How to Unlock Withers: Dank Crypt Guide

This is a walkthrough for Finding Withers in Baldur's Gate 3 (BG3). Read on to know how to unlock Withers, how to enter the Dank Crypt, and a guide to all the traps and battles you may encounter inside the dungeon!

Side Quest Details

Journal Entry
Explore the Ruins
Reward	Withers in the Camp
Related Quest	Nautiloid Crash Region
Location
Dank Crypt

How to Find Withers

Enter the Dank Crypt

Withers can be found in a Sarcophagus in the deepest part of the Dank Crypt. There are several battles you'll need to fight, and some traps and puzzles you must overcome to reach this area.

Alternatively Also Appears Automatically in Camp

If you did not or do the Dank Crypt, Withers will, at some point, magically appear in your camp after some time has passed as well. This makes Withers an unmissable character but delving the Dank Crypt allows you to find and unlock Withers faster.

How to Enter the Dank Crypt

Treasure Hunters

NPC Dialogue
''Or is it the ship you're after? Don't matter eitherway - it's ours, all of it.''
Dialogue Options	Dialogue Results
[PERSUASION (DC10)] That ship is full of monsters.	Success The Treasure Hunters flee the area Failure Force you into combat with the Treasure Hunters
[DECEPTION (DC12)] I think that ship's an invasion force
[INTIMIDATION (DC10)] The only thing you own is your life.

The first and easiest way is to fool the treasure hunters that are standing by the chapel. The first step involves convincing/threatening/ or fighting the first treasure hunter group just outside the chapel. Succeeding opens up two possible paths forward which involves convincing the remaining treasure hunters to let you in, or destroying the brittle floor.

Tricking the Guard at the Door

NPC Dialogue
''That you, Gimblebock? Everything all right out there?''
Dialogue Options	Dialogue Results
[PERFORMANCE (DC10)] Yes, it's me. Let me in.	Success The Guard opens the door Failure The Guard keeps the door locked
[DECEPTION (DC10)] Gimblebock triggered some trap. He needs help now!

After getting rid of the treasure hunters, there is a guard on the other side of a locked door at the end of the chapel ruins. Persuade him into opening it for you so you can go inside the Refectory.

Enter Through the Broken Floor

You can also enter the Refectory by going back to the center of the chapel and shoot the rope holding a pillar. This will make the pillar fall and create a hole for you to enter, but there will be hostile enemies the moment you go down. While this option doesn't require any skillchecks, this puts you at an immediate disadvantage in battle.

Lockpick the Hatch

Hatch Map Location
[Sleight of Hand (DC20)] Lockpick	Success Unlocks the hatch. Failure Hatch remains locked.

The easiest way to enter the Dank Crypt and find Withers is by going to the chapel and lockpicking the Hatch with a Thieves' Tool. This leads you to the river cave area inside the Dank Crypt, and you gain access to the skeleton fights right before entering Wither's sarcopaghus' room.

How to Get Thieves' Tool

Lockpick the Ancient Door

Ancient Door Map Location
[Sleight of Hand (DC20)] Lockpick	Success Unlock the Ancient Door Failure Door remains locked.

You can find the Locked Ancient Door near the Overgrown Ruins Ancient Sigil Circle. You can also find Shadowheart banging the door if you do not help her escape the mindflayer pod while in the Nautiloid. Successfully lockpicking the door will grant you entry to the Dank Crypt without the need to confront the Treasure Hunters at the chapel ruins.

Shadowheart Companion Guide

Dank Crypt Guide and How to Clear

Entering from Refectory

If you have entered from the Refectory, you'll have to battle the rest of the treasure hunters inside.

Entering Via Persuasion

If you enter the front door from the chapel via persuasion, you'll only need to quickly eliminate Andorn. Once the fight is over, you can head over the central area of the Refectory and defeat the person that's patrolling the area. However, if you engage the battle with her on high alert, she'll run towards the inner Refectory to call for reinforcements. It is highly recommended to sneak and wait for her to turn her back to avoid alerting the others before fighting the rest as a group.

Entering Via the Broken Floor

If you enter from the Broken Floor, the Treasure Hunters will be on high alert and will all be clumped outside the room you fell from. Prepare your positions and you can also detonate the barrel bomb just outside the room for preemptive damage!

Light the Candles Next to the Locked Door

After getting past the treasure hunters, head to the locked door and light the candles next to it. This will open the door so that you could access the Dank Crypt.

Clearing the Dank Crypt

If you entered through the Ancient Door, you'll immediately go to the Sarcophagus room which contains several sarcophagi and items that can be looted inside. However, the central Sarcophagus is trapped. You'll require an insight check to find the traps and the necessary disarming tool to disarm these if you do not want to trigger the trap.

The easiest way to clear this area is to ungroup your team members and have one member stand near the pillar with the button that can deactivate the trap. The pillar is the 2nd pillar to the right while facing backward from the Ancient Door you entered with.

Block the Sarcophagus Traps

Alternatively, you can also throw items on the floor vents to block the trap vents. Then, enter turn-based mode so you can open the coffin in the center to loot the key you need to open the door before the trap activates. After taking the key and other items, make sure to quickly leave the room before deactivating turn-based mode.

Battling the Entombed Scribes

Once you have the key, open the door across the sarcophagus room. The final part of the Dank Crypt involves the Entombed Scribes. Once you interact with the button that unlocks Withers's room or damage any of the skeletal scribes on the ground then a battle will begin.

Its better to loot the scribes of their weapons and armor so that they will not have any items equipped during battle. It's also advised to defeat the scribes by ungrouping your party members and having one character be ready to eliminate the scattered scribes on the outer perimiter of the area.

Who is Withers?

A Friendly NPC

Withers is a friendly NPC that visits your camp when you finish this side quest. He offers useful services for the player that could make their playthrough more manageable.

Revives Fallen Companions

If your companions die during combat you can revive them by talking to Withers at the camp. Although, reviving allies comes at a hefty price, so it's still recommended to try and keep your allies alive as much as possible.

Recruit Hirelings

You can also recruit Hirelings as companions through Withers. He will summon a hireling to help throughout your playthrough like any other companion, but it will come at a cost and it will take up a party slot. You can also dismiss the hireling from the party whenever you want by talking again to Withers.

How to Recruit Hirelings

Baldur's Gate 3 Related Guides

List of All Side Quests

Prologue Side Quests

All Prologue Side Quests
How to Free the Intellect Devourer	How to Free Shadowheart

Act 1 Side Quests

Druid's Grove Quests

Druid Grove Quests
How to Steal the Sacred Idol	Should You Save The Goblin Sazza?	How to Avoid Tiefling Pickpockets
Save the Refugees	How to Save Nadira	How to Save Mirkon
How to Save the First Druid Halsin	How to Open the Stone Slab	Request Help from Nettie
How to Investigate and Expose Kagha	Save Arabella	-

The Risen Road Quests

The Risen Road Quests
Find the Missing Shipment	How to Rescue the Grand Duke
Rescue the Trapped Man	How to Free Oskar Fevras

Blighted Village Quests

Blighted Village Quests
How to Beat the Goblins: Blighted Village	How to Open the Necromancy of Thay	How to Recruit the Ogres
How to Finish the Masterwork Weapon	That Barn: Avoid Killing Buthir	Rescue the Gnome and Stop the Windmill

Goblin Camp Quests

Goblin Camp Quests
How to Get Volo's Ersatz Eye	Defiled Temple Puzzle
Find the Nightsong	Ask the Goblin Priestess for Help

Nautiloid Crash Region Quests

Nautiloid Crash Region Quests
Dank Crypt Guide	The Dying Mind Flayer	Auntie Ethel Quest Guide
How to Get Owlbear Cub	Spiderling Nest Guide-	How to Open the Selunite Chest
How to Get Scratch	Should You Heal Pandirna	Underground Passage Guide

Underdark Quests

Underdark Quests
Arcane Tower Guide	Defeat the Duergar Intruders	Save the Grymforge Gnomes
Find the Adamantine Forge	Deliver Nere's Head	How to Find the Mushroom Picker
How to Cure the Poisoned Gnome	Help the Cursed Monk	Omeluum Location

Mountain Pass Quests

Mountain Pass Quests
Steal a Githyanki Egg	How to Beat Gremishkas	How to Access Guardian of Faith Room
Dawnmaster Puzzle Guide	Where to Find the Githyanki Creche	-

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Act 2 Side Quests

Last Light Inn Quests

Last Light Inn Quests
Seek Protection from the Shadow Curse	Rescue the Tieflings	Rescue Wulbren
How to Lift the Shadow Curse: Where to Find Thaniel	Find Zevlor	Help He Who Was
Investigate the Selûnite Resistance	-	-

Gauntlet of Shar Quests

Gauntlet of Shar Quests
Gauntlet of Shar: All Trials and Umbral Gems	Kill Raphael's Old Enemy

Mind Flayer Colony Quests

Mind Flayer Colony Quests
How to Solve the Necrotic Laboratory

Act 3 Side Quests

Rivington Quests

Rivington Quests
Investigate the Suspicious Toys	Solve the Open Hand Temple Murders	Find the Missing Letters
How to Get to Wyrm's Rock Fortress	How to Find Dribbles the Clown	-

Lower City Quests

Lower City Quests
How to Get to the House of Hope	How to Get to Cazador's Palace	Rescue Orin's Victim
Aid the Underduke	How to Get to the House of Grief	Investigate the Murders