Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Forge doesn't work after making ONE thing.

I have tried reloading saves at many points, before and after defeating Forge robot boss, and before and after raising platform back up after first forge item is made (and robot defeated)

The platform will raise if button to raise it is pushed, but, once it it up, it stays up. Insert Ore. Insert Mold. Pull level to make it go bang, and platform just sits there. It never goes back down.
If I leave the platform down and never raise it back up after beating boss, and retrieving forged item (it doesn't matter which of the 6 different molds I use, I can only ever just use one, make item, get mold back, but then forge stops working) the Lava valve is "Stuck", or "Blocked" and will not work.

If I raise platform, and put ore in, and mold in, and then have character or companion jump down to press platform control button, the platform will go back down when button is pushed, but, lava valve will stay stuck.

I try to throw grease on Lava Valve maybe loose it up? It does not help and even sometimes explode.
I try doing long rest at camp and come back to forge, but still it does not work any more. Lava valve stays stuck, won't budge, blocked and platform will not go down if I put ore and mold in then pull lever. It still goes up and down if I send someone to go press button at bottom, but I get impression that button is only suppose to really be used to raise platform back up ... and Lava valve says stuck.

I killed the Lava elemental earlier? Is that why? Does Lava elemental have to stay alive to make forge and lava valve work more than one time to make one item?

I don't know.

Tried changing to starting game with DirectX 11, and reloading much earlier save before clearing the rocks for the trapped Drow. Some online sources say there's suppose to be mithril slag there that can be used as ore for the forge, but, I don't ever see any, so, i only ever have 2 mithril ore rocks for forge.
Same thing as before with Forge only working just one time too.

I have the same issue. I successfully made the splint armor and retrieved the mould. Now the mould lever and lava wheel ar both "stuck".

One difference though, is that I can't even select the crucible or mould slot/tray to insert anything.

I've also tried jumping down to use the button and try the whole process on the bottom level and the top level.

I think and am pretty convinced it is designed to only allow you to craft 1 item.

Also even if forge still worked do you have any more mithril ore? I only ever found the one nearby.

If I remember correctly, I was able to forge 2 items before the forge broke. There is at least 2 mithril ore that you can find, if not more.

The Forge is delicate. You can only make 2 items and they have to be made back to back without mucking about with the levers and switches too much.


The real bug is with the save games and environments. If you break the forge it apparently becomes broken for all your saves going backwards.

The same bug exists if you detonate the Runepowder when talking to the Gnome. You cannot jump to before the save as the environmental damage cannot be undone.

I had an issue with this too, when making the scale mail on my first attempt at clearing the boss. The forge became stuck afterwards, and as Shadowheart had picked up the armor, trying to move it to anyone else's inventory crashed the game to desktop every single time. Drag-and-drop would crash it on letting go of the mouse button, and using the right-click "send to" option would crash the game when selecting the character's name.

At one point I was able to send the armor to the camp stash, but trying to remove it from there with Wyll crashed the game. I saw hints in other forum posts that finding more mithril meant you could make more items, and I had found two pieces. But try as I might, I couldn't get the mold out of the forge and raising the platform made the whole thing look particularly broken in the middle. In fact, the metal-holding central part was stuck down kinda low as well and couldn't be interacted with at all.

Out of frustration I reloaded a safe save from right before the fight, redid the fight, and made a shield instead (I wasn't impressed with the scale mail's stats anyways). Not only was I able to make a tradeable shield, the mold popped out of its holder and the central metal-holding part was also popped up properly and interactable. I was able to make a second shield and the game seems to be stable in respects to those two items (I wanted two shields because both Shadowheart and Wyll use shields in that game). The forge looks like it can be used again but I'm out of mithril.

So I guess it's best to save before the forge fight and see if the forge works properly. If it doesn't, redo the fight. My guess is the bug causes the game to assume the created item is still in the forge and the process hasn't finished, or something like that.