How to get the free Gold Idol Forgery in Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

[@nugsboodlepoo]

I got the barrels neatly stacked and then my pawn smashed them lmao So yeah, get rid of your pawns before you do this

[@RaidenKaiser]

This happened to me when I was trying to jump from a crate to reach a spot normally unreachable unless you're smol in the shadow fort. Let's just say there was some drowning gurgles that day lol.

[@fixedwithglue]

it hurts.

[@nassim.gaming889]

​@RaidenKaiser 🙊

[@Shadow251-TTV]

Since the release of the game this is the first time anyone has ever gotten that item from that location. It was thought before that it was not possible to obtain that item

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

It was done before me, there's a few videos of Japanese players who did it and maybe others in my memory

[@godgang4929]

Bs I got it when it came out on 360 on release day lmao

[@Shadow251-YT]

There were some videos of people trying to get it but being unable, and a few of people saying its impossible.

[@GeneralAkAbA]

@@godgang4929 KZbin should permanently ban liars like you.

[@sidnei4180]

O did with mage very easy using de Ice skill barriage and climb

[@DamnedInBlack92]

Keep in mind it’s a forgery and not the real gold idol. There is another method I saw on KZbin of using the ice spell that creates a platform that is a lot easier to perform.

[@edwardr108]

I love the way Symone is watching him do that, haha

[@felixchavarria8824]

At least she doesn't look like she's taking the browns to the Superbowl. That always cracks me up, her taking a shit pose is too funny

[@SeekerBaracadeous]

... I didn't even know there was an idol there. That's so interesting all the nooks and crannies this game has

[@daveonezero6258]

It is so weird how they designed things. I played it a while back and now playing it again and it seems stuff is everywhere. New areas I never saw before etc etc

[@lucaslagiewka1503]

I remember before dark arisen that uses to be the real deal and not a forgery

[@DTPandemonium]

I broke most of my barrels trying to do it myself then looked it up here but barrels wont respawn and since I'm average height I probably need at least 5 barrels to even reach it maybe... I'll check again by going back to cassardis and doing the quests there then return but if they somehow still dont respawn this is a one try thing. Oh yeah, saving and loading despawns all barrels that were moved too, even the one in your hands so you cant save scum either.

[@poppapalpatine8624]

I mean if it's that much of a problem you can always just foot the bill to forge the replica at the black cat

[@DTPandemonium]

@@poppapalpatine8624 Yeah, that's what I ended up doing.

[@IUsedToMakeMusics]

I’ve never seen that bfore. Am I doing this tmorrow? Yes lol

[@yaboilascall]

How you get to two barrel heights to three barrel heights in the last seconds of the video?? I was trying this now and when I accidentally broke one barrel I restarted my last save and all the barrels are gone. Did it actially work??

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

It's pure trial & error to get the upper barrel to not lock perfectly or break, but be a little uneven

[@Dandoskyballer]

Same happened to me. All my barrels disappeared. This game is bullshit. I got arrested trying to help the little girl to her feet, while she was supposedly under my care. Now I'm stuck dealing with pawns breaking barrels, and barrels flat out disappearing. Ugh. I'm so pissed off by this game right now.

[@yaboilascall]

@@Dandoskyballer Yeah "the walking simulator" of this game makes me so frustrated sometimes, but going in this game I'll admit you have to do a lot of researching about strategies and the game's most annoying aspect: Roaming NPCs and Missable quests!

[@Based-BunnyGirl]

Been playing the game since 2015 and I’ve never seen this 😭

[@Danysirt27]

Greetings I write to ask for a solution, of this phase of the game, shown by her in this video. My problem is that having both my main pawn and the other two, every time I place even the first barrel, the pieces break it, I do not even have time to place the first barrel that break it to look for any content, as they always do, so however I can not reach the statuette positioned them. What is the solution you can suggest ❔ Thank you 👍

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

Throw your Pawns into the Everfall to die

[@Danysirt27]

@@SquirrelGamingProductions What is Everfall, and where is it? Can I retrieve my pieces afterwards? Thank you 👌

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

@@Danysirt27 inside the Pawn Guild basement there's a giant staircase with a hole in the middle. Throw all of your Pawns in it. You can get your Main Pawn back by clicking any Rift Stone

[@Danysirt27]

@@SquirrelGamingProductions O understood what place it is, Thanks for everything, kind regards ☺👌

[@Mezz007]

Man u save my life thank u ❤️

[@DrentifulGaming]

I tried this and the barrel disappeared the second I turned around :/

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

That's unfortunate. Shouldn't occur if you're solo & using the exact same barrels from the spots I grab

[@anakawyker]

How do I get rid of my main pawn? Just throw her off a building? She keeps breaking the barrel lol

[@marcusdixon6144]

Lmao facts mines keep doing the same

[@DiogoLZ]

Exactly, just trow him/her into the ocean or something like that and you're good to go.

[@CrimsonSpider_]

Same😭😭

[@emanuelthiago6357]

yep, also in the throw in the water works as well

[@PIP...33]

@@emanuelthiago6357 HE PLAYING WITHOUT PAWNS THATS WHY HE MANAGE TO DO IT

[@babufrick7723]

I have tried today. It hasn’t worked … Either is my character not enough big in size or Capcom has fixed the bug-opportunity to pick the idol.

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

DD hasn't been updated for 7 years. It could be your character height or maybe you need a different barrel setup. It's really random and touchy, you basically have to get a lucky leaning barrel and/or build a weird structure

[@babufrick7723]

@@SquirrelGamingProductions Thank you. I will try again. 🙏👍

[@rabidscholar6660]

Place the top barrel a little bit away from the wall if your to close you can't grab it. I just did it by bring the barrel back on accident

[@babufrick7723]

@@rabidscholar6660 Thanks for your suggestion 🙏👍

[@TheOldest]

Finally got it, whew

[@garywhittle2618]

Stacked barrels 2 high right next to it. No icon to grab it.

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

Need one at a slight angle

[@garywhittle2618]

Its not worth the trubble.

[@cooltjh4]

@@garywhittle2618 30% off everything is certainly worth it.

[@olhaorobson]

Is it possible on PC??? Tryed the barrel and the ice glitch but none worked.

[@Massolgy]

So what the point of toy randomly stopping..... and what the point of taking this since one...the forecy don't give u the bonus

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

The forgery gives you the same bonus as the real one. You have to lose the real one to unlock either Caxton & Madeleine’s best inventory upgrades in Stage 4, meaning that keeping the forgery lets you buy the stronger stuff with the highest discount

[@Massolgy]

@@SquirrelGamingProductions so what the difference between a forge or a real one... I always tho you got the discount parmenslry after the quest... plus is money really an issue in this game at stage 4 ?

[@YouTubeCensors]

Pawn: SMASH! Arisen: FML

[@RaidenKaiser]

Arisen: pawn drown

[@godgang4929]

You could just use mage vocation go in the house and use frigor jump on the ice and grab it, haven’t tried it but seems logical lol.

[@PIP...33]

BRAVO MAGE CAN BUILD ICE SPELL STAIR

[@isopodslug6365]

Frigor doesn't work everywhere:edit as in after you cast it it doesn't leave a ice step behind

[@Nick-xp5lt]

I screwed this up so bad. Guess I’ll have to try on my next run sadly.

[@kylon_]

the idol isn’t spawning there for me

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

If you've already got the real one or met the Duke it's too late

[@RaidenKaiser]

Accidentally pick up someone in the castle: to the dungeon for you! Also DDA: stealing barrels and carrying them across town is perfectly legal

[@chrizmerk756]

I once used a skeleton key to open my cell door and then the guard watched me walk right out of the castle while still wearing my jail clothes. Lol

[@RaidenKaiser]

@@chrizmerk756 tbh he kind of accepts a bribe a bit too easily and brazenly to let you out its not like he gives a shit lol

[@SgtToTheSnickers]

Is it normal that the Barrels do not respawn ?

[@thefunder1]

Damn it my character is too short

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

Think tall

[@HUYI1]

I already completed the escort quest can i still obtain the gold idol? How the hell did this person find this😮

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

Unfortunately it's too late by the escort quest

[@seanivey9013]

Just confirming this does work with the Steam version (only one I have) as of 2/20/2024. It takes advantage of a glitch with the game’s physics so it is very finicky to do. My character is max height. dinput8.dll hooks mod allows total character change anytime. A double-stacked barrel is not high enough. You need to get one near the wall that is about half a barrel higher (so like 2.5 high total). Watch the vid to understand what that means. It took me A LOT of moving and placing barrels to get the game to glitch and allow it. The key is putting a barrel on the floor close enough to the table so you can jump on it while holding another barrel. But also as close to the wall as possible. That’s the trickiest bit. Then getting into position close to the wall without falling off that barrel and placing another is the frustrating part. I was using a keyboard. Maybe an analog gamepad would allow finer movements. Is it worth it? Not for the merchant discount. Is it doable? Yes. Notes: - You can pick-up the maid and put her downstairs and she’ll stay. - The little girl sits in the chair all night and will make placing barrels harder, so you have a limited window of opportunity. - If you save and reload then the barrels you carried from all over the city will be gone. - If a barrel breaks, it’s gone for good. Reload a save from before you moved them. dinput8.dll hooks makes several copies of the save game file so you can reload from an earlier version if needed. - Pawns WILL break the barrels! You can throw your pawn off a cliff (or in the Everfall). You can get your pawn back anytime by interacting with a rift stone.

[@JethroB-eo9cg]

I got it done without any glitches today, max height character. Put 3 barrels down between the table and the wall. The key is the top barrel has to be away from the wall. Mine was basically straddled between the middle barrel and the one next to the wall. Hop on the second story and inch your way to the edge and you can grab it. No idea why it doesnt register when you are close to the wall. I was on K+m.

[@Danysirt27]

My character is one meter seventy-eight tall, the pawns are dismissed, my main one is thrown into the Everfall, despite having made the character quite tall, I managed to stack the barrels one on top of the other, but once on top I don't get to reach the edge enough to activate the interaction with the object to be collected. It is evident that it is a stretch, I don't know if there is a way in the game that is the one wanted to reach the statuette, it's a bit like in Skyrim when you try to climb the tops of the mountains with a horse, if there is a method that is part of a correct method, made available by the developers, let me know if you know it, anyway, in case I renew my best regards thanks☺🙏👍

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

the top needs to be slightly slanted for this to work

[@Danysirt27]

@@SquirrelGamingProductions I'll give it a try, is it possible to tackle this part of the game, later, can it be set aside, and tackle it later, or like many missions if not tackled, after some time even this can give it failed? Will it be difficult to succeed, more than the level of importance to this idol to collect? I ask this question because there is an admission that is titled, the cult of the idol, where they tell me to find them to talk to the gunsmiths, which however I struggle to find on the map because I can't find them reported, and moreover in this quest it's called the cult of the idol, the classic red markers that indicate the mission area do not appear. Greetings and thanks ☺👌

[@loneraven6576]

What if you're character don't have that hight 😂

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

😢 yeah I didn't think about that. Maybe if short enough 3 barrels works

[@valmiro4164]

I didn't even know it was there

[@majormoron605]

Have you tried switching to a ranged vocation and shooting it down?

[@OgSwisszyed]

holy shit does it work dude?

[@majormoron605]

@@OgSwisszyed nope, most objects don't have physics like that...

[@PIP...33]

@@OgSwisszyed USE HIGH MAGE AND CAST ICE WALL SPELL HE WILL CREATE ICE CUBE AND JUST CLIMB ON IT

[@RaidenKaiser]

@Zzz Vain if that's the spell I'm thinking of better make sure Symone and Fournival aren't sitting there... may end up in jail lol

[@legatefantastic4984]

How the hell did she get that up there tho lol

[@raphathekid]

I've tried to do that and didn't worked, maybe my char NEED to be tall? She's 1'63 iirc =B

[@christopherbiles5016]

No matter how many times I have tried my pawns break the damn barrel, you need to show another method or someone need to explain a different method that actually works I've tried other methods and they don't work

[@masontaylor8002]

Just kill your pawns

[@dreamchaser5359]

Get rid of then by throwing them into deep water and then try it

[@Chokah]

yeah you need to be pawnless whenever you mess with the barrel tricks

[@elitehaitian565]

I wished I watched this first before my first two attempts

[@Big_Dai]

"you have to show another method because I'm doing it differently, don't understand the game and am a general idiot"

[@seriousgranpa]

holy shit i forgot about that one

[@alexmercer8852]

So there's no legit way to get this idol. U know forgery the original 1 quite expensive. So developers thought u can get cheaper but u need to do some barrel jumping first

[@PIP...33]

ALSO TO GET RID OF PAWNS CAUSE U CANT HAVE BARREL NEAR THEM. THEY LL BREAK EVERY. ALSO JUST BE HIGH MAGE AND CAST ICE STAIR

[@hp2546]

I would also say for anyone who continues New Game Plus multiple times, the arisen would already be loaded with money to a point where it should not matter if the arisen spends money making forgery. Spending money on forgery is like nothing once in New Game Plus. Doing all sidequests also counts as making money anyways.

[@jedahxl]

Thanks.

[@cooltjh4]

god that was annoying, finally got it.

[@Sadistic_77]

Your character has to be a certain height to do this, preferabley the tallest it cab be.

[@RandomGuy666100]

I have an average height girl character and it was possible. You just need the stack near the idol to be barrel-box-barrel. In total you need 4 barrels and one box. You put three barrels leading from the table to the wall and put the box on, the final barrel can be put on top of the box by jumping from the barrel bridge you made. Getting the box from the table can be annoying though, you need to luck out with it being on its side or else jump and place it on top of another box to make it reachable from on top of the table.

[@PIP...33]

@@RandomGuy666100 JUST CHANGE TO HIGH MAGE AND FORM ICE CUBE AND CLIMB ON TOP

[@dakotahharris8638]

@@RandomGuy666100 im trying so hard

[@RandomGuy666100]

@@dakotahharris8638 it’s incredibly hard, though it is possible. I’ve heard of the ice trick the other guy’s talking about working as well. For that one, the initial ice spell (iirc frigor) makes a pillar of ice you can climb on top of. I dunno if there’s other requirements for that method, though if it works that’ll be way easier.

[@Alexa129001]

XD My character had the lowest high 😅 and i can take it

[@YouTubeCensors]

To future people build plenty of barrels for when robots attack. They'll be busy destroying barrels Humans will have a chance.

[@rayzorduality2396]

Welp, I learned something new... Thanks!!!!!

[@Retrodude_92]

No way? This still works? Lmao

[@jamming8519]

This is by FAR, the most ridiculous video I've ever seen.

[@FBI-0]

I love you

[@victorcornelius7948]

I did it with 3 barrels

[@zamfielis]

That Is a falsification idol. :"(

[@jeancarlos8856]

Nice , muito bom i love , like And subcrib

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

Thanks!

[@kerrycarrier5179]

...ok then? Wouldn't it have been much EASIER to just do the quest? I mean kinda cool, but imo to much hassle.

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

You have to turn your Gold Idol in if you want the stores completely opened. That loses your 30% discount right before fighting the dragon, and forging the idol costs 187.5K gold. If you want to retain your discount into postgame where you'll probably want to buy things, this is the most cost-effective solution. Grinding the spent gold takes longer than this until you can beat Urdy

[@kerrycarrier5179]

Called the black cat. Just make a copy of it. Give the male the sliver and the girl the gold. Done. You keep the original and move along. Also to 'grind' the gold....not really that big of a deal if ya find/save items of high sale value then use the x4 augment trick for a 75% increase.

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

@@kerrycarrier5179 so you're suggesting the following: Every player and their Pawn plays about 5 minutes of Sorcerer for Suasion, spends another 5-10 minutes in the Rift looking for Pawns with Suasion, and has enough non-useful, non-unique, non-upgrade material items of high enough value to sell for 187.5K without committing to a grind first or selling something they'll need to grind later. Basically selling the monocle. EDIT FOR SPELLING: **Then** you have to forge and pickup the idol. That's another 2 minutes of running. All that together's still slower than this. This was a 8 minute process in real time and I took breaks. Even if players wanted to do all these things, it'd benefit them more if they already had the Stage 2 forgery, as they could spend the same money on a Stage 7 armor piece or Periapts / Blast Arrows to start farming Urdy for millions. That's why grabbing the freebie is both the fastest and most effective thing to do. Unless you and your Pawn are both Sorcerers and you find 2 Suasion Pawns very quickly, you're going to be slower than this and you're going to lose 187.5K doing it

[@kerrycarrier5179]

Totally missed my point. I don't really care HOW you or others play. I'm just saying it depends if your starting out. Your talking LATE/POST/NG+. I was talking in regards for those STARTING off and are just saving up. So again I see it pointless FOR ME. as i always save things I come across then look up sale value. Then when crafting make what's need for the fields or make gold. It doesn't take that 'long' for the switches and resting. My method is as valid as those who want to 'break' without first simply enjoying

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

@@kerrycarrier5179 look, you're obviously a little immature and in your feelings so I'll do you a favor and let you vent your frustrations. I didn't ask for your critique, you came to my video, freely offered it in a passive-aggressive way and I responded with why you were objectively, mathematically wrong on all parts. Now you're changing your argument to make it about flowing gameplay or summat instead of speed and efficiency. Idc. I don't have a need to prove myself right more than once or to continue this fruitless discourse I've learned naught from

[@nateyolo9827]

Damn they patch it

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

Nah it's just time-sensitive. It's only there until you meet the Duke, or until you get the real Gold Idol.

[@nateyolo9827]

@@SquirrelGamingProductions yes I almost got unstill damn npc break it

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

@@nateyolo9827 you gotta get rid of your Pawns. Throw them into the Everfall, they'll die

[@dreadnathan]

bruh i cant stand on the barrels

[@guustavols]

maaaaaaaaaannnnnnn

[@auronkardek]

Sadly it's just a forgery, so it's useless

[@hp2546]

I agree since forgery don't mean anything in the first place. If it is New Game, I would just give any available Idols to Caxton and Madeline. For example, I can give Silver or Bronze to Caxton and Gold to Madeline. Then in New Game Plus, I would continue to give away Silver or Bronze. The longer the game play, more real idol will come. I am already in the process of getting 12 gold idols. Besides, once Caxton or Madeline gets a gold idol once, then there is no need to give another gold idol. So as long as there is New Game Plus, there is no need for forgery.

[@Ayztee23]

awesome

[@matthewbooth9457]

But that will call the guards

[@SquirrelGamingProductions]

They won't call the guards or kick you out if you start on a morning rest and move fast enough

[@Revnge7Fold]

NO WAYS!!! omw....

[@blackheartgaming6121]

Wow I could have done this the entire @#$&**( time