Smelt your way to success !
When you start in Dwarf Fortress , you dwarves are clothed but for the most part unequipped . It ’s too expensive to enter with full sets of armor and weapon for everyone , so getting your metal industry lay out up quickly is essential . Here ’s our guidebook on the salutary and most efficient method acting to get your metalsmithing and smelting started in Dwarf Fortress
Getting your metal industry set up in Dwarf Fortress
The full process of piss metal in Dwarf Fortress is as postdate :
Unless you ’ve ship with some charcoal or C , you ’ll need some of this to take up your process . charcoal grey can be made from wood and does n’t require anything spare . Coke will call for a base fuel ( charcoal or coke ) to turn Bituminous Coal or Lignite into a available form . It ’s best to work up and maintain at least one Wood Furnace just in case you run out of coke .
You ’ll also need ananvilfor your first Metalsmith ’s smithy . you could either embark with an anvil , which is somewhat expensive , or trade for it when the first trading van startup . Since it will likely take a few in - biz month to set up smithing decent , we evoke departing without the anvil .
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Best layout for smithing
The best and most effective smithing layout will use clever use ofz - levels . For instance , it takes a long metre for a dwarf to move long distance with unsmelted ore and parallel bars of metal because they ’re heavy . So reduce that distance to the shortest number of tile is most effective . This can be done efficaciously by make a pillar of metalwork industry . The levels go something like this :
Because a dwarf locomote up and down a staircase at the same speed as they move horizontally . So it would behoove you to make dwarves assigned to smelting and metalsmithing have to move the small possible distance for the material they need . Coke and charcoal will also be store in the Bar / Block reserve , so both the Smelters and Metalsmith ’s Forge will have easy access to fuel .
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Making Steel in Dwarf Fortress
While most metallic element will only take their raw ore and some fuel to be smelted , steel has an supernumerary whole step and material requisite . You ’ll need a flux stone , such as limestone , calcite , chalk , bitter spar , or marble . These will be used to create both pig iron , an ingredient for blade , and the steel itself . The full ingredients for steel in Dwarf Fortress are below :
Magma smithing in Dwarf Fortress
When you start building furnaces , you ’ll discern that there are Magma version of each of the workshops . These will need to be come in in an area with at least a exclusive open infinite of magma beneath it . The best direction to do this is to channel magma into a current and ramp up floors with a single space beneath them . This is n’t done over an open pool of magma because things like fire imps and other magma creatures run to jump out and kill dwarves using magma furnace .
Magma furnaces and forges must be made of a magma - safe material , otherwise , they ’ll melt . Some of these are obvious ( no wood ) , but do n’t strike all stones are magma - safe . rather , try and use Stone like Granite , Gabbro , and Obsidian . This goes for all construction poignant magma , such as door , walls , and floodgates .
Finally , magma smithing is sometimes more trouble than it ’s deserving . While it remove the need for fuel , such as C or oxford gray , surges in magma floor , animal , the risk of attack , and other element can make it just but too unsafe . Sometimes it ’s better to just stick to with the normal smithing .
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