40d Talk:Anvil

Cleaning the page

I've made some cleanup alterations, both to the article and this discussion page. Hope you all don't mind. MOOMANiBE 23:21, 22 February 2008 (EST)

Bars needed to make

I've noticed this page doesn't list how many bars are required to make an anvil. Anyone who knows offhand? Seems like it'd be useful info. MOOMANiBE 17:37, 22 February 2008 (EST)

3. --Alfador 18:43, 22 February 2008 (EST)

Getting an anvil from the caravan

So is it possible to easily procure an anvil within the first 1-2 years? because if it is, then I'm going to ditch it on the embark screen and spend those 1000pts on turtles.

Thats a lot of turtles. Get dogs instead. Imagine a swarm of pooches descending on a goblin fortress, taking no prisoners, and leaving no goblin child behind! --Ikkonoishi 15:33, 4 November 2007 (EST)

In my experience the first dwarven caravan brings one. However they will charge you dearly for it (~1000$), moreso if the anvil is steel (~3000$). Prices are from memory. Anonymousphrase 15:51, 4 November 2007 (EST)

The caravan has a high chance of bringing one, it is not certain. --Soyweiser 09:27, 8 November 2007 (EST)

Dearly yes, but a well made stack of food will cover the cost of a steel one so it's not hard to buy out the caravan. I had one caravan turn up with two steel anvils and a stack of plump helmet (5). Seems that was all they could carry :( --10:21, 8 November 2007 (EST)

True, but that does take some planning. I never got enough cash (what is the correct dwarven word, the value word...) to buy the anvil in the first year, but I'm stupid and focus on creating goblets, and making enough beds etc for my dwarfs. --Soyweiser 13:57, 8 November 2007 (EST)

Cash in the first year is easy. I often find myself trading mechanisms because they're relatively high value/item (fewer hauling jobs to the depot), and if you're buying an anvil you're taking a lot of weight off their wagon. Its not like you didn't bring a mechanic... Barring that, it is possible to make enough cheap stone trinkets to buy everything you really want off the caravan, assuming you don't mind carting a couple hundred trinkets to the depot. You had to eat all that stone somehow, right? I've also never seen a caravan without an anvil in the first year, assuming the wagons could get to me. (And heck, it generally takes me to the second year to have enough ready access to fuel to make it worth running a metalsmith anyway, barring nearby known magma) --Squirrelloid 05:28, 22 April 2008 (EDT)

I'd definitely been left high and dry by the first dwarven caravan before. Took me three long years before I was finally able to get my hands on an anvil!—Preceding unsigned comment added by DaveLawson (talk•contribs)

I second that statement, I've regularly not seen an anvil show up with the first dwarven caravan. --Sentack 11:00, 28 February 2008 (EST)

Odd anvil materials

I have created a zinc anvil (value 200). Is this a bug?

Anvil (100) made of zinc (x2) with no quality modifier (x1). 100 x2 x1 => 200. Looks right to me. VengefulDonut 12:29, 14 February 2008 (EST)

Oh! Wait a minute. You aren't supposed to be able to make anvils out of zinc. What version are you using? I remember there was a bug where dwarves would use a different metal than the one assigned in the task, letting even pig iron be used to make stuff. VengefulDonut 12:31, 14 February 2008 (EST)

Heh, I'd like to have an archive of that version; I want a bismuth anvil. XD --Alfador 11:55, 15 February 2008 (EST)

Pig iron stuff... I once had noble mandating pig iron items... He soon got locked in his room for such a crime against dwarvenkind. --Someone-else 07:56, 22 April 2008 (EDT)

Remember that anvils can be made of anything if created by a moody dwarf! --Termitehead 09:09, 6 May 2008 (CST)