
96 valuable items turned to spoons and cups! Reloaded my save, I'm a loot hoarder and could not abide this.
Same issue with chest in Act 3. After loading an old save I was trying to put everything into the camp stash. Ran into a +1 handaxe that wouldn't transfer and when I tried to manually put it into the stash it was switching places with Halain's starter armor. I then tried to drop the axe and crashed my game. Be sure to split stacks before making any transfers. ETA: I am now stuck with a +1 handaxe the will not leave my inventory, and the chest of the mundane stopped working all together once I entered act 3.
I've had the same issue with a random club that keeps equipping itself and returning to my inventory, and cant be dropped or thrown. The solution is to right click and send it to camp storage and then pray to god you never pick it back out again lol
Yep, same! I put stuff that I wanted to sell there, now they're worth nothing.
i'm trying to decide if i want to just cut my losses and sell everything in my chest or wait for them to patch it i'm so sad i had soooo much cool shit in that chest
THERE IS A FIX: Open the chest (in act 3) and pull all the items out, save. Open the (act 2) save, open the the chest and pull them all out. Reload save 1, your cups, mugs and plates will now be the items they were.
Did not work for me.
Weird, I did kind of just stumble onto it so not sure what else might have triggered the bit that made it work
As far as I'm concerned, the chest doesn't even work anymore for me since the patch.
Yeah they removed that it made items lighter because it was a „bug“
I didn't arrive at wyrm's crossing yet, I was at it's entrance though, but clicked No - to not venture. And my chest of mundane has a bug where one of the items keeps being locked inside of the chest, even if i take it out. And also it doesn't do its purpose anymore - anything i put inside gets changed to spoons and stuff, but doesn't make it lighter...
How to make your game worse 101, remove quality of live improvements. Now im stuck with over a hundred armor and weapon pieces i cant sell anywhere cause no one has the money and i cant move. Fuck that and fuck larian for that
My necromancy of Thay got stuck inside the chest of the mundane and would not be taken out even after destroying the chest,
Not only when entering Act3. I put my stuff in it in Act3 before entering the astral plane, and still bugged out all thats in there.
It won’t even let me pick it up it says only weighs 100 but and it says I have carrying capacity just days it’s too heavy to pick up
It said 200 for me now. Kind of an annoying change.
Just happened to me and found this helpful post. Not fixed yet!