I've founds dozens of these doors, some in the overworld and some at the end of already existing dungeons. Looking behind them with freecam, they all have unique unfinished room geometry behind them. Some look like large caverns, others seem like structured rooms with branching hallways, spiraling stairs and large columns. I really hope these get expanded upon, because this game really needs some big challenge dungeons for people with endgame gear.

Was surprised that the collapsed pathways doors didn’t open up within the endgame. Guess DLC is coming and I can’t wait.

I think it's pretty obvious that the "launch" location for whatever expansion is next is at harve village, it isnt a coincidence that they put a port crystal literally at the dock

Dragon's Dogma 2 is such a fun game. It's also good. But man you can tell some corners were cut yet AGAIN similar to the original and it's very irritating.

When i was doing first 3 Brant quests, i once heard from npcs guarding Vermund capital gates lines about queen sending them on expeditions to search for some weird sealed gates. Those collapsed gates were the first thing that came to my mind. Also someone should finally map those gates, in Battahl i remember that there was one in a Sal Battahl cave near the road to Dragonroost tower (not the medusa one), one under a cliff in south west part in central Battahl and another one in Sandsear cave on the eastern edge of Battahl Forest.

Figured I'd throw my two cents in here for this one. As a lot of people have already pointed out, there are a *lot* of these doorways throughout the game. All of them blocked off. Now not to let the speculation train run off the rails, but the small "leak" we did get recently about DLC said that it would only open up after finishing the main story. Which I think is becoming more and more believable as we find more of these doors. Furthermore I'm finding almost no one talking about a single piece of dialogue that pawns have after starting a NG+. "Arisen! I knew you loved this world to much to leave it behind!" I have been looking for anyone else talking about this one line, which to some might seem throw away but suggests that the pawns remember the ending of the Unmoored World. Something is suppose to happen and carry on the game and NG+ I don't think is it. There's a missing piece of the puzzle. (Edited to fix the quote)

You can also find one in Unmoored world with some flowers (Moonglow?) or something glowing clearly leading a path. I can't exactly remember where but I think it was near Seafloor Shirne or within it's vicinity.

Dragon's Dogma's Vaati strikes again.

Something that made me curious, was how the Sphinx had parents, who resemble humanoid pawns? So her being tied in with a rift quest line would make sense, maybe as an exploration in a DLC.

One theory (/hope) I have is that these doors are meant for an underground Dwarven region for the DLC. Picture this; all these doors/entrances throughout the world link together through a massive underground area/dungeon. More than a cut-off island, having a region beneath Vermont and Bhattal that allows for passage between existing dungeons/areas would be awesome DLC material, and enhance the exploration for the base-game by a lot. Functionally, it can still act as mid-to-endgame dungeon to fight through for a side-challenge like Bitterblack Isles was, but with less of a 'go to the DLC area' feel to it that many games have. I see some people disappointed that these doors didn't open up during their playthrough, but the fact that they're there in the base-game at all shows a lot of signs that the developers plan to implement the DLC more seamlessly than other games.

Bruh you found just two? There are like dozen or more of those, I wasn't even counting. I assumed they open up in unmoored world, but I guess now I know they won't... The one on the way to ancient battleground is even pointed out by pawns like "look, this looks like a cave entrance!"

There's at least other 2 caves like these that i found. One was in the elven forest region, but i don't remember where exactly. And the second one was in a globlin cave next to the Medusa cave.

i dont know if you guys spotted this but there is sometimes a loading screen showing daimon from dark arisen its really rare to appear tho

I don't know, but I need more Dragons and more Dogma XD

yeah the guard near castle was mentioning about these doors .That he was tasked to look for them and dig out.

The "Western Ruins" in West Battahl was the one i found myself and was like "how do i get there", because there is that one statue nearby with message paper about cave, that clearly points to that entrance (or the waterfall next to it), as imo it is not pointing towards the one cave nearby if you look right in the direction of the statue front. There are so many potential places fow extra content/dlc for future. Im fairly sure they already have some content done (or cut from main game) that they could release as dlc, or just as updates.

I think it's pretty much a given that they will open these caves up either in an update or a DLC. I just found one such collapsed doorway in a cave last night where you have to go down a ladder and there's only that collapsed doorway without anything else there.

The game has a lot of those caves and doors (godsbane doors), a Everfall like dunegon splits in several sections is my guess, also a random npc on Batthal was mentioning odd noises coming from them.

I remember seeing one specifically in the unmoored world below sea level.

The Pawns even commented on that first door, saying, "There's a cavern nearby".

I think there's another blocked cave entrance at the Dead-End Curve near the Misty Marshes. I got a photo of it and it's more of a mine leading to the blocked entrance.

Saw all of them, npc talks about them too.

I'd wish they expanded at least a little bit more on dwarven lore... Given the fact that at least we have a small elven settlement but only 2 dwarf NPCs without background on the race...

I've found a few of these doors in my playthrough. The site I used to search for seekers tokens has a big map of the overworld and all the caves/underground sections. One part looked like a labyrinth.

I also saw those doors, and my initial though was about being passage ways for dwarven underground cities... but now that I think of it... I dont know because of the symbol on the door... But I still believe Capcom could come up with a Dwarves dlc centered... opening the map above and under ground. After all, they are in the game, at least two of them and we even have the dwarven upgrades but no cities around for them... may be they could release a dlc, explaining their absence, because the dragon on its wake cshaked the earth and cause their entrances to be blocked off to the rest of the world... anyway lol, I want to know more about dwarves!

I found another one in the unmoored world. The right path north from the seafood shrine, right in front of the destroyed houses in a corridor

I believe there is one of these doors in 'Darkhorde Cave' as well, there are some Saurians and the Myfyr bow and a seeker token can be found outside, it is South and slightly West of Sacred Arbor.

Maybe you go through the caves and they all interconnect and lead to the snowy area or maybe a dwarf village. Question is, how the heck do we get to that island, through the caves? I don’t think that island will be inhabited maybe more of a bbi situation where it’s just overrun with new monsters. Don’t really see why the dwarfs would live so far away from the mainland on that island because most of them are blacksmiths or armorers’. Island could actually end up being the snowy area, but who the heck would want to live there? Maybe a new a race we haven’t seen yet? Very interesting stuff, great video rift

I've found those places too but because I still have many main quests to do, I thought, those places will be connected to the future quests

Something i noticed is that the closed cave at battahl is mentionedat by an statue outside in the vicinity,its literally pointing at it,what confuses me is the location of all of these,some make sense but others not so much,i found one inside the drabnir's grotto (atleast thats where i recall coming across one,since it was the first time i installed free cam just to satisfy my curiosity) and ive also found another 2 on vermund and i think some of the statues might be pointing at them rather than whats on the surface or obvious things like settlements.

how many updates do you think will happen before the game is finally completed?

Can't wait to find SweetWhite Isle

Yesterday I found a doorway covered by rubble by the griffins nest in battal, I wonder if there’s aught behind that one as well?

The fact that several caves have these blocked doors means there's probably some connection, especially if several show some kind of room or structure beyond them. It would certainly be an interesting DLC if it has you returning to many of the caves to seek out the doors, and maybe even finding new passages lead to new locations, either ones we couldn't reach because of invisible barriers or just expanding existing ones into mini dungeons.

I think there is another cave entrance like that Battahl, I think it's in the Coral Snakes hideout. I recall seeing that in my first playthrough.

Would be floored if we got a huge underground dungeon that was accessible through those entry points. BBI experience but with no loading screens… my body and soul are so ready.

I'm gonna bet on a dwarven DLC. We didn't know dwarves were gonna be a part of the game and they're in a vast minority.

Others have mentioned, but there are far more of these doors scattered throughout the game. There's one at the bottom of a shaft with a slime waiting to ambush you, and there is at least one (though Ive heard mention of three) that are revealed only in the Unmoored World.

I’ve seen many of those blocked entrances in many dungeons but never thought anything of them. It does seem likely that maybe they will be connected later on.

theres one in the unmoored world that can only be accessed after the water is drained its like N/W of the hot springs in like a mini underground maze, there is two chest in that maze and then a blocked of cave like these 2

What about the big mountain between Melve and Vernworth? Kind of weird to have such a huge area inaccessible, all the other mountain in Vermond at least have some caves in it, you can actually go to the top of many of them too. Maybe a dungeon content update can be placed there? I know I'm coping.

I sae loads of places I was thinking would open eventually and become DLC places. I heard there would be a whole new map the same size about as what we have currently, praying that it's true cause it'd just make the game that much better

This is probably just stuff that was originally intended to be in the base game. It's obviously not quite as fleshed our as the developers intended.

I'm quite confident these will end up being updates or DLC. If it was just cut content, why would they bother leaving the visible door there, just have the cave end in rubble and people wouldn't even think it's cut content or anything.

There's one more in Vermund in one of the bandit caves on the east side

I hope DLC comes soon

I have seen at least 10 of those gates, mostly on the end of dungeons and caves. There are 2 too on the unmoored world, near the sacred grounds.

Near ancient battle ground there is a small ballista on the path to Border to Bathal Town. I can hear small spiders moving down under the huge boulders, and my Pawn once said that we cant clear that kind of rubble + my daggers blink there, indicating that there must be a chest.

This is meta gaming the exploration of a game about exploration. Such is the domain of either madmen or heroes.

I literally marked them on a map I printed out because I thought they would open up at some point. I don’t wiki or google anything. By sheer curiosity and being a completionist, I managed to get unmoored world ending. Was very disappointed these didn’t open. I’m level 105 right now and am still enjoying the game so I will definitely be looking forward to more content. Hopefully they make it challenging. Going to solo NG+ with no wayfarer setup. That should be fun.

All i want is a PS5 to play Dogma 2 after fixing my stuff and employed becomes a reality. So i can't say much besided many videos i've seen, but to a me the DLC of DD2 will make it feel perfrctly completed as the second entry, and hopefully very immersive ='D Can't wait to have many hours of fun while playing. I'll be late to party, will be enjoying Elden Ring before that for the first time but will definitely join the PS5 players as soon as possible! Wait for Rapha The Kid, guys /o/

I remember finding a cave like that somewhere in the unmoored world so maybe there is something to do with it there too

I've found 8 of those blocked caves, 2 of them are only accessible during the unmoored world (made a correction to the number, i double counted one) The 2 you've shown one in the Timeworn shaft (NE of Vernworth) one to the NE of Gran Soren (unmoored world) one to the West of Gran Soren (Unmoored world, East of olta' Battahl Coastline) one North of the Riftstone of Robustness (West of the Battahl Ropeway Central Station) the others are in caves I stupidly forgot to take a map shot of so I don't know where they actually are. for the ones in the unmoored world, look for the glowing green crystals.

NGL this hyped me up pretty good. I was bitterly disappointed about the lack of endgame but with how much I loved the game any good news restores my interest.

Its probably unmoored world exclusive dungeon that got cut, originally mostlikely we must clear the dungeon instead straight fighting the purgener

You can find a big cave - catacombs at north ov Vermund. You will find a chimera and an undead mage mini boss. You will be find a big craved door and it seems there will be another dungeon. I love the mysteries in this game! I am still playing my first game (45+ hours and started the quests at Bathall now) but I can't wait for the new contents :))

I just hope the dlc is hard. I need a reason to have a full party of pawns again

There are a number of these same cave/doors in the end-game zone scattered across the newly open area. I'm curious if they all have the same riftstone symbol.

Is there a bunch of caves throughout the game that have those doors covered in dirt.

I just hope we get a new gen Dragon Dogma Online so we can enjoy defeating bosses together with a challenge.

Pointed same caves as DLC/cut content passage when i stumbled on them at first

First I thought it would be open on the Unmoored and by bringing the Empowered Godsbane Blade would open those, I was baffled when I tried to go back there and still sealed shut. Hope DLC comes out really soon.

there is many many of those doors. some only become accessible in unmoored world even.

I have found dozens of these, there are lots in existing caves as well

It's likely publisher told dev team to hold off on DLC until they met a certain sales number, but may have been given a chance to lay the foundation.

Sal'Battahl Cavern has one of those doors too.

I wonder if we're gonna get one vocation or multiple vocations as DLC.

I mean after I did a full explorer run (trying to scour for any secrets or anything) I was positive dlc is coming and it's probably gonna be LARGE

I had to of found a dozen of those collapsed doors in my playthrough. They were all over the place. I'm pretty sure there just there for lore and decoration, and are not cut content or directly tied to the dlc themselves. But that's not to say the dlc WON'T also have similar doorways. I think they're important, and whatever we learn in the dlc will make us go, "oh shit! So all those collapsed spots were related to THIS?!"

I bet the crazy old Arisen will be the one scouting the island/land and come back to offer you passage.

Theres one of those caves at the bottom left on the way to medusa

Ahh this why ive been finding all thes "closed up doorways" hehe

I'm really looking forward to this DLC and I hope it comes soon

I wonder when the dlc will be officially announced?

Ive found several of these doors inside other caves

Nice. I hope we get finally a snow area in dragons dogma

Its funny, in my first run i found that cave and it got marked in my map with a cave dungeon mark, i visited the place in my second run but the cave mark on my map didnt show up this time, this was after the patch, like you are not supose to find that place

Check the back of Dead-End Curve. There is more rubble on a door there.

Has anyone found anything about why pawns react to broken oxcarts and why it shows and exclamation icon on the minimap? I thought it was a side quest I couldn't find on my 1st playthrough but I'm on my 3rd and still nothing... So yeah this game is also incomplete, like the original. I think Capcom wanted to release asap to meet the end of the financial year because no way this is Itsuno's vision realized. Battahl has much less quests compared to Vermund and Volcanic Island is mostly empty space. They might've planned to release title updates same as MH but I don't think the game sold as much as Capcom wanted (the mtx scandal didn't help but it was their doing) and everything is probably being moved to a big expansion/dlc

I have already found like at least 6 different cave entrances like this.

Isn't that the island old man sets sails to at the end of the game?

are they there in unmoored too?

I dont think this game was actually 4x bigger than DD1 . Only 30 % of the map in DD2 is actually playable area. There are MASSIVE spaces on the map that aren’t even playable

can we safe say that the dlc is coming out at this point ?

Dont you keep the godsway into NG+? what if they remove the rubble for those in NG+ to expand the world and give those already in NG+ more to do

These would have been such cool things to come across in NG+ or if they were part of the story, rather than the 1 rift door we get as a shortcut to the long corridor masquerading as a 3rd zone.

i wonder what happened to the maker religion even the long swords makers tear is now called troll cutter

A more boring possibility for this is that they could just be placeholder assets the devs forgot to remove by the full release, it's not very uncommon. Can't wait to see if more is discovered though and I'm absolutely stoked for the DLC.

Are you working in a lore video? I am curious to know why the world is so different and why is the founder of vermond in a throne similar to the seneschal and what is that ghost figure leading us to the dragon, I don’t think I have interpreted the game on the right way, doesn’t even feel like a “real world”

Mostly i hope they add a hard mode or some sort of better scaling for the DLC. I wasnt bee-lining through the story but explored a lot and enjoyed the game... i was at level 70 by the end of the game, so overpowered that it wasnt even funny. I like the feel of traveling in this game, so much so that i rarely used an oxcart or ferrystone, but it looses its charm when there is no danger on the road anymore.

Well we probably keep the enhanced godsbane in ng+ for a reason

I honestly felt the caster classes got a lot overall so they could add the spells and suchs back in an DLC feels like they on purpose removed thing to sell back to us in a dlc now...

I hope this will be post ending, I was really disappointed that the last thing you did was just climb up a dragon,even the fight with the dragon was underwhelming,they even took out the part where the pawns rifts in behind you. I hope this dlc will bring back Daimon and the Senechal, and make the Senechal fight amazing and not just a pushover like in the last game,would be awesome if the Senechal's vocation and looks will be based on your previous Arisens

I'm a bit annoyed that it feels like half the content of the game was cut out for dlc but I also I know I will eat it up with my wallet 😔

It would be cool if DLC would include everfall and Gransys

You say the community not talking about it. I talked about it on your discord for a whole week 😂.

hope the game has lots of support free and paid

Для всех уже давно это известо а ты только сейчас проснулся

there are many more of these doors in a multitude of caves across the game world way to many to be placed randomly.

i hope its gonna be a free update content