Praise the anvil

[Sollar]

So a few days ago, after eating all the boars, bears and rats on a 10km radius, after drinking tons of water, after cracking every wall of my cave, after sweating rivers, I finally found metal. Unfortunately it's the worst possible metal - tin. Still better than nothing, at least our little settlement finally could upgrade to metal age. So of course we celebrated with a huge hardcore party, playing dungeons and dragons and drinking apple cider all night long. Being carried away by all that cider I suddenly stood up and shout out loud in the middle of the party - "Tomorrow everyone gets spectacles!". The night has passed, the ore got smelted into bars, bars cracked into nuggets, sand smelt into glass, everything ready when suddenly - YOU NEED AN ANVIL TO DO THAT. What the hell ... not fair. Everyone is at my door with their prescriptions ready to get their promised glasses. Oh please help a poor optometrist not to run out of business before he even started.

Seriously now - isn't it a little punishing to require an anvil for a meager hunter's belt, a pair of glasses, or some tin symbelware? Please jorb make it like it was in Legacy HnH and make anvil a requirement only for higher smithing items.

Thanks

[Lunarius_Haberdash]

So a few days ago, after eating all the boars, bears and rats on a 10km radius, after drinking tons of water, after cracking every wall of my cave, after sweating rivers, I finally found metal. Unfortunately it's the worst possible metal - tin. Still better than nothing, at least our little settlement finally could upgrade to metal age. So of course we celebrated with a huge hardcore party, playing dungeons and dragons and drinking apple cider all night long. Being carried away by all that cider I suddenly stood up and shout out loud in the middle of the party - "Tomorrow everyone gets spectacles!". The night has passed, the ore got smelted into bars, bars cracked into nuggets, sand smelt into glass, everything ready when suddenly - YOU NEED AN ANVIL TO DO THAT. What the hell ... not fair. Everyone is at my door with their prescriptions ready to get their promised glasses. Oh please help a poor optometrist not to run out of business before he even started.

Seriously now - isn't it a little punishing to require an anvil for a meager hunter's belt, a pair of glasses, or some tin symbelware? Please jorb make it like it was in Legacy HnH and make anvil a requirement only for higher smithing items.

Thanks

At the very least spectacles could be made with a crucible, you're not so much hammering metal as twisting wire.

[Redlaw]

He could make a working table, made of hard leather (or leather) some feathers, wood as a work station for soft easy metals. Still would need a hammer, but ya... normaly that uses a different type of hammer (ballpean (spelling?)).

[Sevenless]

I already brought up that spectacles needing anvils is a little mean. Do agree.

[LadyV]

I agree somewhat needing a iron anvil is a bit much. Maybe a lesser version can be used for simpler things that do not require such a durable platform. After all we didnt always have iron but did have other metals.

[Redlaw]

Ok looked up what I was thinking... its a jewelers tool, leather sandbag for soft metals.

[Gabula]

How is it mean. The anvil and hammer is an investment of the metal you found so that you can craft more stuff. Build an anvil and a hammer and stop whining that the game should be more casual just so you won't have to put in any effort.