Better Loot

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I decided to apply my Divinity: Original Sin mod to BG3.  Now out of beta and officially 2. 0 released!

If you want to take FULL advantage then I'd recommend starting a new game, but I can personally confirm it does at least partially work with in-progress saves.

The thing to keep in mind is that any already cached containers or vendors in your save will retain their previous loot rolls.  You'd have to rest or otherwise reset a vendor for them to use the new rolls.  For containers, you'd have to visit a completely new area you've never visited before for the mod to affect those.

Basically, this mod affects NEW loot rolls; if the loot roll is stored in your save then that roll will persist with or without my mod and containers roll for their contents when the area they are in is first loaded, NOT when you open them.

So, what did I do?

TL;DR = With this mod you'll always get (one of) the best possible loot results you could have received in the unmodded game and will not be penalized for looting as a lower level character

1) Removed all references to the "Empty" loot table that I could without removing things which are hard-coded to be empty.  (By popular demand, there is an addon to override this tho)

2) Maximized all loot rolls such that merchants, drops, and containers will ALWAYS have the most items they could possibly have rolled in an unmodded game.

3) Removed most level restrictions on loot so plate armor ought to be available from lvl 1 if you have the gold (or luck) for it, but at the same time I also kept lower lvl items (which were coded to be removed as your party leveled up) still available at merchants so you can have access to ALL the wares possible regardless of level. (By popular demand, there is an addon to revert this change tho)

4) Where necessary; I kept lower tier items in the lists of possible drops which otherwise could have seen such items disappear from the game entirely, just with lower drop chances than higher tier items - however I otherwise kept the devs default for WHAT could be in a loot list.

5) Tore out the vast majority of junk items (yes, including rotten food) where they could otherwise take the place of more valuable loot.  The only exception to this rule is if it was a choice between a junk item and NOTHING, then I kept the junk item.  The same goes for any places in the code where eg a non-magic item could take the place of a magic item or a lesser magic item take the place of a greater one.

6) Also fixes a few bugs and typos the game devs haven't found yet, including some VERY minor performance optimizations - those will only save your PC like a handful of nanoseconds worth of processing time, but I can't not fix those when I see them.