BG3 Stone Disc Moon Puzzle in Defiled Temple

Role-playing games have always heavily featured puzzles as part of their core game design. These often impede your progress or reward you with great prizes once you solve them. Baldur’s Gate III is the same when it comes to this, which means that you should try and solve every puzzle that you encounter. And while some of its puzzles are pretty simple to figure out, others are far harder to solve. Take the BG3 Stone Disc Moon puzzle in the Defiled Temple as an example. If you have been struggling with this particular puzzle, our guide is going to show you how you can quickly complete it.

How to Solve the Stone Disc Moon Puzzle in Defiled Temple in Baldur’s Gate 3?

Once you arrive at this location, you’re going to see four large, interloking stone discs on the ground. With your minimap facing to the north, your goal here is to get the lowermost stone disc to have all four circles in it be dark ones. Here’s how you can do this:

• Step #1: Turn the top stone disk x1.
• Step #2: Turn the left stone disk x3.
• Step #3: Turn the bottom stone disk x1.
• Step #4: Turn the left stone disk x2.
• Step #5: Turn the right stone disk x2.
• Step #6: Turn the bottom stone disk x1.
• Step #7: Turn the right stone disk x2.

You can also take a look at our YouTube video to see how this looks like in action. And if this puzzle seems a bit too complicated, don’t worry, as there is another way to get the door to open. Namely, a short distance away from this puzzle in the same room to the north, there is a hidden lever. You need to successfully pass a Perception skill check in order to spot it, but once you have done that, simply use it and the door will open.