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Anvils are required to build a [[metalsmith's forge]].
 
Anvils are required to build a [[metalsmith's forge]].
  
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It is possible to bring an [[iron]] anvil with your dwarfs when starting a [[fortress]]. It costs 1,000 [[starting point]]s, so may be better left behind in favor of extra [[skill]] points or [[food]]. Dwarven [[caravans]] often bring an anvil on their first trip. You can request for one to be brought on the next caravan while meeting with the dwarven [[liason]].
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Anvils may be made of iron or steel.  The material used does not seem to affect the performance of the forge. Neither does the anvil's quality, although anvils have a high base cost, so quality greatly increases their value.
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One strategy for some people starting in a new area, is to trade in the starting anvil (not that you'll need it unless you want metal items for the caravan) and replace it with "a shit ton of logs, which makes for a good palisade for your starting town", which would be most useful if you started in a ''really'' dodgy zone, examples being haunted zones and un-witting goblin fortresses/undead ziggurats/towers/etc.
 
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Anvils may be made of iron or steel.  The material used does not seem to affect the performance of the forge. Neither does the anvil's quality, though anvils have a high base cost so quality greatly increases its value.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 15:34, 3 November 2007

Anvils are required to build a metalsmith's forge.

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

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