At gamescom 2025, MeinMMO editor Jasmin Beverungen took on the role of a blacksmith. The upcoming DLC “Legacy of the Forge” for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 revolves around the mechanics.
In Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, we play the young man Heinrich, whom MeinMMO author Johanna couldn’t find much to appreciate in the test, but MeinMMO editor Karsten did. Heinrich’s father, Martin, is the master blacksmith of Skalitz. However, so far, his son did not have the ambition to give his father’s profession a chance. This changes with the upcoming DLC “Legacy of the Forge”.
Here, Heinrich takes over the blacksmith shop in Kuttenberg, where his father began as an apprentice. He must spruce up the rundown building and fulfill blacksmith orders from the locals. One becomes a real blacksmith.
However, it is not as easy as I initially thought. The expansion takes blacksmithing very seriously, which is why there is no automated sequence. Rather, I had to swing the hammer myself during the roughly one-hour demo session at gamescom 2025 – which I only managed to do on the 4th or 5th try.
As a small note: I myself have unfortunately not played the main game, so forging was still unfamiliar to me. And how clumsy I was at it, you can read in the following text.
Kingdom Come Deliverance takes “Blacksmithing takes practice” seriously
In the playable demo, I started directly at the rundown blacksmith shop. Two quests were waiting for us: A lady whose husband has toothache, and I should help, and a man who wanted a dueling sword. I initially started by crafting the sword.
- To forge items, you first need to take a blank according to the recipe.
- You then place it in the forge to heat it up.
- After that, you go to the anvil and work the hot iron with hammer blows, which you have to execute precisely – otherwise, you’ll just hit the anvil.
This is repeated until Heinrich gives the signal to cool the iron – tada, the new weapon is ready. It sounds easier than it initially appears.
I messed up so many times while forging in the demo that I ended up losing so many materials that I was missing a deer leather to forge the item at the end. I couldn’t complete the quest, as I would have first needed to visit a merchant to forge the sword again.
The reason I probably messed up the blank multiple times: My iron wasn’t hot enough. I took it out of the forge when it was glowing red. Consequently, I had to hammer so much that the attempt eventually failed.
On the 4th or 5th try, I figured out that the iron needed to stay in the forge longer so that I could work on it longer without breaking it. The iron was glowing white when it was ready for forging. In my defense: when I peeked at my neighbor’s screen, he had the same problems!
There are no indicators or bars to guide you through the forging process. Forging must be done completely according to your feeling to create a weapon. This greatly enhances the immersion but also has the downside that you feel abandoned by the mechanics at the beginning.
However, I can only blame myself for messing up the quest with the husband’s aching tooth. Instead of using a pair of pliers to pull out the rotten tooth, I unfortunately had a hammer in my hand – and realized it too late. The problem was solved, at least the tooth no longer hurt! But unfortunately, the wife became a widow due to the accident – oops.
Blacksmithing is more than just a side job
Besides the lack of displays, there are further reasons why I felt like a real blacksmith in the DLC.
On one hand, you can design your forge yourself. I immediately started with my budget to beautify the outer walls of the forge and replace the furniture. I noticed that some pieces of furniture even had positive effects.
Among the placeable furniture was also a bed where Heinrich can sleep, and an alchemy table. This way, everything is gathered in one place without long-running distances. The forge truly feels like a cozy home that you don’t want to give up on.
Already, in that one hour, I had become quite fond of my cozy home. As a cozy fan, my heart particularly soared here.
On the other hand, you cannot just accept all possible orders directly. To repair more complex things like clocks in towers, you first need to build up a reputation. You can increase this by completing smaller orders first and then working your way up. It would also be weird to start as a master blacksmith right away.
To increase the reputation as quickly as possible, there are daily quests in addition to the story quests that you can complete. This way, you can choose how many hours a day you want to spend forging.
The DLC is suitable for all those who haven’t had enough of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and prefer a more relaxed gameplay experience. The expansion is rather slowed down, as you design your own house and manually forge weapons. In the demo, I didn’t have to fight once, which indicates that it is less action-packed.
If you expected that forging really means FORGING, then I can reassure you. Forging takes up a large part of the DLC and is not as easy as I initially thought.
If you are interested in the ideas behind the game, you can watch the corresponding documentary. In the video, the founders of the development studio provide insights into the development of the role-playing game: Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is one of the best RPGs of 2025 – A new documentary shows how the game came into being
