BROKEN CROWN DUPLICATION: How a New Pig Hide Exploit Is Breaking The Witcher 3 Remastered’s In-Game Economy

🚨 CD PROJEKT RED THOUGHT THEY PATCHED THIS… THEY WERE DEAD WRONG! 🚨

A newly discovered economy-shattering exploit in The Witcher 3 Remastered (Next-Gen) is currently blowing up across Reddit and YouTube, giving players hundreds of thousands of Crowns in under an hour without spawning the dreaded Bovine Defense Force Chort! 😱🔥

While CDPR spent years patching famous glitches like the White Orchard Cow exploit and Martin Feuille’s farmstead, players have just found an undetected fast-respawn Pig Hide glitch at the Upper Mill in Velen/Novigrad. By combining Igni burst mechanics with specific vendor price-scaling in Hierarch Square and Kingfisher Inn’s Oliver, players are maxing out Grandmaster Gear before even setting foot in Toussaint!

Will CDPR rush out a Hotfix before the entire game economy collapses? Or is this game-breaking loophole here to stay?

Watch the full step-by-step breakdown and exact vendor route right now before it gets patched forever! 👇🔥

CD Projekt RED built a reputation as one of gaming’s most meticulous developers, going so far as to code monster “defense forces” into The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to punish players who exploited early-game livestock for infinite gold. Yet, with the release and continued updates of The Witcher 3 Remastered (Next-Gen Update), players have uncovered a devastating loophole that is leaving CDPR’s economy design in tatters.

A newly popularized exploit—centered around an instant-respawn Pig Hide farm at the Upper Mill in Northern Redania—is currently dominating discussions across Reddit’s r/witcher, YouTube, and Discord. The glitch allows players to bypass CDPR’s infamous anti-exploit measures, netting upwards of 30,000 to 50,000 Crowns per hour in early-to-mid game content.

The Anatomy of the Exploit: The Upper Mill Loophole

For years, The Witcher 3 community operated under the watchful shadow of the Bovine Defense Force Initiative. Introduced back in Patch 1.05, CDPR added a high-level Chort monster that spawns continuously whenever a player attempts to farm cow hides near White Orchard, crushing low-level exploiters.

However, the latest Next-Gen Remastered mechanics overlooked a specific livestock cluster located near the Upper Mill (the base camp of the Ofieri Merchant introduced in the Hearts of Stone expansion).

[Upper Mill Pig Pen] ➔ [Igni Sign Burst] ➔ [Instant Meditation / Respawn] ➔ [Hierarch Square / Kingfisher Inn Vendor Dump]

Step-by-Step Execution:

1. The Farm: Players navigate to the Upper Mill region in Eastern Velen/Novigrad and locate the localized livestock pen containing domestic pigs.

2. The Harvest: Equipped with the Igni Sign (or using fast-cast mechanics introduced in the Next-Gen update), Geralt incinerates the livestock in seconds, dropping large quantities of Pig Hides and Raw Meat.

3. The Instant Respawn: Unlike conventional wildlife that requires a full 23-hour Meditation cycle, the Upper Mill pig spawns reset almost instantaneously upon a brief 1-hour in-game meditation pass or short fast-travel cycle, bypassing normal environmental spawn delays.

4. The Vendor Liquidation Route: Once players stack hundreds of Pig Hides into their inventory (often utilizing the Fiend Decoctable or upgraded Ofieri Saddlebags for weight capacity), they travel to Hierarch Square in Novigrad or visit Oliver at the Kingfisher Inn. Because taverns and Novigrad merchants pay top-tier rates for animal hides compared to rural Velen armorers, the returns scale exponentially.

Community Explosion: Reddit and Social Media React

The exploit gained rapid momentum following breakdown videos published by content creators such as Anubis RD, triggering widespread debate across gaming forums.

On Reddit’s r/Witcher3 megathreads, community reactions are sharply divided between thrilled completionists and purists who argue the glitch ruins the intended progression of Geralt’s journey:

“I’ve played Death March three times legitimately, but crafting Grandmaster Legendary Feline and Wolven sets in New Game Plus costs an absolute fortune. This Upper Mill pig farm saved me 20 hours of looting Skellige smuggler’s caches.”

— User u/WitcherGrind22 on Reddit

“It’s hilarious that CDPR went out of their way to create the Chort monster to protect cows, but completely forgot about the pigs in Redania. It’s only a matter of time before they send a demonic Porcine Monster after us.”

— Commenter on YouTube

Economic Impact on Gameplay Progression

In The Witcher 3 Remastered, gold (Crowns) serves as a primary gatekeeper for critical endgame systems:

By obliterating the financial barrier to the Runewright and Grandmaster Craftsman Lazare Lafargue, players can effectively enter late-game combat fully optimized with top-tier Runewords such as Severance or Preservation far earlier than intended.

Will CD Projekt RED Patch It?

Historically, CD Projekt RED has proven aggressive when patching economy-breaking exploits. From fixing the ancient Pearl & Shell duplication glitch at the Novigrad Heirarch Square fish merchant to adjusting merchant gold reset timers in Patch 4.0+, the studio prioritizes economic balance.

Developers at CDPR have not yet issued an official hotfix statement regarding the Upper Mill Pig Hide spawn rates. However, with community awareness reaching a boiling point, veteran players predict a stealth patch or a humorous “Pig Demon” countermeasure in the coming weeks. Until then, Witcher players are rushing to stack their coin purses before the gates of the Upper Mill are closed for good.