Things You Should Always Sell In Baldur’s Gate 3

Key Takeaways

• Baldur’s Gate 3 players should sell items like rotten food and common jewelry to vendors.
• Weapons with bonuses, like the Dagger +1, are valuable but quickly become obsolete.
• Gems are lightweight, valuable items to collect, and they sell for large profits.

Gamers are still finding new secrets and hidden treasures as they adventure across the Storm Coast in Baldur’s Gate 3. Adventurers will collect all sorts of unique resources and miscellaneous items as they explore their surroundings; however, these will eventually fill up their inventory and over-encumber them.

Any merchant will gladly take these items off the players’ hands, giving the party’s coffers or camp supplies either gold in exchange or by bartering. The success of either method depends on the character’s Charisma score. Even while they’re lost on the crashing Nautiloid, before they’ve gained a single level, characters are likely to find plenty of things to sell.

Updated November 11, 2024, by Kristy Ambrose: Larian CEO Sven Vicke has announced that there won’t be any sequels or DLCs to one of the most popular RPGs of the 21st century, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be any new updates or patches that might include even more items that players should always sell. Some characters might decide to collect and even hoard certain items depending on their background, class, or other personal details, and some of said items make for a great way to earn some quick cash by selling them off to merchants.

16 Rotten Food

Unless You Want To Restore It, It’s Useless

• Found In: Abandoned homes, shelters, campsites, and any container labeled as “rotten.”

While unspoiled food and camp supplies will allow gamers to rest so that they can regain their spell slots or hit points, players are also likely to find an abundance of rotten food on their travels. These foods can’t be used for camp supplies due to their foul state, but certain putrid things like rotten eggs and lemons can be thrown at enemies for some AoE damage if that’s something the character would do.

This is an item that players can freely sell to a merchant, although it’s a surprise that they would even accept such an item, but this is an RPG, and vendors have a reputation for buying anything. In some cases, it may be better to simply leave the rotten food on the ground, as the amount of gold received from selling it isn’t a lot.

15 Paintings

A Common And Valuable Black Market Item

• Found In: Thieves hideouts, various homes or businesses, caches, and hoards.

There are a lot of paintings in Baldur’s Gate 3 for some reason, and they can appear as puzzles, decorations, or quest items. The player can often pick them up, too. Serving mainly as decorative items for those who like to beautify their campsite, many portraits are also very valuable, and it’s often better to sell them when the opportunity comes around.

Some of the paintings in the game have interesting or funny descriptions, and others contain Easter eggs that reference other Larian Studios games. It’s understandable if one would like to keep a few paintings either as decor or for nostalgia, but the fact that they’re heavy, big, and expensive means that players are better off selling them.

14 Weapons With A Bonus

There Are Plenty Of Better Ones Anyway

• Found In: Locked chests, looted from bodies, some uncommon places like pulled from chunks of meat.

Uncommon or rare quality weapons with a +1 or +2 bonus to their damage turn up in the Baldur’s Gate 3 every so often. A famous example is the Dagger +1that players can pull from a chunk of meat hanging over a fire north of the Blighted Village. The campfire is on a little hill, and it’s easy to miss if the party stays on the road.

Get a strong character or one with a good Sleight of Hand proficiency to pull it out, because it requires a saving throw to get it. It’s a nice dagger for the beginning of the game, but without any extra abilities, it becomes obsolete fairly quickly. Players should sell it and any others like it, because it’s worth more than a Common quality weapon, and much better weapons are coming soon.

13 Body Parts

Unless You Have Other Plans

• Found In: Hospitals, temples, morgues, and various places in the sewers.

The exception to this rule would be the various bits of Dribbles the Clown that Lucretia sends the party to find and collect. However, that’s a quest for Act 3, which also has the bloody venues of the Temple of Bhaal and the Murder Tribunal, and the party will be looting plenty of human remains before then.

Why a character would even pick this sort of thing up is beside the point, but it’s possible to roleplay it in some interesting ways for an evil character like the Dark Urge. In addition to being numerous and messy, body parts are also heavy, and encumbrance is something RPG players are always trying to avoid. Players can keep a few as decor or a midnight snack, but they should sell most of them before they start weighing the party down.

12 Books

Keep A Few, But Sell The Rest

• Found In: Shelves, houses, shops, and any private living or study quarters.

There are several quest-related books in the game, and these are usually marked with an orange border and description title to keep the player from selling or storing them should they still be required. On the other hand, the vast majority of the books that a player finds won’t have any use, aside from learning a bit of Sword Coast lore and getting the Bookworm Achievement in Steam.

Another possible use would be to drop these books in a certain corner of the campsite as decoration, but even in that case, there’s going to be a lot of these. Players should sell them to a vendor after reading them to make a few extra coins.

Valuable And Plentiful Throughout The Game

• Found In: Bookcases, chests, looted from dead enemies, and vendors.

Spell scrolls are incredibly useful in combat due to them allowing other classes to use spells in a pinch. With a single-use item, once a spell scroll has been used in or out of battle, it is gone for good unless the player finds another that does the same spell. Players are likely to want to keep every spell scroll they find, although there are some exceptions to this rule, like finding spell scrolls of Rare or Very Rare quality.

Scrolls that perform the same spells as the ones already used by the party’s spellcasters can be easily sold, as it’s unlikely that a player will need duplicates of this type of spell unless they want to be able to cast it without using a spell slot. These scrolls also have little weight to them, which means the player can collect a lot before selling them to a merchant.

10 Vases

They Are The Loot

• Found In: Homes, ruins, settlements, thieves’ caches, and campsites.

There’s a running joke about the vast amount of crockery in Baldur’s Gate in the form of vases. Players can search these for loot, but they tend to always be empty. However, some of the more decorative ones can be very valuable if the players or a companion is strong enough to carry them.

Players can sell them or keep them at camp depending on their value, but since there are so many, it’s best to sell them. Even the humble clay vases are worth at least one or two gold, but should the player require more storage options at camp, it might be worth keeping them instead.

9 Jewelry With No Enchantments

Unless You’re Into This Sort Of Thing

• Found in: Chests, safes, lockboxes, looted from dead enemies.

Unlike the rotten food that will hardly make the player any money, an easy way to earn some cash is by selling the jewelry that is commonly found in chests or on the corpses of defeated foes. A player might want to keep one or two rings or necklaces with magical properties for Gale to devour, though. Depending on the materials used to make these rings and necklaces, they could be sold at a merchant for different prices.

This isn’t even considering the attitude the merchant has towards the player, which can also change how much more or less they are willing to trade for the jewelry. They also weigh next to nothing, which means that players can carry plenty of rings from their adventures before finally returning to civilization to sell their collection.

8 Rope

Not As Useful As The Real Thing

• Found In: Supply crates, campsites, thief caches, chests, and many other places.

Rope is an item that players might keep or even collect at first, thinking that it might be something their character can use in the game. Rock climbing, restraining enemies, or making shelters However, it’s just part of the immersion factor and isn’t even something that can decorate the player’s camp.

It’s not expensive, and there aren’t different or better types that sell for more, but it still takes up as much bag space. It’s much better to sell it and turn it into something like gold, which is at least useful even if it’s not plentiful.

7 Utensils

Take The Silverware

• Found In: Private homes or businesses such as taverns, bars, restaurants, and inns. Can also be found in tombs, temples, and chapels.

This is a classic thieving item that’s found in copious amounts throughout Baldur’s Gate 3, and in a variety of different qualities. The cups, spoons, and bowls that players will find scattered throughout the wilderness are made of simple stone or wood and aren’t worth very much, but bigger homes and locked chests and wardrobes often contain more valuable utensils.

Goblets, serving platters, and sometimes forks, knives, and spoons will turn up, and these are much more ornate and often made of bronze, silver, or gold. It might be nice to display a few at camp, depending on the kind of character one is playing, but these sell for anywhere from 20g and up, so it’s better to sell them.

6 Furniture

Or Use It In Camp

• Found In: Private homes, inns, taverns, and hidden loot caches.

Not all of the furniture that the party finds can be picked up, and how big an item a character can keep depends on their Strength score, not the size of their bags. For those who like a furnished campsite and can’t always sleep on the upper floor of the Elfsong Tavern, it might be good to keep a certain select few pieces of furniture for camp decor, or even extra storage in Elfsong, but it’s typically better to sell items such as these.

Until developers introduce personal homes into the game, keeping furniture might just be a fun challenge if a player wants to stack it somewhere for fun, but it makes more sense to unburden the party by selling it. Only a few of these pieces can actually be used, making only a selection of them functional for other than just ambiance.

5 Green Gear And Armor

Gale Only Needs To Consume Three

• Found in: Various chests and on dead enemies.

While many of the items that players can happily sell hardly take up any weight in the inventory, the items that weigh the heaviest, such as armor or weapons, are likely to give the most coin. These items are plentiful in Act 1 of Baldur’s Gate 3.

After moving on to Act 2, which has more and better quality items, players won’t want to pick up every bow or sword they see, but grabbing a couple just to get the coins to flow is never a bad idea. If a player can’t see themselves ever using it in the future, there is no point keeping it in the camp chest when it could be raising money for the next bit of armor.

They Only Look Useful

• Found in: Farms, stables, gardens, workshops, and sheds, and sold by tradespeople and blacksmiths.

With some exceptions, the hammers, tongs, and tool sets that Baldur’s Gate 3 characters can pick up are just for immersion and decor and can’t be used. It’s easy to forget that there isn’t a crafting option in BG3, since it’s a feature that virtually all games have these days, but there’s no point in picking up these things other than selling them.

The Pitchfork is one tool that the character might want to keep, just because it’s fun to equip one, and it can also be used to search through a haystack. A shovel, on the other hand, is essential for digging up those hidden chests, and every character in the party should have one.

3 Common Notes

Fun Souvenirs Become Useless Clutter

• Found In: Cluttered offices and homes, bookshelves, and looted from enemies.

The party will come across loose papers and notes of all kinds during their adventures in Baldur’s Gate 3. Some of them contain crucial information regarding quests, puzzles, or hidden items, while others are just part of the immersion process. The Wizard’s Tower in the Underdark contains several loose papers with lines of poetry, for example.

There are a lot of them, starting with the letters that players can pick up on the beach by the Nautiloid. These can quickly pile up and fill the inventory with useless junk, so it’s better to sell them when the chance comes around. Anything important will have a bright orange border and likely won’t be accepted by a vendor anyway.

2 Ingots

In A Game With No Crafting, They’re Found Money

• Found in: Locked chests, crates, or storage spaces near any mining or blacksmithing equipment

There are a couple of exceptions to this rule when it comes to quest and character-related items. Any Adamantine Slag, which is used in the Adamantine Forge, or the Infernal Iron, which Karlach can use to power her Infernal Engine, should never leave the player’s inventory.

Iron, gold, silver, or bronze ingots will turn up in a variety of places throughout the game, and it seems strange because they can’t be used for anything. Nobody is talking about adding more crafting options to the game, so players will simply be better off if they sell items such as these whenever possible. Ingots may be heavy, but they can be valuable depending on the material, making their weight worth it in the end.

1 Gems

Collect And Sell For Huge Profits

• Found in: Often behind a lock, either on a chest, door, or vault. Also looted from corpses.

Out of all the items a player can collect in Baldur’s Gate 3, one of the safest options for players to sell, no matter the circumstances, is gems. These are another common junk item to be found across the Storm Coast, but it’s unlike the usual clutter found due to gems being lightweight and selling for a large amount of coin.

A few exceptions that the player should keep are connected to quests, like the amethyst that opens the Necromany of Thay book. Others can be rare, especially when it comes to more valuable stones like diamonds. Therefore, any gem found in Baldur’s Gate 3 is certain to be a welcome sight for those looking to make a quick buck.