You need healing but don’t feel like using potions or clerics? Then this might be the perfect meal for you… at least if you can stomach it…
Some items in Baldur’s Gate 3 seem hardly worth mentioning at first glance – and then there’s this one, so revolting that most players dismiss it right away. But that’s exactly where its secret lies: healing that almost feels like a cheat.
The Filthy Treasure From The Goblin Camp
In Act One, you’ll find something in the Goblin Camp that seems downright disgusting at first glance: roasted dwarf meat.
For most players, it’s just a disgusting item they’d rather ignore. But if you’re playing as the Origin character Dark Urge, it turns into a powerful healing tool.
Healing Without Compromise
What makes it special: this meat restores between 4 and 16 hit points – a decent chunk of health, especially this early in the game.
Even more important: eating it doesn’t cost an action.
While healing potions often require a bonus action and are therefore limited in use, you can simply devour the dwarf meat – multiple times per round if you want.
This gives you incredible flexibility in combat and an advantage that can almost be called unfair.
The Price Of Power
But this advantage comes with a huge catch. Only the character Dark Urge can actually eat the meat. And those who do must live with the knowledge that they’re literally consuming dwarf body parts – a dark, morally questionable choice. An actual dark urge, if you will.
A Comparison That Highlights The Difference
When you compare roasted dwarf meat to a Greater Healing Potion, the difference becomes clear: both restore a similar amount of health, but the potion costs a bonus action and can only be used once per round.
The dwarf meat, on the other hand, can be eaten anytime and as often as you like – provided you have enough. For the right character, it’s a total gamechanger.
Power With A Catch
Roasted dwarf meat isn’t a cheat in the traditional sense – no mod, no exploit. It’s an extremely powerful item that, because of its unusual mechanics and dark context, almost feels like a hidden cheat.
For those who can stomach the disgust, it opens up one of the strongest healing options in Baldur’s Gate 3.
But what about you? Would you eat dwarf meat if it guaranteed you victory in battle – or is that morally too much for you?