How to find and use adamantine slag in Baldur’s Gate 3

Root around enough in Baldur’s Gate 3, and you may find Adamantine Slag in your inventory. Seems cool, right? If only you could reforge it in, say, the Ancient Forge in Grymforge. Yeah, if only. Want to know how to use Adamantine Slag?

You can’t.

You’ll find Adamantine Slag randomly in Grymforge. Usually, you pick it up from corpses and sometimes from the environment. It has zero weight and will gain you a single gold coin if you sell it.

Alright, so what do you do with Adamantine Slag? Nothing. As its flavor text says, it’s “Too small and damaged to be of use.” While that still carries the possibility to collect enough to reforge into something biggere, that’s not an option. It actually has no use whatsoever. It’s garbage. Clutter for your inventory. Even collecting enough to sell is a waste of time. At least it doesn’t weigh anything.

If you want to use the Ancient Forge, you need Mithral Ore, which is located near the Ancient Forge itself. It appears as two ore veins in separate locations. That’s what you need to melt down to make equipment in the Ancient Forge. The slag? That’s just junk.