A Gibberlings Three Mod
Author: Angel
Version 7 - Check for the most recent version
Languages: English
Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
This mod introduces several new items in the original saga, Siege of Dragonspear, Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal. A few item-oriented tweaks are also included. This is part one of the "Made in Heaven" mod bundle which also contains a spell pack and a quest pack.
In the original saga, a new merchant is added to the Friendly Arm Inn, you can find him in the normally unoccupied house to the left of the inn. He may not immediately want to sell to you, but try again after you made a bit of a name for yourself and you may find him more forthcoming. Several items can also be found in a few other places.
This mod has been designed to work with BGEE, BG2EE and should be backwards compatible with BG2: ToB. The mega-mods EET and BGT are also supported. This mod is not compatible with older versions of the games.
As a WeiDU mod, this mod should be compatible with most other WeiDU mods. The core item pack should be compatible with all other mods, no conflicts are known at this time. The bundled item tweaks may be incompatible with mods that have similar tweaks, like Item Revisions. As an item pack, this mod should be installed fairly early, before any 'tweak' mods. The included tweaks should preferably be installed after other item mods.
Before you install
If you have an older version of the MiH Item Pack, be sure to completely remove it first before trying to install the new version!
Vanilla BG2 and Baldur's Gate Trilogy
Before installing this mod, you must install the latest official patch, and you must also install the Throne of Bhaal Extender (ToBEx) and the G3 Fixpack version 11 or higher. This mod will not work correctly without those two installed!
BG1EE and Siege of Dragonspear
If you obtained your version of the game through Steam or GoG, you must either run a 'modmerge' or install 'A7-DlcMerger' before installing this mod (or any WeiDU-based mods, really). If you obtained your game from Beamdog, this is not required.
BG2EE and Extended Edition Trilogy
There are no requirements at this time. For EET, install this mod after EET has been installed but before the EET installation is finalized.
Windows
Made in Heaven: Item Pack is packaged and installed with WeiDU and is distributed as a zip archive. Modern versions of Windows have support for zip files built in, just double-click the archive to open it, and extract the contents to your game file. If you are still using an older version of Windows, you should install WinZip or a similar program to extract the archive.
Your game folder should then contain a mih_ip folder and setup-mih_ip.exe. To install, double-click setup-mih_ip.exe and follow the instructions on screen.
Please run setup-mih_ip.exe in your game folder to reinstall, uninstall, or otherwise change components. To uninstall the entire mod without questions, run setup-mih_ip.exe --uninstall from a command line in your game directory.
Mac OS X
Made in Heaven: Item Pack is packaged and installed with WeiDU and is distributed as a compressed archive. Extract the contents of the archive and move them to your game folder. Your game folder should then contain a mih_ip folder, setup-mih_ip, and setup-mih_ip.command. To install, simply double-click setup-mih_ip.command and follow the instructions on screen.
Linux
Extract the contents of the mod archive to your game installation directory.
If you haven't already, download the latest version of WeiDU for Linux from weidu.org and extract (at least) the weidu executable to a directory that is in your $PATH (commonly /usr/local/bin).
To install, open a terminal, cd to your game installation directory and run weidu --log setup-mih_ip.debug mih_ip/setup-mih_ip.tp2 from your game installation directory to install or uninstall the mod.
Note: The readme files of some older mods recommend running tolower on Linux prior to installation. Don't do this on an Enhanced Edition game, you will break it! Modern versions of tolower will actually refuse to run in a EE game directory. At any rate, the contents of MiH: Item Pack are already all lower case, there is no need to run tolower.
New Game required!
After installing this mod you must start a new game. This mod edits area files and stores, both of which are stored in your save game after you have visited them. Continuing a saved game after installing this mod may have unexpected and likely undesired results.
This mod consists of several components, each of which can be installed or removed independently from the others.
MiH Item Pack
The main component of this mod, the item pack will add over a hundred new items, divided all over BG1 and BG2, including Siege of Dragonspear (EE) and Throne of Bhaal. These are all original creations, based on various D&D source books and other media.
In BG1 two merchants are available. The first, the dwarven smith Brokk, will be found at the Friendly Arm Inn, he is in the normally unoccupied house just west of the main building. He may not want to sell to you right away, but remember to visit him later! Brokk may also offer to make a new item for you if you bring him something unusual, so check back with him now and then.
The second merchant is in Nashkel, where the inn is now run by a wizard named Ries Kensiddar (lore-friendly change).
IWD Item Pack
This component introduces ~20 items from Icewind Dale to BG1 and BG2.
PST Item Pack
This component introduces ~5 items from Planescape Torment to BG1 and BG2.
BG1-style Wands in BG2
This alters wands in BG2 and games based on it like BGT to work like they did in BG1; the Wand of Frost is a single beam of frost, and the Wand of Lightning projects one 6d6 lightning bolt per use.
Alternative Healing Potions
This modification will change the way healing potions work. You can choose between Pen & Paper rules, Icewind Dale Rules or Baldur's Gate 2 rules. That last one will obviously not change anything on BG2, but will effect any games that include Icewind Dale. The P&P option tends to make the game slightly harder as healing is more random and less reliable. The Icewind Dale option tends to make the late game harder as well.
| Pen & Paper | Icewind Dale | Baldur's Gate 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potion of Healing | 2d4+2 (4-10) | 9 | 9 |
| Potion of Extra Healing | 3d8+3 (6-27) | 18 | 27 |
| Potion of Superior Healing | 6d8+2 (8-50) | 27 | 40 |
Change item Type of Holy Symbols
This small tweak changes the item type of the holy symbols received by high-level clerics. Normally they are rings, with this tweak you can turn them into either amulets (makes the most sense IMHO) or belts (what was originally planned, judging by the file name of the items). This tweak covers the symbols in the vanilla game, those introduced by the Fixpack/EE (Aerie's and Viconia's), and Yeslick's if the Yeslick NPC mod is installed. If any others should be covered, let me know!
Turn generic Full Plate into Field Plate
Full plate mail is a rare and precious item normally custom-made for the wearer and not usable by anyone else, so you should not be able to just walk into a shop and buy some off of the shelf. This tweak turns all generic full plate into the slightly less powerful field plate. All named- or otherwise special armors are unchanged, including the suit created by Limited Wish. (Specifically, the items affected are plat04, plat14 and plat23.)
This modification probably has the biggest effect on Baldur's Gate 1, where full plate is normally the best armor available. It will now be less powerful (especially versus slashing and piercing/missiles), making the various enchanted armors you find a more interesting alternative. With the abundance of magical armors available in Baldur's Gate 2 it will probably not make much of a difference, except maybe when you have just left Chateau Irenicus.
| base AC | AC vs. slashing | AC vs. piercing and missile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field Plate | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| Full Plate | 1 | -3 | -2 |
Turn all Dragon Scale Armor into Scale Mail
Dragon scale armor in the game is a bit all over the place. Some are considered to be leather armor, some are plate mail, some are in between somewhere. This tweak converts all dragon scale armor in the game to scale mail (+1 vs. piercing/missile) that weighs 25 pounds and has the following penalty on thieving skills: Open Locks -10%, Find Traps -10%, Pick Pockets -25%, Move Silently -15%. This means that all dragon scale armors can be used by all classes except single-class mages and monks, and the kits shapeshifter- and avenger druid and kensai. Base armor class and all abilities are unchanged. Although technically not made from a dragon, this component alters the Ashen Scales too.
P&P Mace of Disruption (and similar items)
This tweak changes the Mace of Disruption, Azure Edge, Runehammer and the maces of astral devas to work more like the P&P version, and the Three White Doves mace in Icewind Dale. Instead of having an equal chance to destroy any undead, it will now be more successful in destroying weaker undead than stronger ones.
| Type | Disruption % |
|---|---|
| ghoul/ghast shadow skeleton zombie | 100 % |
| wraith | 95 % |
| mummy | 80 % |
| spectre | 65 % |
| vampire | 50 % |
| lich | 20 % |
| demilich | 5 % |
Improved Tome of Golems
This component makes several changes to the Tome of Golems, hopefully making it a bit more useful.
First of all, the Tome and its pages will always be found in order, no matter in what the various locations are visited. So if you go to Watcher's Keep first the tome will be there, but if you go to the Marching Mountains first, the tome will be there and you will find pages in Watcher's Keep.
Secondly, the fourth golem will now be a sand golem instead of a juggernaut golem, which has immunities similar to the clay golem.
Finally, there is one more location where a page can be found in Sendai's Lair, allowing Cespenar to upgrade the Tome one more time. This final upgrade will cause the Tome to conjure an iron golem.
Miscellaneous Item Improvements
This is a collection of small tweaks that makes a couple of items more powerful, less overpowered, or less of a hassle to use.
TODO: This tweak currently does not update all item descriptions.
Add Potions of Extra Healing in BG1
This makes a limited quantity of Potions of Extra Healing available in Baldur's Gate 1. Look for them in major temples and dedicated potion shops. Also the large stacks of Potions of Healing in Durlag's Tower are replaced by equivalent amounts of Potions of Extra Healing (roughly 3:1).
Nerf BG1 Easter Egg Items
This replaces some of the easter egg items in hidden containers in Baldur's Gate 1 by valuable but non-magical items. These are the Ring of Wizardry at the Friendly Arm Inn, the Ring of Protection +1 at the crossroads, the Ankheg Plate +2 in Nashkel and the Ring of Fire Resistance in the Gibberling Mountains.
Sensible Item Shops
The placements of a few items in certain shops feels jarring and illogical. This tweak moves a few selected items to a more logical place.
Within the mod folder, there is a file called mih_ip.ini. This file can be used to fine-tune certain aspects of this mod. It is meant as an expert option, for normal installation you can leave this file as it is. If you do edit this file, you must reinstall the mod, or at least the components whose settings you changed.
Angel created this mod. You can find out more about Made in Heaven: Item Pack by asking nicely. Visit the Gibberlings Three Forums for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mods on which I may be working.
Tools Used in Creation
WeiDU by Wes Weimer, the bigg, and Wisp
DLTCEP by Avenger
People who Contributed in some way
DavidW, who provided the SFO library and the tutorial on mod immutability and encapsulation.
CamDawg, who provided an extensive bug report and several useful suggestions on my first version, and is generally cool to hang out with.
Sleep of Bronze, who provided me with the correct stats and a P&P source for the Potion of Superior Healing.
Jastey, who gave me some help with compatibility testing and generic install issues.
sarkocreme, who provided some useful feedback on the power level of items in the BG1 portion.
All people brave enough to try and install my early beta versions...
The people at Bioware and Beamdog, for creating respectively the original games and the Enhanced Editions in the first place.
Anyone else I forgot? (Please let me know!)
This mod has been released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.0 or higher. This means you can copy, share, alter and distribute this mod freely, as long as you do so under the same license. For exact terms, read the LICENSE file in the mod folder.
This mod is not distributed or endorsed by Wizard of the Coast. However, it follows the guidelines given by Wizards of the Coast for including their intellectual property in fan content. The author of this mod makes no gain, monetary or otherwise, from its distribution. The GPL license ensures the content of this mod will always be free for anyone, including Wizards of the Coast, to examine.
Version 7 - December 18 2022
Version 6 - August 4 2021
Version 5 - October 3 2020
Version 4 - May 21 2020
Version 3 - December 2 2019
Version 2 - April 22 2019
Version 1 - February 18 2019