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

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.