Steel Guard in Baldur's Gate 3: how to disable and destroy the Foundry

Steel Guard in "Save the Gondians" there is a quest to complete "Disable the Steel Guard". Travel to the Lower City Foundry and destroy it by disabling the neural switch to stop all mechanical soldiers from working.

In the guide we will tell you in detail how to disable the Steel Guard and destroy the Foundry in BG3. We'll show you where to find the factory for the production of Baldur's metal protectors and how to get to the Neurocyte by defeating the Titan's Steel Guard.

How to start the quest Disable the Steel Guard in Baldur's Gate 3

The mission “Disable the Steel Guard” will begin with one of the following events:

Receive a letter from Orin in the camp, if you previously agreed to a deal with her.
Learn about the plant from Wulbrena Bongla.
Go against Gortasha and understand that first you need to deal with the guards.

Where to find the Steelguard Foundry in BG3

The Steel Guard Foundry is located in the west of the Lower City, next to the Gray Bay Docks teleport point. To enter it, use the ventilation at the north-eastern corner of the building or hack the doors in stealth mode [KS - 20].

How to disable the Steel Guard in Baldur's Gate 3

To disable the Steel Guard, you need to infiltrate the Foundry, get to the Control Center and destroy the Neurocyte. There are two ways to destroy a neural switch:

Applying bomb from rune powder, which will be given by the leader of the Iron Hand clan, Wulbren, if they saved him from the Lunar Towers.
With , known to the leader of the Gondian dwarves, Zanner Tubin.

Avenge the Iron Hand clan

To be able to receive a bomb during the quest “Avenge the Iron Hand Clan”, you must previously complete the task "Save Wulbren".

If you want the most peaceful ending to the confrontation between the dwarf clans, then you will need a live Bark Root from the missions "Save the Dwarves at Grimforge".

In Rivington, teleport to "Southern Dragon Crossing" and go to cave, located just north of the Sword Coast Courier Service.

Follow the south of Englayron's Cellar, where you will find Vulbren Bongle, who, upon concluding an alliance, will give Rune powder bomb.

Next, you will need to get to the Neural Switch and, in order to destroy the Steel Guard, attach explosives to it.

In this case, you can ignore the fight with the Titan boss and saving the Gondians, but keep in mind that after the destruction of the Foundry you will not be able to save Will's father for the job "Blade of the Frontier".

The bomb does not have to be used to blow up the Foundry - you can save it for future difficult battles.

Rescue the imprisoned Gondians

To blow up the Foundry with the of the Gondians, you will have to save the prisoners in the underwater prison, find Zanner Tubin and fight your way to Neurocyte. A long age can be shortened if you kill the leader of the Gondians and find the yourself, but we do not recommend doing this.

During battles with the Gondians, watch out for the appearance of controlling collars Motivators – you need to interact with them and turn them off by ing an intelligence test [KS – 5], otherwise the captives will die.

Read in a separate article the age of the task "Save the Imprisoned Gondians".

Steel Guardian Titan: How to Win

The Steel Guardian in Baldur's Gate 3 is located in the Foundry Control Center, and 3 Hellfire Guardians also the battle with it. The Great Project Gortash must be killed if you want to find out the for the Neurocyte from Zanner and get the treasure for defeating the boss.

Let's share some tips for fighting:

Titan has a full immunity to Psychic and Poison damage types, but is weak against lightning. The "Wave Mother's Mantle" from the quest "Avenge the Drowned" will be useful for creating water under enemies to increase electrical damage.
The Steel Guardian has the ability "Unchangeable Form", which makes it impossible to use the Polymorph spell on him and will make it harder to banish him to the background.
From the priest's arsenal it will be useful "Mass Healing Word" due to the large radius of application.
Take a hero with learned "Counterspell", which will be useful, in particular, against "Curses of Hellfire", causing disadvantage on Strength, Stamina, and Dexterity tests if the character fails a Wisdom check.
Use "Help" if the character crippled because of the hellish guards.
For extra damage against Titan, use the fact that the guards explode with low health.
"Launch Protocol: Bola" deals damage and can immobilize a character for 2 turns.
Steel Guardian Titan can activate a condition for 2 turns "Protection Protocol: Stronghold" and receive the inflexibility status, in which only more than 15 units of damage through it. Several new abilities become available to him.
"Repair Matrix" restores the boss's health.
"Targeting Protocol: Hellfire Missiles" attacks in the area on the next turn.
"Reflection Protocol" deals thunder damage and pushes enemies back 8 meters with a chance to knock them down if they fail the test of strength.
At low health, Titan can activate "Self-Detonation Protocol", causing it to explode after 2 turns.

Get it from the boss's corpse infernal iron и Bow Gontre Mael, which has several features:

When attacking, can inflict on the enemy "Guiding Beam" – the next damage to the target will have an advantage;
"Heavenly Haste" – gives the owner an acceleration effect for 5 turns.
Emits light up to 6 meters.
Action "Heavenly Light Projectile" – deals piercing and radiant damage, frightening the enemy.

We hope the article helped you disable the Steel Guard and kill the Titan in Baldurs Gate 3. If you have any questions or can’t defeat the boss, then write comments. In the corresponding section of the site you can find other Baldur's Gate 3 guides.