Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines 2004. On PC Win 11. Almost finished game ran into glitch can't solve in quest Ming Must Die. The 4 jade animals on pedestals in the temple I can only pick up 3 of 4. On the fourth pick up I can select it and it flashes I press e but it won't place in inventory. I replayed and picked up different order of jade animals and same thing it is not animal specific it is always the last of 4 same problem can't pick up last one. I even tried placing the 3 i have on their pedestals in the oval room and went back still can't pick up last one so can't proceed in game. tried all the obvious restarts deleted some older saves searched the web and youtube no one having this issue. replayed from Buddah room very laborious to replay again.

Never heard of this problem either. Is there anything unusual about your system or your bloodlines installation? Or did you make any changes (other than simple texture mods) and not start a new playthrough?

To solve your problem you can give the missing item via console. Open the console with the tilde key (under ESC) and type give item_g_idol_cat. The others are called _crane, _dragon and _elephant.
To avoid another typical problem close the console by typing chareditor.

Is it a Galaxy installation? And if so, do you have autoupdate turned on for this game? That can cause all sorts of unpredictable problems.

Been Away

Yes Galaxy install patch 1.2 up 11.1 Just bought from GOG few months ago using Galaxy. No other issues t unchecked auto update now but there have been no updates since install i don't think.

When tilde give item_g_idol_dragon get inventory full item dropped across top of screen. Tried twice now havw two dragons lying on floor one still on pedastal

PC is recent MSI Codex windows 11 RTX 3060

I tried dropping a bunch of stuff from inventory and retried give dragon. I can pick up everything I dropped but not the dragons from the floor and still the one on pedestal flashing. The inventory full message seems bogus.


no mods at all original install I never reinstalled. I had to dump all but last 6 saves as otherwise too big to sync with GOG. Saves seem to be getting big

One more thing you can try. Assuming you don't have the dragon in your inventory, type the following into the console before setting the other idols on the pedestals:
__main__.G.tpl3_dragon_final = 1
Placing the other idols after that should open the portal to continue.

stood in front of number 4 empty pedestal which activated. Dragon not in inventory. Didnt seem to do anything.

SSE code is enabled
SSE2 code is enabled
3DNow code is disabled
MMX code is enabled
Exe version 0.27.0 (protocol 1)
Build: Dec 2 2004 16:11:45 (466)
Loading game from SAVE\Vampire-065.sav...
SOLID_VPHYSICS static prop with no vphysics model! (models/scenery/structural/temple/dome.mdl)
Loading game from SAVE\ch_temple_3.HL1...
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map patcher loaded
Exhausted signon buffer. Skipping remaining baselines (ents 295 - 485).
Encountered a non-standard vertex format (183 3 1)
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Can't find factory for entity: vdisciplineprojectile
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] __main__.G.tpl3_dragon_final = 1
] I had the problem before setting any of the three on their pedestals. Placing them was an experiment to see if placing them helped the problem not being able to pick up number 4. I had also played with and without turning off the chopper blades before I found that. I tried your suggestion in front of the empty receiving pedestal Dragon not in inventory.