Animated Armour

Animated Armour is a Construct and non-playable race in Baldur's Gate 3. They can be found in the Arcane Tower, Grymforge, and at Sorcerous Sundries. Animated Armour can be disabled by anti-magic effects.

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Suits of magically animated plate armour. Ponderous and persistent, these constructs are often used as guardians.

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— In-game racial description

Involvement

Animated armours can be encountered in all three acts of the game. In Act 1, four (or six, on Tactician difficulty and above) animated armours armed with crossbows can be encountered on the top floor of the Arcane Tower along with Bernard. Several more can be found defending Grymforge.

In Act 2, a unique animated armour, the Hollow Armour, is located in the pit of the House of Healing Morgue.

Finally, in Act 3, Sorcerous Sundries employs several animated armours as guards, some of whom will take part in the fight with Lorrokan.

Combat

Animated armours are equipped with basic weapons, usually a Greatsword or Heavy Crossbow.

Animated armours can be disabled by  Sussur Antimagic Field from Sussur Blooms. This works either when the Sussur Bloom is placed near them or held by a nearby character. The number of flowers in the Underdark is enough to disable all the animated armours in the Bernard encounter.

Due to their low Wisdom, animated armours are susceptible to spells or effects targeting a Wisdom saving throws,  Command in particular. Note, however, that animated armours are simply immune to many mental effects like  Frightened,  Hold Person, and  Crown of Madness so your choice of spells may be limited.

Their weight is pretty low at 40 kg / 80 lb. A character with a minimum of 15 strength can attempt to pick up and throw them with the  Throw action. In the Arcane Tower and Grymforge encounters, they can be thrown into the surrounding chasms to instantly destroy them.

Attacks and abilities

 Main Hand Attack ()

Normal weapon damage Make a melee attack with your equipped weapon.

 Melee: 1.5 m / 5  ft

Notes

• Ordinarily these enemies reward 40 experience each. However, it seems that the 4 found in Grymforge can reward 75 experience each when playing on Honour Mode Difficulty or Custom Difficulty with the Honour Mode ruleset.

Named Animated Armours

• Klank
• Krank

Animated Armour enemy variants

• Hollow Armour

Gallery

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  Early Access.

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  Animated Armour in-game.

External links

Animated armor on the Forgotten Realms Wiki