A ton of cut Baldur's Gate 3 early access encounters, including over 100 chats, have been resurrected by a modder

Baldur’s Gate 3’s shift from early access to full release came with heap of tweaks and changes as Larian finalised their huge RPG. Naturally, this meant certain bits or plans not making it into the final cut, and if you’ve come to long for any of those after playing them initially or hearing about them, then odds are a new mod is right up your alley. It’s also really cool if you, you know, just want more BG3.

The mod’s ‘Early Access Scenes Restored’ by modding whiz HyperspaceTowel, who’s been working on restoring bits of early access Baldur’s Gate 3 for a little while now. This latest creation’s the culmation of all that effort, delivering a bunch of restored “deleted scenes, encounters, and NPCs” in one fell swoop.

According to the modder, that’s “over 100 conversations and more than 1000 lines of voiced dialogue” so far, with plans to keep adding more going forwards. Making that up are the likes of chats with resurrected early access characters, camp chats, and companion reactions to the various stuff you get up to. HyperspaceTowel explains that most of these returning bits were a case of bringing back an early access scene as “pretty much a 1:1 transplant” with minor camera or dialogue tweaks, though there were some that had to be “built from the ground up based on the scraps I could find”.

The modder cites shell-collecting kid Lotan, whose reconstructed chat’s shown in the video above, as an example of the latter. Among the other revived NPCs or chats you can expect to run into include would-be music box seller Nerela, some enthralled fishermen, Shadowheart issuing an ultimatum, and Gale channeling his best Nigella Lawson as he yacks about his deer stew.

HyperspaceTowel’s opted to stick to including bits of early access BG3 which fit into the final version of the game, which means the likes of early Wyll and Karlach – plus some romance scenes featuring Gale and the former – have been left to go into another mod or mods which’ll keep non-can stuff separate. They’ve also opted to keep separate a freshly restored quest surrounding whether or not to chow down on a hermit crab. The reason in that case looks primarily to be the fact the files it’s been restored from are very old, so some of the dialogue lacks voice files.

If you fancy seeing what these restored early access encounters add to your next BG3 playthrough, the good news is that the main restoration mod appears not to require any other framework mods to work. However, you will want to make sure you kick off a new run once you’ve installed it and avoid ditching it midway through a playthrough you plan to finish.