Summary
Baldur’s Gate 3offers adventurers a variety of unique resources, souvenirs, trinkets, and items as they explore their surroundings. However, these will eventually fill up their inventory and over-encumbrance is a real issue, especially earlier in the game before the player finds any Strength buffs.
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. Even while they’re lost on the crashing Nautiloid, before they’ve gained a single level, characters will likely find plenty of things to sell.
Updated May 15, 2025 by Kristy Ambrose: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, andthe upcoming Patch 8that 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 as part of their backstory.
1Rotten Food
Unless You Want To Restore It, It’s Useless
While unspoiled food and camp supplies will allow gamers to rest to regain their spell slots or hit points, players are likely to find an abundance of rotten food on their travels. These 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 enemiesfor some AoE damageif that’s something the character would do.
Players can freely sell this item to a merchant, although it’s surprising that they would even accept it. In some cases, it may be better to leave the rotten food on the ground, as the amount of gold received from selling it isn’t worth the space it takes up, but players can use a spell to restore it and keep it in camp with the rest of the supplies.
2Paintings
A Common And Valuable Black Market Item
There are a lot of paintings inBaldur’s Gate 3for 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 containEaster eggs that referenceother games. While it’s understandable to want to keep a few paintings for decor or nostalgia, the fact that they’re heavy, big, and expensive means that players are better off selling them.
3Weapons With A Bonus
There Are Plenty Of Better Ones Anyway
Uncommon or rare quality weapons with a +1 or +2 bonus to their damage turn up in theBaldur’s Gate 3every so often. A famous example is theDagger +1that players can pull from a chunk of meat hanging over a firenorth 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 muchbetter weapons are comingin Act 2.
4Body Parts
Unless You Have Other Plans
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’sa 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.
5Books
Keep A Few, But Sell The Rest
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 designated corner of the campsite as decoration, but even in that case, there’s going to be a lot. Players should sell them to a vendor after reading them to make a few extra coins.
6Spell Scrolls
Valuable And Plentiful Throughout The Game
Spell scrolls are incredibly useful in combat due to themallowing other classes to use spellsin 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.
7Vases
They Are The Loot
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 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 better to sell. 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.
8Jewelry With No Enchantments
Unless You’re Into This Sort Of Thing
Unlike the rotten food that will hardly make the player any money, an easy way to earn some cash is by selling the jewelry 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. Depending on the materials used to make these rings and necklaces, they could be sold at a merchant for different prices.
This doesn’t even considerthe merchant’s attitudetoward the player, which can affect how much they are willing to trade for the jewelry. The rings 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.
9"Poor" Clothing
Many Better Alternatives
There are two clothing sets that every character has, including the Origin characters, and that means one for fighting and another for bedtime at the campsite. Some of the clothing the game starts with is worth keeping, despite their common quality, with Astarion’s frilly shirt and Shadowheart’s slinky Shar pajamas being popular exceptions.
A large portion of common quality level clothing, however, is drab, dull, and not worth keeping. These are classified as “Poor” and their status is obvious from some descriptions, such as Scruffy Vagabond, Destitute, and Homely. Other grades of common clothing include Citizen, Rich, and Aristocrat, and these might also be worth selling for a Monk or Barbarian who has no interest in expensive clothing.
10Rope
Not As Useful As The Real Thing
Ropeis 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.
