Thievery Leveling & Perks Guide: And

Unlock the secrets of Thievery in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Learn how to level up your skills, pickpocket, lockpick, and master the best perks for ultimate stealth and loot.

Master Thieves use the darkness to their advantage.

Thievery Uses and Effects

Thievery involves using nimble fingers to pick pockets and unlock chests. Even if you don’t want your Henry to be a bad person, you’ll find plenty of locked chests in the wilderness and bandit camps, most of them being of medium and hard difficulty, and a lot of these will have useful items, money, and gear.

Like most skills in the game, you’ll start pretty poor at it until you practice, read a Skillbook, or have a skill trainer teach you. To Pickpocket, you’ll need to get behind the person whose pockets you want to pick, hover over their pouch (normally around their waist at the back), and hold in the button. The longer you hold the button in, the more time you’ll have in that person’s pockets. However, if you hold the button in too long, the person will notice and you’ll get caught. Fortunately, you can see when you should release the button as the timer will flash red. Some perks such as Nimble Fingers will help with this.

With Lockpicking, you’ll need the required skill level for that chest’s specific difficulty, a Lockpick, and some privacy. When you meet these requirements, interact with the locked chest to get a minigame. What you want to do here is, move the orb around the lock until it enlarges and turns gold. Now, you need to rotate the lock while keeping the orb gold at all times. This means moving the orb clockwise while you rotate the lock. At first, this will be difficult, but with some practice and some perks, it’ll get easier. Another important factor is that you have a time limit before the lockpick will break. Some perks such as Tool Master will help with this.

Although Thievery is predominantly used to break the law, you will get more than enough use out of it by looting the locked chests in the wilderness and bandit camps.

Crouch behind someone and hover their pouch on their belt and hold the rob button in.

Crouch behind someone and hover their pouch on their belt and hold the rob button in. (left), This will give you time to select and unveil a hidden item before selecting the door at the top to exit. (right)

Leveling Thievery

Like all skills, practice makes perfect, and the easiest way to level Thievery is by picking pockets as the chests are more limited, although you should always try to unlock them when you see them. We recommend waiting to level up Thievery until you get to Lower Semine where the main quest will have you speak to the Miller to get into the upcoming wedding. The reason for this is he will give you a tutorial on the art where you can practice for free on his hired hand as well as follow-up quests that reward you with skillbooks, and you can do this fairly early on. Not only that, but he will also teach you provided you have the coin.

Outside of that, we recommend leveling it up by pickpocketing bandits at their camps in the woods. Ideally, you’ll wait until it’s dark, and you’ll wear dark clothing to lower the Visibility stat. Alongside the Visibility stat is Conspicuousness and Noise stats, with the former only really mattering in towns, but the latter is important at all times, so make sure the Noise stat is as low as it can get, which means removing your chainmail and plate armor.

Pick Pocketing and Lock Picking chests will increase your Thievery skill.

All of these stats are useful for the Stealth skill tree as well, and both Thievery and Stealth complement each other nicely. Finally, if you’re not pickpocketing bandits, make sure you pick the pockets of people who won’t move a lot such as traders, guards, and people who are asleep.

A lot of Skill Trainers can be found while exploring new areas, some will become a Skill Trainer after completing a quest for them. One such Trainer is the Miller at the Lower Semine Mill, after completing the Miller’s quests during the Wedding Crashers main quest, you can have him teach you the Thievery Basics at little cost. There are four ranks of skill trainers, each offering more experience than the other. These are:

Miller Kreyzl in Lower Semine will introduce you to the art of Thievery.

Miller Kreyzl in Lower Semine will introduce you to the art of Thievery. (left), He can even teach you a few skills provided you have the coin! (right)

Best Thievery Perks

Every time your Thievery skill reaches a new even level (so 6, 8, 10, etc.), you’ll get a Perk Point to spend, with each of these thresholds offering new Perks available to learn. While it is entirely possible to grab every Perk, that involves a massive amount of investment and as such, you’ll want to prioritize specific Perks. With that said, these are the Perks you should be looking to unlock as soon as possible:

Silent Fiddler

You’re almost silent when using a lockpick, and if it happens to break, the sound will be 75% quieter.

This is a must-have early perk that you’ll notice its usefulness when you pick locks inside buildings as it will reduce the sound you make when doing it, especially when you inevitably fail.

Tool Master

Your lockpicks will be more durable and last 15% longer before breaking. If you still manage to break a lockpick, once you’ve successfully overcome the lock, a lockpick will be returned to your inventory.

This gives you more tim