Baldur's Gate 3

Baldur's Gate 3

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Pest Control

Pest Control

Killed the Spider Matriarch before her eggs hatch - why do they have so many legs?

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How to unlock the Pest Control achievement in Baldur's Gate 3 - Definitive Guide

The other guide, which details ditching the eggs before ever engaging in combat, is a good one, but here's another way: If you have an invisibility spell available to you, turn invisible and sneak right on over to where the Matriarch is walking around. Then, use a spell with some knockback (or possibly shove, though I'm not *entirely* sure that'll work) to push her into the endless-ish chasm below. I used thunderwave, and done, just a couple surprised little phase spiders to ditch after that. The eggs just sit there, undisturbed.

(Also, fear not, loot addicts, the body of the matriarch isn't lost forever.)
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10 Oct 2023 18:14

Just a heads up, all the current Steam and early access guides list this as unlocking after destroying the egg clusters and then beginning combat with the matriarch, but this has been patched - you do indeed need to actually kill the matriarch now for this to unlock properly.

There are three clusters of eggs - one on the pillar where the matriarch stands, one on the pillar beside her connected with a spidersilk bridge, and one down a floor below underneath the third pillar. Use the Spiderstep Boots or similar to cross the silk bridges without alerting the enemies and snipe all the eggs before beginning combat.

Kill the matriarch after destroying all the eggs and the trophy is yours.
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07 Sep 2023 20:33

Sneak in and hit her with repelling blast, or shockwave arrows to knock her into the abyss.
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30 Aug 2023 00:00

Sneak in and shoot the eggs before they can hatch. There are 3 batches of eggs, one next to where she spawns, one across the web to the right and one below the end of the web to the left.
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10 Jan 2024 00:00

Act 1
In the Whispering Abyss location, the boss of the spider matriarch.
There are 3 clutches of eggs in the arena, 2 on top, 1 below, all of them can be shot even before the start of the battle, one egg at a time, with long-range attacks. Then we start the battle, the boss will have no one to hatch, and we get a trophy.
The boss itself takes huge damage from destroying the webs under her feet, for example, by throwing alchemical fire, which helped a lot with tactics. On a light fall, it would probably kill her right away.
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04 Sep 2023 18:07

For a trophy, if loot is not needed, it is done by one character with one poke.
She separated from the group, put invisibility on herself, reached the far column on which the spider was sitting, and with a thunder wave threw it into the abyss in the center.
I didn't touch the eggs.
Now you can reload and kill normally if you need loot.
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22 Oct 2023 20:47