Kingdom Come

We’ve rounded up five money-earning tips for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 which should help you with spending money to better equip Henry, and send him after those Kingdom Come: Deliverance II achievements. It might be shaping up as one of the best Xbox RPGs, but medieval life is hard in KCD2 — read on for more money-making info!

5 ways to earn money in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an ambitious medieval RPG with a focus on historical accuracy
• With all the dangers and difficulties of this medieval world, making Groschen in KCD2 can be tricky
• These five tips should help whether you’re just starting out or are looking to top up your spending money later in the game

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 starts Henry out with practically nothing. You’ve got to improve all your skills, get better equipment and armor, feed yourself, and pay for necessities to even have a hope of surviving. But how do you accomplish that without money? And how do you earn Groschen when KCD2 simply unleashes you in this medieval world and tells you to sort yourself out? Well, we’re hoping these five tips will give you an idea of where to start, whether you’re just beginning your playthrough or need a refresher.

In some cases, when the trader hasn’t got enough money to buy all the stuff you are so kindly offering to sell, you can maximize your profit using this method of trading. Just work out what you want from the shop, and trade your items against it until you hit the maximum amount the trader could give you in groschen.

There are many legal ways to make money in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, but few are as readily available at the start of the game as pickpocketing. As a down-on-his-luck Henry, it’s pretty tempting to try your hand at pickpocketing to earn some starting money, especially since the mini-game is yet another challenge that you need to work on and improve throughout your playthrough. Then you’re onto the next stage. Their items won’t all be visible at once: you’ll see a circle with different slots, and if there’s a question mark, you can click to reveal the item. Before you improve your skills, successfully pickpocketing will be a tricky task. Moving around the circle takes time, and you still need to get back to the “door” at the top to successfully escape before time runs out. Your best bet is to pickpocket sleeping NPCs — inns and out-of-the-way houses are a good place to start. This is less pressure than pickpocketing NPCs when they’re out and about in the daytime, but you’ve still got to move quickly. When you begin pickpocketing, you’ll see a number in a circle appear. This represents how many seconds you’ll have to do your pickpocketing. Waiting for that number to increase does give you more time to search, but it also increases your chances of being caught.Kes —

Collecting and selling enemy armor

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Making good on your bargaining

You need to be careful not to irritate the merchant too much by offering a ridiculously low sum, but by offering less than you really intend to pay, you can still get them to lower the price to something more reasonable. This works both ways, and Henry can try to haggle to be paid a higher price when selling his own items.

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Arts and crafts

With groschen feeling so difficult to come by at the start, the armor and equipment sold by merchants can seem painfully out of reach. High-value items might indeed need to wait until Henry has saved up his pennies, but in the meantime, it’s worth remembering that bargaining doesn’t just revolve around Groschen.Anything sellable in Henry’s inventory can go towards the price of a new item. Say he wants to buy a blacksmith’s kit but doesn’t have enough in ready money: you can put as much of his Groschen towards it as you want, and then select the items in your inventory that you want to sell. The value of those items will be taken off the price of that blacksmith’s kit, and you can gradually chip away until it’s more affordable.You’ll see a pickpocketing prompt whenever you’re close enough to an NPC with a bag or lootable items on them. To successfully pickpocket (and have a better chance of getting away with it), you need to be crouching and wearing your sneakiest clothing — no clanking armor or heavy, noisy clothes. Doing all this at night is also clearly your best bet, as NPCs won’t like it if they see you sneaking around, and you’ll most likely need to get into private areas of their houses. First, you select the option to haggle (instead of just agreeing to the price outright), at which point you’ll see a bar. This bar is where you’ll negotiate: Henry will haggle about the asking price, moving the bar to represent how much he’d like to pay in an attempt to lower the cost. The merchant will then respond, either agreeing or demanding a middle ground.

Herbs and raw food items might not count for much on their own, but selling whatever you can part with in your inventory is a great way to bring a price down to within Henry’s reach — and lighten your load while you’re at it. Plus, it also gives you a great way to shift some of those carrots and apples you find all over the place before they go off.

So, you can put goods towards the price of an item you wish to buy, but the price a merchant offers doesn’t have to be the price you pay: Henry can always haggle.Like everything in this game, Henry’s success at haggling and the discounts he might be able to get depend on his skills, buffs, and reputation with the person and faction in question. Nevertheless, unless you’ve mortally offended someone, you can most likely succeed in knocking off a few extra Groschen.Alchemy will follow a similar trend. Work on some simple potions, and trade your way to get more complex potions from herbalists (they’ll always have an alchemy bench nearby). For this, I highly recommend getting a few dried varieties of ingredients so they don’t go off as quickly. Numerous perks will help you out too, especially the ones that let you sell at a higher price!Heidi —

Pickpocketing

You can maximize this by having your horse nearby and using the feature that lets you load your horse up with inventory items. Armor tends to be the stuff you can sell for a good value, just make sure you are selling it to blacksmiths and armorers for the best prices.

However, pickpocketing is a good way of finding items to sell, eat, or use to further your stealing and lockpicking goals, and it’s available right from the start. It’s worth remembering in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 that goods are just as important money-wise as Groschen itself when it comes to selling. On that note…

This is the most labor-intensive method on the list, but you can make a good amount of money by making weaponry using crafting or potions using alchemy. I’d recommend this method if you want to combine upgrading those skills quickly while making a bit of groschen.Even in the early game, just making hunting swords to sell will get you far. If you are trading with a nearby blacksmith, you can trade these for better crafting designs that will get you more money. As you work, you unlock perks that will help you sell your weaponry for a higher amount, which will make those weapons more durable. Finally, Martin’s Heritage will give your weapons a unique high-quality rarity which is worth more and better for use in combat.In the early game, when every Groschen counts, it’s always worth haggling for every tiny amount. What’s more, successfully negotiating a price will raise your reputation a little with the person in question.

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Haggling

If you are anything like me, and I expect a few of you are, you’ll be stripping down every enemy you come across down to their tighty whiteys. Well, if you aren’t then you really should be! After every kill, loot them for their most high-value equipment, which is usually their armor.The later you get in the game, the more heavily armored some of your opponents will be. So, I highly recommend that you start weighing up how heavy the armor you are pulling off enemies is. Helmets can be sold for 1,000 Groschen at a time, but are much less heavy than breastplate armor, for instance. You’ll need to be loading up your horse efficiently in these instances. All this means that you might only find one low-value item, or even nothing at all, before you need to duck out. The tension of trying to find something in your victim’s bag and leave before they spot you is thrilling — especially if you lose your nerve and flee with the first thing you get, only for your desperate pickpocketing attempt to be rewarded with a single carrot.