There are a lot of incredible minor details in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. The game's recreation of the Kingdom of Bohemia in the early 1400s is remarkably accurate to the period, prompting an investigation by one player into a specific part of Kuttenberg – how does the town's main fountain work?
This is actually suggested in the game by Henry. "A fountain? Where does the water come from? Here in the middle of the city," he asks when you walk up to the aquatic installation. YouTuber Any Austin took this as a challenge to find out, since it's implied there's some form of solid conclusion somewhere nearby.
Not too close, though, as he's quick to realize. There's nothing within the walls of the community, and poking around the countryside outside doesn't provide any answers either. Quite the opposite, because he finds an aqueduct that's flowing out of the town, rather than into it. Hm.
But developer Warhorse Studios may have left the answer in plain sight. This particular feature of the settlement literally exists – if you visit Kuttenberg you'll find it still standing – and as such, the source is well-documented. It's called St. Adelbert's Spring, a little while south-west of the fort, and although it's not on the in-game map, you can find it if you go to the co-ordinates.
One problem: it doesn't flow toward Kuttenberg as it should, instead heading toward another local stream. Convinced there has to be more here, Any Austin then wanders the forestry around the spring, stumbling on an aqueduct. Success! ...Maybe.
At this point, actual evidence within the game dried up, so Austin went to Warhorse itself, speaking to a small group of designers, and communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling. When asked specifically about the fountain and the spring, they bring in historical consultant Joanna Nowak.
None had a concrete answer, but they believed that yes, the idea is that the aqueduct Austin found connects the spring to Kuttenberg. It's just one of hundreds of tiny little things they wove into Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Nowak goes on to say they're all "freaks" for such ideas, and it's their "nightmare" because their memories are now spotty about how and why they made all these minute choices.
Mystery solved! As an added wrinkle, Stolz-Zwilling explains that Henry gesturing to the fountain so much is actually a community joke. "The cooldown there is for Henry barking, 'Hmmm I wonder why that fountain is here' was broken and was never fixed," he says.
"But it turned out to become a community meme," he continues. "So when we were about to fix it, we decided not to."
