v0.31: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 blacksmithing 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, either before embark or by later trading. Anvils require three Template:L Template:Ls (currently only one bar^Bug:130) 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

A standard (no quality) iron anvil is included by default in Template:L, arriving with your dwarves in your Template:L, though it is possible for no anvils to be available during the embark screen. If you choose not to bring an anvil, you are refunded the 100 point cost, to be used for other purchases of items or skills. You will then have to Template:L for your first anvil with the dwarven (autumn) or Template:L Template:Ls that usually (but not always!) carry one or more Template:L anvils (at a cost of 100☼), and/or Template:L anvils. If this fails the first time around, you may also request one from the Template:L or Template:L Template:L, if you are willing to pay an increased price to guarantee that at least one anvil arrives with next year's caravan.

Once you have an anvil and have built a Template:L, Template:Ling an anvil requires one bar 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. Rarely, dwarves in Template:Ls will make anvils out of other metals, and these can be used in any forge. The material used does not seem to affect the performance of the forge. Neither does the anvil's quality.

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 philosopher 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 an Template:L sympathizer by an angry Template:L who had a strange fondness for Template:L.
• Recently unearthed documents seem to indicate that the anvil was the first major tool produced by the earliest dwarven societies. It is generally accepted that humans first created the plow, and oral histories record that the first accomplishment of the Template:L was the domestication of forest animals.
  There are questions regarding the implications of this revelation, however. Skeptics question how the anvil was created without a Template:L, how the metal was shaped, and what social, cultural, or environmental pressures could have required the invention of what is, when reduced to its most basic nature, a flat surface used to position objects scheduled to be struck repeatedly.
  Dwarven scholars suggest that the first anvils were made of Template:L, not metal, and were little more than flattened stone Template:Ls, chipped with flint or Template:L. This possibility has sparked an interest among dwarf nerds in attempting to recreate stone anvil replicas, but such enterprises are generally regarded with indifference by dwarven society at large.
• One researcher posits that all anvils originate from the FirstAnvil. Where does it come from? The FirstAnvil, of course. It's anvils all the way down.
• Regardless of dwarven theories some humans believe that there must have been early technologies to produce an anvil without the usage of a hammer or an anvil. While improving the production of anvils through the dissemination and use of anvils over the centuries, the original method was forgotten. Dwarven philosophers argue that dwarven technology has always been driven by perfection from the beginning and nothing was developed over time. Besides, dwarven history never forgets.