smithing not profitable?

[Captain Flappy]

I assumed i could make a profit from smithing (maybe I'm not a high enough level)
but after buying all the metal etc, then smithing a sword i am out of pocket.
game tells me I can make a hunting sword worth 80 groschen, (unless I am reading that part wrong) when I make it I can only sell it for like 10.
When I sold a horseshoe I got like 1 groschen... major loss of money.

Am I too low at crafting? am I just making janky things?

[Lucius Confucius]

Not sure. Does it become more rewarding once you can make higher tier things, perhaps?

[Kaos [CZ]]

You will get more money from 4th level quality weapons, but you have to have a perk for that, also i found that bearded axes are the easiest money maker. Cheap material and the do sell for quite a good sum. Also dont forget to sharpen them and HAGGLE EVERY TIME.

[Humpenstilzchen]

If you want to make easy money brew potions instead.

[Captain Flappy]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

If you want to make easy money brew potions instead.

Yeah, I have been brewing a lot of potions for early game money. I just enjoy the smithing, feels more lore appropriate for Henry.

[Captain Flappy]

Originally posted by Kaos CZ:

You will get more money from 4th level quality weapons, but you have to have a perk for that, also i found that bearded axes are the easiest money maker. Cheap material and the do sell for quite a good sum. Also dont forget to sharpen them and HAGGLE EVERY TIME.

Cheers dude. I will grab that perk when I can. never even thought to sharpen them, and haggling didn't do me much good when the starting price was only a few groschen. :p might help later though.

[Das Trojanische Pferd]

i dont get how people have problem with money in KCD 2 i have the problem to find any traders that still have money left......

[heartnetsky]

Alchemy is easier.. Selling price of ur items depends on reputation (but it will never be 100% of the value shown in inventory).. if u wanna go smithing for money better lvl up your smithing til u got henry quality if I'm not mistaken the selling value is doubled than quality 3

[Samtaro]

Step 1, go to kuttenberg.
Step 2, rob every merchant.
Step 3, enjoy 10 billion groschen for about 1h worth of your time.

[Lucius Confucius]

Originally posted by Samtaro:

Step 1, go to kuttenberg.
Step 2, rob every merchant.
Step 3, enjoy 10 billion groschen for about 1h worth of your time.

You missed a few details.
0.5 Do a whole bunch of story related missions before you can even go to Kuttenberg.
1.5 Skill up enough to be able to sneak and rob efficiently.
2.5 Actually go around and do all the lame boring sneaking stuff.
3.5 You won't have enough money for the rest of your playthrough, though.

[Dansoprazole]

The fastest ways to make money are looting bandit camps and sneaking into specialty shops in the middle of the night to steal big money loot.

Fastest pacifist route is making valuable potions, I guess. Don’t try to be a blacksmith in this game as a career lol.

Banging on metal for 5 min to net 60 Groshen isn’t a very viable way to get money.

The main draw of smithing is the ability to make your own one-off weapons with higher stats if you’re careful. But selling them isn’t worth the effort IMO.

[Dansoprazole]

Originally posted by Lucius Confucius:

Originally posted by Samtaro:

Step 1, go to kuttenberg.
Step 2, rob every merchant.
Step 3, enjoy 10 billion groschen for about 1h worth of your time.

You missed a few details.
0.5 Do a whole bunch of story related missions before you can even go to Kuttenberg.
1.5 Skill up enough to be able to sneak and rob efficiently.
2.5 Actually go around and do all the lame boring sneaking stuff.
3.5 You won't have enough money for the rest of your playthrough, though.

Nah, if you hit the tailors, saddlers, apothecaries, and armorers, you can become a robber baron overnight. There’s a fence that’ll take your goods at the g¥p$¥ camp.

[BenShinobi]

I dunno, once you're able to do things like longswords and find most of the materials you need rather than buy them you can sell for a bit of profit, then combine with the perk to sell near-top condition gear for more & it should be good.

Alchemy is also viable, but you also want a couple of perks to help, like selling potions for more & the one that makes 2 potions instead of 1. But if you're buying ingredients that's eating into the profit & picking them is time consuming. Also the amounts of money involved mean you have to sell a lot to make meaningful money.

There's generally better things you can do rather than either of these to make money or equip yourself well. Storing armour from killed enemies on your horse & selling that off seems one of the best ways.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by BenShinobi:

Alchemy is also viable, but you also want a couple of perks to help, like selling potions for more & the one that makes 2 potions instead of 1.

Perks do indeed help. I get 6 potions per craft.

[BenShinobi]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by BenShinobi:

Alchemy is also viable, but you also want a couple of perks to help, like selling potions for more & the one that makes 2 potions instead of 1.

Perks do indeed help. I get 6 potions per craft.

Ah ok. Now I see how that's better lol

[Captain Flappy]

Originally posted by Das Trojanische Pferd:

i dont get how people have problem with money in KCD 2 i have the problem to find any traders that still have money left......

I don;t exactly have money problems, just trying to ply my way as a blacksmith for roleplaying for a bit.
I don't just want to be a tea leaf and steal everything just to sell it like I did in KCD1. gets too easy and a bit boring.
Things like making potions and being a smithy to make money are more interesting to me this time round as i'm trying to stay honest as I can.