BG3 - Mod - Dice Unlocker

ArunnyE · Post by **ArunnyE** » August 25th, 2023, 18:01

DICE UNLOCKER

I am not a big fan of corporate marketing tactics that locks away existing content that is literally already in the game files from players based on arbitrary and often unattainable restrictions/qualifiers. In BG3, one of the ways this materializes is through the special dies, all of which are actually in the game files already, but are locked away.

Currently, there are three special dies; Behir Blue, Illithid Purple, and Dragonflame Red. Scuffed Metal is the default dice, Behir Blue is suppose to have been unlocked for everyone on PC (Steam, GOG) in one of the recent patches, Dragonflame Red is from the "Deluxe Edition", and Illithid Purple is from the Collector's Edition. What this mod seeks to do is unlock these for everyone.

This is a somewhat experimental mod, but all I can say is "works on my machine". Unpatched versions may have issues, but it should work on any game that has unlocked Behir Blue. If anyone knows where any other special/locked-away content is located or have ideas on how it can be unlocked, leave a message and we'll see what we can do.

For installation, extract to the \AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\Mods folder of the installation directory, same as any other mods. That's it. No further installation should be necessary, and it should in fact be impossible to configure with BG3ModManager.

I claim no ownership or credit of any of this, and encourage anyone to pick it apart as they see fit or include it in whatever.

MAIN DOWNLOADS:
V1.0: DiceUnlocker-v100.rar

Have fun! ^^/

J1M · Post by **J1M** » August 25th, 2023, 22:30

Would be more interesting if it added a texture that looked better than the default.

ArunnyE · Post by **ArunnyE** » August 26th, 2023, 04:54

J1M wrote: ↑August 25th, 2023, 22:30
Would be more interesting if it added a texture that looked better than the default.

Well there are plenty of other modlets that add new dies; it's actually fairly trivial to create new ones. But the entire idea of this one is just to unlock the ones that came with the game. ^^;

Post by **Tweed** » August 26th, 2023, 05:23

No Bear Buggerer Beige?

Luckmann · Post by **Luckmann** » August 26th, 2023, 11:34

Tweed wrote: ↑August 26th, 2023, 05:23
No Bear Buggerer Beige?

We need Bearfucker Black.

evileyeknight · Post by **evileyeknight** » August 31st, 2023, 18:53

Mod need to be updated

ArunnyE · Post by **ArunnyE** » September 1st, 2023, 06:15

evileyeknight wrote: ↑August 31st, 2023, 18:53
Mod need to be updated

In what way? ^^; It's an extremely simple mod, it shouldn't be breaking unless Larian has gone specifically out of their way to break it somehow. All it does is collect the files that are already present in \Data\DiceSet01.pak, DiceSet02.pak, and DiceSet03.pak into a single .pak, and change the DLC check so that they all conform to the most inclusive set of unlock IDs (primarily Behir Blue, since everyone should have access to that).

evileyeknight · Post by **evileyeknight** » September 3rd, 2023, 12:28

Can you unlock prismatic spray dice?

ArunnyE · Post by **ArunnyE** » September 3rd, 2023, 15:38

evileyeknight wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2023, 12:28
Can you unlock prismatic spray dice?

If it exists in the game files, maybe, but if they do, they were likely added in "Patch #2", and I have not been able to procure a GOG version of that patch yet, so I haven't been able to try anything. ^^;

I'll take a look when I finally can, but I would not get my hopes up - I know that the other DLC files have information in them about PS5, but it is entirely possible that a theoretical "DiceSet04.pak" hasn't been distributed for the PC version. But if it has, it should be an easy fix.

Rand · Post by **Rand** » September 10th, 2023, 19:18

ArunnyE wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2023, 15:38

evileyeknight wrote: ↑September 3rd, 2023, 12:28
Can you unlock prismatic spray dice?

If it exists in the game files, maybe, but if they do, they were likely added in "Patch #2", and I have not been able to procure a GOG version of that patch yet, so I haven't been able to try anything. ^^;

I'll take a look when I finally can, but I would not get my hopes up - I know that the other DLC files have information in them about PS5, but it is entirely possible that a theoretical "DiceSet04.pak" hasn't been distributed for the PC version. But if it has, it should be an easy fix.

Let me know which you need and how to get them to you.

CaseStudyno8 · Post by **CaseStudyno8** » October 22nd, 2023, 16:58

I'm unable to get this working, has the latest patches broken it in anyway? Seems super simple, but just isn't working for me

Luckmann · Post by **Luckmann** » November 22nd, 2023, 12:52

Prismatic Spray does not seem to be in the PC data files, even at the latest patch. If they are, they are not added like the other dies.

CaseStudyno8 wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2023, 16:58
I'm unable to get this working, has the latest patches broken it in anyway? Seems super simple, but just isn't working for me

Some patch seems to have broken them. What you can do is download the file and dump it into the /Data/ folder three times, and have the DiceUnlocker.pak replace DiceSet01.pak, DicePak02.pak, and DicePak03.pak. That way, if you unlock any one of the three special dies (not including Prismatic Spray, because that doesn't exist in the PC files it seems), all three will be unlocked.