XEEN: Unable to open Sarcophagus in Northen Sphinx

[darkstar]

The sarcophagusses (sarcophagi?) in the northern sphinx should be openable with a strength of around 50-80-something. According to my memory (hazy) and various walkthroughs on the internet (not-so-hazy)

However, my 120+ strength knight can't seem to move the lid even one millimetre

See attached savegame

[darkstar]

this site seems to claim you need 50-58 strength to open them:
​https://thequietroom.de/article/might-magic/mm4/#northern-sphinx

This site claims you need 100:
​https://lparchive.org/Might-Magic-World-of-Xeen/Update%2039/

[darkstar]

Hm. maybe I was wrong. With 170 might I can open that coffin. Maybe my memory and both these guides are wrong

[dreammaster]

Seems like this is a known script bug, judging from one of the walkthroughs I found online. The script incorrectly tests just the temporary/extra might granted by wells, and not the character's base strength. So basically you could only open them if you'd drunk from a might well/fountain of at least +40. This is obviously a bug, since a character with over a 100 strength should definitely have no issues opening it, so I've applied a script patch