Baldur’s Gate 3 toughness & sturdiness explained: How to break walls and doors

In Baldur’s Gate 3, you sometimes come across gates, doors, and walls you can break. However, each of these objects has a sturdiness level you must overcome in order to destroy it. Here’s a full rundown on sturdiness levels and how to break walls, doors, and more in BG3.

Baldur’s Gate 3 leaves a lot of room for players to roleplay their characters the way they want. Whether they are a stealthy Rogue or a powerful Barbarian, obstacles in the game are always present, and going through them may require a little bit of brute force and some worldly knowledge.

Sturdiness levels are there to prevent you from destroying everything in your wake, so here’s all you need to know about them, and how to break walls, doors, and more with ease in BG3.

• What are the sturdiness and toughness levels in Baldur’s Gate 3
• How do I break a door, wall or object in Baldur’s Gate 3
• Sturdiness & toughness level chart and resistances

What sturdiness & toughness levels in Baldur’s Gate 3?

Sturdiness in Baldur’s Gate 3 is the grade of resistance an object or structure has to resist your attacks. To overcome that sturdiness level, you must understand what resistances are associated with each object. Toughness is the level that indicates how much damage you need to inflict before the structure or object breaks.

You can access certain places, passages, shortcuts, and even secret vaults by breaking these objects. But destroying a door or gate may also get you in trouble.

How to break doors, walls, & objects in Baldur’s Gate 3?

To break a door, a wall, or other objects in Baldur’s Gate 3 you must select it as an objective, or select the action you want your character to perform and then target the structure.

To overcome the sturdiness and toughness levels your character will need to cause certain types and levels of damage. We have a full chart with all sturdiness levels and damage resistances of objects and structures in the game down below.

Baldur’s Gate 3 object sturdiness level & resistances

The following chart shows the sturdiness and toughness levels of objects in Baldur’s Gate 3, as well as the resistances of each of them. Remember that to check the sturdiness of an object and its resistances, you must use the Left Ctrl Key on PC / Down Key on controllers.

Toughness level	Resistances	Minimum Damage	Best Weapons/Damage Types
None	None	0	Anything
Sturdy	Piercing Necrotic Radiant Poison Psychic	10 or more	Bludgeoning (Mace, Quarterstaff, Warhammer). Fire (Firebolt) Force (Eldritch Blast)
Medium toughness	Necrotic Piercing Radiant Fire Poison Psychic	22 or more	Acid or Bludgeoning
Greater toughness	Force Piercing Acid Cold Fire Lightning Necrotic Poison Psychic Radiant Slashing	50 or more	(High-end Force Damage) Disintegrate Spell

Keep in mind that structures with Greater toughness are resistant to every type of damage, and only a high-grade spell like Disintegrate, which causes extreme damage, could overcome the sturdiness level of said structure.

If the object you are aiming to destroy can be opened, you will need either lockpicking or the Knock spell, which can open any door/chest, even those protected by magic.

That’s a wrap on Baldur’s Gate 3 toughness & sturdiness levels. If you are still eager for more content about the game, you can consult our guide section below:

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