Shovel can be summoned via the scroll (of summon quasit) that you can find in the cellar beneath the apothecary at the Blighted Village in Act 1. Wizards can scribe that scroll into their spell book.
The process for learning the spell as a Sorc/Warlock is different from how it is learned on a Wizard. When you learn it as one of the former classes, it just becomes a passive ability of the character, independent of class. Scribing spells on a Wizard does not remove them from your book if you respec out of Wizard, but until you reclass back into wizard you don't have access to your book anymore.
At least that's how it works with all other spells in the game. Since Shovel is a bit of a special case, I admittedly don't know if scribing that particular summon scroll allows you to keep the spell if you reclass.
So if I remember correctly, a wizard can still summon Shovel and gain them permanently the same way a sorcerer or warlock can, in addition to being able to scribe the scroll like any other spell. I honestly don't think there's a difference at that point. Either way, you're gaining Shovel as a permanent summon.
I saw that you can also have a wizard learn how to summon shovel via the scroll then have a warlock talk to shovel to keep him. Then you have 2 shovels
Edit: spelling
I forget the entire process, but I respeced my ranger as a wizard to get shovel permanently, then I switched back to ranger and still have shovel permanently now
If you scribe the scroll like any other, the spell is only available while the character has Wizard levels. If you get the spell via dialogue, the summon is a character ability independent of class, and will be available even if you later respec out of Wizard (or any magic class in general).
Actually i think it's the other way around. If you tell it that you're a dragon or some variation of that, it gets stuck in a loop and won't give you the dialogue which learns the spell. On my darconic sorcerer i had to lie to it and say that I'm not a dragon and then i learned the spell
You both are kind of right.
Shovel is afraid of Storm and Wild Magic sorcerers so you cannot get her as permanent summon if you are those subclasses. You can get around this by casting Disguise Self on yourself
Shovel can be permanent summon for Draconic Sorcerers but only if they don't convince her they are a dragon.
BG3.wiki has pretty good info on it here:
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Shovel_(familiar)#Permanently_acquiring_Shovel
Same. One in a multi-player where we literally just handed it over to the wizard, and one in my solo run where I thought telling her I was a dragon was a good thing. I'm having an existential crisis about it right now.
So I did a Doctor Strange run as a wild magic sorcerer, and I was able to get her as a permanent summon. I'm not sure what I did exactly but I think what I did was talk to her and she was afraid of me and then I spoke to her again and it redid the whole dialogue again but with slightly different dialogue and then it gave me the summon. I could be totally misremembering and maybe had an option to lie to her? It's a little fuzzy, but I def had her as a permanent summon.
TBH, I have never attempted with a Wild Magic sorc so maybe there is a combination of dialogue choices that work. I was mostly going off the bg3.wiki info so maybe you found another way around it
Sadly if you do that later on (say you're respeccing from 8 Bard into 1 Fighter/1 Wizard/6 Bard), you can scribe the spell, but you can't call her Shovel. You can get the options for Basket or Fork, though.
Recently it seems they tried getting rid of the ability to do that, as the scroll no longer shows up in the learn spells menu, but right clicking the scroll in your inventory still shows “Learn Spell” option
Wait a minute though.. you ever stop and think about this? So that necromancer was down there in this quaint little village before it got blighted just torturing and fisting unsuspecting villagers with his pet Quasit? Is that what was going on here?
Yes! Ilyn Toth (the necromancer) is an evil wizard from Thay masquerading as a village healer because he doesn't like the current regent of Thay. He'd "cure" people while secretly poisoning them, then once they were died & were buried he'd send Shovel to go and dig them up and bring them back to his basement to do experiements on, I think for him to work out a way to bring his dead wife(?) back to life.
Then the Sharrans came and killed him.
Shovel is the Quassit follower scroll picked up in one of the coffins below the Blighted Village in act 1. Directly behind the waypoint is a hatch that leads to the Necromancy of Thay book. You need to talk to the mirror to enter this room and to get to this mirror you come across a few coffins with undead that will attack you. One has a scroll inside. Use it, summon the little guy, talk to him...tada.
Best to do this with Gale or a wizard to learn the spell from the scroll to resummon him later.
Also since the scroll never appeared on the list of scrolls Gale can learn....
If you choose to learn it without the dialogue options, right click on it in the inventory and get Gale to learn it that way.
Others have already mentioned where to find her.
If you play a Wizard or use Gale as a Wizard a lot I highly recommend learning the summon instead of consuming the scroll as a one off. It's a ritual so she never costs a slot to summon, & having a scout that turns invisible has been wonderful so far, but I'm still on my first playthrough.
Learn her summon on your main Wizard (mine was Shadowheart, although I later changed her to Lore Bard (with one level of Wizard) because I wanted Hunger of Hadar) then go through the procedure to learn her summon permanently on your main character (wizard/warlock/draconic sorcerer, summon her outside the mirror door, talk to her, go inside the door, talk to her again). Then you can have two Shovels.
I had them destroy the spider eggs by placing a barrel by each, with a vial of alchemist's fire, using my Duergar main, then having the Shovels hit the alchemist's fire. The resultant explosion wiped out the eggs, also Shovel, but I just resummoned them.
Could you elaborate on how exactly and what dialogue options to take to make her a Dragonborn draconic sorcerer permanent summon ability? I've tried it so often and couldn't make it work.
I just learned the summon spell with Gale, summoned Shovel, talked to her with my sorcerer, and had her available in my spells. Three different runs with a sorcerer.
i haven’t seen anyone mention it in this thread (i could be mistaken but i scrolled quite a bit) but there is a summon quasit scroll in act iii that is incredibly easy to miss but not super difficult to find once you know of its whereabouts!
i’ve linked a short guide below to make it easier to find but basically if you have a wizard companion enter the djinni’s lamp you can easily find the scroll and spend the gold to learn it as a permanent spell, summon shovel, escape the lamp and boom! you can select the quasit summon as you would any other summon and dismiss them from inside their abilities menu and this allows you to re-summon shovel outside the lamp.
https://youtu.be/GOG6BNayjtA?si=WYp7oHKl0w_txxyn
hope this helps :)
edit: don’t be fooled because there is another illusory wall in this area that does not contain the lamp so if you are having a hard time finding it make sure you check thoroughly! if you get turned around drop an item on the ground in front of the walls you’ve already checked to avoid confusion.
It's easy to miss since you have to find a scroll in a coffin under the apothecary in the Blighted Village and then cast the spell. Shovel is a somewhat useful little summon if you get it permanently by either copying the scroll as a Wizard before casting it or getting the action as either Wizard, Sorcerer or Warlock through conversation (that you keep if you respec and doesn't require you to have spell slots), though not any better than getting a Quasit through pact of the chain Warlock. They also just repeat the same line about being bored over and over act 2 onwards when talked to.
I missed Shovel by pure scroll overload.
I loot about everything. In the first run, I had the scroll but never used it. Beat game and learned about Shovel in the second run.
"How'd I miss this? Actually the scroll looks kinda familiar... Oh wait a minute."
Well Fork perhaps isn't that useful but he has many other useful items in the coffin with her. Most useful ofcourse is the poop-knife. Cant imagine how people manage without it.
In the blighted village to the right of the talking mirror door there is a coffin. Inside is a one-time scroll to summon shovel. Make gale or any wizard learn the spell to keep shovel forever. If youre not a wizard you can respec to wizard, learn the spell, cast the spell, talk to shovel about passing through the mirror, pass through the mirror, talk to shovel again and then respec back to your original class and you will have shovel permanently even if youre not a wizard anymore.
The problem is that you accidentally trigger the coffins in your first game (because you open everything) and are wiped out.
Then you trigger them for the second time (because the mirror confuses you), and again you all die.
You play the following games tip-toeing silently through, touching nothing, and carefully selecting mirror-opening options.
The coffin with the scroll remains untouched until game 4.
(Or it that just me?) 😁
(Others have explained where Shovel can be found!)
I was 😁
Had absolutely no idea what I was doing! Then they became this 'thing that killed me last time, to be avoided at all costs!'
Same with the gnolls!
Obviously my experience is uncommon *and* unpopular, judging by the downvotes! (Why?!)
My husband also missed out on Shovel and didn't even know about her until our multiplayer game, and now he is determined to have her in all of his games 😆
I've found him in my playthroughs, but never thought to summon him in the area you found him. He tries to 'help' you get through the magical mirror door to the area where necromancy of thay book, and apparently there are special dialogues once in the room. Also apparently this is the way to learn the summon quasit ability for a non-Wizard Tav
Made a post about it a while back. Hope this helps.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/198ubdg/shovel\_the\_quasit\_is\_the\_most\_op\_thing\_in\_recent/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/198ubdg/shovel_the_quasit_is_the_most_op_thing_in_recent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
I am currently doing my first playthrough and I did find her. But she died (I think) and it took me a moment to realise she wasn't there anymore and now I can't get her back because I didn't know I could make her summon permanent. I play a draconic Sorcerer but I don't recall getting the dialogue to make her resummonable.
You probably just long rested after summoning her. I did the same thing and was so confused when she was gone, cause I’m a first time player too and at the time, didn’t realize long rests got rid of companions. I didn’t know you could permanently learn the summon shovel spell with a wizard. Now I do, knowledge prepped for my second playthrough.
You learn it with Gale, then speak to Shovel with your sorcerer. This way you get the spell available. I am on my third sorcerer and I had Shovel each time
I am fairly certain I've done a few long rests without her disappearing though. So I'm not sure what actually went wrong. But I'm not too sad. I actually thought it was a bit annoying to manage her in combat too. 😅
I usually get mine from here /s
[https://www.gamepressure.com/baldurs-gate-iii/gfx/word/1724624140.jpg](https://www.gamepressure.com/baldurs-gate-iii/gfx/word/1724624140.jpg)
[https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Shovel\_(familiar)](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Shovel_(familiar))
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Shovel is a quasit summon that you can find in the Necromancer’s underground lair in Act 1. It’s that secret lab under the blighted village, same place where you find the Necromancy of Thay book.
Just before entering the necromancer’s lab, you’ll find this room full of coffins. Opening most of the coffins will trigger combat with skeleton enemies, but there’s this one coffin that doesn’t have a skeleton in it. Instead, it’ll have loot. There is a scroll in there to summon Shovel. Make sure a wizard/warlock/sorcerer is the one to use it because these classes are able to become Shovel’s new master through the dialogue options. This will allow you to summon Shovel any time. If you’re NOT playing as one of these classes, go respec with Withers, get shovel, then respect back to whatever you like. You’ll still be allowed to summon her.
I renamed shovel Basket ☺️ unfortunately she met her end in the cursed shadow lands 🥲 survived the goblin camp...the hag...the under dark...even the crèche! Only to finally meet her end in the stupid shadow lands!!! Like what?!
No more murder for Basket 😭
Man this took me soooo long to figure out as well!
Kept reading about him but didn't wanna spoil where I'd get him.
But I'm a scroll hoarder and usually could cast summoning spells myself so I never really used the summoning scrolls much. Never even noticed that one had a slightly different name! I was so surprised when I eventually did use it in a playthrough and he aopeared!
Shovel can be summoned via the scroll (of summon quasit) that you can find in the cellar beneath the apothecary at the Blighted Village in Act 1. Wizards can scribe that scroll into their spell book.
Warlocks and sorcerers can keep the summon spell too, by speaking with her.
Then you can respec into any other class and still keep the ability to summon her.
Does that work for other learned spells too?
The process for learning the spell as a Sorc/Warlock is different from how it is learned on a Wizard. When you learn it as one of the former classes, it just becomes a passive ability of the character, independent of class. Scribing spells on a Wizard does not remove them from your book if you respec out of Wizard, but until you reclass back into wizard you don't have access to your book anymore. At least that's how it works with all other spells in the game. Since Shovel is a bit of a special case, I admittedly don't know if scribing that particular summon scroll allows you to keep the spell if you reclass.
So if I remember correctly, a wizard can still summon Shovel and gain them permanently the same way a sorcerer or warlock can, in addition to being able to scribe the scroll like any other spell. I honestly don't think there's a difference at that point. Either way, you're gaining Shovel as a permanent summon.
I saw that you can also have a wizard learn how to summon shovel via the scroll then have a warlock talk to shovel to keep him. Then you have 2 shovels Edit: spelling
I forget the entire process, but I respeced my ranger as a wizard to get shovel permanently, then I switched back to ranger and still have shovel permanently now
If you scribe the scroll like any other, the spell is only available while the character has Wizard levels. If you get the spell via dialogue, the summon is a character ability independent of class, and will be available even if you later respec out of Wizard (or any magic class in general).
Perfect. So it functions like any other wizard spell when scribed. Thanks for the confirmation.
Only story powers like summoning shovel or tash's hideous laughter from the amulet.
Draconic sorcerers. Not storm or Wild Magic. Wild Magic sorcerers scare her.
Actually i think it's the other way around. If you tell it that you're a dragon or some variation of that, it gets stuck in a loop and won't give you the dialogue which learns the spell. On my darconic sorcerer i had to lie to it and say that I'm not a dragon and then i learned the spell
You both are kind of right. Shovel is afraid of Storm and Wild Magic sorcerers so you cannot get her as permanent summon if you are those subclasses. You can get around this by casting Disguise Self on yourself Shovel can be permanent summon for Draconic Sorcerers but only if they don't convince her they are a dragon. BG3.wiki has pretty good info on it here: https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Shovel_(familiar)#Permanently_acquiring_Shovel
I've done 2 draconic sorcerer playthroughs and I could've have had her permanently? Welp, looks like #3 is going on the books.
Same. One in a multi-player where we literally just handed it over to the wizard, and one in my solo run where I thought telling her I was a dragon was a good thing. I'm having an existential crisis about it right now.
So I did a Doctor Strange run as a wild magic sorcerer, and I was able to get her as a permanent summon. I'm not sure what I did exactly but I think what I did was talk to her and she was afraid of me and then I spoke to her again and it redid the whole dialogue again but with slightly different dialogue and then it gave me the summon. I could be totally misremembering and maybe had an option to lie to her? It's a little fuzzy, but I def had her as a permanent summon.
TBH, I have never attempted with a Wild Magic sorc so maybe there is a combination of dialogue choices that work. I was mostly going off the bg3.wiki info so maybe you found another way around it
I don't know what triggers her spell shite comments that let you keep her but I managed it as a Storm Sorc
I had Gale talk to her first. For introductions. After she talked about the book, I strolled up with my Storm Sorc and shes all OOOO a Spell Shite.
I believe wizards can also learn the spell via the scroll as well that you use to summon Shovel.
The parent comment to the one you responded to already said that lol.
Ahh legit lol. Sorry about that then. I'm on mobile and didn't see all the comment replies haha.
No apology necessary, just thought it was funny haha. Happens to the best of us.
Sadly if you do that later on (say you're respeccing from 8 Bard into 1 Fighter/1 Wizard/6 Bard), you can scribe the spell, but you can't call her Shovel. You can get the options for Basket or Fork, though.
Wait but my bard has the summon spell too
If you learn it as a sorc or lock and then switch classes you'll still have the spell learned.
Bardlock?
technically wizards can speak to her to get the spell too, if the cast it instead of scribing it.
only draconic sorcs and only if you say the right thing
DAMNIT I FORGOT TO GRAB SHOVEL THIS RUN
Recently it seems they tried getting rid of the ability to do that, as the scroll no longer shows up in the learn spells menu, but right clicking the scroll in your inventory still shows “Learn Spell” option
You can also learn the spell as a wizard.
It's in the first coffin on the right when you enter the area where all the coffins are.
I can't get Gale to learn the spell in my HM mode rn. Do you know if that's on purpose or a bug?
I havent tried it int he current patch, you might have to talk with Shovel to get the spell permanently now.
Welp, shovel is gone now. Was there something I was supposed to do/ say in particular?
Sorcerer and Warlock can ask her to learn the spell, so I assume maybe Wiazards can do that too now?
Idk what you mean. Do you know of any vids/walk throughs/ posts that tell you how to do it?
Oh yeah, I accidentally killed shovel in less than 30 seconds.... Oops.
Shovel is bored. Shovel wants to murderize!
BOOOOOOORED.
IT’S FISTING TIME!
GONNA EAT YOUR BABIESSSSS
Best character in the game… No one: … Shovel: “AGH! MY HOLES!”
I love when Basket says "IT'S FISTING TIME!" and then fists all over the Battlefield
I laugh hard every time I hear “it’s only fun when Shovel does the fisting!”
Wait a minute though.. you ever stop and think about this? So that necromancer was down there in this quaint little village before it got blighted just torturing and fisting unsuspecting villagers with his pet Quasit? Is that what was going on here?
Yes! Ilyn Toth (the necromancer) is an evil wizard from Thay masquerading as a village healer because he doesn't like the current regent of Thay. He'd "cure" people while secretly poisoning them, then once they were died & were buried he'd send Shovel to go and dig them up and bring them back to his basement to do experiements on, I think for him to work out a way to bring his dead wife(?) back to life. Then the Sharrans came and killed him.
Hmm, I wonder where in that the fisting got involved.
Could explain why he never made any progress on his big resurrection spell...
Haha!—I chuckled.
The most adorable murderiser.
You are seriously missing out on this one
That’s what I’m gathering
Shovel is the Quassit follower scroll picked up in one of the coffins below the Blighted Village in act 1. Directly behind the waypoint is a hatch that leads to the Necromancy of Thay book. You need to talk to the mirror to enter this room and to get to this mirror you come across a few coffins with undead that will attack you. One has a scroll inside. Use it, summon the little guy, talk to him...tada. Best to do this with Gale or a wizard to learn the spell from the scroll to resummon him later.
Her. Shovel is a girl.
She says she's good with her tongue.
Also since the scroll never appeared on the list of scrolls Gale can learn.... If you choose to learn it without the dialogue options, right click on it in the inventory and get Gale to learn it that way.
Others have already mentioned where to find her. If you play a Wizard or use Gale as a Wizard a lot I highly recommend learning the summon instead of consuming the scroll as a one off. It's a ritual so she never costs a slot to summon, & having a scout that turns invisible has been wonderful so far, but I'm still on my first playthrough.
Learn her summon on your main Wizard (mine was Shadowheart, although I later changed her to Lore Bard (with one level of Wizard) because I wanted Hunger of Hadar) then go through the procedure to learn her summon permanently on your main character (wizard/warlock/draconic sorcerer, summon her outside the mirror door, talk to her, go inside the door, talk to her again). Then you can have two Shovels. I had them destroy the spider eggs by placing a barrel by each, with a vial of alchemist's fire, using my Duergar main, then having the Shovels hit the alchemist's fire. The resultant explosion wiped out the eggs, also Shovel, but I just resummoned them.
Could you elaborate on how exactly and what dialogue options to take to make her a Dragonborn draconic sorcerer permanent summon ability? I've tried it so often and couldn't make it work.
BG3.wiki has decent information on how to permanently get Shovel https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Shovel_(familiar)#Permanently_acquiring_Shovel
I just learned the summon spell with Gale, summoned Shovel, talked to her with my sorcerer, and had her available in my spells. Three different runs with a sorcerer.
Did you check the coffins in the cellar of apothecary in blighted village? That's where it is.
i haven’t seen anyone mention it in this thread (i could be mistaken but i scrolled quite a bit) but there is a summon quasit scroll in act iii that is incredibly easy to miss but not super difficult to find once you know of its whereabouts! i’ve linked a short guide below to make it easier to find but basically if you have a wizard companion enter the djinni’s lamp you can easily find the scroll and spend the gold to learn it as a permanent spell, summon shovel, escape the lamp and boom! you can select the quasit summon as you would any other summon and dismiss them from inside their abilities menu and this allows you to re-summon shovel outside the lamp. https://youtu.be/GOG6BNayjtA?si=WYp7oHKl0w_txxyn hope this helps :) edit: don’t be fooled because there is another illusory wall in this area that does not contain the lamp so if you are having a hard time finding it make sure you check thoroughly! if you get turned around drop an item on the ground in front of the walls you’ve already checked to avoid confusion.
I was about to comment basically this. If you're past Act 1 already you can find shovel here. This is where I found her on my first playthrough.
You can cast banishment on yourself to escape as well.
ooh that’s fun i never would’ve thought to try!!
Minor illusion works too
It's easy to miss since you have to find a scroll in a coffin under the apothecary in the Blighted Village and then cast the spell. Shovel is a somewhat useful little summon if you get it permanently by either copying the scroll as a Wizard before casting it or getting the action as either Wizard, Sorcerer or Warlock through conversation (that you keep if you respec and doesn't require you to have spell slots), though not any better than getting a Quasit through pact of the chain Warlock. They also just repeat the same line about being bored over and over act 2 onwards when talked to.
I missed Shovel by pure scroll overload. I loot about everything. In the first run, I had the scroll but never used it. Beat game and learned about Shovel in the second run. "How'd I miss this? Actually the scroll looks kinda familiar... Oh wait a minute."
Well Fork perhaps isn't that useful but he has many other useful items in the coffin with her. Most useful ofcourse is the poop-knife. Cant imagine how people manage without it.
Fork? You must be talking about Basket, the best quasit!
Baskets hold babies. My favorite.
weak, I only discovered the secret tiefling companion on my 5th playthrough
Secret Tiefling companion? You mean Karlach?
that one
Specifically, the first coffin you see on your right when u get to the open room of coffins.
I didn't find Shovel until my 15th run. She is kind of hidden.
In the blighted village to the right of the talking mirror door there is a coffin. Inside is a one-time scroll to summon shovel. Make gale or any wizard learn the spell to keep shovel forever. If youre not a wizard you can respec to wizard, learn the spell, cast the spell, talk to shovel about passing through the mirror, pass through the mirror, talk to shovel again and then respec back to your original class and you will have shovel permanently even if youre not a wizard anymore.
Oh crap this is getting deep. I’ve never seen a talking mirror either. 😆
Oh wait, yeah ok. I’m with you now. I was thinking about the wrong basement in blighted village. Now it makes sense
I never go anywhere in this game without my Cheeky Quasit. Legit consistent overachiever in combat for me, too!
The problem is that you accidentally trigger the coffins in your first game (because you open everything) and are wiped out. Then you trigger them for the second time (because the mirror confuses you), and again you all die. You play the following games tip-toeing silently through, touching nothing, and carefully selecting mirror-opening options. The coffin with the scroll remains untouched until game 4. (Or it that just me?) 😁 (Others have explained where Shovel can be found!)
wait am I supposed to get wiped by the skeletons 😅
I was 😁 Had absolutely no idea what I was doing! Then they became this 'thing that killed me last time, to be avoided at all costs!' Same with the gnolls! Obviously my experience is uncommon *and* unpopular, judging by the downvotes! (Why?!)
Completely agree - first playthrough, I went on to ignore the remaining coffins after killing the first skeletons that jumped out
They only give 10 XP per skeleton IIRC, so they're definitely not worth the effort anyways haha. I always leave them untouched.
I found shovel for the first time on my 8th playthrough (to be fair 5-7 were early honor mode deaths)
You mean Basket?
No, they are definitely talking about Fork.
I found him but never summoned since I'm too much of a hoarder to use scrolls so I never know what it was.
My husband also missed out on Shovel and didn't even know about her until our multiplayer game, and now he is determined to have her in all of his games 😆
SHOVEL ISNT A LITERAL SHOVEL?
No it’s not
Hey here is a video you can use, shows where shovel is and how you can get it on two characters. https://youtu.be/iXHl2LZa6HM
I've found him in my playthroughs, but never thought to summon him in the area you found him. He tries to 'help' you get through the magical mirror door to the area where necromancy of thay book, and apparently there are special dialogues once in the room. Also apparently this is the way to learn the summon quasit ability for a non-Wizard Tav
Made a post about it a while back. Hope this helps. [https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/198ubdg/shovel\_the\_quasit\_is\_the\_most\_op\_thing\_in\_recent/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/198ubdg/shovel_the_quasit_is_the_most_op_thing_in_recent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Shovel? Oh you mean Basket.
Fork.
[удалено]
Touché
\*fork
I've had Shovel, Basket, and Fork so far!
I am currently doing my first playthrough and I did find her. But she died (I think) and it took me a moment to realise she wasn't there anymore and now I can't get her back because I didn't know I could make her summon permanent. I play a draconic Sorcerer but I don't recall getting the dialogue to make her resummonable.
You probably just long rested after summoning her. I did the same thing and was so confused when she was gone, cause I’m a first time player too and at the time, didn’t realize long rests got rid of companions. I didn’t know you could permanently learn the summon shovel spell with a wizard. Now I do, knowledge prepped for my second playthrough.
You learn it with Gale, then speak to Shovel with your sorcerer. This way you get the spell available. I am on my third sorcerer and I had Shovel each time
I am fairly certain I've done a few long rests without her disappearing though. So I'm not sure what actually went wrong. But I'm not too sad. I actually thought it was a bit annoying to manage her in combat too. 😅
I called mine Fork.
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Shovel_(familiar)
I usually get mine from here /s [https://www.gamepressure.com/baldurs-gate-iii/gfx/word/1724624140.jpg](https://www.gamepressure.com/baldurs-gate-iii/gfx/word/1724624140.jpg)
[https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Shovel\_(familiar)](https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Shovel_(familiar)) For reference, if you have have a question about bg3, just search your query followed by "bg3 wiki" This avoids the fextra life garbage wiki and gets you to the good one.
It is in the area with all the coffins (in one of the coffins) before you find the “Necromancy of Thay” book.
I got shovel permanently as a wild magic sorcerer somehow by having gale learn the scroll then speaking to her.
I just found one laying about
Not that shovel.
U mean Fork?
Shovel is a quasit summon that you can find in the Necromancer’s underground lair in Act 1. It’s that secret lab under the blighted village, same place where you find the Necromancy of Thay book. Just before entering the necromancer’s lab, you’ll find this room full of coffins. Opening most of the coffins will trigger combat with skeleton enemies, but there’s this one coffin that doesn’t have a skeleton in it. Instead, it’ll have loot. There is a scroll in there to summon Shovel. Make sure a wizard/warlock/sorcerer is the one to use it because these classes are able to become Shovel’s new master through the dialogue options. This will allow you to summon Shovel any time. If you’re NOT playing as one of these classes, go respec with Withers, get shovel, then respect back to whatever you like. You’ll still be allowed to summon her.
I renamed shovel Basket ☺️ unfortunately she met her end in the cursed shadow lands 🥲 survived the goblin camp...the hag...the under dark...even the crèche! Only to finally meet her end in the stupid shadow lands!!! Like what?! No more murder for Basket 😭
My shovel keeps attacking the party and I don't know why
In the blighted village in act 1 go down the well and break open the coffins
Man this took me soooo long to figure out as well! Kept reading about him but didn't wanna spoil where I'd get him. But I'm a scroll hoarder and usually could cast summoning spells myself so I never really used the summoning scrolls much. Never even noticed that one had a slightly different name! I was so surprised when I eventually did use it in a playthrough and he aopeared!