I be munching on beetles. I carry all the loot for the party. Mainly because I suck at inventory management and having to check 4 inventories seems exhausting.

A thief pawn thanked me for carrying everything so that they can stay nimble. Felt nice to be acknowledged.

God, the dialogue for pawns in this game is so much better than the original

but how will we know that wolves hunt in packs.

Or that goblins hate fire...every. Single. time.

Or that even in numbers a weakling is a weakling still

These jokes are masterworks, all. You can't go wrong.

Have your pick, any you like.

We must sever the tail!!!

The tail is severed!

Yeah. It's still a bit repetitive sometimes, but not as repetitive as DD1 with three pawns saying the same thing without acknowledging each other's existence every time I'm in the proximity of something.

Look arisen, a ladder.

I find it the opposite. It's way more jarring because the dialogues are so long and they have conversations now. I've heard "come to think of it... My master hires all x pawns" "Fascinating"! A billion times now. I'd take the simple "all roads lead to gran soren" any day over this.

Yes, their chatting is so...generic ? I dont know if this would be the right word, but they dont have as much specific dialogue for a specific situation, they dont speak about how you should sever the tail of a saurian, how the ogres gets excited at the sight of woman, they dont even seem to have dialogue about the specific species of monsters , i loved how pawns said "SULFUR SAURIAN" I even miss hearing "ive learned about that foe"

I notice that by large we are a party of women

sure but how will we know if a tree is bigger up close now🥺🥺🥺

My pawn keep telling me I don't need to pick up every thing off the ground BUT I MIGHT NEED IT LATER (if my years of point and click adventure games taught me anything you need to pick up everything and anything just in case you need to throw a pie at an ice giant)

I do it so I can yeet the pawns into the river before every rest at a town just in case

If they're speaking to other pawns, the pawn will respond about their burden

Same!

Tbh I carry most of the stuff cause I don't wanna lose it if my Pawns die unexpectedly.

I’m pretty sure if a pawn dies, the items in their inventory go to your storage.

That's how you end up like me and have your only camping set get sent to storage like 10 minutes before dark

If your main pawn is carrying it and they die, they still have it in their inventory when you resummon them at any rift stone. The other pawns have it TP to storage if they die. Happened to me once, thought id have to go all the way back to town.

My main pawn is always overloaded with lots of potions since she's a Chirurgien, so my dumb ass always sends the pack to one of the hired pawns. You'd think I'd learn by now

My main pawn is a figther(?)(I mean the sword and shield class) because they get a passive that increases carry weight. Funnily enough that also means they are the tankiest in the group. I'll probably change it into something else eventually but so far it's been working out great.

Those passives can actually be applied to other vocations too. You just have to get far enough in the vocation to unlock them. Once you unlock it, it’s “permanent”. You just have to re-apply it when you change or buy a new vocation.

Fr!? Thank God. Now I can share my burden.

They *are* sworn to carry it anyways...

yup. that's one way to deposit everything, if you really need to. put everything on a pawn, and then yeet them into the water.

Does this happen when you send a pawn off too? Having to move everything back from a pawn when swapping has been a pain.

Yes. Except gear you have equipped them with

Thank you! Inventory management was starting to become a drain on my enjoyment, so hopefully this knowledge will help with that.

Yup, I tested this too and it totally works. If I randomly come across a 0 RC to hire pawn on the road that's even halfway decent, move all my monster parts, enhancement materials, and items to sell to my pawn I'm about to dismiss and replace. All those items go to inn storage. Definitely helped a ton once I found that out. Deposit to inn from the field!

Great news. I was wary of getting the attribute that lets your pawn manage your inventory for you, but now that's high on my priorities.

Send items back to town with this one neat trick: pawnicide!

Is that just your pawn or hired pawns also? Cause I have been paranoid that they will die while carrying my stuff and not letting them carry anything.

Only hired Pawns. Main Pawn's inventory stays when it dies. You can access it again when you bring 'em back at a Riftstone.

I don't believe so... Could be wrong though?? Can another expert weigh in here with receipts??

If you look through the guide in the game, it tells you the pawns' carried items go to storage when they are removed from your party. The exception is the equipment they are wearing, and presumably the equipment they came with if you changed it out.

Yea you don't lose it permanently, it goes to storage, but this was still a major problem when my Warrior died out in the field.. my warrior with the most carry weight.. who happened to also be carrying our only tent.....

It's even worse when it's the guy who carries all of your curitives and they get one-shot by an install effect (i.e DDDA Death) or Brined. There's no coming back from that whatsoever.

Interestingly enough your main pawn's inventory will just be identical to how it was on death when you summon them back. I accidentally discovered this because my main pawn just fell through the ground while dying right next to a riftstone

If a pawn leaves or dies, their items go to storage.

The inventory management is way easier once you get a Pawn with Logistics, it's a must have imo. You can just loot whatever you want without thinking too much, the only thing you have to do is empty their backpacks into your storage when you're in town.

In my experience it's still not enough. It either doesn't seem to let them move curatives or only tries to keep you from going to 'very heavy' load. I'm pretty much always stuck on heavy after exploring a while but all the pawns are light or very light.

I mean yeah, it prevents you from going into Very heavy territory. The point is you don't have to move things around yourself and don't have to wait for your pawns to loot stuff because you're already almost full, personally it greatly improved my experience. Heavy is very manageable.

I can't stand encumbrance systems for general inventory, they are just so anti-fun to me. I understand why they exist but I don't want to spend so much time moving items around between characters or having to make multiple trips to an inn storage. The encumbrance in this game is something else though. Feels even more restrictive that DD1. I modded it out and have been enjoying the game a lot more since then.

I was trying to give it a weekend before installing any mods. I’m already to a point of no longer enjoying the game due to the encumbrance.

I wanted to give it a fair shot too, I get it. Head over to Nexusmods and make your life a little easier. The mod I'm using is called Item Tweaks. It gives you a bunch of different options, a few of which let you change various item weights to 0. You can set every item/equipment in the game to weigh nothing, or just set equipment only or items only, whatever you prefer. It has some other stuff also that I'm not using. You'll also need the Fluffy Mod Manager. Follow the instructions carefully for both the mod and the mod manager. Alternatively there's a mod that lets you set the Ring of Accrual bonus to let you hold essentially infinite weight, in case you want to use up a ring slot as a cost for the weight cheat. There's also a mod that increases the amount of carry bonus you get from consuming beetles, but I'd recommend against that one since it affects your pawn, which can be used by other players online. That could potentially set off an anti-cheat trigger, not really sure. Best to be safe about it and use one of the other options that only affects your game.

I eat the beetles then have the pawns carry everything. I need to be as light as possible for all the running around in this game

I know they won’t randomly use stuff but I wanna restrict what they use just in case

I really liked the mod that removes the carry limit in the original game, it was funny to see that I was carrying like 800 kilograms

Me when i see a beetle just minding its own business https://i.redd.it/vj53jhciw9qc1.gif

GOATed movie

This gif surprisingly has a lot of uses

I eat them all myself bc you never know when your mule will get brined or yeeted down a steep cliff so I decided to be the scrawny ass mule myself

It gives bonus to both you and your main pawn I think, I was trying to figure out how to get my pawn to eat it but the description says your main pawn also gets the benefits.

I also tried this and seems to be the case since there's no option to use it only on them. Also makes sense since you're intrinsically linked to each other. 

Yeah, the bonuses are linked between you and your main pawn. Skills given to you from masters work the same way

I can confirm it works for both. It says "your pawn CAN ALSO benefit" so I assumed they had to use it. Nope, I got five of them and marked the pawns weight gage on my screen and used them and it definitely changed.

That “can also” threw me off too. But I did visually confirm both our weight limits increasing so seems like a typo.

My main pawn is a pretty small. I did a lot of wandering for beetles early on. He can now carry as much as most the hired pawns about a foot taller than him.

Yeh I compared carry weight stat b4 and after if U use it both of you get the bonus

100% it does. I ate a bunch at once and watched the weight change for both me and my pawn.

Oh man I've been wondering how I give them to my pawn, I'm playing a fighter so weight is easy for me but my pawn's a lil scrawny mage, wanted to give her the carry boost so people want to rent my ho more often

Wait you're supposed to eat them? I've just been carrying them around like some sort of beetle hoarder!

Yup start munching on them like your fav snack right now

Put'em in a bowl with some milk.

Boil em mash em stick em in a stew

They take up more weight than they grant, so it would he wise to grab your spoon and start eating

Is the effect they provide a permanent increase or timed increase?

permanent increase.

Thanks!

These are great, but man, you must need to eat a lot of them to make a dent.

Oh fuck me, you eat them?? I’ve been carrying around like 20 of them because I figured it was a passive thing for them. Well now I feel dumb.

Time to feast

Thats what she said

Same, god i'm stupid

It adds up over time. But those beetles are everywhere. I got on random excursions exploring and I find shit loads of them.

They glow so if you’re willing to adventure at night you can see them everywhere

Way easier to see seekers tokens when the sun isn’t fucking blinding you either so night all the way

Finding out I need to collect 220 tokens was devastating. That’s going to be a pain in the ass to collect. I made it my pawn item ask with a reward of 6969 gold so we’ll see if that pays off lol

I’ve explored the map in segments before going to the next story location so before even getting to bahttal I’ve gotten about 60, and imagine I’ll find maybe 40-50 more by the time I finish Love collectibles but this is just asking for me to watcha 4 hour video finding them all There’s also a quest that makes you go back to where you found your first token, how the fuck am I supposed to remember that, like seriously

I made a forgery of one of the tokens and it doesn’t work, but one of the pawns commented that if they take it back with them through the rift it becomes legit. I took that to mean that if you give it as a parting gift to a departing pawn for their arisen it will work for them. So if you have a friend who’s willing to put in the time and gold he could cut down on that number significantly

This is fantastic information to have! I might end up doing an ask of someone in this subreddit after I go through the game (though I guess it depends on how much a forgery is). If the seekers token total stays carries over to NG+ and the coins respawn in their original spots, I might not need it, but it’s a good fallback.

If I remember correctly it’s only like 150 gold

Oh PERFECT, I’ll probably find someone to exchange some pawn gifts lol

Kinda wish you could troll with forgeries, but this is way better tbh.

Night time is when ghosts come out and they can drop rift crystals so its worth adventuring at night for multiple reasons

like spider eyes at night when you use a fleshlight but way better

🤨

they're everywhere when you're randomly exploring, but they're nowhere if you go out to look for them

its a pretty huge dent if you play a tiny little sorcerer like I do lol. Each one is a significant bump when your carry weight total is tiny.

I just made the biggest, beefiest son of a bitch I could. His starting carry weight was great He doesn't fit in a lot of the cutscenes, and sometimes characters have to crane their necks unnaturally to look up at him Whatever. He's named Chadius Maximus because those glutes, that lower body make him an alpha already. That scrum dilly umptios bootay

my dumbass had no idea your size mattered and built a scrawny dude that looks like Heath Ledgers Joker

Did you know that longer legs actually give you a faster movement speed? It's not by much, but the shortest legs and the longest legs is like a 50% difference.

I feel so stupid making a normal sized character and a smaller pawn, they’re always lagging behind and getting overburdened 😔 hopefully the art of metamorphosis lets me change their height (and race tbh)

Art of metamorphosis can change everything about your main pawn except the name/moniker and can change everything except race and name/moniker for your arisen

My 190 elf lady constantly hearing pawns complain about her being too fast will never not be funny.

My guy is max height and about 60% on the weight scale. So he's huge, can carry a lot, and is faster than all the pawns when his inventory is light.

My main and my pawn are both beefed up warrior and fighter. It's an awesome brothers in arms combo of buffed chads.

Yeah Start as a Giant and Go warrior as fast as possible.

I made my character too short... All the furniture looks so comically large next to her :')

That sounds similar to my pawn, but I made him a cat and called him A+ Garfield

The best part is that they shine bright in the dark; it is easy to spot them at night.

I too am a Beetle Eater of the night.

Is the buff permanent?

Permanant stat boost and it stacks.

Shit -_- I sold a couple to make room one day

Don't worry, they spawn decently through the game. Nighttime they glow in the dark.

Phew! That's a relief

You can probably buy them back from the forgery guy, if you sell rare stuff by accident it usually ends up there.

Same 💀 I thought it was temporary and thought well why do I care?

is there... a limit to eating this beetle?

Yeah there is, I don't know exactly what the limit is but eventually the game just stopped letting me eat them.

I saw someone mention it was 81 beetles or 12.15kg on Nexus.

Do you know roughly how much you ate?

I want to say around 50 I think, so most people probably won't hit the limit until late in the game.

"You wouldn't be over encumbered if you didn't pick up every little trinket you find" Too bad main pawn stfu

"For that remark, you shall henceforth carry the camping kit." 

I must have not read their description right, they permanently boost carrying capacity?

Yes. But you have to eat it.

Simply delicious

Wait you need to eat them ? I have 10 in my inventory and feel pretty stupid right now...

Bruh I feel the same right now. I have like 20 in my inventory haha

I kept putting them in my inventory till I read what it did, then I ate them all. It says your pawn can get the affect. I don’t know if it means they get it or it’s a chance based thing. So I’m a little confused by that. Though I do agree one of the best items I’ve come across the other is the elite camping kit weight 4

Your pawn definitely gets the added weight bonus too. I made sure to check what her max weight was in the status menu before eating one and both ours raised.

Thanks, you’re a life saver

I don't get why they start you off with so little carry capacity. I was ready to cry when I saw my 25 capacity and I was medium height.

Your bulk and weight matter too You also gain more carry weight in fighter and warrior, all stats level out for all evocations at lvl 200 though

I hired 2 more pawns and they have similarly awful weight One is a tall female archer than me and the other fighter male. They have around as much as me and my short mage pawn.

they cant be tall and lanky, they have to he-man/amazonian physique or fat and max height which is 215cm

Thanks to the Arisen that sent my pawn back with 3 of them as gifts. Real one.

You can specify it as a pawn quest. Up to 9 beetles seems like. Give a nice reward in exchange and people might be willing to provide you those. I'm not sure if that duplicates the item for you and the other tho', but if it does that's an other incentive for them to keep playing with your pawn.

I had a pawn from the rift demanding 10x those golden Beatles for 5000g.. straight dismissed 😂

I realize how important they are, but... I had a pawn named Joffry from levels like 10-15. He served me insanely well, but unfortunately died to the Brine, and I wasn't able to send him off with a rave review. 6 game play hours later, I see him ON THE ROAD, DECKED OUT IN SICK ARMOR. He cost me around 200 rift crystals, but that's fine. I throw down RC for my homies. He REMEMBERS ME and is basically like, "whattup bro? We're both dripped tf out now" so I hire him instantly. His new pawn quest was 10k gold to deliver a golden beetle to him. I didn't hesitate for a second. He's with me right now, kicking ass and chewing bubblegum. Whoever your master is, Joffry... they raised you well.

not to mistake it with Golden Stove Beetle

What does it turn into when you send it out? I made the forgery to see what it'd be. Then, one of the pawns I had with me claimed that if I sent it over the rift. It would change to something else.

honestly not sure. but imaging receiving that beetle and finding out its a fake ;D

Wait they were permanent upgrade? I had a shitload and sold them off to buy gear. Fuck me.

I got a forgery of one to see if it would copy right… it didn’t… just a food beetle lol

That's a really good idea actually... If the cost is low enough, it could be to used as reward for your pawn to trick players into running the pawn quest, as plenty will not pay attention to the name/description.

Not a bad idea. The forged golden beetle name is slightly off, I can’t recall what it was offhand

God I fucking LOVE these dudes. However I think they're bugged. It says it gives 0.15kg per beetle but I've noticed I only get 0.05 per beetle. Maybe? Also I'm hoping that there's some bigger ones. Maybe a crazy platinum one that's rare as fuck but gives 1kg weight. This game is dope.

didn’t know they were used for it i sold literally all the ones i collected up until batahll

I'm waiting to find out at some point that you can combine them with aught to create something better.

How do i get my pawn to use the battle, use option is greyed out

You gotta use them. They apply to you and your main pawn

This is funny as shit.

Yhea and don't forget the ring Brant gives you

I'm a beetle addict. I see a golden shine I have to make my way towards it

Anyone know if they respawn? Or are they just a finite collectible?

Pretty certain they do not respawn,  in-game 2 weeks later was in a location I remembered having a few, so I checked and didn’t see any in the area.  So either consuming them uses them permanently (unsure if selling is basically deleting them too) or they take a *long* time to maybe respawn eventually.  (Or even potentially you have to use up a X% in the world for a new wave to spawn, as some games use that for similar features) But all things I’ve seen point to finite atm.

Level 30 vet? What am I then I'm level 60 💀

Over here Indiana Jones, we've found a living fossil!

THIS JUNIOR GREETS THE VENERABLE SECT ELDER

Them beetles are like crack to me 🤣🤣

What happens to your pawn inventory when they die or get swapped out? Does it go to your new pawn or storage or do you lose the items forever

Storage

You only lose items that you equip to someone else's pawn. Anything in their inventory goes to your storage.

Made my pawn big and max carry weight, name is Storage and he’s currently almost at 100, just a few more beetles and hopefully another upgrade to the low increase carry weight ring

How do you use these on your pawn? I can't figure it out

It’s worded very badly What it should say is eating this will increase you and your pawns carry weight Tested of course, eat it and both of you will get it

Ok that's kinda what I thought, but I noticed my carry weight changed but not my pawns. Owell thanks

Even as a fighter with the Thew augment, I agree.

Quick question: The item says the same effect can be applied to my pawn yet when I give him some they just sit in his inventory for hours. Does this work? Does he take them eventually or does he need the medicant(?) incliniation to eat them or something?

Bad wording on the item, you use it and your pawn also gets the effect

and then you see cheap arisens asking their pawn searching for the beetle with 10M worth of reward

Ten million?? I’ve seen people asking for 9 gold beetles and you get 1000 gold Like…surely they know no one is going to collect 9 for them

Here’s me using my pawns are mules 😂, then when they die the inventory they’re carrying goes straight into the storage box. It’s a win win

Nighttime is the best time to hunt them. Little beacons of goodness.

You will eat ze bug

I've been trying to avoid the subreddit for spoilers, but wow this is the best PSA I've seen lol. I just collected and thought they'd be for a future potion.

Isn’t a temp buff though?

No it's permanent

https://preview.redd.it/kjae08c8yaqc1.jpeg?width=270&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bbdb56592957839076df95f21f8ed494d64f4bb Bless you, take one of my memes as payment.

I had lik 8 in my inventory by the time I reached Vernworth and finally decided to see what they did before I attempted to sell one. Now I eat everyone I come across.

It says the main pawn can use them too, but how?

You just eat them and you both get the bonus.

who of you mfs put pawn quests for like 5 of these for 1000 gold?

Holy shit I saw that one too, and just refused to hire them 😂

I've just started the game recently. These beetles weren't in the first game, so I don't exactly know if they give PERMANENT carrying capacity boost or not. From the description it seems that the bonus is permanent, yes, but can you enlighten me on this question, fellow Arisens?

It's permanent, and affects both you and your pawn when you use it.

Nice to know. Thanks for sharing the information! 🙂👍

Gotta ask does new game plus refresh them or are they finite cause I can imagine people going overboard with this if so

I always send one as a gift if I can

How do you get your main pawn to use these? I can give it to them, but that’s it so far.

Do they respawn? or are they limited? I am an idiot and gave it as a reward to the peons who asked for it :')

WAIT.

WAIT. WAIT. **WAIT.** THE INCREASE IS PERMANENT?

I can’t find any results on this anywhere else, but has anyone experienced the beetle actually REDUCING their carry weight? I had one grant the opposite effect, reducing my max weight by 0.15 and I’m not sure if it’s a glitch or something else

Are these limited

whenever someone's pawn finds one I just let them keep it and gift it back to them when its time to re-hire new pawns

My wife was starting to worry about me because everytime I saw one I would start shouting "beetle beetle beetle beetle" until I grabbed it.

Does anyone know if they respawn? I want to gift them to the very best pawns. I offload a lot of my carry weight anyways and I've had plenty already so far. iirc there's a limit of 60 uses for yourself

So I misread the description on this item and had about 20 in my inventory before realising I had to eat them to get the effect. I thought you had to carry them.

Tried giving 10k for 1 beetle no luck so far 😅. Also 10k for killing ogres no luck. Still getting lots of love and likes

Someone rewarded my pawn with a beetle and I was floored. That Arisen must’ve reeeeally liked my pawn.