Raging Bull door locked! Can't progress!

[Shadoom]

Hi I defeated the raging bull and died to the two guards that came out afterwards, when I tried returning to the boss area, the door was locked and I couldn't progress onward. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[thegamingplumber]

It locks after you beat the Raging Bull. It's normal.

[flow]

Check your fast travel options, you should be able to go to the first idol in Ashina Castle if the door is closed.

[Evilsod]

Has it given you the Ashina Castle idol?

[Shadoom]

No it has not, only the one after the horse general boss.

[Justin_760]

This is the third thread in the last week Ive seen with this bug. The Ashina Castle gate sculptor idol is supposed to activate whether or not you do it yourself. Its why speedrunners kill the bull then immediately use homeward item to go to last idol communed, and it sends them to the ashina castle idol even though they never even approached it.

Though apparently it doesnt always work, as evidenced by the many threads with this very issue. ALT+F4, boot the game back up and go to an idol and hit travel, check if there are any active in ashina castle. If not your only options are to restart the entire game from the beginning, or use the trainer that lets you super jump by pressing numpad 8.

With that hack you can simply jump over the entire flaming bull arena or even the collapsed bridge in ashina outskirts just before the serpent. Good luck.

[Shadoom]

Hmmm, that's unfortunate that they didn't fix this bug yet. I don't want to lose all the experience I gained so I'll look into this trainer mod thing. Thanks for your help!