Should you help the Blacksmith or the Miller in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

After completing the prologue quest in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Henry and Sir Hans Capon find themselves in the town of Troskowitz, looking for a way to attend a wedding Lord Von Bergow will be attending. You’ll have to decide between helping the Blacksmith or the Miller in order to attend the wedding.

Should you choose to help the Blacksmith or the Miller?

I would choose to help the Blacksmith over the Miller. Realistically, either option is doable. In fact, the main quest Wedding Crashers very directly gives you two optional side objectives: Get into the wedding party with the help of the Blacksmith Radovan or gain access to the wedding party with the help of Miller Kreyzl. Both are acceptable means to an end, which is granting you access to Lord Von Bergow, but I recommend choosing to help Blacksmith Radovan.

Help Blacksmith Radovan

The main reason I recommend choosing to help Blacksmith Radovan is it immediately opens up one of the exciting and important new features of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: blacksmithing. North of Troskowitz is the small village of Tachov, home of the Blacksmith Radovan. When you met Radovan in Troskowitz, he was very interested in having Henry help him out due to his blacksmithing background.

Head to Tachov and the proper quest indicator on your map and you will find Radovan at his Blacksmithing shop. Accept his offer to join him and this will give you a proper Blacksmithing tutorial. Blacksmithing is incredibly important as it will enable you to later craft the best weapons in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, so now is a good time to get started.

Also, both quest chains for helping either Radovan or the Miller are long and unfold over several different quests. In my opinion, the quest chain for helping Blacksmith Radovan is much more enjoyable overall.

Here are the steps required to help Blacksmith Radovan:

• Learn how to Blacksmith. Serves as a tutorial for the new Blacksmithing feature.
• The Jaunt questline. Join Lord Semine and Captain Gnarly in hunting down a lost supply cart intended for the wedding.
• The Hermit questline. Track down a hermit in the Apollonia region of Trosky.

Help Miller Kreyzl

Despite my recommendation, you still have the option of choosing to help Miller Kreyzl instead, and it will still fulfill the requirements to progress the main questline Wedding Crashers forward. To help Miller Kreyzl, you must head further southwest to the Lower Semine Mill.

Once here, you’ll find Miller Kreyzl who’s willing to put you to work right away. He’ll first task you with collecting bags and bringing them from the barn, paying you a Groschen for every three you deliver. It’s not very good earnings, but it’s something.

Afterward, you’ll have to complete a series of three quests for Kreyzl to gain access to the wedding. These quests will teach you a bit about stealth, lockpicking, and overall thievery, if that’s of interested to you.

Here are the steps required to help Miller Kreyzl:

• Materia Prima questline. Steal back a missing document from the Troskowitz guards.
• Forbidden Fruit questline. Find Saltpetere to help Kreyzl with alchemy.
• Opus Magnum questline. Track down an accomplice to join in Kreyzl’s plan to distract the Chamberlain at the wedding.

In the end, you actually have the option of completing all the above questlines. Helping the Blacksmith, for example, will not prevent you from then going and helping the Miller. If you want all of the potential rewards, that is the best thing to do. However, if you just want to quickly progress the main quest and access the wedding for the Wedding Crashers quest, I recommend helping Blacksmith Radovan.