Baldur’s Gate 3 – How to Use Icy Crystal, Icy Metal, and Icy Helve

bg3 how to get mourning frost

In this guide, you will learn how to use Icy Crystal, Icy Metal, and Icy Helve to create Mourning Frost in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Mourning Frost is a powerful two-handed staff weapon that can be used for melee attacks but also provides a strong bonus to cold damage. With it, you will receive the Heart of Ice passive, which provides a +1 to cold damage when using spells like Ray of Frost. Fortunately, it’s easy to get but requires some exploration.

Here are the locations of all three items necessary to craft Mourning Frost in BG3.

How to Get Icy Helve, Crystal & Metal in Baldur’s Gate 3

How to Get Icy Helve, Crystal & Metal in Baldur’s Gate 3

All three items can be found in the Underdark.

Icy Crystal location

Coordinates: X: 40, Y: 171

Climb the Sussar Tree and loot the body of Filgro the Forgotten. From him, you will receive the Icy Crystal.

Icy Helve location

Coordinates (rough): X: 113, Y: 246

Fast Travel to the Underdark Selunite Outpost waypoint. Go west and exit the window, then get down and defeat the Eye of the Beholder boss.

Speak to Dhourn and kill him. Loot the Icy Helve from his corpse.

Icy Metal location

Coordinates: X: 49, Y: 77

Complete the Act 1 quest, “Defeat the Duergar Intruders”. Visit the northern part of the Underdark at the Myconid Colony.

Speak to Sovereign to access the secret cave. Loot the Pale corpse to receive the Icy Metal.

How to Craft Mourning Frost in Baldur’s Gate 3

How to Get Icy Helve, Crystal & Metal in Baldur’s Gate 3

After collecting the Icy Crystal, Icy Helve, and Icy Metal, you can combine them in your inventory.

Open your inventory and select any of the items, click and choose Combine. Next, drop the other two items into the other slots.

Once all three are in place, choose the option that says Combine. This will let you craft the Mourning Frost staff.


Baldur’s Gate 3 is a role-playing game developed by Larion Studios and released in 2023 for PC, macOS, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.

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