40d:Metalsmith

Metalsmith's Forge

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Job Requirement
Metalsmithing
Construction
Materials	Jobs
1 Anvil 1 Block	Metalsmithing
Materials Used
Brass bar Bronze bar Charcoal Coke Copper bar Electrum bar Iron bar Gold bar Platinum bar Silver bar Steel bar Tin bar
Goods Created
Animal trap Anvil Armor stand Ballista arrowhead Barrel Battle axe Bolts Boots Bucket Buckler Cabinet Cage Cap Chain Chain mail Chest Coins Crafts Crossbow Door Enormous corkscrew Flask Floodgate Gauntlets Giant axe blade Goblet Greaves Helm Instrument Large serrated disc Leggings Mace Metal blocks Pick Plate mail Sarcophagus Shield Short sword Spear Spiked ball Statue Table Throne Toy War hammer Weapon rack Studded goods Adamantine wafers (Magma Forge only)

The metalsmith's forge turns metal bars into various weapons, armors, furniture, siege ammunition, trap components, and other objects. To build a forge, you must have one block and an anvil.

You cannot do any forging at your fortress until your first anvil arrives, which will be borne by a metalsmith arriving in your first summer. If you somehow lose this anvil (for instance, if it is washed into the river), your fortress will never be able to work metals (unless you have already forged a spare anvil or enough coins to attract a bookkeeper -- through whom you can order new anvils).

It takes one unit of charcoal or coke to produce items on a forge, unless you use a magma forge.

Weapons

Weapons can be forged from copper, iron, bronze, steel, and silver, for one metal bar each. The weapons that can be forged are:

• Battle axe
• War Hammer
• Short Sword
• Spear
• Mace
• Crossbow
• Pick
• Bolts (a stack of 25 will be produced)

However, note that crossbows and picks cannot be forged out of silver.

Armor

Armor can be forged from copper, iron, bronze, and steel. Available armor types include:

• Plate Mail (3 metal bars)
• Chain Mail (2 metal bars)
• Greaves (2 metal bars)
• Leggings
• Helm
• Cap
• Gauntlets
• Boots
• Shield
• Buckler

Each piece of armor requires one metal bar to forge, except where noted.

Furniture

Furniture can forged from copper, iron, bronze, steel, gold, silver, brass, tin, and platinum -- in short, all metals except for pig iron. You can forge:

• Cage
• Chain (1 metal bar)
• Animal Trap (1 metal bar) (metalsmith must have trapping labor must be enabled as well)
• Bucket (1 metal bar)
• Barrel
• Armor Stand
• Metal Blocks (1 metal bar)
• Door
• Floodgate
• Statue
• Cabinet
• Chest
• Throne
• Sarcophagus
• Table
• Weapon Rack
• Bin (As of v22.121.23a)

All metal furniture requres 3 bars to forge except for chains, animal traps, buckets and blocks.

Siege Equipment

Siege Equipment can be forged from copper, iron, bronze, and steel. Only one piece of siege equipment can be forged: the ballista arrowhead, which requires 3 metal bars. These arrowheads must then be mated with a wooden log at a siege workshop to form a complete ballista bolt. It is also possible to make pure wooden ballista bolts at the siege workshop, which are assumed to do less damage. The siege engines themselves are also built at the siege workshop, out of three siege engine parts made of wood.

Trap Components

Trap Components can be forged from copper, iron, bronze, and steel. They are:

• Giant Axe Blade
• Enormous Corkscrew
• Spiked Ball
• Large Serrated Disc

Note that each requires 2 bars of metal to forge.

Other Objects

Other objects can be forged from all metals except pig iron. They are:

• Crafts
• Goblet
• Toy
• Instrument
• Flask
• Minted Coins
• Stud an item with metal

Each of the above objects requires one bar of metal to make, including studding. Like other decorations (such as encrusting with gems or decorating with bone), you cannot specify which object to stud: the smithy will generally take the nearest available object and stud it.

In addition, 3 bars of either iron or steel can be used to forge anvils, which are used in the construction of additional forges.

Skills Used

• Metalsmith: All furniture except chains and animal traps; anvils
• Metal Crafter: Chains; everything in the "all other objects" category except anvils.
• Weaponsmith: All weapons and ammunition except for crossbows; trap components; siege equipment?
• Bowyer: Crossbow
• Armorsmith: All armor
• Trapper: Animal traps

Note: This section is a work in progress; it needs further data and correction.

Links

• Metalcrafts Cribsheet, (based on information on this page)

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