Last updated: 14 September 2026

KCD2 How to Make Money Fast Best Ways to Earn Groschen

Henry starts Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 broke, and armor, horses, and potion ingredients all cost real Groschen. The good news is the game gives you several reliable income loops rather than one gimmick — looting the bandits who try to kill you, brewing potions from herbs you pick for free, a traveling riddler who pays cash for correct answers, and a proper black market for anything you steal. None of these require grinding a single repeatable exploit; they are just the routes experienced players actually use to stay solvent. This guide covers each one, in roughly the order you can start using them.

01Loot Every Fight — Especially Gauntlets and Armor

The single most dependable income source in KCD2 is simply looting the bodies after you win a fight. Bandits, Cumans, and deserter camps all carry sellable gear, and a lot of it is worth more than it looks.

• Gauntlets are one of the best loot-to-weight ratios in the game. They are light, take up very little inventory space, and still sell for a solid price at an armorer — prioritize grabbing them over bulkier plate pieces if your carry weight is tight.
• Full plate and mail armor sells well but is heavy. If you are hauling gear back on foot, gauntlets, helmets, and weapons are a better weight-to-Groschen trade than full cuirasses — bring a horse if you want to loot everything.
• Sell to the right merchant type. Armorers pay best for armor, blacksmiths for weapons, and general traders for everything else at a smaller markup. Splitting a haul across the correct specialist merchants nets noticeably more than dumping it all on one trader.
• Watch for the red hand icon. Gear looted directly off a body you killed in a fight is usually clean, but anything taken from a container or a sleeping NPC can be flagged stolen — stolen goods need a fence, not a normal merchant (see below).

Because bandit camps and skirmishes respawn as you travel the map, this is a repeatable income source for the entire game, not just an early-game trick.

02Brew and Sell Potions

Alchemy ingredients are free — herbs grow all over Bohemia and respawn after a few in-game days — which makes potion brewing one of the best profit margins in the game once you own a few recipes.

• Marigold Decoction is the standard early money-maker. It uses cheap, common ingredients (nettle and marigold with a water base) and apothecaries buy healing potions readily.
• Sell to apothecaries, not general traders. Apothecaries pay closer to full value for potions since it is their specialty stock; general traders often lowball them.
• Higher potion quality sells for more. Getting the brewing timing right (see the Alchemy Guide) produces a better-grade potion, and grade directly affects sale price — a perfectly-brewed batch is worth meaningfully more than a rushed one.
• This scales with your Alchemy skill. As you level Alchemy and unlock the Secret of Matter perk, each brewing session produces bonus doses at no extra ingredient cost, which multiplies the profit per trip to the lab.

For the full brewing steps, recipe sources, and perk order, see the dedicated Alchemy Guide — this section only covers the money angle.

03The Riddler — An Easy, Repeatable Cash Reward

Barley, a traveling riddler NPC found wandering the roads of Bohemia, offers cash rewards for correctly answering his riddles.

• The first correct answer pays 150 Groschen. This is a meaningful early-game sum for a few minutes of dialogue.
• Answering every riddle and taking the cash option totals 550 Groschen. There is also a non-cash reward path if you would rather take the item reward instead — but the full cash route is the highest guaranteed single payout of its kind in the early game.
• No combat or resources required. This is pure dialogue, making it one of the lowest-risk money sources in the game — worth doing the moment you run into Barley.

04Theft, Fences, and the Stolen Goods Loop

Stealing is lucrative in KCD2, but stolen items are flagged (shown with a red hand icon in your inventory) and normal merchants refuse to buy them.

• Fence Whitebeard, in the Nomad Camp west of Troskowitz, buys stolen goods without penalty. Fences are the only merchant type willing to touch red-hand items directly.
• Fences carry limited coin — Whitebeard typically only has around 200 Groschen of buying capacity on hand at once, so a single big haul may need to be sold across more than one visit or spread across other fences you find later.
• Stolen goods stop being flagged after roughly one to two in-game weeks. If you are patient, holding onto stolen items and selling them later to a normal merchant avoids the fence's discount entirely — useful for high-value pieces you are not in a rush to offload.
• Stolen horses go to a horse handler, not a fence. Horse Handler Mikolai, also based in the Nomad Camp, buys stolen horses specifically — for roughly 50% of the horse's normal appraised value. It is a worse rate than a legitimate sale, but the only route for a horse you took rather than bought.
• Pickpocketing sleeping NPCs at night is the lowest-risk form of theft — bedside chests in inns and houses are common targets and carrying the loot straight to a fence closes the loop quickly.

05Dice — High Risk, High Reward at Kuttenberg

Dice games are one of the few money sources in KCD2 that can pay out fast rather than steadily, but they are pure gambling and can lose money just as easily.

• Kuttenberg's taverns are among the highest-stakes dice tables in the game. Players there bet up to a few hundred Groschen per round, noticeably more than the dice games in smaller villages.
• Save before you sit down. Renting a bed and sleeping (a normal save point) immediately before a dice session lets you reload if a run of bad luck wipes out your stake, without losing unrelated progress.
• Treat it as a supplement, not a primary income source. Dice can swing a session's fortunes quickly, but it is not a reliable grind the way looting or alchemy is — go in with a stake you can afford to lose.

06Blacksmithing and Crafted Goods

Once you can work a forge, crafting is a steady if slower earner. The Wedding Crashers quest line in Tachov gives Henry access to blacksmith work there, and simple items like horseshoes, swords, and work axes are quick to make and sell reliably to blacksmiths and general traders. This will not make you rich in a single session, but it is a dependable background income if you are already investing skill points into Smithing for gear reasons.

Side quests picked up naturally while following the main story, or sought out from townsfolk and Quest Tipsters, also add up over a playthrough — a specific one worth noting is the short brawler questline at the mill (Melee at the Mill → More Melee at the Mill → Wine, Women and Blood), which nets roughly 375 Groschen in total for a handful of easy fistfights.

07Always Haggle

Every trade menu in KCD2 has a haggle option, and it is worth using every single time — successfully haggling improves the price on both buying and selling, and building a good relationship with a merchant through repeated fair trading also raises your standing with them over time, which further improves prices. Speech-related perks and higher Charisma make haggling more consistently successful, so it compounds with other skill investment rather than competing with it.