[BG3] UPDATED Guide to the Ancient Forge! BEST ACT 1 ARMOR

it's pronounced MOULD not MODE ...

So the best thing to make is the armor ?

Is this in the under dark?

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I used action surge to smash him twice in one go

Can I still do all of this if I left and came back and everyone was dead lol, wasn’t on purpose but I am way to far vested to go back to an older save.

I'm playing tactician and Grym is lvl 10 for me and has 450 health

There were 3 pieces of the material I went for a weapon, a shield and a helmet so everyone in the party could use at least one of them.

And it's a lot easier if you have only x2 people below, 1 manning the lever and 1 running interferance with a high AC while the other 2 can heal from above and take out the mephits so they don't get in the way.
You can find some messages about the forge telling you about superheating the golem, so I got this down pretty easy on my 1st try

So I’m at the part where if I long rest Nere will die. Can I kill/save Nere and then go back and get this?

The shield was not there 😢

The boss is blocking it for me and i cant make my second armor 😭😭😭

Bro you just need enhanced leap and you can skip all of that

Just shoot the levers with a bow man :)

For some reason my monk with the sparkle hands absolutely bodied the construct, I didn't even realize the hammer could be used because it melted through him so fast

You can use arrows on the levers, so that you can have your whole party on the platforms.

whenever i try to get the lava on it says no used it blocked how do i unblock it to make another thing

my Barbarian is a spear thrower.....bugger lol :)

The forge won’t reopen after the boss fight. I can’t make anymore items. HELP!!!

Sorry the stupid music makes it too painful to watch

With heavy armor master fest all non magical dmg js reduces by 5.

I just eldritch blasted the rubble, force damage worked fine. Also I just shot the levers with a bow.

Possibly edit to include the shield mold before otherwise a great guide.

Dude, just drag him to the big hammer and drop it on him… don’t be dumb

Perfect, just the video I needed.

If you want the achievement of not using the anvil to kill the boss just switch to torches on all of your Melee characters since those do bludgeoning damage. It is super easy. It died in two turns.

I have another bug. I reach the forge but i cannot insert the mithril ore or mould When i try i lose the ore any clue?

Simple method is just have someone with Fly or Misty step and have them go all the way to the waypoint for the forge, and then everyone else use the waypoint to join up. Easy.

Lol i used the forge, baited him couple of times and dropped the big hammer😂😂

Is there a great weapon mold ?

much easier way just jump around the side.

Getting the guy to land on/near the hammer while superheated is the trick. I used shadowheart and glyph of warding:sleep. Works like a .. ahem... dream. (Ba dum bum)

you can use summoned hands to pull the levers :D

I really cannot understand how this can be used more than once. I've defeated the golem, took the mace... now? If I put the mineral, then the stamp and then use the valve, I have another mace stamp...

Skip the puzzle, there is a path on the left of the island (there you have the fight /nere. Bilnk around, tag the portal. Send ur peeps to camp, port the group to the portal! Couldn't find the malachite tho, thanks!!!

Does anyone know if you can find more mithral ore or if it respawns after a certain amount of time?

The easiest way I did this was I sneaked someone on the valve to pour out the lava, then have someone stand near the hammer. So when the combat begins the one near the valve isn’t included. After the grym got close to the hammer with half of his body exposed to the lava. I hammered him then have the one who is sneaking open up the lava which makes grym vulnerable again. Which then I just repeat those. He didn’t even hit me once.

i can confirm that you can actually make 2 pieces of weapons/armour at the adamantite forge. I found another mithril location in the area, grabbed it, jumped back down into the forge and put in a new template of what i wanted as well as the mithril, put more lava in and smacked it down. :D

I can't find the "impossible to miss" catwalk.

Locations for all of the ore?

You can get enough ore to craft all 5 items. This guide is not even remotely accurate.

The wheel won’t turn for me it says it’s stuck? What’s that mean

thanks bro i was trying to figure out what to make im literally standing next to the forge rn

the forge is bugged. Then it's stuck I can't use the lava because the forge is not allowing me to put the mithral ore.

Edit: this seems to either be a bug for me and many others or simply a chance for the wheel to freeze for whatever reason.

Worth noting that the lava wheel can only be turned twice, in or out of combat. So if you don't kill the guy within the turns it takes after one turn then you can effectively only get one item unless I guess you load a new mold and mithril mid combat.

Where are the adamantine ore locations?

roll the spoilers at the fucking start brilliant. top video when you lookup the forge.

I have 6 mould 🤷🏻

That intro kicks ass

Whats that blue crossbow u have on astarion ?