40d:Bar

For built horizontal and vertical bars, see Bars.

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A bar is a sub-type of building material. All metals are created as bars at a smelter, whether processed from ores, alloyed with other metals, or melted down from existing metal items. Refined coal, ash, potash, pearlash, and tallow soap are also created as bars.

Most bars are not an end-product, but are used for something else:

Bar of...	Use
ash	makes potash or lye
charcoal or coke	powering standard forges, smelters, and kilns, and for making pig iron and steel
metal	smithing
pearlash	needed ingredient for clear or crystal glass
potash	used as fertilizer, makes pearlash
soap	trade or construction only

All types of bars can be used to build workshops, roads, bridges, and other constructions, as well as built as horizontal or vertical bars. (Be aware that some purposes suggest the use of fire-safe materials.)

"Bars" of adamantine metal are referred to as "wafers", but when used as building material they function the same as any other bars.

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See also:

• block
• stack