HELP

[eddiewarden]

i cant advance in the dungon in Baldars Gate 1 i have the ward stones but the doors wont open

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

There are tons of walkthroughs/guides about Baldur's Gate on the Internet. They could be helpful.

If you ask in a forum like this one, be verbose rather than brief. Mentions details! Include screenshots that show the area you are in and where you try to open doors. I guess you refer to Durlag's Tower, perhaps AR0511 or AR0512.

[wendigo211]

I'm guessing you're in the basement level with all the locked doors (2nd sub basement). Your goal in that level is to get into the throne room (north), once you beat the encounter there you can head east and a find a room with switches on the wall that can open all the doors in the level.

IIRC the order from the starting room is:

1. Head south and click on one of the statues, then back to the starting room.
   
2. Head west and attack one of the combat dummies, then back to the starting room.
   
3. Head east and open the secret passage to the south, this should trigger an encounter with a doppelganger of Kiel. Head back to the starting room.
   
4. Head north and fight the battle in the throne room (easiest to run into the western room until the cloudkill and stinking cloud dissipate).
   
5. Head east from the throne room and open all the doors
   
6. To the west there's a room with a statue and a trapped door that closes when you enter. Grab the wardstone from the statue and escape that room.
   
7. There are stairs heading down in the south of the area. Search the southern wall and you'll find a secret passage to the real stairs heading down to the next level.

[baluku2002]

What if I am not able to attack any of the combat dummies? I have killed two doppelgangers on this level and found all the wardstones and statue switches. I've identified all the warded doors. However, whenever I hover the cursor over the dummies, I only have the option of picking up items (which I already have done) or talking to them (they have nothing to say). From the walkthroughs I have seen online, I wonder if there's something about the code of the game itself?

That is, I have to complete ALL the steps in a particular sequence? Otherwise, even though I killed the creatures and evaded all the traps, found and picked up the stones, etc. if those things don't happen in a specific sequence, I will get to a point where it is no longer possible to unward the necessary doors.

I have even tried putting the wardstones back where they belong and picking them up in different sequences. Still, the warded doors remain locked. The statues no longer do anything when I try to activate them.

I think the warded doors I need to open go to the throne room and a lever or torture room. Any suggestions as to how I can unward one of those doors?

Again, I already:

Found and picked up the wardstones (Kiel, Faernobol, Islanne (or whatever their names are))
Killed the doppelgangers
Triggered the switches in the statue room
Found all hidden items