Baldur's Gate 3: How to Enter the Steel Watch Foundry in BG3

Don't let Gortash know

The Steel Watch Foundry houses the key to taking down the Steel Watch guards patrolling the dense streets of Baldur’s Gate 3, and the building isn’t taking visitors. If you want to access the building, there are a few ways to get into it, and they all involve alternate pathways or picked locks on restricted doors.

The Steel Watch Foundry is located all the way in the southwestern section of the Act 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 map. You need to get past the Lower City Walls and the Baldur’s Gate city portals before you eventually reach the industrial building with tons of parts for robots.

If you can, you want to get inside the Steel Watch Foundry without alerting the guards in the main city streets. Otherwise, you’ll have plenty of problems before you even get started on deactivating the robots behind so much of Gortash’s power. Luckily, there are two fairly easy ways to get in. Just make sure to bring some Thieves’ Tools

The best way to enter the Steel Watch Foundry is to jump from the northwestern edge of the Water Queen’s House. On the map above, you can see that there is a small water line splitting the Steel Watch Foundry and the Water Queen’s House. There is just enough land for your party to continuously jump across.

However, jumping may be more difficult for some characters, or take too much health. In my own BG3 playthrough, I used Turn-Based Mode and then had Gale cast Flight on the whole party. Then I had each character jump to the land below and fly over to the docks at the Steel Watch.

When you reach the other side, there will be at least one steel guard waiting, and a fight will begin. Get the rest of your characters over before you continue fighting. If they all made it across, you can easily deal with the one guard. Just watch out for that super annoying self-destruction when it reaches low health.

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Now you can move ahead and either use the small cart lift to get inside, or you can lockpick the main doors. I just used the main doors and continued to the right side of the building from there. While I was in the foundry, I also noticed a couple of other paths.

You can lockpick another gate on the eastern side of the Steel Watch Foundry in Baldur’s Gate 3, but you will likely get more guard attention. And in that same area, there is a vent that you can use as a druid or with vampire mist to get inside. This is yet another way to get in without having to lockpick in the open. But I still just recommend using the water path.

Before you go in and deactivate all the machines, make sure you already decided if you want to side with Gortash or not in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Dan has been writing gaming guides and news as a staff writer and freelancer since he graduated from Westfield State University in 2020. You can find him covering the FPS and Battle Royale space at Prima Games.