Anvil

Anvil
Vital statistics
Size (obj)Structure footprint in tile units.<br><br><i>Rounded-up from source.<br>Source: 0.344 x 1.071</i>	0.4 x 1.1
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored.	Metal Working
Discovery Req.This(<i>discoveryreq</i>) is only for items that need to be discovered in addition to items listed in "Object(s) Required"/<i>(<i>objectsreq</i>).</i><small><br><b><i>(Temporary active on all pages, but leave empty if "None".</i></b><small>	(None or Unknown)
Object(s) Required	Casting Material x10, Bar of Hard Metal x5
Required By	(91) Adder Crown, Armored Striders, Bar of Wrought Iron, Battleaxe of the Twelfth Bay, Blacksmith's Bauble, Boar Spear, Branding Iron, Bronze Helm, Bronze Plate, Bronze Sword, Butcher's Cleaver, Cake Knife, Candle Crown, Cast Iron Trivet, Chainmail Shirt, Clothier's Thimble, Copper Comet, Copper Kettle, Copper Scales, Copperbrush Snapper, Cutblade, Cutthroat Knuckles, Dragon Helm, Drinking Horn, Druid's Helm, Family Heirloom, Fancy Buckle, Forge Ring, Fyrdsman's Sword, Glass Blowing Rod, Gold Cutlery, Gold Plate, Gold Spoon-Lure, Golden Cat, Golden Table Bell, Golden Tooth, Grand Belt, Grand Troll Helm, Gridiron, Hard Metal Cutlery, Hard Metal Rivets, Heart Cookie Cutter, Hirdsman's Helmet, Hirdsman's Sword, Hussar's Wings, Irrlantern, Lantern, Man Cookie Cutter, Merchant's Ring, Metal Arrow... further results
Repaired With	Bar of Hard Metal
Can be Lifted	Yes
Hit Points	Yes (Value Unknown)
Soak Value	10
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Build > Workstations & Utilities > Anvil

Anvils are the next step after the tin age. While some soft metal tools can be casted, most metal tools and items (including all hard metal ones) must be forged and hammered on an anvil using a Smithy's Hammer. It can be built from any hard metal like cast iron, bronze or steel.

Anvils are delicate and decay when placed outdoors, even on a claim. Cast iron is needed to repair them even if they were made out of another metal.

Quality

The anvil's quality is the average of the bars three times and average casting materials used to make it and rounded.

Anvil quality= ${\frac {_{q}Metal*3+_{q}CastingMaterial}{4}}$

Quality for metal products is given by ${\frac {(_{q}Ingredients)*9+{_{q}Anvil*4+_{q}Smithy'sHammer}*3}{16}}$

As anvil affects every metal craft and there is no recycling method, it's common for more advanced players (perpetually aiming to improve their Anvil quality) to trade their old anvils (and hammers) to less advanced players.

How to Acquire

Craft the mold from 10 clay or sand and melt 5 Bars of Hard Metal inside. It must be roughly close to a lit smelter or stack furnace to melt the metal bars. If you built in a wrong spot, you can lift it while it's empty, but once you've melted bars into it, it becomes immobile. When you've added 5 bars, it will sit and cool for 24 real life hours. After this, you can right click and select Crack! The mold will be destroyed and the Anvil will be left.

Game Development

• Leaning Tooltip (2024-11-16)◎ >"Casting molds now present their cooling time in their recipe tooltip, and you can also inspect molds to find out how much time there is left until they cool."

• Roe, Roe, Roe yer Boat (2021-01-31)◎ >"Anvils now have variable materials. The textures need some work here, as the old model wasn't perfectly setup for this change, but it works."