23a:Anvil

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Anvils are required to build Template:Ls, either conventional or Template:L. At least one is absolutely required if your fortress intends to do any metalworking whatsoever, including Template:Ling, Template:Ling, Template:Ling and Template:L.

Smithing an anvil uses the metalsmith skill.

Since the only way to make an anvil is with a metalsmith's forge, your first anvil must be sourced from outside of your colony. Anvils require three Template:L Template:Ls to be Template:Led at a forge - once you have one to begin with. As this is an infinite loop, the origins of the first anvil are hard to discern*.

Acquiring an Anvil

During your first summer, an immigrant Template:L will arrive, carrying a standard (no quality) iron anvil. Once you have enough Template:Ls that your Template:L arrives with the autumn Template:L, you will be able to request additional anvils (at a significant price).

Once you have an anvil and have built a Template:L, smithing an anvil requires three bars of metal.

Tearing down a forge retrieves the anvil used to build it, which can then be stored, traded, Template:Led, or re-used to build another forge.

Anvil Properties

Anvils may be made of Template:L, Template:L or Template:L. The material used does not seem to affect the performance of the forge. Neither does the anvil's quality, although anvils have a high Template:L, so quality greatly increases their value.

Anvils are considered Template:L and will be stored in a furniture Template:L if not utilized in a forge.

Anvil Origins?

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• One theory of the anvils origin is that a dwarf struck by a Template:L made one of Template:L or Template:L. Another more radical theory put forward by dwarven Template:L Urist McTaggart is that the first one was made of Template:L in a similar manner. This was deemed a heresy and he was later sentenced to be hammered for being a Template:L sympathizer by an angry Template:L who had a strange fondness for Template:L.

• Another theory, and the usually-accepted myth, is that the first anvil was created by the first Dwarf, the Mountain King himself. This is documented in the research journal, "On the origins of dwarfs."

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