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Aug 24, 2023

Baldur's Gate 3 Infernal Iron locations and how to use

Plunder this rare metal to help your pal Karlach. The Baldur's Gate 3 Infernal Iron item is a rare metal that you'll occasionally find in chests and treasure troves across the world. What's it for?

Plunder this rare metal to help your pal Karlach.

The Baldur's Gate 3 Infernal Iron item is a rare metal that you'll occasionally find in chests and treasure troves across the world. What's it for? Well, as you might gather from the name, this material plays a big part in Karlach's companion quest, The Hellion's Heart, which sees you repairing the engine in her chest.

While you should find a fair bit of Infernal Iron if you're treasure savvy, it's more comparable to Soul Coins in terms of its rarity, so it can be helpful to have a few collected already if you want to progress the quest. Here, I'll run through the Infernal Iron locations I have so far, plus who you need to see about fixing Karlach's engine.

There are lots of different places you can find Infernal Iron in the Forgotten Realms, but here are all of the ones I've found so far:

Infernal Iron is an important part of Karlach's companion quest. As you might know, the Tiefling barbarian has an infernal engine inside her, and while it makes her a great fighter, she does run a little hot. If you go and visit the Tiefling smith, Dammon, in the centre of the Emerald Grove settlement, he'll explain that the engine is actually going into overdrive and will kill her, unless you repair it with some of the rare metal, Infernal Iron.

You'll need to locate some and bring a piece back to Dammon. He'll repair Karlach a bit and then tell you to meet him in Baldur's Gate later in the story, by which time he'll have more solutions to Karlach's problem. You can then find Dammon again during act 2 at the Last Light Inn with the other Tieflings, where he'll accept another piece of Infernal Iron to repair Karlach fully.

It's also worth noting that if you Save the Emerald Grove and you haven't spoken to him with Karlach and started the quest to find the Infernal Iron, Dammon will leave for Baldur's Gate. On the opposite side, after you raid the grove, you won't be able to repair Karlach with Infernal Iron or talk to Dammon.

You can also buy Infernal Alloy from Stonemason Kith in the Grymforge and this version of the metal has a special function. If you bring this to Dammon at the Last Light Inn, he'll forge you the Flawed Helldusk Armour set, which deals fire damage to enemies that hit you. You can get the proper Helldusk Armour later in the game as a Legendary item, though it's unrelated to all this Infernal Alloy stuff.

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Sean's first PC games were Full Throttle and Total Annihilation and his taste has stayed much the same since. When not scouring games for secrets or bashing his head against puzzles, you'll find him revisiting old Total War campaigns, agonizing over his Destiny 2 fit, or still trying to finish the Horus Heresy. Sean has also written for EDGE, Eurogamer, PCGamesN, Wireframe, EGMNOW, and Inverse.

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