Steel Watch Foundry

Walkthrough

The area in the order you play it. Tick things off as you go: they tick off in the checklists below too.

1. 1

   Infiltrate the Main Floor and Meet Zanner Toobin

   When you slip inside the ground floor through the security doors, vents, or crane lift, you interrupt Black Gauntlet Tamia Holzt threatening the enslaved Gondians with a Motivator device. Defeat the Banite guards, making sure to interact with any dropped Motivator within one turn and pass a DC 5 Intelligence check to disable it before the workers' collars explode. Loot the Security Office Key from Tamia Holzt's body (or lockpick the door) to speak with Zanner Toobin, who agrees to help take down the foundry once you rescue the Gondian hostages from the Iron Throne.

   E2: item: Security Office KeyHow: Carried by Black Gauntlet Tamia Holzt on the ground floorHellfire Engine Crossbow: On the main ground floor at the crafting table at coordinates X: -325, Y: -134How: Combine the Watcher Crossbow Blueprint from the desk at X: -333, Y: -157, the Targeting Module from the table at X: -307, Y: -157, and the Steel Watcher Arm from the table at X: -280, Y: -165Missable because: The crafting table and materials are completely incinerated and permanently inaccessible once the foundry self-destructs Don't miss NewSteelwatcher Helmet: From the main ground floor east entrance, walk forward to the workbench at coordinates X: -275, Y: -134How: Pick it up directly from the top of the workbenchMissable because: Destroyed and permanently lost when the foundry collapses Don't miss New

   Tip: Lightning damage deals double damage against any Steel Watchers patrolling the floor, and you can grab the components to forge a heavy crossbow while searching the workstations.

   Watch out: If you fail to deactivate dropped Motivators within one round during combat, every enslaved Gondian on the floor will immediately die.

2. 2

   Descend into the Subterranean Lab Floor

   Use your key to descend the stairs or elevator into the subterranean assembly level, where Banite overseers led by Hahns Rives enforce the mass assembly of Steel Watcher chassis. Join the Gondians in clearing out the guards and Hellfire Watchers, again disarming any Motivator dropped during the clash before the kill-switch triggers. Search the surgery tables and surrounding bookcases to uncover the horrific brain-harvesting process behind the Watchers, and read the research texts scattered around the workstations.

   E3: secret | You can deduce the shutdown code ("Nebelun") without Zanner alive or Speak with Dead by reading both Property of Zanner Toobin (on his body) and The Many Faces of Gond (in the lab level surgery area).

   Tip: Area-of-effect spells such as Otiluke's Freezing Sphere or Chain Lightning clear the clusters of Banite overseers quickly, but be cautious not to catch the allied Gondian workers in the blast radius.

   Watch out: The book The Many Faces of Gond can be incinerated or destroyed by stray area-of-effect spells during the battle, permanently destroying the written shut-off code if Zanner dies later.

3. 3

   Destroy the Steel Watcher Titan

   Open the master blast doors to confront the towering Steel Watcher Titan and its three Hellfire Watcher escorts in the foundry's inner sanctum. Focus down the three Hellfire Watchers first using concentrated lightning spells and bludgeoning damage while spreading out your party to avoid the Titan's hellfire artillery barrages. When the Titan hunkers into its Bulwark Form, strip away its temporary shields with lightning attacks to finish it off, and loot Gontr Mael along with Enriched Infernal Iron directly from its shattered chassis before touching anything else.

   Key fight: Steel Watcher Titan
   Gontr Mael: Dropped by the Steel Watcher Titan in the Control Room Don't miss

   Tip: The Titan becomes especially vulnerable to lightning damage during its defensive mode; twin-casting high-level Chain Lightning or hurling water followed by lightning can demolish it in a couple of turns.

   Watch out: The legendary longbow Gontr Mael will not drop if the Titan dies strictly from the "Atrophied" condition, and all loot becomes permanently lost if you trigger the console before picking it up.

4. 4

   Overload the Neurocitor and Escape the Foundry

   Interact with the Neurocitor switchboard at the back of the chamber and initiate the foundry's self-destruction by using Wulbren's Runepowder Bomb, having Zanner Toobin punch in the manual protocol, or inputting the codeword "Nebelun". Once the sequence activates, flee the facility into the yard as the entire structure detonates, which instantly deactivates every Steel Watcher across all of Baldur's Gate. Outside the burning ruins, resolve the standoff between the surviving Gondians, Barcus Wroot, and Wulbren Bongle by persuading Barcus to overthrow Wulbren or defying the Ironhand zealots.

   Enriched Infernal Iron: In the Control Centre, inside the wreckage of the Steel Watcher TitanHow: Loot the Titan's destroyed chassis after winning the fightMissable because: Destroyed once the Neurocitor triggers the factory self-destruction Don't miss New

   Tip: Persuading Barcus to stand up to Wulbren successfully recruits both the Ironhand Gnomes and the Gondians to your Gather Your Allies roster.

   Watch out: Detonating the Neurocitor permanently seals and destroys the foundry interior, locking out any unlooted items and uncrafted equipment inside forever.

What you decide here and what it leads to.