Cheat Engine

[agreutman]

Hi all, total noob here.

Playing BG3 and killed Ketheric and took his netherstone. Somewhere in Act 3 it disappeared (the last save where I still had it has also been auto deleted). It is not in any bags or storage (camp chest, companions). Did some internet research and found that there are multiple people who had suffered this issue. Some said they were able to finish with out it. I was not so lucky.

Larian support was no help, they basically told me it was because of a mod but disabling then later deleting mods did no good. They then suggested I start a new campaign and see if it happens again. No thanks, I love my current character and companions and this issue has basically killed my enjoymentof the game. Trying to force the issue lead to an instant game over where I became a squid.

Anyways, I read about spawning it using Cheat Engine using the UUID. I found 3 UUID's. but only 2 of them actually spawned a stone. (one that worked was 99d576b9-46b5-4da6-b9c4-197d17c668a4). However, the game did not recognize the newly spawned stone(s), resulting in the Emperor telling me "You are not ready yet. You need all three stones." (or something similar).

I then came across a post that talked about Using cheat engine to edit SetFlag Scripts. I would post the link but I am not allowed to post URL's yet because, again, total noob.


I have looked for youtube videos and tutorials on this forum that would provide a readily understandable method for doing this but have yet to find one. I have no coding experience so I think I have a case of information overload/"wtf does that even mean?" going on.

If anyone can direct me to a simple tutorial on how to use cheat engine to setflag for the game to recognize I have all three stones, I would appreciate it. I have 144 hours invested in this campaign and being screwed over by the game has me super frustrated. I have been trying to resolve this issue since late July. (Just in case anyone wonders, yes I have Orin and Gortash's stones already.)

Thank you

[agreutman]

This is the text of where i read about using setflag to fix this issue:

bearsausage wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:54 pm
Does anyone have the uuid of Ketheric's Netherstone? I am ready for the end in Act 3 but that stone is just...gone. Any help appreciated. Found it!
In case anyone is interested. I just ran a grep on the extracted gustav pak and the binary .lsf files matched the text "netherstone", and trial and error found it to be the following:
6f02fb92-21da-439b-a00c-ed9888aa5f0e


Using cheat engine edit SetFlag Script and enter uuid for Having gortash stone: "27dbf056-29ee-4d43-9ad9-4831fa2c8739", orin stone "818fd00e-6780-4712-980e-5c7c25ba9987" ketheric stone "0243527e-408f-4711-97a0-7759847bb00a", enter and execute one by one
it sets gameflags as if you have the stones and can enter the skiff

Hope this helps