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40d:Anvil
Anvils are required to build a metalsmith's forge.
It is possible to bring an iron anvil with your dwarfs when starting a fortress. It costs 1,000 starting points, 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.
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 down", 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.